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Tors Mt the Exposition.

A Paris correspondent, describing the
various matters of interest in the French
section of the Exposition, says: But its
great attraction is the extensive and re-
markably ingenious display Of mechan-
ical toys. Here are dolls that, on being
wound up, swim around In o tank Of
water, making every requisite movement
Of legs, arms, hands and feet, diving and
treading water, exactly as If they were
trained human swimmers; and o pea.
cock that walks slowly across the table,
turning it's neck and head from side to
side, and slowly expanding and then
gradually closing its gorgeous tail; and
elephants that walk about with hoWdahs
on their backs, and put out their fexi.
bic TRUNKS for food in the most natural
manner; and scenes in the Jufdin q 40
cl~iaatation, where other elephants
march around bearing o load of passen-
gers, the men stroking their mustaehes,
the women dandling babies and waving
parasols, the children g~esticulating with
delight as they go. And he stops TO
snatch q bonnet from q girls head, who
looks up and complains to her mamma,
who scolds the keeper; while ducks
swim about in the brook of real water
and cranes flap their wings and poke
their bills, and reindeer Craze and calves
suckle, and q lion grins, growls and
roars, Just as they do in the garden.
"Madame's reception" shows a sump-
tuous drawing-roon, with q dozen ladies
dressed in the extreme of fashion, every
detail Of dress elaborated to perfection,
while they admire and criticise each
others toilets, pour out and drink
chocolate, pay respects and make
adieux in the most graceful manner.
There is o little beauty, half ife-size,
,exquisitely dressed, who bows, mods,
shrugs, curtseys, firts fan and eontem-
plates her glass, until you are almost
sure she is alive. There are animals
that play on drums and harps. and do
actually draw thin little tunes from
them. And q whole array Of feathered
warblers, in eages and on springs, that
make the section resound with what
every one fancies to be bird music until
they approach near and see that it is
marvellous mechanism. There are dolls
that speak whole sentences, and boys
toys, beautiful parks Of real tiny arti-
lery that can shoot, and perfect sabres,
and muskets, and hunting apparatus.
The toy department is constantly
thronged with delighted, wondering
adults and screaming, enthusiastic chill
dran
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Words Of Wisdom.
Denying q fault doubles it.

S&s+sFN-I ~ A+N "e
Quiet conscience gives sleep.
There is no grief like the grief which
does not speak.
Ignorance has no light ; error fol-
lows o false one. .
Some people look at everything, yet
really see nothing.
Be happy il you can, but do not dc.
spise those who are otherwise, for You
know not their troubles.
One act of b~eneficence, one act ot
real usefulness, is worth all the ab.
stract sentiment in the world.
The art Of exalting lowliness and
giving greatness TO little things is one
Of the noblest functions Of genius
Often the grand meanings Of faces
asweu as written words, may be chiefly n
the impressions OF those who. look OF
them. -.
Mans value is in proportion to what
he has eourageously suffered, as. thu
value Of the steel blade is in proper
lion TO the tempering il has undergone
Manners are the shadows Of virtues.
the momentary5dispIay Of those quail
tiles which our fellow creatures Low,
and respect. H We strive to become
then, wphats We strive TO appear, manner
NAV ftenSberensderedSnsef guides b
theSperformancegofour duties. SEssz
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QueensWare.

In England the beginnings Of the pot
terry manufacture are enyeloped in OBJ
security, but for the last two centuries it
has conferred in staffordshire. A kind
of earthenware called deli, from the
place Of its origin, in Holland, was
largely smade in That district in the
seventeenth century. This was so i'm
proved by Josiah Wedeewood, nearly
two hundred years ago, that when Queen
Anne became one of his patrons he
called it "QueengWare," o name it still
retains; and now along the valley Of the
Trent there ore more than two hundred
p~otteries, whose products are pushed
by English mercantile energy 10 every
part Of the world where British COM
merce penetrates. The peculiar conlbi-
nations Of clay discovered by Wedge
wood are still one Of the secrets in the
immense establishment continued by his
descendants. Mr.. Gladstone justly calls
Josiah Wedgewood one Of the greatest
benefactors Of the English people.
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LAND AT THE NORTH POLE.


