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MILLIONS OF PINS.

Nothing, animate or inanimate, manages
to disappear SO completely as pin.
Though small, it is not very perishable ar
ticle, but it has marvellous aptitude to
make way with itself. But even larger
pieces of metal in daily use manage to dis
appear. There must be tens of thousands
of horse-shoes dropped in New York in the
course of the year, yet how rarely they
are seen. This is all the more remarkable,
inasmuch as it is considered lucky to pick
them up, therefore people are on the look
out for them. There is great demand
for the nails by which they are fastened,
in the manufacturing world. The bang
ing they have got through constant wear
makes them of more value than even new
nails--for what, does our reader think3 To
make stubh twist barrels. It seems odd
that the same malleability could not be
given to the iron in sons quicker and more
simple manner than the traffic Of horsas
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feet. But pins disappear for ''good and
all" Do the fairies take them?
WHAT ALLIED IIlE. PARROT-

few days ago citizen who had been
on the lookout for a parrot for some time
was riding by house in Prospect street,
when the very bird he wanted was sudden.
ly discovered. Having convinced himself
that Poll was good talker, he soon struck
bargain and bore her away from the
colored woman, who needed cash more
than pets. Ten days passed, and yet Poll
did not utter note, though she had every
care, and seemed healthy enough. The
former owner was sent for to solve the
mystery, and there was huge grin on
her countenauce as she obeyed the sum.
mons.
Muffin, ails dat brd-nufin' tall, 'cept
dat you doan' understan' him." she ex-
planned as she looked into the cage.
Placing the cage on a chair on the veran-
da, she gave it a. shake, drew long breath,
and began:
"Now, den, you internal, mis'ble
lynn, cheatin' -! wake up an gin US,
-! an let dis gemlen see dat you am
all right, an - ye! doan' be sulkin'
'roun' no mo-! Wake up dar! you -
blackguard Hoop up dat voice, ye --
villun! !"
The parrot Immediately woke up and
began chattering and singing, and in
minute was altogether q new bird.
eyer see, dis yere bird must be swore
at rig'larly twice day." explained the
woman, "or he won't gin single squawk.
He's been brung up dat way, an YEN he'
to humor him in it."
'But 1 can't swear at him, woman-1
belong to the church," exclaimed the
citizen.
"Den de missus will hev to, sah."
'My wife swear!'
"Well, den, git de hired man, kase dis
bird hez got to be swored at, an doan' you
forgit it,"
"Well, then, I don't want him at all,
and you may take him away. No oaths
shall ever be uttered on my premises, pets
or no pets"
"'Deed, sab, Tze heap obleegcd, liz.
Now, den, you misble ole skinfint of
a crow bait, walk long home wild me, or
I'll knock de - head off you shoul lers;
come long, say; doan' you fell 'shamed
dat
"Cheese 1t! cheese it! cheese it !"
shrieked the parrot in great anger, and
as the bird was borne away, the citi-
zen wiped his brow and musingly said:
"This world is getting SO wicked that q
good man is scarcely safe in buying even
Il stone dog .-Detroit Free Press.
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TR UE ART.

