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The. Paddy Bird.

A letter in one of the Calcutta papers
describes a singular exhibition of the
ssagacity Of the paddy bird: Much has
been said and written about the instinct
i've intelligence of certain birds, and I
think I may safely claim a niche in the
ornithological temple of fame for our
friend, the well-known Indian paddy
bird. I labor under the disadvantage of
not having been a personal spectator OF
the incident I essayto describe, but I
have the story from q friend for whose
intelligence I have the greatest regard,
and whose veracity I hold %unimpeach-
able, and am of opinion that the state
ments can be implicitly relied on as in
no wise DEPRESSING from strict truth
fitness. The narrator observes that re-
Gently, while travelling by trollyo n one
of the Calcutta railways, he was struck
with admiration and wonderment at the
tactics of a group Of these birds fishing
in a sheet of water. adjoining the cut
ting. He proceeds to state that the
birds first extended in line, placing
themselves at intervals Of two or three
feet, and then, wheeling round at both
extremities, completed aperfect Gordon.
The ring then gradually closed, the sa-
gacious birds the while driving the
circumscribed fish toward the center of
the Gordon by agitating their long legs,
and, observes my friend, as the circum-
ference Of the circle diminished, the
activity of the birds in their onslaught
on the fnny tribe became most amusing
to behold. The birds then opened out
again, and the line being formed, the
fishing drill was gone through for q
second and a third time with admirable
precision and regularity and consum-
mate.skill. 4 =
The above is no fiction and there
could be no deception with regard to
the movements of the birds, since the
narrator, having time OF his command,
was enabled to watch their manosuvres
for a considerable period. 1t is, more
over, marvellous, and demonstrates the
degree of sagacity that is allowed to
some sections of the lower creation.
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A New Way to Retain Subscribers.

An indignant subscriber to O new
paper went into the Office q few days
ago and ordered his paper stopped be-
cause he differed with the editor in his
views on subsoiling fence rails. The
editor conceded the mans right to stop
his paper, and remarked, coolly, rs he
looked over the list:
"Do you know jim Sewers, down at
Hardscrabble?
every WE'LL" said the man.
"Well, he stopped his aper last week
because 1 thought a farmer was a blamed
fool who didn't know that timothy was q
good thing to graft on ~huckleberry
bushes. and he died in less than four
hours"
!. tenacious /! is that SOP" asked the
astonished farmer.
"Yes; and you know old George
Erickson, down on Eagle creek?
"Well, I've heard of him."
"Well," said the editor, gravely, che
stopped his paper because he was the
happy father of twins, and we congratu-
lated hirl on his success 80 late in life.
He fell dead within twenty minutes.
There's lots Of similar cases, but it don't
matter; I'll just cross your name of,
though youdon't look strong, and there's
a bad color on your nose"
"See here, Mr.. Editor +, said the
subscriber, looking somewhat alarmed,
Il believe I'll just keep on another
year, because T always did like your
papor, and, come to think about it,
you're q young man, and some allowance
orter be made, and he departed salts
fed that he had a narrow escape from
death.
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dispatched by the men and boys on the
ground. Thirteen eoons, little and big,
were thus capturedin a few minutes.
Noble Son.

There is story in ancient history of
a famous Judge who al q great favorite
with the Roman Emperor. Among some
prisoners brought before him, who had
been fighting against the Romans, was
an old manswith long hair and unshaven
beard, and garments torn and stained;
but, in spite of all disguise, the judge
instantly recognized his own father. He
had taken up arms against his Emperor,
and now he was to be tried for his life
before his own son. 1t was a terrible
moment for both. Some IONS would have
pretended not to know the prisoner;
some would have forgotten the precepts,
h~eld,sacred, even by the heather, about
paying honor to parents. He, however,
left the judgment seat, and approaching
the Emperor, said: .
81 ask but one favor. I am the friend
of the Emperor, my father was his en-
envy; either forgive my father for my
sake, or take my life with his"
He saved his fathers life, for the EN-
perorimmediately pardonedt the prisoner,
and by this noble act gained himself an
other friend, for he who had been q
rebel henceforth was aloyal servant OF
the State. 49,
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Patents at Auction.