E%NNS
The Virginia City (Ney.) Enterprise
says: About four years ago q farmer OF
Surprise Valley found in the crop OF o
wild goose a quantity Of wild grain, the
like OF which he had never before seen.
he planted this gratn, and it grew and
aourfshed, producing more than q hum
bred fold. The straw and beardless
head are said TO resemble wheat, Ehilethe
grain looks like rye, butts twice as large.
The farmer has now many bushels OF
this cereal, and has sent samples OF il to
be planted in various places in Cali.
fornia, where food for cattle is not easily
obtained at some seasons, as the stalk OF
the new grain, when it lis thoroughly
ripe, makes excellent hay.
An old sailor, Of this city, after read
ing an item which has been going the
rounds of the papers in regard to the
new cereal, the substance of which item
is given above, finds his memory re-
freshed. It brings 10 his recollection o
circumstance he had almost forgotten,
and has set him TO thinking. He has
thought il all out, and is now firmly of
the opinion that there is an inhabitable
land OF the north pole.
The old man says he VAS one OF the
crew OF the Investigator, Captain
Mcclure, which sailed from England in
1850, in company with the Enterprise,
Commander Collision, in search OF Sir
John Franklin, and he certainly has =
his possession one of the Arctic medals
given by the English Admiralty to all
persons engaged in these Polar expeh-
tions from 1918 to 1856. In September
of that year the Investigator reached 9
land which Captain Mcclure named
Baring's Land, and three days after
other land, which he named after Prince
Albert, where about the last Of the
month they were frozen in.
While In the last named land, the e1-
plorers observed many wild geese and
other waterfowl flying southwark.
Some Of the geese stopped at the place
where the ship lay and several were
killed by members Of the crew. In the
crops of come Of these geese he recol-
leets TO have seen, and marveled at
seeing, q considerable quantity Of q
grain such as the new cereal Of Surprise
Valley is said to be. As no such grain
is known IN the temperate zone, and as
we have no account Of o grain Of the
kind being found in amy known region
OF. the world, he is Of the opinion that
the geese obtained il in . region lying
about the open polar sea.
He says no man. has yet gone 80 far
north but he has found wild geese and
other Waterfowl flying still further
TO the northward. As the geese are I'M
doubtedly vending their way 10 q we'll
known stopping place far to the north,
there must be something for them 10
feed upon at the point whore they stop.
As wild geese NO more live on fish than
do tame ones, there must be, in the
country to which they 60, grass and
vegetation similar TO that found in the
temperate regions. The wild geese
that halt On the Pacific coast make the
grain. fields their, feeding place, and it
is NOT likely that;in the land about the
Pole their nature is 80 changed that they
feed upon MOSES or fish.
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Most geniuses and men of great talent
have been known for some peculiar
habit or striking idiogyncracy. Napo-
leon would tremble with fear at the
sight of q cat. General Elliott, OF Glib
ralter FINE, was always accompanied By
q score Of them. johnson liked to i'm
bibe foods Of tea or wine. Person
drank everything that came in his way.
Visiting once q friends house, when
evening came they desired to feed the
lamp, but the bottle was empty. Por.
SON had drank the spirits on the. sly, not
knowing IL was intended for the lamp.
Douglas Jerrold could not bear the smell
of apples. CaYendish hated women. II
he met one of his own female servants
by accident in any part of the house,
she was instantly dismissed. Garriek
was vain almost to the degree OF insan1-
ty. Rousseau was vain and could not
write except when dressed as o Top.
Bulwer Lytton, il is said, would write
best when dressed in q court suit.
Marlborough was q miser, mended his
own stockings TO save paying for II, and
would walk home ever 80 late OF night
rather than pay for q "ehair." Napo.
leon did his "thinking'' and formed his
plans for conquest while pacing in o
garden, Struggling his shoulders now
and then as if TO help and compress
thought. When Theirs was engaged u
his long and oratorieal displays he al.
ways had beside him o supply OF rum
and coffee. The coffee he got direet
from Mecca. Gibson dictated while
walking in his room, like Scott and many
others. Moliere wrote with his knees
near the fire, and Bacon liked to study
in o small room, which, he said, helped
him to condense his thoughts, Georgs
Stephenson used TO LEI in bed for two o.
