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A New Test of Death.

In the course of his researches on the
electrical stimulation of dead muscles,
Kappeler subjected twenty corpses to
the action of various electric currents,
noting the time of disappearance Of con-
tractility. In persons emeciated by
chronic maladies it disappeared much
more rapidly than in well-nourished in
dividuals, or these who had had acute
disease. It disappeared minutes
after death at the quickest, and at six
and a half hours at the slowest. In cases
where a rise of temperature is observed
after death, electric oontractility persists
longest. So long as there remains the
least flicker of life the contractions con-
tinue intact. In the most prolonged
faints, in the deepest lethargies, in poi
soning by carbonic oxide, ~chloroform,
etc., there is contraction 30 long as life
lasts. But if the muscles make no
response to the electrical stimulation,
Kappeler pronounees life extinct.
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Destroyers of California Crops.

Few people are aware of the damage
done by wild geese Oh the wheat fields
in California. They come in myriads,
and pull up the young wheat by the
roots, and eat it, roots end all. 1t is
stated in the San Francisco Bulletin
that, on one rancho alone, 5000 geese
have been killed this season, and in the
county of Colusa alone, last season, the
damage done by the web-footed fowls
was estimated at $780,, DOC. A whole
family was lately poisoned by eating
geese which had been eating corn soak-
ed in strychaine. The California va
rieties of geese are the Canada, Snow
and Laughing geese. Quails, also, have
become so plentiful, in many places on
the Pacific coast, that they are poisoned
by thousands, as they destroy the grape
crop. But q greater nuisance is the
ground squirrels, which are nearly as
bad as the grasshoppersathiss side Of
stThe Divide"
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A Case OF Conscience.

Postmaster James of New York, re
Gently received the following letter, in
closing two three cent stamps:
II read a story in q paper of q boy
who found a stamp on a letter that was
unsullied by the usual marks, and who
thought with great delight of using ii
again. Conscience said, Have you
the right to use a stamp which has done
it's work, although neglect has made nc
mark upon it?' Again the boy said,
Who will know anything about it? ]
will not tell Conscience pricked him
we'll until honest convictions made him
understand he had no right to use the
stamp. Strange that I, who consider
myself honest, should twice have used
stamps which had done their duty, and
that T had to read this story to make me
remember that honesty (eyen l n the
smallest things) is the best policy. You
tperhaps will laugh, and laugh you may,
Of my sending back two stamps, but my
conscience has done it's work and l feel
easy"
The two stamps were forwarded to the
third postmaster-general.
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Turkish Soldiers Mt Fleyna.

! London Times correspondent tells
howthe Turkish soldiers at Plevna acted
during the siege. He says
In many Of the redoubts companies
are divided into groups of ten to fifteen
men, without any officer to superintend
them. These men having burrowed into
the banks have made little classmates for
themselves, and thus maintain the de-
Tense of the curtains aud bitches with
the most unparalleled persistence and
courage. It is in these little classmates
that they prepare their food, sleep when
they get the chance, and when called
npon arrange their little plan of keeping
up q fire on the enemy IN accordance
with the system practiced by the Janis
sarics Of old-that is, in double line, the
rear line Covering the front. When
ammnnition runs out, four mel are sent
OF from each group with wheclbarrows,
which they have handy, to fetch up
more. At first the ammunition was
served ont unfortunately, and each
soldier helped himself as he liked (the
waste was, Of course, enormously, from
out of the central depot of the redoubt,
which he happened to be in.
Soldiers, such as those OF whom lLave
Just given you a slight sketch, have but
little respect fortheir officers, whom they
consider as useless, seeing that, as they
do not carry any guns, they never fire.
In some of the classmates, where the
officers have ventured to give their
orders, these said officers have been
pitilessly turned away. The sang foid
displayed by the soldiers is beyond
praise, and it is very hard indeed to
surprise them, as they are always on the
Gui vive, two Of them being on sentry
while the rest sleep alongside. This is
indeed a soldiers war. The only person
they allow to intervene between them
and the commander-in-chief is the imam,
or priest, of each company, who recites
prayers for them regularly five times a
day. Most of these soldiers come from
the Dibra, Albania and Herzegovina.
Mehemet Ali Pasha and Suleiman Pasha
brought them from Herzegovina and
sent them to Plevna. Osman Pasha is
indeed well pleased with these stout
warriors, and, indeed, has never had any
complaint to make against them.
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, The Legs and Feet of Horses.