True art is immutable. Raphael and
Michael Angelo, Phidias, and Praxiteles,
are the standards in painting and sculpture
to-day as they were 800 and 1000 years
ago, and as they will be 800 to 1000 years
hence. They and their disciples essayed
no conventionalism or else they would
never have been the artists and masters
they were; with them, every piece of work,
whether intended for display or decoration,
was finished in the details as far as the
subject would permit; and since they
have given us the highest examples of our
art, of an art which has come down to us
unchanged from the earliest Greek and
Roman eras, it is fair to claim that the
principles upon which it is based must be
true and permanent, while all principles
opposed to them must be false and tran
sieut. In the light of their authority it is
seen that the theory which finds radical
difference between fine art proper and
decorative art-the theory that would re-
duce the latter to combination OF straight
lines, angles, and "suggestion"-is essen
TALLY false, and like all false theories and
systems will perish of lnanition when the
fashion which gave it birth shall have
passed away. In painting and sculpture it
is not necessary-indeed it is not true arr
to make an absolute copy of nature,
exact in every detail. This was the mis-
take of Denner and yenderheyden, who
attempted to show every blade of grass and
every hair of the head. This ridiculous
excess of faithfulness indicates q weak
copyist rather than an original creator
The duty, and the highes achievement, of
the artist is not to copy D..ture in detail,
but, in one view, to interpret her meaning
and reproduce her life, and in another,
not to give us nature as it is, but as it
might be in its perfection. Penn Monthly.
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IN paper presented to the German
Chemical Society of Berlin, Herr Stein
seeks to extend the employment of rock
crystal in the construction of instruments
of precision. He urges the fact that, to
weigh accurately with his unalterable
weights-made of rock crystal--it is neces-
sary to have balance equally unalterable:
that is, the main parts of the balances are
the beam and two scale pans, all of which
should be practically unalterable and as
light as possible. He strongly advocates
the use of rock crystal for these parts,
upon the giound of its entire indifference
orinsensibility to atmospheric and chemi-
cal influences of change, in which quality
it supasses every known metal; it's light
ness in which it rivals aluminium =
specific gravity of quartz, 2.65; alumni
mum, 2.sl; and especially because of
its being very infexible. Similar rea-
sons are urged for employing rock crystal
in the production of standards of meas
ure, and for constructing normal ther-
mometers. ----'
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HJIALEE'-NHAKING.

The manufacture of bullets is not SO
simple as it used to be, says the Ironmomger.
At Woolwich, England, the melted metal
is poured into receiver, and as soon as it
Oddities, but before it is cold, it is forced
oy hydraulic pressure through cylindrical
holes in the form of long strings. This
process is to prevent the formation Of air
bubbles in the bullet, which would cause
it, when fired, to swerve from its course.
The leaden strings are thence carried to
the bullet moulding department, where
they are cut into lengths and roughed;
then shaped in one machine, and finished
in another. They have now to be plugged.
The plugs were formerly made of wood,
but are now prepared from a special pow
der, which solidifes after being pressed
into FORM
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FERMENTATION OF ICE.

Mr.. Sampson Grange, surgeon to the
Queen Hospital, Birmingham, in short
article, calls attention SO the subject of
preserving ice in cases of sickness. His prac-
tice for some years has been to cut a piece
of flannel about nine inches square, and
secure it by ligature round the mouth of
IN ordinary tumbler, SO as to leave cup
shaped depression of flannel within the
tumbler to half its depth. In the flannel
cup SO constructed pieces of ice may be
preserved many hours, all the longer if a
piece of flannel from four to five inches
square be used as loose covering to the
ice-cup. Cheap flannel, with compara-
lively open meshes, is preferable, as the
water easily drains through it, and the
ice is thus kept quite dry. When good
tlannel with close texture is employed, q
small hole must be made in the bottom of
the flannel cup, otherwise it holds the wa-
ter, and facilitates the melting of the ice,
which is, nevertheless, preserved much
longer than i'll the naked cup'or tum-
bier.
A reserve supply outside the bedroom
door can be secured by making flannel
cup, on the plan above described, in a jug,
and filling it with little Jumps of ice--care
being taken that there is space enough be,
low the bag to allow the water to collect
and leave the ice dry. This provision will
allow the ice to be used during the hot
test night, without the supply failing, o,
the patient being disturbed-two very i'm
portant considerations. The real thera
peutic benefits of ice is only produced il
some cases by its free use, and its soothing
and stilling effect must be aided by thu
most perfect surrounding quiet.
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MODERN INFANTR Y.