At an auction sale OF patent rights IN
New York recently the following devices
were sold: A spark ~arrester, for pre-
venting sparks and dust from coming
through locomotive and other smoke
stacks, New England States at 81, 600;
an improved letter box for French flats,
at 81, $50; an improved mechanism for
operating horse car brakes, ct 81, 1850; a
disinfecting cover for pals, (all United
States except New England at 81. 100;
an improvement in floor trusses, New
York State,) at. $1,000 variable hose
nozzle, ct LOTS; a key-hole cover,
! which, it is claimed, makes it impossible
to pick a lock from the outside, at 3D.
100; an improved gas regulator, which,
it is claimed, saves twenty to thirty per
cent. of gas, CENTRE United States pat
ent.) at 81, 100; q self-feeding labelling
machine, said to be capable of finishing
1900 bottles per hour, at $1,000; an
improved water filter, s(Canada right,)
at 81, 500; a sash fastener, by which the
upper and lower sashes may be locked
at the same time, or not, and in any de-
sired position, at $500; an improved book
support, at $500; q self-setting mouse
trap, which browns the animal, at 1926;
an improved extension table and side
board, at S425; All improved ironing
table, Except District of Columbia at
1925; q safety car coupling, canada
patent,) at $3.50; an improved self-de.
tachable hold-back, for vehicles. at
1926; a blacksmith's bellows with a
draught in lit whereby the fire in
the forge may be kept alive when
the bellows is not in use, at 5000; a
device for changing reciprocating ~rectili-
near into continuous rotary motion, at
$3.50; q fre-escape, consisting of a por
table roller clamp working on a fixed
wire rope, at $3.50; a folding desk, at
1925; an arrangement for working win
dow.shutters from the inside of the
house without opening the windows,
CENTRE United States patent,) at $3.50;
an improved washing:machine, (choice
of one of the United States, } at $3.50; an
improved coffee-pot, (New England and
New York States, except New York
City, } at SIS; an improved tree-feller, at
$3.50. A number of other patents were
knocked down at prices less than 500
each, and several were passed for want
of bids. :: tz2.S ? .-..
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Common Sense.

OLuka SOhDOe
Many imagine all advertised medicines to be
worthless nostrums, and Unfortunately con.
denim them; but is It not an injustice to the
thousands of resnectable citizens who give vol.
untary evidence of benefits received, to thus
question and doubt their veracity and integrity 7
Fairbanks standard scales are extensively ad.
vertised. Does 1t necessarily follow that they
are inferior In make and less accurate THAI
others? Have they not been demonstrated to
sense to suppose that q physician with capital
could be induced to hazard it and q hard
earned reputation upon a worthless article :
R. V. Pierce, NJ. D., Of the Worlds Dispenser!
and Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y, is the pro.
prietor Of the most popular family medicines
in the market. His reputation as q skilfU1
surgeon and physician has been fully estab.
lished for many years. Would physicians and
clergy, after having tested his medicines thor
oughly, unite in commencing them to the At
ficted, if they possessed no merritt The under.
signed take pleasure In recommending DR..
Pierce and his Family Medicines to all who
3. R. Fairchild. M. D., Seneca, N. Y; ".
B. Cousins, N. D., Abba, Iowa; u. J. Mo.
Clellan, NJ. D., Garrattsville, N. J.; ". F.
Hazleton, M. D., Silver Lake, Kan; F. g.
Miner, NJ. D., Veazie, New; Geo. Dieterich, N
D., los Vine Street, Baltimore, Md; ]. a
sherrod. NJ. D., Paoli, Ind; Geo. B. Chapman
NJ. D., Plattsmouth, Neb.; IT,: Casper, N. p.
Springfield Ohio; James 81. Porter, M. D.:
Gorham, N. r.; D. E. Wells. NJ. D., Bristol
N. H.; j. A. Miller, NJ. D., San Leandes, Gal.
j. N. Camp. NJ. D., Balsdan, Mo-; Jos. 8. Burr
NJ. D., ". Lafayette, Ohio; Rev. E. N. Harmon
Elsah, Ill; Rev. Isaac N. Augustin, shirman
ILL.,: Rev. Thomas OReilly, Newman, Kan.
Rev. L. Weston, Bucklin. No.; Rev. L. A
Dawson, Homer, ILL.,; Rev. W. 8. Long
Graham, N. c.; Rev. Andrew Adams, Calhoun
Ga; Rev. 4. P. Moore, 712 Washington Street
Boston, Mass; Rev. I. A. Thayer, NJ. D., Be-
c~onsburg, Ohio: Rev. I. P. Profit, PALMYRA
ILL.,; Mrs. Elizabeth A. Boyd, Falls City, Pc.
j. Spencer, Union City, Mich. Geo. @. Bazzill
Rsnova, Pa; Mrs. M. Kerns. Palmyra, No.
Mrs. E. R. Daley, Metropolis, Ill; Samuel Far
mer, Java, Ohio; Sisters Of Charity, st. Vim
cents Asylum, Troy, N. Y.
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STANDING tho Test.