It is O well-known fact that horses
will work and stand sound for many
years with legs apparently much out Of
order. Enlargements take place in the
sheath of tendons after strains, also from
blows, where the parts become lined
with q thick coat of lymph, and some
times the body of the bone itself is found
thickened, from q disposition of bony
lamina over the original bone. When
all this has been in progress, we ques-
ton the propriety of any active meas
ures, unless, as is generally the case, a
feeling of soreness is expressed after
work by q shifting or favoring of the
limb or limbs in the stall, or by a "feel-
ing" manner of going OF first quitting
tie stable. When the legs are really
callous, little impression can be made
upon them, unless by active measures !;
but rest and proper attention are the
best personalities of these most essential
members of the horses frame, with the
friendly auxiliaries of hot water, flannel
bandages, and freedom in a box stall
after severe work, and good shoeing ut
all times.
Provided no internal diseases attack
the feet, they will not only be as sound
and healthy, but in better form, from
having been properly shod, than if they
had not been shod oil. Some hoofs,
however, having a greater disposition to
secrete horn than others, and thus called
strong feet should never remain more
than three weeks without being sub
iected to the drawing knife of the black
smith. and the shoes properly replaced.
Neither should stopping with damp tow
be omitted; as moisture, not wet, IS
beneficial to the health of the foot Do
what we may, however, horses that are
required for work on hard roads, or to
$50 the pace" will always be more or
less subject to diseased feet, quite I'M.
connected with shoeilg. The action OF
the hinder legs of horses reminds us OF
one useful hint to those who have to use
their horses on long journeys. If we
allow a we'll formed horse, with the free
use of his limbs, on a road upon which
his footsteps are imprinted, we shall
find that the hinder foot oversteps the
fore feet in the walk, but falls behind
it in the slow trot. Exclusive of relief
to the muscles by change of action, then,
it is safer to vary the pace from a walk
to a slow trot on a journey, as causing
less fatigue to the hook joint, by which
curbs and spavins are frequently thrown
out. Add to this, the slow trot is the
safest pace a horse goes, because his
step is shortest. -Prairie Farmer.
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VaIuohie Medical Treatine,

The edition for1S78 Of the sterling Medica
Annual, known as Hostetter's Almanac, is now
ready, and may be obtained, free of cost, OF
druggists and general country dealers in oil
parts Of the United States and British Amer
lea, and indeed in every civilized portion Of the
Western Hemisphere. This Almanac has been
issued regularly at the commencement OF every
wear for over ~one-ifth of a century. 1t com.
bines. with the soundest practical advice for
the preservation and restoration Of health,
large amount Of interesting and amusing light
reading, and the calendar, astronomical calcu.
%lations, chronological items. &C., are prepared
with great care, and will be found entirely &C.
curate. The issue Of Hostetter's Almanac fol
1878 will probably be the largest edition of a
The proprietors, Messrs. Hostetter d Smith,
Pittsburgh, Pa, on receipt Of a two-cent stamp,
will forward a copy by mail to any person
who cannot procure one in his neighborhood.
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Fortunes in Oil.