Without question, infantry is the arm OF
most vital importance, and those rash adj
vocates who endeavor to prove the con-
trary do but spoil their own cause. An
army composed wholly of infantry would
indeed succumb easily to one which had a
proper proportion of the three arms; but it
is possible to conceive of such an army
marching through an enemy's country, oc-
cupyipg open towns, and even seizing such
q capital as London. 1t is impossible to
conceive of an army solely composed OF
artillery performing the like feat. In
fantry alone can act both extensively and
desensively, whether in rest or in motion.
1t is comparatively cheap and quickly
trained. Whatever effect may be produced
by artillery, the final task of putting the
enemy to fight and seizing his position
must be performed by infantry; and the
Turks have lately shown how stubborn q
defense may be made and how terrible a
fire maintained by infantry in defensive
position behind works and supplied with
an unlimited amount of ammunition. But
tie campaign in Bulgaria proved once
more what, strangely enough, seems al
ways to require new proofs-that defen-
sive strategy only means delays. To win
o campaign, armies must act vigorously on
the offensive, and once out of his works in
the open, the infantry soldier is but soft
human being, through whose body bullets
may pass and kill other men behind. He
cannot possibly carry defensive armor in
addition to his necessary arms and equip
ment. To save himself for the final rush,
he is obliged to resort to creeping behind
rocks and trees, taking advantage of every
accident of the ground to conceal himself,
and generally so moving that it is as diff
c-,lt for him to fire at the enemy as
for the enemy to fire at him. If the
number of rounds fred by infantry ad-
vancing to attack were counted, their
paucity would astonish those who have
seen nothing of modern war. Each man
has nervous system, and his rifle is at the
absolute bidding of his nerves. Every
tremor influences his aim, and it is re-
markable fact that the shooting of troops
at close quarters is often less deadly than
that which takes place at longer ranges.
On this point can speak from experience,
having accompanied skrmishers, supports,
and reserves in actual combat. Moreover,
every man who falls is SO much shooting
power lost, not temporarily, but perma-
nently. For this reason all modern in
fantry tactics have to be based on q per-
petual feeding of the advanced line from
the rear.-Col. Brackenbury, IN Nineteeath
Century.
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dency Hyde became chief of the Twelve
Apostles, and it is strongly limited that
he might have succeeded the immortal
Brigham himself had it not been for a
fondness for the flowing bowl, which
gradually grew upon him with his in
creasing years, Orson did not die with
clean record, as he was indicted in the
Utah Courts for the murder of Richard
Yates, suspected spy, in 1857, and only
by skillfully concealing himself did he
manage to elude the arresting officers
fourteen years afterwards. Of later
years his influence was on the wane, and
when death came upon him in his old
age the Mormons gave him up without a
panp,
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THE verdict of the public is decidedly
sgainst the proposition of the Committee
TO locate the Merchants Exchange at the
corner of Fourth and Elm streets. "Too
Far West" is the comment of almost
every intelligent and influential business
man who happens not to be large prop
erty owner in the neighborhood of the
locality suggested. The new Merchants
Exchange should be erected centrally,
30 that it can be easily reached from the
present business center and without any
idea of influencing the movement of
business in one direction or another. 1t
Bnould not 60 west of Race street nor
east of Walnut, the blocks bounded on
the east and west by these two streets
being recognized as the business center
of the city. 1t would be great busi-
ness mistake for the Chamber of Com
merce to select the site recommended by
the Committee
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FLOWERS AND PERFUME.

