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CINCINNATI, March 4-The boiler Of
the Miami Distilling Company, near
Hamilton, Ohio, exploded this morning,
fatally scalding David Morton aud John
Willis, employees.
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MEETTNc.
MrMrnIs. February %. 1873

MEMPHIS, February 20. 1873.
F1HE annual meeting Of the stockholders Of
J. the Washington Fire and Marine Insu-
rance Company, for the election Of seven d.
%reotors, will be held at the Company's Office
on the 9TH day Of March next ensuing,
J. w. JEFFERSON, Pres't.
P. M, ROBBEs, Sss'y. 1888
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NEW YoRK, March 4.-The Evening
Post the failure Of Jewell,
Harrison & Co., provision merchants.
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but he wss sentenced aud was really en-,
ecuted on the twentieth Of September
1903. at the early age Of twesy6ve
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MARDI-GRAS

MARCH 5, 1878, be set apart as a day Of fun,
folly and frolio, when the innocent license Of
the mask shall have no limit, and the places
Of f~estivity shall offer a night of pleasure 10
all our people, and when the pageant of
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A New Use for Seals.

There exists an animal which might
be trained to render us great service,
that is the seal, which is slaughtered so
merciIessly for the sake of it's oil and
skin. Intelligent and affectionate, it
possesses all the qualities suitable for q
domestic state. The director of the
museum at Dion had 50 skillfully
tanned one some years ago, that though
by nature amphibious, it's primitive
habits were changed, and it rarely went
into the water, placing itself during the
winter close to its master in the warm
corner of the freside, stretched on the
wood-ashes. If pains were taken to
teach the seal, it might become to the
fisherman what the dog is to the hunter.
Nor need we despair of such a result,
for the Chinese train the remora or
sucking-fsh to catch turtles, and the
heron and cormorant to capture fishes.
The coasts of England would be fit
places for the education Of the seal. The
value of such help may be imagined
when we think of the great solitude of
the sea-so many times larger than the
space covered by land-where man has
no ally, and can only count upon those
who dread him. What an interest for
him in the very element itself to have a
friend and companion who would follow
him in bis fishing expeditions There
are not wanting conclusive results
which have been obtained in individual
cases ; and if the same care were extend
ed to the race, we may say that the seal
is an ally ready prepared by nature
! Chambers Journal.
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The Empress Eugenie.

To-day, in her abode at Chiselhurst,
the widow Of Napoleon III. attracts
scarcely less of the worlds interest and
attention than she did as throned en-
press and queen of fashion. Unfortu-
nately, the supreme tact that once was
her distinguished quality seems to have
deserted her in the days of her deca-
dence. She, the most graceful of
women, has not learned the art of grow
ing old gracefully. She had played the
part of a beauty and the leader of fash
ion for years. Now that she is past
fifty, that character is no longer posi-
BILE to her. But she might have as
sumed another less snowy, perhaps,
but surely far more touching. With
her whitening hairs she might have
worthily worn tho triple dignity of
her widowhood, her maternity, and her
misfortune. She has chosen instead,
with o weakness unworthy Of the part
that she has played en- the wide stage Of
contemporary history, to clutch yainly
after the fleeing shadow of her vanish
ed charms. A head loaded with false
yellow hair, a face covered with paint
and powder, a mincing gait, and the
airs and graces of an Anticipated coquette
such to-day is she who was once the
worlds wonder for her loneliness and
grace, q bewigged Mrs. Skewton sue.
ceeding to the dazzling vision that
swerved the calculating policy of Napo-
leon III. and won his callous heart, and
that still smiles upon us from the can
vas of Winterhalter. -Lucy II. Hooper
N Nppincot.
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His Recollection OF 1t.

"Now, Leander, my dear, I want you
to be sure and not forget to bring these
few things when you come down to-
night" says the young wife, just before
the Kiss and "good-by" at the summer
hotel, in the morning, as the gentlemen
were starting for the city.
"Certainly not, my love-"
And this is the way the list ran:
l. Two yards of blue barege.
2. Three yards of Hamburg edgings.
3. My new braid from the hair store.
T.. Half a dollars worth of nainsook.
s. Box pearl powder from my upper
drawer.
6. "Modern Minister" from Loring's
Library.
Arriving in town, he forgot all about
the list till late in the afternoon, and then
he couldn't find it in any of his pockets;
but hadn't he read it over, and didn't he
recollect it oil? OF course he did, and
this is what he brought home to his ex'
pectant wife:
/. Two heads of blue cabbage.
2. Three yards Of handsome netting
(mosquito).
3. Some blue braid.
4. Half a dollars worth of canned
soup.
5. Box of sedlitz powder.
6. Loring said he hadn't got any such
book as "The Mug and Canister" in the
library. Exclamation on receiving the
above: 80, Leander, Leander, you
must have been dining at that horrid
club again or you could not have made
such a mistake !'-Boston Commercial
Bulletin.
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Where Everybody TattOOs.

