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Facts for the Curious.

The greyhound runs by the eyesight
only, and this we observe as fact. The
carrier-pigeon flies his two hundred and
fifty miles hOmeward by eyesight-
namely, from point to point of objects
which he has marked; but this is only
our conjecture. The fierce dragon hy,
with twelve thousand lenses in his eyes,
darts from angle to langle with the ra-
pidity of a flashing sword, and as rapid
" darts back, not turning in, the air, but
with clash, reversing the action of his
lwingsl ahd instantaneously calculating
the distance of the objects, or he would
dash himself to pieces. But in what
conformatien of The eve does this con-
sist? No one can answer.
A cloud of ten thousand gnats dance
up and down in the sun, the minutest
Interval between them, yet no one
knocks another headlong upon the grass
or breaks aseg- or wing, long and deli
cate as they are. Suddenly amid your.
admiration of this matchless dance, a
peculiarly high-shouldered, vicious gnat,
with long, pendant nose, darts out the
rising and falling cloud, and settling,op
your check, inserts q poisonous sting.
What possesses the little wretch TO do
this? Did he smell your blood in the
may dance? No one knows. 'f Esn
"a carriage comes suddenly upon a
flock of geese on a5narrow road, and
drives. straight through the middle of
them. A goose was never yet fairly run
over, nor . duck, They, are under the
very wheels and hoofs, and yet somehow
they ,contrive &c. flap and waddle safely
off. Habitually stupid, heavy and indof
lent, they are nevertheless equal to the
emergency! Oh - 5yd .vGTC
. shyhy does the lonelylwoodpecker, q
when he descends his tree and goes to
drink, stop several times on his way,
listen and look around Before he takes
his draught? No one knows How is
II 'thatthe SPECIES of ant, %hiehis taken
in battle by other ants to be made
slaves, should be black, or negro ants?
No one knows..sIt eUmittgni Z
1.The'power Of judging Of actual dan
ger, and the free and easy boldness
which. result from it, are by no means
Uncommon Many birds seem to have
a most correct notion of gums range,
dHt Wnlte 'ScTupuIcuSly ctIttul 10 Acep
beyond lit, confine their care to this
caution, though the most obvious re-
source, would be to fly right away out
of sight and hearing, which they do not
choose to do. And they sometimes APP
pear, to make even an destinations use
Of their power, fairly putting their wits
and eleverness in antagonism to that of
man for the benefit of their fellows.
We lately read an account, by q natur-
alist in Brazil, of an expedition he made
to,ope of the islands Of the Amazon to
shoot spoonbiIIs, ibises and other of the
magnificent grallatorial birds which
We're most abundant there. His design
was completely baffied, however, by
wretched little sand7piper that preceded
him, continually uttering his tell-tale
cry, which. at once aroused all the birds
within hearing. Throughout the day
did this individual bird continued his
self-imposed duty of sentinel to others,
preventing the approach Of
the fowler to the game, and yet manag
ing to keep ont OF the range-of his gun.
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EEDIRECTTON.

Fair are the flowers and the children. lint
their subtle suggestion Is fairer: I.
Rare Is the rose burst 81 dawn, but the secret
49, that clasps il isTarer.
sweet the eNultance OF song. but the strain
-. thSt precedes * IS sweeter;
And never WAS poem yet writ. but the mean
ing administered the meter
Never daisy that grows bus a m ystery guild
eth the growing;
Never river that flows. but a majesty scep-
tiers tho flowing;
Never a Shakespeare that SCARED ,but a strong
er than he Gid enfOld him;
Nor ever prophet foretells, but a mightier
seer hath fOretold him.
Back Of the canvas that throbs the painter
Is limited and hidden; 20 "a
Into the tatue that breathes the soul OF the
sculptor Is hidden.
Under the JOY that Is feltiie the infinite issues
Of feeling;
Growing the glory revealed is the glory that
crowns the revealing. lFH
Great are the symbols of being ,butthat which
l. symboled is greater; s.
Vast the create and beheld, but vaster the ia
Wsrd creator;
Back of the sound brOods the silence, back of
the gift stands the giving; t'-i
Back OF the hand that receives thrill the sen
sitive nerves OF receiving.
Space s as nothing to spirit. the deed Is out Z
done by the doing; - =,
The heart of the wOOer i warm, but warmer
the heart OF the wooing; $3.50
And up from the heart where these shiver, and
up from the heart where those shine, ;
Twin voices and shadows swim starpFssrd and
- = = Richard Realf 4
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TRANSACTIONS FROM HELNE.