Perfume is as old as creation. 1t is to
can picture Eve as she pulled down the
rich bloom of the creamy magnolia in the
Garden of Eden, or went gathering cape
jasmine or heliotrope and mignonette.
Children instinctively reach for odorous
flowers even as the grass does for the blush
of light that the dawning sends thrilling
over the hills and valleys. Let US give the
little ones beds of mignonette, and sweet
pinks, and deep. violets.
There is one variety of the beautiful
golden pansy which is very fragrant, and
white verbena that has caught the wood,
land breath of the trailing arbutus.
Nature is the true chemist, and from her
laboratory are distilled perfumes dreamy
and sweet as breath of paradise. From
the first dewy breath of spring, through
all the evanescent glories of apple BIOS
SONS, of sweet briar, of wind-tossed ane-
mones and sweet ferns and trailing vines,
through all the floating shadows and gold
en- lights of the summer time, till the pur-
pie air of autumn causes the asters and
golden rod to come out on the dreamy days,
it is all one succession OF enhancing beau
ty and perfume.
The fragrant breath Of flower is like
the beauty of goodness and purity in life.
1t is consecrating, refining. When the
poet tells US of
Life sweet as a perfume, pure as prayer -
The comparison is one truly exquisite, ex.
pressing all pure aims and lofty purposes
and sweet aspirations of life, ever extend
ing upward, ever gladdening all around,
even like the fragrant perfume of thou.
sand flowers when borne upon the wings Of
the morning.
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SLAVE cIQILDu FIN IN TURKEY,

Old ladies may be seen at Sweet Waters
veiled and seated amongst the other kha.
NUNS, who look more Greek than Turkish,
to judge by the features, and on some
Frank lady addressing them in Greek,
they have been found to be able to reply
with fuency in that language-=a sure in
dication that they have come of Greek
parentage, and have been either made CAP
tives in war, or stolen, or otherwise in
duced to become Mussulmans. 1t must be
saken into consideration that great pro-
portion of children SO carried off would
soon lose all memory of their native
tongue, and if taken when very young, and
at once placed in Turkish hareems, they
will naturally grow up to speak Turkish
only, as the, one language they hear
spoken. Then, all their surroundings are
made Turkish, their dress and costumes
stamp them as Turkish, in time they come
look on themselves as Turks, even il
knowing, by hearing it whispered, that
they must have had some far other origin,
Children thus taken at two or three years
of age are probably kept till they are five
or six before being passed on to ether
hands. Sometimes they are sold direct
into hareem by their captor to some old
kishia (steward or housekeeper), who is
looking after purchases (for the kiahias
share with the head eunuchs this business,
in which they outvie each other). Or the
children may be sent to the house of q
professional private dealer, or agent,
where they will be seen amongst his or her
stock of black and white slaves by the
kiahias, ninas, eunuchs, vokeels, and
others who are always passing in and out
OH business for their masters and mis-
tresses. In this way quite young slaves
are soon disposed of, probably becoming
playmates to some little boy or khanum
before they are seven years of age, some
times at much earlier age Occasionally
rich lady will buy such children to form
them into corps of infant dancers for the
amusement of her hours of ennui; but this
fate is the most to be deplored for them,
gay rs it may promise to be. Kidnapped
children are not treated very harshly, per-
baps; the elder slave girls take a certain
oversight of them, call them their tehoud
jouks (children), and each little child calls
one girl nina (mother)-but does not say
anna, the tender word of town mother"
If the child prove stupid, or ugly, or sickIy
it does not fare over WELL but it is seldom
neglected. If all goes smoothly, it is
trained in some way, but in very desul-
tory fashion; and in every hareem there
are one or two, sometimes five or sir such
children running about almost unheeded,
except when they are pressed into the SER
vice of the ninas to fetch and carry. But
If child does not give promise of be-
coming all that the buyer las hoped, steps
are then taken to hear of another purchaser.
Magazine.
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ORsoN HYDE, the Mormon apostle

ORsoN HYDE, the Mormon apostle
who celebrated Thanksgiving Day in his
own peculiar way by giving up the ghost,
was to a certain extent an Ohio man, al
though he was born in Oxford, Conn,
aeventy-three years ago. He was young
man of fair education and studious hab-
ats, residing at Kirkland, o., when Jo-
seph Smith came along with his newly
invented religion. Young Hyde en-
braced the new Church, and several new
wives, and in short time, by his un.
tiring energy as a marrying man and his
abilities as an orator he came rapidly tc
the front. He was sent on mission to
Jerusalem, and almost starved himself tc
death in his zeal to climb tc
the pinnacle Of the Mount
of Olives and offer up a prayer. Al
Brishm Youngs elevation tn the Presi
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HOT HIS ROBBERS.