A letter from Oil City, Pa, has the
following : Who has not heard of johnny
Steele, otherwise known as Coal Oh
Johnny. He awoke n morning and
found that he had come into possession
of a farm, near this city, upon which
numerous prolific oil wells had been
struck. BE had retired a poor teamste1
he awoke a millionaire. He soon be.
came the greatest spendthrift ever
known in this country. He travelled,
bought the hotels where he stopped,
gave them to their previous owners in
the morning-in short, disbursed his
immense fortune with q lavish hand IN
til it was all gone. He then retired and
is now a contented farmer in n OF our
Western States. His is only n OF
many very similar stories told:
As the opposite of Coal Oil Johnny,
the case of Dan Goethe, an oil specula.
tor of this city, is cited. Only a few
wears ago lie was a bootblack in this
CITY. BE then delivered telegraph mes:
sages, and finally engaged in the oil
business. He is now only abouttwenty'
six years old, but in that short time has
acquired a fortune of several hundred
thousand dollars. In the mean time he
has supported a widowed mother and
several brothers and sisters. He made
his money by buying and selling oil.
and is now one of the most Influential
men in the business. Only week before
last he took the bull side of the market
with a powerful company on the bea1
side, and worsted them. One sale o.
his was of 80, 900 barrels at 50. O3i. The
trade was made, certificates representing
it exchanged for a check, within ter
minutes. The amount involved in the
transaction was $163, 000. This was
only one of Lis sales. During the day
he sold nearly 200, 600 barrels. He is
short, thick-set man, unassuming ant
very liberal. His gifts to the poor are
large. He is temperate, and possesses
in an eminent degree that qualification
generally termed sand.
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The old and reliable piano mauufac-
turers, George Steck & Co., of New
York, have taken q sensible view Of the
hard times by offering to the public, for
the present, their pianos at prices in
accordance with these times. Consider
ing that the Steck pianos have the envi-
able reputation Of being the best and
most durable instrument made, a good
many being in need of such an addition
to q comfortable home will not be slow
in availing themselves of the rare chance
to procure an absolutely reliable piano
for near the price they would have to
pay in getting q so-called cheap class
instrument with n fictitious nnddoubtful
NAME.
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Official reports state that there are
"a, 1000 buildings in New York city.
There are 1913 houses arranged as
"French flats" 172 hotels, sixty-six
hospitals and asylums, twenty-nine
theatres and eleven markets. The
number of dwelling-houses is 67,156.
The annual average number of new
buildings for the last twelve years is
1856.
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Nothing has given the writings OF Charles
Dickens so strong a hold upon the hearts OF
parents as the well-known excellence Of his
portrayal Of children and their interests. These
delineations having received the approval Of
readers Of mature age, the different child
characters have been detached from the large
mass of matter with which they were originally
connected, and presented in the authors own
language. to a new class Of readers. to whom
the little volumes will be as attractive as the
larger originals have prevent to the general pub
lie. A series Of twelve volumes has been pre-
pared, presenting, among others, the following
characters: "Smike," from Nicholas Nickleby;
Little Nell" from The Old Curiosity Shop ;
"The Child WIFE" from 9?,i Deyid : SO asps ED
etc. A new edition of the first volume OF the
series, little Paul, from Dombey Il Son, has
Just been issued, illustrated by barley, and
attractively bound. The other volumes Will
shortly follow. Sentpost-paid for $1.00; or any
volume will be sent with q yesr's subscription
to the New York Tribune (weekly), for $500;
or any two volumes, with q years subscription
to the Independent, for $500.
JOHN R. ANDERSON, Publisher,
Hartford, Conn.
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The Annual Fly Crop.

Prof. Ovens lecture on Compare
tive Anatomy" will afford some explana-
ton of the extraordinary numbers in
which flies sometimes occur. ''The Aphis
iGnigera produces each ten vviparous
broods, and one which is oviparious, and
each generation averages 100 indi-
v;duals
IS. generation produces ] aphis.
I'd 100 one hundred
% 1000 ten thousand.
9Th I,po,0 900 one million.
9Th lesy 900, 900 one hundred millions.
9Th 10000 eo, 900 ten billions.
Eth 100000, 00, 600 one trillion.
Uh 10000, oe, 900, 600 one hundred millions.
9Th t0.0oy zoo, o0o,0Oo. 900 ten quintillions.
10th l,0O0.OOO,O N.o 900, o0O,oo one quintillion.
If the oviparous generation be added
to this you will have thirty times greater
results
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w,.tar,, BaI.nm of wild Cherry.