three days, the better TO athink out
hias PLAN: It would be better i many
people do this who have much thinking
/ TO, do, as3rest fayors abstraction ane
Thought and those who have mot o wig.
orous circulation: find. the supply" o
blood ia the brain assisted by.a recum
lLnl say.&s@E JosdI asl&HE t:&%%@SM =
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tercourse' only during summer with, the
neighboring territories, has never, yet
been approached by o European. The
habits and customs of the inhabitants
are described as those of O completely
primitive state. They have no eoneep-
tion Of measure Or ~weight-no fairs,
booths, earayanserais, or amy institution
Of public life. Theft is unknown among
them. They carry on the breeding Of
cattle, have little agriculture; and all is,
30 to speak, common property. II
provisions are wanting in one family,
their neighbors help them. -,
a man was sentenced to State Prison
for life at GAINESVILLE, o., last week for o
murder which was proved against him
in peculiar circumstances. In June
1876 q farmer named Brock was found
lying dead with q shotgun wound in
one eye and o gun lying by him. A
verdict Of suicide was rendered, and the
body was buried. Suspicious we're
however aroused against his farm hand,
named Moorehead, Of whom he had been
Jealous, and last February the body was
taken up and IL was found that there
had been two wounds in. the head; one
made By o bullet from o rifle entering
from behind, and the other made:by q
shotgun discharged into the left eye.
A hattened bullet, and several shot were
found IN the brain; the bullet had been
pierced with one. or more shot, entering
on the convex side, which pointed TO the
fact that il had been first in the head,
and lodged in such o position that the
shot on entering. had perforated il.
Moorehead was arrested and tried with
the result as given above. .
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CHARITY At HOME.

The Forbes girls had been at q recep-
ton, and were just stepping into their
carriage whan they saw Nelly Bigelow
!: coming up the street.
- "Driye on home, Thomas; We win
vail. <oh, Nelly Hsuch an age since
T. We asaW syoul You must go shopping
> wHithusf'"
The. three had been schoolgirls TO-
gether, and had never forgotten their old
friendships, although now they seldom
met. Jenny and Dora Forbes we're lead
ers in q fashionable circle Of society,
while Nelly was . teacher in one Of the
public schools.
: The delicate, ,siIk-and-yelvet costumes
of the two first contrasted oddly with
.Nelly's coarse waterproof suit. But the
Forbes girls seemed never to think Of
that, though Nelly, with all her. good
sense, thought Of it, and struggled
:: brayely:not.t care.
At the corner q yretched deformed
lad tried TO sell them some papers.
.Dorais cheeks. flushed and her eyes
filled. aYou poor child" she said,
handing him some money s"See, girls !
this is certainly no impostor."
Jenny also gave him some money, tut
=" Nelly stood motionless.
" aDo ,you. think we were. deceived ?
i, Perhaps you don't approve Of giving
!, alms,on the street?" they said eagerly,
appealing TO, her for advice just as when
they were at school.
aI*haye nofight to an opinion" said
:: Nelly. -
STfe wsistersxtexchanged significant
+. chances.
aTheySthin il is 4meannesss IN me- :
: thought Nelly bitterly. =:
* They went into 5Sharpless's.s Mel
bought5som flannel, taking cut awell
filed purse to pay for il" While shs
.stil held it, o white-haired old lady, {
friend Of the Forbeses, approached
them. - ~ e MY 80 %x.E. -
: tssAh, girls, Just in time to help in .
: good work I Those poorpeople burned
ont last night,-forty families. / hayt
q snbscription:paper here; how much
wllyou giyeg2" ~: .%:a:
sfDonf put our names down. jus
say CASH 3'i saidJenny and the warm
hearted, generous girls &emptied thei
PES abd-soar:yoaps t+isnds 4 said ii,
'$motherlg Old lady, CHANGING at Nelly
:: full pocket:book.:
IRcannotc: make contribution, ~ :ashi
{ said stimy
4ses Not large one,@wed don't: asl
everybody 70 give like these dear girls
49, bySF Eoy45sH ~. .ES Il 49,
q caunotEgi give anything. to-day,
said Nelly turning away. AS sidewalk
edStothe door, she$heard Dora say i
sanindigrant Whisper - -;E*'< .