HeBn dU UOrUbcrscandeist"
If thou dost but pass before me,
And feel but the touch of thy dress.
NV heartleaps and follows in rapture o
The track OF thy lOveliness.
Then thou turnest about, and bendest
Those great eyes of thine on me,
And my heart Is so stricken with panic,
IL scarcely can follow thee.
"EiR FIchteHbG'tm stsh oinsam."
A pine tree stands alone on
bare, bleak northern height;
The ice and snow they swathe il,
As IL sleeps there, all IN white. '7'
'Tis dreaming of palm tree, e.
Ia n fsf-oiI Eastern land, ~
That mOuins, alone and. silent,
On ledge of burning sand.
"Mein sUsses Lieb, 'eeaa d,t iDa Grab"
When thou shalt lie, my darling, low -
Ia the dark grave, where they hide the,
Then down to thee will surely go,
And nestle in beside thee
wildly I'll kiss and clasp thee there,
Pale, cold, and silent lying;
Shout, shudder, weep, in dumb despair,
Beside my dead love dying.
The midnight calls, up rise the dead,
And dance in airy swarms there; $500
We twain quit not our earthly bed,
lie wrapt in your arms there.
Up rise the dead: the Judgment day q
To bliss or anguish calls them;
We twain lie on as before we lay,
And heed not what befals them. 90
--ThoodoTe Harfi7l, IN Biack7oood' s Magazine
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One of the unfortunates caught BY
the Glasgow Bank failure was. the Duke
OF Sutherland. In an unlucky hour he
took four shares in the supposed relia-
bic concern. Now, that it has failed,
he finds those four shares will cost him,
so it rs said, about 50, 900, CS0. His loss
will excite sympathy and regret, for he
has never frittered away his enormous
income, which was about 100000 a
year, in selfish pleasures. He has of
late years expended large sums on rail-
roads and other works, which will now
probably be brought to standstill. He
is said to be an excellent practical me-
chanic and railroad engineer.
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A RRA1N1rss Young noodle stopped

A BRATNLEss young noodle stopped q
gruff old merchant on the street, and
said: Il have thought" Have
you?" said the merchant, ''Pll go right
off and hunt up a reporter, and tell him
about the accident" And as the old
man started off the young fellow was
so amazed that he couldn't think of
what he thought.-Keokuk Constitution.
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- AkAswfiter on natural history says eels
occasionally quit the water, and when
the meadows are wet with dew, travel
during the night over the moist surface
in search of frogs and other food, or to
change their situation. We not only
believe this, but we are positive that on
certain days all the fish in the river over
two inehesnin length wiggle out and
travel 10 miles across fields and climb
high trees or conceal themselves in
caves. Anyhow, they are always away
from home when we 90 a-ishing-Nor-
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The IIenpecIed Husband.