Standing the Test.
Farmers have often been induced, by plausi-
Bile agents, to purchase farm implements which
have proved unsatisfactory or worthless; but
the hundreds Of thousands who have bought
the Buckeye Mowers and Reapers, built by
Adriance, Plat & Co., Poughkeepsie, and 1855
Greenwich Street, New York, have invariably
found their highest expectations more than
realized. .
This firm have for twenty-one years enjoyed
the reputation Of turning out from their fac
tories machines which in material and work.
manship, as we'll as in the simplicity and per-
lection Of their mechanical principles, were of
the highest excellence.
It is a fact, Which should have great weight
with purchasers, that the system of construc-
ton peculiar to the Buckeye Machine is the
only one that has remained unchanged in
principle, while among the many changes
made in competing machines, the only ones
that have met with any degree Of success are
those which were copied from the Buckeye.
A new Single Wheel Reaper, called the
"ADn1ANcE,' has been lately added to the
productions Of this firm, and when We pay that
it is q worthy compan'o;' to the Buckeye
Mower, we have paid it Inc highest possible
compliment. Manufacturers who have done 80
much to benefit and to win the confidence OF
the farmer, are the ones it is to his interest
to patroniZe.
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The Gold that Wears.

We parted one eve at the garden gate
When the dew was on the heather,
And I promised my love to come back to he,
Ere the pleasant autumn weather.
That We twain might wed
When the leaves were red,
And live and love together.
She cut me o tress from her nut-brown hair
AS I kissed her lips of cherry,
And gave her a ring Of the old-time gold,
With q stone like the mountain berry
As clear and blue
AS her eyes were true
Sweet eyes, SO bright and merry!
"The wealth Of my love is all I have
To give you" she said, in turning;
"The gold that wears-like the radiant star:
In yonder blue vault burning"
And I took the trust,
AS q mortal must,
Whose soul for love is yearning.
Fate kept US apart for many years,
And the blue sea rolled between us,
Though kissed each day the nut brown tress
And made fresh lows to Venus
Till sought my bride,
And Fate deied,
That had failed from love to wean US.
found my love at the garden gate
When the dew was on the heather,
Aud we twain were wed at the little kirk
In the pleasant autumn weather,
And the gold that wears
Now soothes my cares,
As we live and love together.
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The Horses Name.

One day my brother was out driving
in the country when q stranger stopped
him by exclaiming !: "Hallo ! that used
to be my horse |"
"Guess not" replied my brother
Thought her ats livery stable, and they
told me she came from Boston"
"H'mr |" said ,theG man, .".What dc
you call herr" 't.t.
My brother answered that the horse
was sold to him under the name Of
Pink"
"Ho said the man that isn't hel
name"
Suddenly he cried out sharply,
"Nel-lyl"
Quick as a flash, the horse pricked up
his ears and looked round.
Nelly" said the man, stepping in
front OF her, "Shake handsl"
Up came the horses right hoof for the
man to take. -,.
"Nowgive us the otherhand, Nelly"
and she raised her left fore-foot.
"There |" said the mar smiling
edge suppose that wasn't my horse ?"
What does my readers Think Youths
COmpanSon.
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FOB THE YOUNG PEOPLE.
The SinR.Away Bird.