At the mention of tattooing, the Eng
lish reader will be disposed to lower the
Burman in his estimation to the level of
the Red Indian or South Sea Islander,
or other wild ofshoot OF humanity. Yet,
it is no mark of any such want of Gull
ture. From the educated native Judge
who sits on the bench to administer the
law of England, who speaks and writes
the English language, drives in his
barouche, and attends the social gather
ings of English ladies and gentlemen,
to the humblest laborer in the field,
every man of the population is tattooed,
not at pleasure and within the limits he
himself may draw, but by a rigid custom
which devotes to the t%attooer's art the
body of every man from the waist to be-
low the knees. Within this area every
Burman is branded with q close tapestry
of lions,a. g%rifins, and other fabulous
monsters, in deep blue pigment, forced
under the skin by a painful process.
Red t~attooing is confined to the upper
part of the body. This necessary deco
ration is begun at an early age, and the
prescribed surface is only gradually
covered, but the severity of the treat
ment in the case of very young boys is
the cause of no little illness, and some
times even of death. I have myself met
only one Burman who was not thus
decorated, and he was O kind of privil-
eyed mountebank to whom the license
of a clown was allowed, and who was
the good.natured butt Of his companions.
The tattooer is proud to execute his
most artistic designs (Which he will dis
play on a scroll like a tailor's patterns)
on the arms of English officers, and
among those who have served in Bur-
nah the samples of this art are among
the commonest relics shown to admiring
friends at home. Whatever may have
been the origin Of this strange custom,
it is considered an essential mark of
manliness, and the Burmese youth who
shrank from the ordeal woulab be regard
ed and treated as a "milksop;" and, how
ever unnatural the custom may be, it
undoubtedly has the effect of attaching
a wholesome dignity to hardship, and
the fearless endurance of physical pain,
to which may be partly due the remark
able freedom from efeminacy which is a
popular characteristic of the Burmese.
-Fraser's Magazine.
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Beat the Thermometer.

Wednesday when the toiling, persp;r-
ine masses discovered that the thermom-
eters down town marked plump 100
degrees in the shade, they wiped OF their
chins and congratulated each other on
having lived to see such aperiod. About
the time that everybody was happlest,
along came O small boy whose face was
as red as q beet and whose eyes shone
like glass.
"Where's a doctor !" he called out as
he entered a crowd.
"Here, bey-what's the matter ? re.
piled one of the men as he reached out
to detain the lad. :.
"Hull family freezin' to death at the
house !" he explained: "Dad is in the
down stair bedroom, shakin' and chat.
term and calm on me to bring him red
hot tea and put bricks to his feet. Nam
she's upstairs, with four quilts and q
carpet over her, but I heard her SILVER
clear down to the corner. My sister
she's got her feet in the cook-stove oven,
and is writing an ode to winter, and
bruther Bill he's lynn in the sun IN the
sidewalk an AKIN everybody to lend him
some Kyann pepper to help start a cir
culation."
"Is-that-so? ?" slowly queried citi-
zen.
"Course it is! Hain't I down town
after a doctor an some soft coal? I wish
some of you fellers would tell me if the
weather reports predict a change to
warmer weather."
The thermometer still marked a plump
hundred, but as the crowd again turned
to the figures there seemed to be a gone.
ness somewhere-a sort of aching void
which figures couldn't fll.-Detroi'
Fret Press.
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The Indian Population.

The losses of the Indians in the var1-
GUS contests with the whites have always
been over-stated. Tribes that have
been thought to be destroyed have reap
peared in o fragmentary way, and often
in increased numbers in the aggregate
in other tribes. As a rule, weak tribes
have decreased, while strong ones have
increased. The Comanches have been
slowly and steadily multiplying.
So have the Ojibways, Sioux and Grows ;
while, on the other hand, the Omahas,
Poncas and Missouris have become
feebler. The Sioux have absorbed the
Yanktons and Y%anktonnyis. The Della
wares have been absorbed by various
tribes.
The Pawnees are greatly depleted.
The Six Nations have remained nearly
the same for several centuries. Colonel
Otis places the total number OF Indians
killed by the whites since 1883 at 8,0OO.
Of these perhaps 400 warriors persisted
in the defeat by Wayne, and no more
than that in tho Seminole war, which
lasted seven years. and involved the
expenditure Of $50, 600, 900 of national
treasure. How much United States
officials have ever known about the
matter is shown by the following
government estimates In 1922 the
national statistics showed that there
we're Asst, 900 in 1880. 313, 900 in lS4o,
400, 900 and in 1855, $4,000. by
this singular table it will be seen that
between 1922 and 1880 the decrease was
IA, 600, and that the increase between
1880 and 1910 was $1,000. When q
government, in 1922, began to move the
Indians westward the number OF those
east of the Mississippi was placed at
100, OOO-as many, probably, as had
roamed the same region at any time
after the first settlement of the country
by the English. Since that time no
diminution can readily be shown. The
Cherokees have doubled their popula-
ton within the century. The Creeks,
Cherokees, and Ohickasaws have shown
a decided tendency to flourish. The
Ottswas and Chippewas number more
than 90 00.-Sdn Francisco Chron'-
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Indian Origin VI Mosquitoes.