The great remedy for Consumption. This we'll
known remedy is offered to the public, sane
and when resorted to in season, seldom fails TO
effect O speedy cure Of Coughs, Colds, Group,
Bronchitis, influenza, Whooping Cough,
Hoarseness. Pains or Soreness in the Chest or
Side Bleeding at the Lungs, Liver Complaint,
etc. Beware of Counterfeits Remember that
the genuine Wistar's Balsam of Wild Cherry
has OH tho outside wrapper the signature of
81. Butts" and the printed name Of the pro.
prietors. "Seth W. Fowle Il Sons. Boston"
All others are base limitations. Examine the
wrapper carefully before purchasing. so cents
and 81 a bottle. Sold by dealers generally.
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Gleason's Publication,

Great reduction in price for 1878 of
Gleason's Pictorial to p q year. Single copies
FIVE cents.
The Home Circle to % a year, single copies
FIVE cents, for sale by all newsdealers.
Ghason'S Monthly Companion to 81 q year,
single copies ten cents. All postage free.
The price Of chromos has just been greatly
reduced. No one now gives such liberia term
to agents as we do. Send for new free circular
Address F. Gleason d Co., 1888 Washington
Street, Boston, Mass.
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Burnetf's Cologne

is of the best quality, and is filled IN elegant
bottles of superior finish and beauty. 1t Is
offered in popular sizes and at popular prices.
This refreshing perfume is thus brought within
the reach of every one. 1t is prepared from
the purest and best materials, and with the
utmost care. In Quarter and Half PintS, Pints,
and Quarts. In Basket style, cork and glass
%sknrnerS.
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How TO lake Good Bread.
Use Dooley's Yeast Powder, andyou will have
no difficulty. The substances entering into lts
composition are perfectly pure, healthy and
nntritious.
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Safe and Sure.

Mr.. II. r. STEvENs:-
and, yielding to the persuasions of . friend, l consented
to try 1t. At the time, I was suffering from genera
debility and nervous prostrstion, superindnced by over
and curative properties seemed to affect my debilitatec
system from the hrst dose; and, under its persistent use
[ rapidly recovered, gaining more than usual health and
good feeling. Since then ! have not hesitated TO- give
VEGETINE my most unqualified Endorsement, aS oeine
and restoring the wasted system 10 new life and energy
is the only medicine I use: and, as long n
l live, I never expect to find q better.
Yours truly, W. H. CLARK,
~ Monterey Street, Allegheny, Penn.
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vEGET|NE.
Her Own Words.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb. IS, 1871.
Mr.. II. R. STEVENS:
very painful foot. I had some physicians, but they
couldn't cure me. Now, l have heard Of your VEGh;
TIME from q lady who was sick for q long time, and
became all we'll from your and went and
bought me one bottle of vEGETlSE and after had
and then l bought one other bottle, and so ! take u. yet
thank God for this remedy and yourself: and wishing
every sufferer may pay attention toit. Ills u blessing
VI MRS. q. KRABE, 63s West Baltimore Street.
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patentees and inventors should read adver-
tisemeut of Edison Bros. In another column
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Stop that terrible cough, and thus avoid a
consumptive's grave, by taking DR.. Pierce's
Golden Medical Discovery. AS a cough remedy
it is unsurpassed. Sold by druggists.
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that wonderful u1'S Bilious remedy Quirk's Irish
Tea. It costs only Is cents a package.
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Interesting to All is the offer Of q Genui
Microscope for a trihe. See Advt
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-~]AI BAKING
ROYAl POWDER.

Tha Tesdins American Powder, uniformly pure and
faotiy wholesome. All Grocers authorised TO guarantee
book for using it in all forms. sent for IO cents. Aaofe
cIXTY.SIX Specimen Copies of our BEAUTl
~ Fiji OIL CHROMOS free, to responsible Agents,
inclose 10 cts. with your apple .tion 70 cover postage
S1sisefuan d Co., lO4 W. 6 Street. Cincinnati. %.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-09-21
What The Republican Party Has
Done.

The same number Of words were
never used to tell more truth than
those below, in which the World
let's the Republican party state its
own case, or put in lis own bill, and
then presents the Offsets: TIE
true way to test the Republican
party career is to reckon up it's
works and the coat OF them. It put
down the rebellion. but after much
bIundering and mismanagement
1t freed the slaves, but by the sac
Rice Of white man q lie for every
negro man liberated, ADD by the
expenditure Of money enough 10 bly
every slave IN the South at a fair
market price. 1t reconstructed the
Iebellons States, but weighed them
down with burden Of dlshonestiy
contracted debt, interlered with
civil liberty and disgraced the
Whole couatry by the knaveries Of
the carpet baggers. L. built the
Pacific Railroad by grant OF mon
ey and land, and virtually bestowed
the great work upon private cor
poration guilty OF the viest bribsr y
to attain its ends. 1t has squan-
dered hundreds Of millions on our
navy, and we are without effective
war ships. 1t boasts increase
Of foreign commerce after al
most throttling it by tariff. Il is
proud OF reduced expenditures after
being compelled to the reduction
oy a Democratic House Of Repre-
senlauyes. Verify, if things are ia
good condition, which is, to cay the
least doubtful we owe little thanks
TO the Republican party.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-09-21