~ There are signs by which he is known,
however, no matter in what society he
mingles. He has the mien of one who
is weary of the world, and yet, for some
unaccountahle reason, is not quite ready
to leave it. There is a peculiarly care
worn expression of cOuntenance by
which he may be distinguished-some-
thing quite different from the look of
conscious responsibility which most
married men wear. Around his lips the
resignation of Prometheus fingers; pre-
mature crows feet gather annually
around his eyes; bis cheeks lack the ro-
tundity that happier wedloek confers;
from has shiny scalp the hair has van
iished. He ventures his opinions in
hesitating style, as though he hoped
they wonld suit, and would not be the
means Of precipitating a brol. He
seems always on,the- point of apologize
ing for something he may have said,
and When he smiles he does it in such d
painful and inexperienced way that
q spectator is almost moved to
pity. at regular, intervals he
chances nervously at the door of the
siJul bl1lc44b III W MN Ky - oct~NOSt aes0
though he dreaded the sudden and
wrathful entrance Of the imperial
SPOUSE to wreak upon him cOndign
Vengeance for some unprecedented
offense. Her clarion voice ever rings
m'dlis ears like q 'knell Of departed
peaee.y He, can never. get far enough
away to entirely escape that. ominous
sound. She has a tongue that can put
g!irdle Of fire around him in less chan
40 minutes, and he never feels sufficient
.ly remote from its terrors. lAll his pc
lcularities are those of an extremely
carefulm .. At times he has scared
hook, Reticent, gloomy, discOnsolate,
patient, he wiggles and sneaks his way
through life like one who has committed
some hideous and objectionable crime.
He knows that he lis 'pusillanimoas -
that 4 e6okroachshasmo courage and
than he will eyer boast. In
Tdaet1 he:suflers immeasurably more from
what, he thinks of himself than he does
from all the other miseries he is called
uDOll 10 fEUIuIc-
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MosT young men are on the lookout
for good openings, and yet they don't
like for the old man to show them the
door. Breakfast Table.
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A Poets Death Song.
From the San Francisco Can, Oct. 81

From the san Francisco CAL, Oct 81
The funeral of Col. Richard Realf,
who committed suicide at Oakland on
Monday night, will take place from this
city on Saturday, under the arrange
ments made BY the Grand Army of the
Republic. 1t is clear enough that do
nestle trouble drove him to the act
which ended his life. The woman who
arrived from the East on Saturday, and
who claimed to be his lawful wife, says
that Col. Realf deserted her over four
years ago, since which time she has not
lived with him. She heard at different
times afterward that he was living with
another woman, and, though she be-,
lieved it, discredited the story. that he
had been again married. OF his mar
rage she claims 10 have no knowledge.
She admits that shortly after the separ-
alton Col. Realf sued her for divorces
which was granted, but the case was
appealed, and the Superior Court re-
aersed the judgment, and, as the case
was never reopened, it practically re-
manned as though no suit had been il
stituted. This, statement agrees sub
stantially with that of Realt's friends,
who assert that, although be proved the
allegations in his complaint and pro-
cured the divorce, the, Superior Court
set the verdict. aside en- the, ground that
the acts proven were general, whereas
the statue required specific proof. Be
fore the judgment was reversed Col.
ReaG shiSiriendsiadmit, again married,
-and by this latter wife he had one child.
The following poem, found among the
effects OF the deceased, was Written the
dsy before ne comnfitted suicide, and
indicates that he then contemplated
DEATH " u "
g ne llOrt3t IS nil Risi bORUR.' When ~ 4
For me the end has come and am dead,
And little voluble, chattering DAVIS of men
Dbl Peck at me curiously, let itsthen be said
BY some one brave enough TO speak the truth,
Here lies great soul killed by cruel wong,
Down all the balmy days of his fresh ypptb
To his bleak dcsOlate noon, with sword
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igStatIes, from Living Figures.