o SAY, have you heard Of the sing-away bird,
That sings where the Runaway River
Runs down with it's rills from the bald-beaded
That stand in the sunshine and shiver
go sing !! sing-away! sing-away"
How the pines and the hirches are stirred
By the trili of the sing-away bird!
And the bald-headed bills, with their rocks and
their rills,
To the tune Of his rapture are ringing.
And their faces grow young, all their gray mista
among,
While the forests break forth into singing,
80 sing! sing-away sing-away"
And the river runs singing along
And the flying winds catch up the song.
It WAS nothing but hush q wild white.
throated thrush,
That emptied his musical CULVER
With a charm and q spell over valey;and del
On the banks Of the Runaway River.
80 sing! sing-away s~ing-away!"
Yet the song of the wild singer had
The sound Of a song that is glad.
And, beneath the glad sun, may a glad-hearted
one
Set the world to the tune Of his gladness,
he rivers shall sing it, the breezes shall wing
it,
Till life shall forgetits long sadness.
80 sing sing-away! sing-away"
Sing, spirit, who knowest joys Giver-
Sing OH, by times Runaway River
Lucy Larcon, in 81. Nicholas.
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Origin OF Great Britaln's Emblems.

The intestine wars which 30 long de
vastated England we're carried on under
the symbols of the Red and White Rose
The adherents of the House of Lancaster
chose the red rose as their mark of dis.
tinction, whilst those of York chose the
white. This fraticidal war continued
until the union of the roses by the mar.
rage of. Henry VII. with Princess
Elizabeth, daughter OF Edward w., in
1856, since which time the rose has con.
tinued to be the emblem of England.
When st. Patrick landed in Ireland to
convert the Irieh, in 432, the pagan
Inhabitants were ready to stone him.
He requested to be heard, and endeav-
ored to explain God to them as the
Trinity of Unity; but they did not nm
derstand him until he plucked a %trefoil,
or shamrock, from the ground, and said,
sis it not as possible for the Father,
Son, and Holy Ghost to be one, as for
the three leaves to grow upon q single
stalk ?" "Then," says Brand, the
Irish were convinced, and became con-
verts to Christianity; and in memory OF
that event they have ever since worn the
shamrock as a badge of honor"
When the Danes invaded Scotland, on
one occasion, they resolved to adopt a
strategem, and in order to prevent the
Scots from detecting them they marched
barefoot. The Danes thought they
should reach the camp in n few minutes,
when, on q sudden, O man who went
forward was wounded by q stout Scotch
thistle, so hat he could not help crying
out loudly with pain. This noise reused
the camp, the Scots flew to arms, and
the Danes were vanquished. This thistle
was afterward adopted as the insignia
of Scotland.
On a certain occasion King Cadwalls
met a Saxon army. In order to dis
tinguish his men from the Saxons he
placed q leek in each of their hats; and
having gained a decisive victory over
their enemies, the leek became ever
after the badge of the Welsh.
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The Russians around Constantinople have
been concentrating their forces and drawing
nearer the Turkish capital, while the Language
of the Russian minister to the Sultan is said to
be growing more imperative. .
Forty persons were burned to death during 9
fire in the theatre at Ahmedungger, q celebrated
city Of East India.
According to a dispatch from Ottawa the
Canadian government has been notified by
Great Britain that war between England and
Russia ia inevitable.
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The Samoan Islands are the great
cocoanut .producing islands of the globe.
The inhabited ones are nine in number
and have a population of 5000. One
German firm, dealing in the staples OF
those islands, does a business of $5,00O,-
600 year. Pago-Pago is the harbor
which the United States have lately
bought.
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The Greatest Dlscovery Of tho Ago Il Dr.
Fobias' celebrated Venetian Linimeutl 30 years before
the public, and warranted to cure DiArrhes, Dyssntsry,
Colo, and spasms. aksninternally 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 it . fair trial. Prioe, 40 eents. De.
TOBIAS VENETIAN HORSE IMMINENT. in Pint
Bottles, at One Dollar, Ii warranted superior to any
other, or NO PAY, for the cure OF collie, Outs, Bruises,
Old Sores, eto. Sold by all DruggistsL Depot-1OP Park
Plaza. Nav York. "
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It happened in this wise: They were
coming off the steamer across the plank
together. She was afraid the plank
would tip and she should fall. He said.
"Never fear. In that case We shall
die together" She looked into his face
and said, /: If it's all the same to Provi-
dence, I should much prefer to live to.
gether." And the next week the knot
was tied.
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A Good Name.

A Good Name.
A good name 10 rather to be chosen than gre,
riches"
Children, choose it,
Don't refuse it;
It's a precious diadem
Highly prize. it,, -, -
Don't despise it;
You will needit when your men.
Love and cherish,
Keep and nourish,
lis more precious far than gold;
Watch and guard it,
Don't discard it;
You will want it when you're old.
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Catching COons.