The Bed River Indians have a curious
legend respecting the origin OF mosqul-
toes. They say that once upon a time
there was a famine, and the Indians
could get no game. Hundreds had died
from hunger, and desolation filled their
country. All kinds of offerings were
made to the CT eat Spirit without avail,
until one day two hunters came upon q
white wolverine, a very rare amman.
Upon shooting the white wolverine, an
old woman sprang out Of the SKIN, ana
SAYING that she was a "Manito," prom
ised to 90 and live with the Indians,
promising them plenty Of game as longas
thew treated her we'll and gave her the
first choice of all the game that was
brought in. The two Indians assented
to this. and took the old woman home
with them, which event was ~immedlately
succeeded by an abundance OF game;
When the sharpness of the famine nae
passed in the prosperity which the old
woman had brought the tribes, the In
dams became dainty in their appetltes,
and complained of the manner IN Which
the old woman took to herself the choice
bits: and this feeling became 80 intense
that Notwithstanding her warning tbatlt
thew violated their promise a terrible
calamity would come upon the Indians,
they one day killed her as she was selz-
ing her share of q reindeer which the
hunter had brought in.
Great CONSERVATION Immediately struck
the witnesses of the deed, and the In
dams, to escape the predicted calamity,
bodily struck their tents and moVed TO a
great distance. Time past on without
any catastrophe occurring. and game
Incoming even more plentiful, the In.
began to laugh at their being deceived
by the old woman. Finally, a hunting
party on q long chase of a reindeer,
which had led them back to the place
where the old woman had been killed,
came upon her skeleton, and OF them
in derision, kicked the skull with MS
foot. In nm instant a small, spiral,
yapor.]ike body arose from the eyes and
ears of the body, which proved to be IN
sects, that attacked the hunters with
great fury, and drove them to the V
for protection. The skull continued to
pour out it's little stream, and the air
became full of avengers OF the old
woman's death. The hunters, on return.
ing to camp, found the Indians suffer-
inc terribly from the plague, and ever
since that time the Indians have been
punished by the mosquitoes for their
~wickedness to their preserver, the Man.
ito.
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Buried Cities In Asia,

From recent researches made on the
borders of the great desert of Cobb, IN
Central Asia, it appears that great cities
of Importance once occupied the place
now covered by barren wastes of sand.
The desert sands swept onward and on
ward till, as in Egypt, everything disap-
peared beneath their ever increasing
accumulation. The inhabitants of the
cities fed before the resistless invader,
and now, after many centuries have
elapsed, our explorers are discovering
the ruins of past glories-gold and sill
yer ornaments, coins, glass, china, pot
terry, copper, vases, and other treasures
which show that not only people inhab-
tied those cities, but that they were not
unacquainted with the arts. In some
cases it would seem that the inhabitants
failed to escape in time, for their skele-
tons have been found in unearthed
houses with their apparel and furniture
intact and uniniured. The "dunes"
formed by the drifting sand are in places
more than one hundred fstt in height;
and the sands are still flowing onward
to make fresh conauestK
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her accounts, in the seclusion Of home,
somewhat later, and estimated the cost
Eulogistie Ferms OF Address.