NONSENSE tnobody2is 60 poor tina
they emit give something i the
chonse.." Il =: : + = -. : - 49,: !E@,|
1There:Was an. embarrassed silence TO
few minutes a.: they walked up Oh
streettogether. But Dora and Jenn,
NJ @&WES %AFSEF+ - ~ EGN"1 -
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The Persian shah is accompanied 10
Paris BY O suite consisting Of fifty per-
sons, including servants. He inhabits
the apartments used by the Emperor Of
Brazilian Prince Henry Of the Neither
lands. *Twenty-four rooms and saloons
are placed az his disposal, and!!a special
chief employed.to undertake the cuisine
according 70 the Mussulman usage
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According to the Pekin (ohina) Gag
cite, the telephone was invented by
Kung Fo VIKING, who aourished IN the
tenth century.
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General Pleasanton has not given up
his blue glass theory, but leetured
recently on the subject OF the Jefferson
Medical College in Philadelphia.
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A New York photographer has sold
$4,000 ikenesses Of actors and actress
ses in three years. !,
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. American silver quarters are cut IN
two BY the Mexieans, and freely circu-
lated as !" bits'' Twelve and o half cents)
onthe Rio Grande frontier.
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There is O terrible aminein the south
ern part Of Morocco, caused by drought.
The inhabitants are said 10 be so re-
duced that they resemble living. skeie.-
toms.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

Pure silver clocks from Peru are fea-
lures at the Paris show.
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The heat in the lower levels Of the
Nevada silver mines is intense. At o
depth Of 1900 feet, where the tempera-
ture was 1856 degrees, three men died
recently from exhaustion.
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The cheapest railroad in the world is
that in East Friesland, connecting the
village of Westerstede with the Olden-
berg-Leer Railway. It is five miles
long, of two feet five anda half inches
guage, and was built by the rural popu-
ationof the district of o cost Of about
$50, 900.
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Large quantities Of coarse straw
wrapping-paper are shipped from New
York to Cuba and Europe to be used in
he manufacture Of cigars. 1t Is there
saturated with tobacco juice and passes
for leaf tobacco.
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, In the obituary columns Of q single
Philadelphia paper appearedin one week
recently the names Of sixteen persons
who had lived to or beyond the advanced
age of eighty years, among them being
Madame Heloise Ferti, one hundred
years; Lydia Sanders, ninety-seyen, and
Hester Colfesh, ninety-three, the aver
age Of the sixteen. being e~ighty-nine
years aud nine months.
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The famine in India is slowly dying
out everywhere, the survivors are recoY-
ering health and strength, and the small
quantitiessof food imported show that
the people have o suficiency of grain.
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The Memphis avalanche notices the
interesting and significant fact that of
all the bankrupts who have lately filed
their applications in the United States
Clerks office in that city, none ever
advertised their business.
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Ayoung girl in Cleveland, O., went
tobed recently with strong eyes and IN
excellent health. During the night she
felt "a sort Of pricking" for o SECOND or
two about her eyes, and then Q snap, ias
If something Ind broken. These SEN
Stations were accompanied By no pain,
and after they had passed away there
was NO uncomfortable feeling about the
eyes. In the morning she WINS stone
blind.
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Il is proposedto erect in Central Park
o statue Of William Cullen Bryant, to be
placed near that of Mazzini, the unyeil-
ing Of which was the indirect cause of
Mr.. Bryant's death. Mayor Ely is asked
to become the treasurer of'the necessary
fund, and : corrective subscriptions Of five
cents and upwards.
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WS2%F
The commerce Of the United States
with Japan dates from the year 1859. In
that year it amounted to but 1896. The
following year il was less than $780,.
600, and up to 1856 il had not reached
$3.50, 600 per annum. In the fiscal year
1866 the total exchanges suddenly in-
creased TO SO, SOC, 900, and in 1879, their
value reached 81, $780, 600. The follow.
ing year their was o decline to $780,
600, and since then an increase has again
taken place 10 dig, soc, 900 in 1876 and
and 1877. Very great fluctuations, II
WILDE observed, have taken place dur.
ing this short period.