A certain man complained to Facino
Cane, who was cruel man, and one of the
,est Generals of our time, of having been
,obbsd by one OF his soldiers of his cloak.
i'acido regarded the complainant, and,
,eeing he had handsome doublet, asked
aim II he wore that garment on the day of
the robbery. EYES," answered the other.
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Are You Afflicted,

and wish to orecover the same degree of health,
strength, and energy inexperienced in former
years? Do any of the following symptoms or
class Of symptoms meet your diseased condi-
ton? Are you suffering from ill-health in
any of its many and multifarious forms, con-
sequent on lingering, nervous, chronic, OF
functional disease? Do you feel nervous, de-
bilitated, fretful, timid, and lack the power
of will and action? Are you subject to loss
of memory, have spells of fainting, fullnea
of blood in the head, feel listness, moping
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O,CounOr,s Sentence.

John O'Connor the ex-member Of the
Legislature, who was tried by the United
States Court and found guilty of procuring
false affidavit to claim for pension,
was sentenced by Judge Swing yesterday to
twelve months imprisonment in the Mont.
gomery County Jail The motion fora new
trial was withdrawn and plea made in the
prisoners behalf by his attorney, Hon.
Samuel 4. Hunt.
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WE have not heard that the inventor
of that patent swinging bedstead, in
which Princess Louise was rocked with
all the gentle undulations suggestive of
Bea-sickness, has been rewarded
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THE Criminal Court at Troy, N. Y, is
punching up its citizens with five hun
dred indictments, mostly of liquor deal
ers. They urge continuances of their
cases, and say they would be pleased to
have Troy wait.
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A Victim to Youthful Foilies,

or carried the marital relation to excess in
later years? Have these indiscretions and
excesses left you in weak and debilitated
condition? Are you timid, nervous, and for
getful, and your mind continually dwelling
on the subject? Have you
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COMMENTING on the quarrel between
the War and Interior Departments as to
what disposition should be made of the
Indians, the Philadelphia Ledger sug-
gests that they be turned over to the
Agricultural Department. It's passing
strange that no statesman has yet struck
The idea of transferring them to the
Navy Department. Mariner Thompson
might embark them all on men-of-war,
et them afoat and scuttle the ships Of
course it would bear some symptoms of
cruelty, but then it would be marvel
bus saving to the country, and economy
Is the word these times
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GEN. GRANT proposes to make the trip
around the world and arrive home at
Long Branch just at the opening Of the
reason next summer.
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Unfit for Business

or pleasure, and subject to fits of melan-
choly? Are your kidneys, stomach, urinary
organs, liver or blood in a disordered condi<
ton? Do you suffer from rheumatism, neu-
ralgia, or aches and pains? Have you beeA
indlscreet in arly years and
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Broken Down in Health

and spirits from Disorders peculiar to their
sex, and who, from false modesty or neglect,
prolong their suferings. Why, then, further
neglect subject so productive Of health and
future happiness when there is at hand a
means of cure? Why not throw off the yoke
altogether, and seek a remedy that has
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Lost Confidence in Yourself

and energy for business pursuits ? Are you
subject to any of the following symptornS
dreams, palpi.ation Of the heart, bashfulnesa
restless nights, broken sleep nightmare,
confusion Of ideas, aversion to society; dizzi
ness in the head, dimness of sight, pimpla
and blotches on the face and back, and other
Respondent symptoms? There are
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Mrs. MERRIcK, of Indianapolis, for
whose murder her husband is now on
trial, was married to the accused while
htting in a buggy, and the testimony
pretty conclusiyely shows that she was
murdered in a buggy. This man who
Mems to be so fond of buggy rides should
be given one in that sombre vehicle
known as a hearse.