~ .sIGEE rt..f u T7FFf.5s- - .-. u.
ne, Before leaving the subject of statues |
must speak Of an alcoye in the Russian
section known to but very few, VIII CHI
fact is much to be regretted, as it con-
tains 'ttvo recumbent statues lin Plaster)
of a beautiful woman, which would not
he remarkable were they taken from a
dead body, but Doctor Leyittux, of Var
soma, mOlded them upon a living form,
and pretends he has fi17entcd a way by
which any form, IN any position, can be
accurately taken. The result of these
casts is marvellous. Every vein little
prominent, every line of the foot, the
hand, the throat, even the different
qualities of the skin, ON different parts
of the body, are SO admirably taken
that, with the aid of little rose-colored
light artistically thrown upon these
statues, one is tempted to believe they
breathe. l am told the operation is
DIN ar0dsg X hlpreformi is administer
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Of the re ~ {, Ind doube ifsin all coI1n-
tries this branch of art would be toler-
ated ---5Ruris Cor Boston Adrertiser. 81
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incredulous will not accept it-and it is not
surprtingg Bliss Farther is NOT to be
'4udged be ord nary laws. The state is ab-'
ElhorfaAl-4 species or modified eatalepsy,
which has deranged the ordinary action of
mind and body. 1t is a rich mine for in
vestigatien I'd the. physioIafst and the
psyth oidgist and hgitlI thera leave the
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CH4RTFS T. WEsT
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.VEGETINE :,
Completely Cured Me,

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esse N sCyafgLE al many Years SANDING amer uylng
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fh5nk inc ye0ene Is gOd-send and one ought 70 do
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vEGFTIN Is now prescribed In cases Of Scrofla and
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clans owing to great in curing all diseases OF
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4 VEGETT Tine.
| advise ALI who are suffering as | have
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BOSTON, sept. o. 1877.

BOSTON, Sept " lofi-
MIR IT, r. STEvBNs: 49, A.,
T,9r Yir-I have suffered with STQi0us H'ft1oT fol
seven wears and cUnd get relief have tired every
thing in the shape herbs lives, pl tsers etc. nut
nOthinc did me any good WIS from my knees 10 ms
ank les one mass of s0e was advised by Pohcetefr
W II HILL to try Ves etiae- / comm need last july,
INA After taking the second bottle began 10 get re-
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loOked % bsd that many said must lose ny les pNt
aFtsr had taken fourteen bottles OF Fegrtlne, my reg
VS. AN he lIqd M ard Pam low as we'll
n my ff J consider Vegetine thu best c,eanSer ara
purifer the blood and advise all wRu lay Dc suhtr
inp a. have suffered to give il q trtal
d = HENRY T. SMITH. No. 90 Utica 81; Bisson Mass
ScRnFTIlOTS HUMOIsS-The Vegeilne has tuccd
NAME sps Of Scr0tuia Of five ten ant twenty Jths
an ing where the patepthas had many phys.eaIS,
FRIED many o. the known remedies. and alter VI the
VeOe.inc fhe common refuafk is " IL acts diersnly,
works difeTi MIS-, from Any medicine bave eVert
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PARTICULARS regarding Electric Belts free
Address Pulvermacher Galvanic Co., Cincin., o.
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-gaSs6 E .agfSaIm

The longest train believed to have
ever been drawn BY single engine, re-
Gently travelled over The Northern Gems.
trail Railroad, of PENNSYLVANIA. The
train consisted IN ls3Sefnpty. freight
cars, 1 ioadefSsvheeler,2 cabooses, and
dead engine. The train was o, 200
feet long, Sr $50 feet more than a mile
The distanee travelled was q miles,
fhsstly up grads, At a:speed of 10 miles
an hour. 50 - . rfSvsE
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If each one of several makers had taken
the highest medal at one of the great worli's
expositions there would be loom TO question
which was best; but Mason & Hamlin have
taken the highest hOn9rs at every such compe-
tition for twelve years. ,..a
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dying in poverty" saysa modern
rnr4i:st, "is nothing; il is living in
poverty that comes hard on fellow"
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are IN complete order and persons who wish ~ pursue
any branch Of Drawing or Painting, POrtralt1re IN
CrlyOn Oils or WaterCOl0F Drawing from Casts lanl-
scape Painting, Figure, S.llLte or Decorative RANT
ing, Mechanical Draughng or Perspective, VIII nili
here the hest Instruction under the fullest advantages
The Teachers are H. i. SPREAD and u g. EAHIE, ITO
fessOrs OF Drawing and Painting; W. l. II. JENNkY,
scurer upOni ATchitectuTaI SUBJECTS n n. CARPEN-
TFR Instructor IN Perspective. The Secretary, MR.
FRENCH. also acts assistant IN INSTRUCTION. -, -
the Academy has fine and c0fnmOdous studios, open
to pupils from To O'Clock, daily with the use OF AZ
materials for study, copies costumes casts from antique
sculptIIre under constant ana competent Instruction.
The term now in progress Will continue through .lo
whole summer, with especial reference 20 W.
needs of Teachers. and pupils Will be adnltttu -
any time BY the month or quarter. CerthcateS OK aU
taipment will be issued for decided merit - ,,,,.-.
President, Jas H. Dole: Vice-PTeSdent WIN l. DiN'i'
Treasurer. Murry Nelson. N, -. ,,-.,, m,
plieati0n 10 W. M II. FRENUH, Secy Chicago AcadenJ
u Design. 40 State street. chicago.
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ART SCHOOLS
OF THE
Chicago Academy Of DESIGN.
THE ART SCHOOLS