Two men the other day drove up to
the. door Of Henry Hansehell, o mer-
chant in E~dwardsyille, ILL.,, and request.
ed the privilege Of depositing q boz they
had, with them In the house for the
night. which was refused, but they were
allowed to place il in the store. The
next morning the men called for the
box. but the storekeeper had missed q
piece Of cloth from his counter, and ON
further examination he found that he
had been robbed Of $500. and eonse-
ouently refused TO let them have the
box: The storekeeper obtained assls.
lance. secured the two mel and opened
the boz, when 10 out jumped o man,
and In the box were found the money,
goods, ETC., which had been stolen.
The territory Of Karategin, which be
longed formerly TO Kokhand, has beer
coded by. Russia TO Bokhara. Karate'
cir. with the smaller territories Of Dor.
wa; Wachia, and sllugnau, :as we'll asths
greater. part af.Kogistar, adioinsimmedi,
ately the plateauFo of Panir,, the highss1
int6e world. Karategin, which is com
pletely isolated in; winter, and has In
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A moderate amount of fat is generally
considered evidence Of good health.
About one-twentieth part Of the weight
OF o man and the ~sixteenth'of q woman
is considered the normal proportion. It's
Office, aside from it's value in giving
symmetry to the figure, is to prevent
the rapid escape Of animal heat, and
also TO supply the waste OF tissue from
sickness, unusual exertion and tempora-
~ deprivation Of food.
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RUSSIA AND I'URKEY-The latest
news from Europe is that articles pres
liminary to peace have been signed by
the respective representatives Of Russia
and Turkey. The terms of peace are
rather hard ON the latter, but she wil!
probably have to submit to them. En-
gland made show Of eight week ago,
10y ordering largh fleet to the Darlan.
ellis ami giving notice in Parliament for
an appropriation Of twenty million
pounds, but the order TO feet was speed.
lily countermanded.
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From the shephetdtown Register:
WAsnrNaroS CITY, ID. c., Jan.

w ARLINGTON LIIl, ~. ~, 81 an. L..
Mn EDITOR In political aspect,
rs we'll as in business, nothing should
receive greater scrutiny than the acts OF
your representatives. Therefore / shall
in this communication present briefly
the conduct and action OF those oeatle~
men who represent your State and i'm
mediate constituency First, the Hon.
II. O.. Davis has exhibited great energy
and tenacity in pressing his demand and
securing the appointments OF n cons
miitee TO Investigate the discrepancies
in reports made to Congress for series
OF years by the Secretary of the Treas
ury. UP TO n certain period Of time. and
then subsequently, without authority Of
law, or n respectful notification 20 Con.
gress OF their design to 10. or having
done so, mado changes, which are OF
such magnitude and character IA TO very
properly excite dstrast, and tie whole
country should feel thankful to Senator
Davis for his perception and vigilance
in this matter whether his efforts snail
develop ami detect fraud or not, the
moral effect of hts vigilance will stand
"a terror to evil doors. and 80 should
IL be done in all cases where fraud or ir.
re2ularities are suspected TO exist.
Senator Hereford has made one orthe
clearest, most pointed and Practical
speeches, on the subject of tho payment
Of the Government bonds and the re-
monetization Of silver, that has been ut
tered upon these important subjects.
lie mas grouped the strong points in fa~
yor Of bis positions, SO "a To challenge
controversy and defy assault. The
force and vast Importance Of the posi-.
tions I've takes and ably maintains.is the
disastrous effect upon the industries of
the country, which previous fraudulent
legislation has brought about. lie very
conclusively shows that frau iulent leg
islatiOn demonetizcd silver, and not a
dcbasing Of the metal, and that all this
croaking by morcenary AID aspiring pol,
iiicians about The Nations honor to
meet AMI pay its Obligations according
TO contract. is merely TO divert Invests
. CATION Of the facts. and panderinr TO
the money power Of tho East. The press
( Of the country could not do greater
service TO the mass Of The people than
| TO publish the speech in toto, 50 they
could know the facts rs he has 80 clear
I ~ and conciscly condensed them. and
understand for themselves the stnpcn-
I dous frauds which have been legalized
I through corrupt legislation. The Sena-
I tor does not deal in vague and united
/ theories, or clap trap sentiments and
I high sounding words, about our duty
( and Difference TO our foreign creditors
/ and money lords, but plainly states the
/ character Of contracts and the msnipu-
lation OF legislation 80 give them the
advantage.