A piece Of hunting strategy that must
have amused ancient Nimrod, had he
heard of the like in his day, is thus re-
ported in the Huron CO., Times:
One day Us Mr.. Alfred Walbridge was
coming to town, and when in the ravine
near the village, he heard a noise up in
the top of a large whitewood tree. He
surmised hat the noise was made by
coons, and that the tree al a bed-tree
for them.
He applied for permission to cut the
tree, which could be done without much
damage to other timber in the vicinity.
It was suggested by some one that Fred
Rice could climb the tree and get them
out. Fred was sent for, and he came,
armed with a pair of creepers such as
are used by telegraph men, and a short
club tied around his wrist. The open.
ing in the nest was in the side of the
tree about sixty feet from the ground.
When Fred was askeI how he was 60.
ing to get the coons out, he smiled
blandly, but made no reply. With great
apparent ease he assembled the tree to
the hole, then drew from his pocket o
bunch of fire. crackers, and after light
ing a match he set them on fire, and
dropped them into the hollow Of the
tree. In a short time they began to ex-
ploie, and out came the coons one at a
time, coughing and sneezing, while
Fred knocked them of, and they were
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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 and health to the child, gives rest to
the mother. 1t is an old and well.tried remedy.
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Gen. Grant at the Paris Exposition..
18th says that Gen. Grant was placed upon a
square, American platform-that Of the Howe
Scale. The general In fact was weighed and for
the first time in his life "found wanting, hav-
ing lost seventeen pounds by his Egyptian trip
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lam Afraid.

"George, let's go down to old Reeds
a little while" said Dan White to a COM
panion, n evening, just after the lamps
we're lit and the days work was done.
"I've got to study" replied George.
"Let the studying do itself and come
on" said Dan.
IT can't, T must get that lesson"
swell get up in the morning and get
it. Professor Jones says morning..i is the
right time to study, anyway, and he
ought to know"
at am afraid" said George.
"Wha are you afraid of ?" inquired
Dan, as soon as he could command his
tongue.
George hesitated. -
"Ofh his MORALS" sneered one.
"And his manners" added another.
"And his NANNY" supplemented a
third
"Let him speak for himself" sug-
gested Dan. "What are you afraid of,
George?"
"Why-why, if we go there we might
stay late; then I might oyersleep myself
and not get up early in the morning;
and then they smoke and swear and
drink, and it is not much OF q place."
$50 hire a hall, 60 hire a hall |" was
echoed on all sides. !
1t is not pleasant to be laughed at,
and George was just ready to cry, when
one of the larger boys silenced the cla-
NOR and said:
"Come on, boys, who cores for NOR
ais, or manners, or grandmothers ?
Come ahead; come, George" he added
entreatingly, "don't be backed down;
the fools don't know what they are
laughing at; you've as good a right to
your opinion as anybody; but come
once and Judge for yourself, If You
don't like it you needn't 60 back"
I am sorry to say the honied words
had the desired effect, and the whole
troop, George and all, went rushing
down to the lowest little dram-shop Of
all hat community, with as much bra
vado as if there was not a, consciencesin
the. crowd. !!Ei X = NI
Late in the night. or rather early in
the morning, George slippedsquietly
into his home at the back door, and
crept noiselessly up the back STAIRS To-
day a bloated, degraded, debauched,
confirmed drunkard, whom intemper-
rnce, as O strong man armed, has over
come and taken captive, will tell you
with tears of shame in his eyes, that he
is going straight down, to ruin, because
in his youth he was afraidto say, 81
am afraid" r
There is 8 Divine Arm able to save
even him, but he has sunk 30 low lie
scarcely wants to be saved, and we hard
~ dare to hope he will be.
Courage! boys, courage! Dare to
do right. Dare to shun the wrong.
Have the courage to say, IT am afraid !"
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The most fashionable hats for chill
dren are in the Pekin style. They come
in cardinal and navy blue.
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CHEW
The Celebrated
"MATomKss"
Wood Tag Plug
ToDACco.
THE PIONEER TopAooo COMPANY,
New York, Boston, and Chicago

There is nothing 30 dear as cheap medicine;
it is dear at any price. This is true Of the
large packs Of condition powders now sold.
Buy Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders and
you can't make q mistake. The large packs
ara 1i-tarlv worthless. o.