Tor hne Jewslry, Tor Office seeklns
for bibles. 1t has been called The
city OF magnificent distances" and
1t may just as appropriately be term
cd the Titled city" 1t is seldom
you meet plain "Mr." but you
may stand on the Ebhtt House
corner for hsf An hour aud IN thai
time hear \ score or two Of people
sccosted as GENERA" jude,
Major" Captain" or "Colouei."
a Chicago man lately met friend
IN tbs city near one OF our leading
hotels with the question What
n airy Public won d be called in
Washington? Sid he, 81 have ju.,
beeu ia oducei to ~ oil men ovrl
there al the Lote AID | happened
TO know several Of them % re.,,
tIou. a man whu -ery D.! 49, @
Tor three mon lis IN i.r
isntry, was introduced ~ uae
Genersl. Aaother who, 10 IN, C..
tain know edge, never sbo' a gun
n r drew sword. Was introduced
as VI 4jof, and tuiIa who s,uilvI
law with EA-Congressm4, - bu,
who got into 6 verrment ofiice
before he WAS admitted to the bar,
and never tried case OF made a
motion IN Court, was introduced t.
me as Judge" A city o! magnificent
pretenttonS, withal.
MERRILL.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-09-21

WHEN Gov. Mathews and the
present administration came into
possession oil thu State government,
the State was $4,000 in debt. and
the Governor had to borrow $4,000
to carry on the State government.
Now the $4,000 debt hae been paid
aud $4,000 borrowed money return
ed, and there 10 upwards OF $4,000
IN the State Treasury, alter all APP
preparations TO State institutions
have been paid and without any in
crease OF taxation. TOE School Fund
tor distribution is larger, by 100000,
this year than ever before. These
figures speak well for the present
management CT our State AFFAIRS, un-
der Democratic rule, and at tn.
same time argue a better condition
OF financial matters throughout our
State. and a degree OF returning
prosperity. The sherifFs have paid
up more promptly than heretofore.
aid returned fewer delnquen,s.
1t Is very gratifying to chronicle
these facts. and we may reasonably
hope for still better results, after
our abundant crops and confidently
believe that better times and a
more prosperous season is not far Of
MOuntuin Hearld.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-09-21
:illed but still they are leaders.

killed but still they are leaders.
When the leader dies, there is
confusion, retreat, disaster, and no
more going ahead, except to be
oyertakeD. Without leaders keen
OF scent, sharp o. eye, quick to step,
there is no advance to the sought for
grounds. While thousands OF men.
animals, birds. fish, vermin and
insects think there are no lead ers,
they are led just the same, aud even
travel along perhaps swearing they
are not be:lg led out they are all
the same, a. the actual leader stride
eyer Oil tiii be gives the order 10
halt on some good ground, under
a slope, by spring, Oh on the bank
OF some clear stream.
Tue proper thng is to select the
best and bravesl Lea iers, E, courage
aud protect them, to travel in as
solid form as possible, and as fast
and thus reach the camping ground
before night OF disaster overtakes
both the leaders and the led, as the
world is full OF armies going in OPP.
posite directions guided by opposite
spirlts, as the weaker ialls, he fit
test surviving.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1878-09-21

JUST as we 60 to press, We learn
that Gen. Latham was defeated at
the Cranberry Convention. A man
oy the name oi Burr was the sue
cessful candidate. Banner.
The BANNER didn't state whether
Mr.. Burr is citizen of Pennsylva-
MA or the District of Columbia
But we suppose it don't matter. -
Wheeling Register.
His residence is of no account
whatever to any one around here.
Gen. Latham is the only man that
we have heard Of who intends vo-
ting for him. Before Burr gets
through bucking against Ben Mar
tin he'll wish he had a esidence 10
Alaska. -Banlner.