Eulogistic phrases, first thus used to
supreme men, of course descend to men
in less authority, and SO downward.
Illustrations are supplied by those cur,
rent in France during the sixteenth CEN
fury: To a cardinal, "the very illuetri-
GUS and very reverend," to, a bishop,
"the very reverend snd very iilustrious;'
to q duke. "the very illustrious and
very reverend lord, my much'honored
MASTER" to q marquis, "my very Illus
trious and much-honored lord;" to a
doctor, "the virtuous and excellent"
And from our own past days may be
added such complimentary forms of cd.
dress to those of lower rank, as, "the
right worshipful," to knights and some:
times to esquires; the right noble"
the Honorable. minded" used to gen.
tlemen; and, even to aldermen aid meh
addressed as Mr., such laudatory pre-
fixes as "the worthy and worshipful, "
"the worshipful, virtuous and most
worthy" Along with fattering epithets
there spread batteries more involved in
form, especially observable in the East,
where both are extreme. On a Chinese
invitation care the compliment, gravely
addressed to an ordinary person, is, 'To
what an elevation Of splendor, will your
presence assist us to fise I" Tavernier,
from whom I have quoted the above ex-
ample of scarcely. credible fattery from
the Court of Delhi, adds: ".This vice
passeth even unto the people," and, iu-
stancing the way in which he was him
self classed with ancient men of the
most transcendent powers, adds that
even his military attendant, compared
to the greatest of conquerors, was de-
scribed as making the world tremble
when he mounted his horse; a descrip-
ton harmonizing with the instance Mr..
Roberts gives of Oriental compliment to
an ordinary personality lord, there
are only two who can do anything for
me: God is the first and you are the
econd."
On reading that in Tavernier's time a
usual expression in the East was-"Let
the kings will be DONE" recalling the
parallel expression-"Let Gods will be
DONE" we are reminded that various of
the clarifying speeches addressed to
kings are identical with those addressed
to deities. Where the militant type is
highly developed, and where divinity is
ascribed to the monarch, not only after
death but before, as of old in Egypt and
Peru, and as now in Japan, China and
Siam, it naturally results that the words
of eulogy addressed to the visible ruler
and the ruler who has become invincible
are substantially the same. Having
reached the extreme OF hyperbole to
the king when living, they cannot 60
further when dead and deifed. And the
substantial identity thus initiated con.
tinues through subsequent stages with
deities whose origins are no longer
traceable. -Her6ert Spencer, in Popu-
lar Science Monthly.
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A Summer Day
Deep down beside the tangled sedge

~ SViuIhCl Dby
Deep down beside the tangled sedge
The meadow lark sings all the day,
And bursts at times from ont the hedge
The mimic chatter Of the jay;
And here and there q wandering note,
A cricket's chirp. comes sweet and clear
Where dreamy mists of summer float
At noon upon the grassy mere.
Affair away below the hill
I see the noisy mill-wheel 60,
The smooth broad lake above the mill,
The flash of foam that roars below;
And on the even slopes that rise
So gently toward the mountains brow,
The cattle watch with sleepy eyes
The lazy ploughboy % the plough.
My soul is sleeping, and its Dreams.
All sad and sweet that dreaming thrills !
For there are other wales aid streams,
And other focks on other hills
The hills whereon I climbed to pull
The golden rods and weeds Of May,
When all the world was beautiful,
And all my life a summer day.
&C. E. Brooks in Harper's Magazine.
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In selecting colors for the various
apartments of your house, avoid a brown
study. As for the library, it should al
why's be red. nj
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Mr.. Thomas Mort, who spent $780,.
600 trying to solve the problem of send
ing frozen meat to England, has died in
Australia.
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It Is thought the wheat crop Of. the
coming year in the United States will
reach the round sum Of 400, 000, 600
bushels.
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The perfect imprint Of a tree may be
seen upon the breast Of Thomas Briggs,
of Wellsburg, W. Va, who was struck
by lightning on July fourth.
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There are over 25, 900 Touring mills in
the United States, giving employment
to 60, 900 men. These mills turn out
annually so, 600, 900 barrels Of -four.
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Mr.. Ross says he spent $4,000 in
looking for the lost Charlie. He recent
" declined to receive subscriptions for
bis relief that had been sent to a New
York paper.
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A convict at Auburn, N. Y, escaped
hard work during his confinement OF
two and a half years by feigning Paral.
ysis. BE was so successful in the fraud
that he was lifted about by attendants,
and on his release had to be carried to
the depot in o chair and placed in the
cars, An hour afterward he visited the
prison officials and astounded them by
his speedy and full recovery.
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The country from Canyon City to
Pilot Rock, Oregon, over which the In
dams recently swept, is a desolate waste:
Not q building is standing; hundreds OF
starving colts were whinnying beside their
dead dams; all the cattle were killed for
the sake of their tongues, and the Indians
have chopped off just below the knees
the forelegs of every sheep they could
catch.
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Lockiaw is n Of the most terrible
diseases to which mortals are exposed.
A California exchange asserts that no
one need be in danger of such an attack
from wounds caused by rusty iron. The
worst cases of inhamed wounds may be
cured by smoking the injured part with
burning wool or wooden cloth. Any
thing that produces safety from such a
fatal disease is worth recording.
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? A pair Of very chubby legs,
fncased in scarlet hose;
A pair Of little stubby boots,
With rather doubtful toes
A little kilt, o little coat,
Cut as o mother can
And 10 ! before us strides in state
The futures looming man"
A pair Of laughing, deep blue eyes,
A wealth Of ringlets brown,
With air coquettish IS q queen,
The belle Of all the town;
A dimpled chin and blushing cheek,
Lips red and teeth Of pearl,
And 10! before US, shy and meek.
We've the futures looming GIRL"