nv recent reorganization. the Chicago Academy OF
Design has been put In better cundtloh lhan ~ any
time since the fire.
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& sudden Dcnfn.

There is something terrible ia the thought
OF having our friends stricken dOwd at our
side, without parting void OF cnl aTmen
or consOlatiou-One moment at our side il the
flush of vigorous life, cheering our h arts
with their loving sympathy; tic next at our
feet, pale with death, deaf TO our cries and
needless of our tears. Every eNcessivels Fat
person is in instant danger OF such . death
Sevep-tenths of the victims OF obysity die Of
heart disease or apoplexy. Alan's Anti-Fat,
the only remedy for obesity. rtdgces the
weight by regulating the digestion aud assim-
ilation of the food. II is perfectly harmless,
and its use will insure, in every instance, re-
duction Of weight from two 20 I've pounds q
week 3D.. %
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Few are aware Of the importance of check
iRg acegshy or GppRcp cold in its first stage.
1hafwbiehin theb innsng would yield to
mid femedt, ifneg1ected, soon preys upon
tbs L9lS,s Dc Bull Cough Syrup affords
i ia 1fIasf. BIC. p 4nts
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=, IL IA

wv ~ s 7oI % 4
But say tlsat Be s,sssSc II he .nizsed
Worlds honors=a and worlds. nlaudits and
OF a. The s., N.gs IL ,t rss % 70 !,
9Isne k ksssea e = feA ? y ~ ups s were
Daily by fhe se angels who.assuage disrE '--i
The thirsting OF the poets was roe ~
Nightly onhin aud he Inoa uesl Because 4
lie could not rightly utter to this day 10 s. Il
What God taughtin fhe night sometimes'
Power fell upon him, apdbfielt tongaeso
Aud blessin Is reached him from poor'souls 10
And ron # Of shame
Aud a 6TeSf Hsnd that,ied him u n awares,
So be died rich And if his eycs We're blurred
W ftb thick fams--siiencei' he ism his grave
S'IsatS ne sserea ra.ty ne e hs
Nor did ne wait till Freeeom bad become
The popuIHrs bfbboietb of edhrfiers' lips;
But sIf9 'S lHier when S9d himself seepeq 9,
And all his arching skies were in eclipse.
He was a-weary, but he fought his fight ) :
Aud stood fof simple manhood, and vas
To see the august broadening on the light
And new earths heaving heavenward fpon'
Hesoy E@S boz fSsai fssisvs and ssssr love ~ssl
Ffant tafsfes' ut MS ffeaa ana 81 his feet.
.tgL ahS das tiag fsl aAIman wss riding
along in Guthrie County, low 4 The
road was long and the country through
which he passed was sparsely sealed
-As-Eeds-.-six- miles Githaut Seeing q
J house, apd, then, in the midst OF the
siid, unbroker prairie, he saw, nAiled
TO POST in the grenndsa. sigr-board'
with the following DESCRIPTION: ''Iee-
cream. Balls and psrties supplied.
The traveller shiyered and hurried on 70
get TO the next house before dark
Hawksye, ,9fdsJt
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