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Appearance Of the British Soldier.

The British soldier always presents the
appearance of scrupulous cleanliness he is
secured, scrubbed. brushed beyond repioach.
His hair is enriched with ponatum and his
shoes are radiantly polished. His little cap
is worn in manner which considerations
determine purely aesthetic. He carries
little cane in one hand, and, like gentle
man at a party, par of white gloves in
the other. He holds up his head and ex-
pands his chest, and bears himself general
ly like person who has reason to lnYite
rather than evade The fierce light of modern
criticism. He enjoys, moreover, an abund-
ant leisure, and appears to have ample time
and means for participating in the profits
of residence in London-for frequenting
GIN palaces and music-halls, for observing
the beauties of the West End and cultiYat-
ing the society of appreciative house maids.
To ragged and simple minded rustic or to
a young cockney of vague resources all this
ought to be a splendid picture. That it
should seem to comprise any shadows is
proof of the deep-seated relish in the hui
man mind for oul personal Independence.
The fear of TOO many masters wei .hs heay-
lily against the assured comforts and the
opportunity of cutting figure. On the
other hand, l remember once that CON-
municative young trooper with whom con-
versed said that the desire to see life had
been his motive for enlisting. He seemed
going to see it with some indistinctness; he
was little tipsy at the time.-Ltppin-
COTS.
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70 Stain Dried Grass.

There are few prettier ornaments, and
none more economical and lasting, than
bouquets of dried grasses mingled with the
various interchangeable flowers. They have
but one fault, and that is this, the want of
other eolors besides yellow and drab
or brown. To vary their shade artifcially,
these flowers are sometimes dyed green.
This, however, is in bad taste and unnatu-
raj. The best effect is produced by blend
ing rose and red tints together, and with a
very little pale blue, with the grasses and
flowers, as they dry naturally. The best
means of dyeing dried leaves, flowers and
grasses is to dip them into the alcoholic
solution of the various ompounds of ami
line. Some of these have beautiful rose
shade others red, blue, orange and purple.
The depth of color can be regulated by di-
lutlng, if necessary, the original dyes, with
alcohol, down to the shade desired. When
taken oat of the dye they should be exposed
TO the air to dry off the alcohol. They then
require arranging or setting into form, as,
when wet, the petals and fine filaments
have a tendency to cling together. A pink
saucer, as sold by most druggists, will sup
ply enough rose dye for two ordinary bou-
quets. The pink saucer yields the best
rose dye by washing it off with water and
emon juice. The aniline dyes yield the
best violet, nauve and purple colors.
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How Meersohaum should be colorea.

Admitting the very probable supposition
that every one who has purchased good
meerschaum desires to have it nicely color
ed, it may be well to know that, if the pipe
is good one and proper precautions are
taken, nothing Is easier than to obtain a
good color. The first difficulty among
Americans is that in smoking as in, most
else they do, they put ON too much steam
that is to say, they smoke too fast. The
effect is the too sudden application of heat,
the wax is driven off and tEen the oil evap-
CRATES and the pipe fails to color. The
remedy is simple. Smoke slowly. Like
fine wine, which is slipped, not drank, a fine
meerschaum should be smoked reflective,
through a brick chimney. Agar, when
once smoked, let it become entirely cool
before refilling, and in doing this avoid
laying it on any cold surface, as marble
taUe or mantel. Never cover pipe with
chamois u any thing else, nor smoke it ina
case or any other covering because the
wax, instead of remaining upon the pipe,
VII be absorbed by the material with which
it is covered, and the pipe be covered with
blotches. Caution should be taken not to
smoke good pipe cut doors in very cold
weather. the difference IN temperature being
very apt to cause the material TO crack, as
the writer has more than once experienced
Bearing these suggestions in mind, yo,l can
hardly fail of satisfactory result in color
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A Noble Charity.

In 1869 tie Independent Order of Good
Templars of California, at considerable cost,
erected near Vallejo very imposing and
commodious edifice, and dedicated and
opened the same as "The Good Templars'
Home for Orphans" When the enterprise
was first suggested the proposition was to a
considerable extent received with ridicule,
and the whole subject treated as wholly
chimerical. But the movers had grand
object in view, and had the pluck to dlsre-
gard sneers, overcome all opposition, and
to successfully carry out their plans. One
who writes understandingly, if not author
itatively, says that the "title " of the
" Home for Orphans I" is not meant to con-
vey any idea of exclusiveness as to the class
admitted to its sheltering Offices. On the
contrary, it is open to all; the only pass
port required at it's portals is to be home
less orphan child. Children under IA years
ere received and cared for, and over so or
phaned children are now being cared for in
the institution, The building is an elegant
and comodious structure, and is located
very pleasantly. The Home is under the
management of Board of Trustees and a
Board of Lady Managers-the former COM
prising nine gentlemen of the Order. who
have charge Of the building, grounds (2O
acres) and financial matters; while the
Board of Lady Managers is composed of
eight prominent lady members of the Order
selected from various portions Of the State,
and has charged Of the domestic relations
of the institution. The educational affairs
are under the joint control and manage
ment of the Board of Trustees and Lady
Managers. The Grand Worthy Secretary
says chat upwards of 800, 600 have been
expended in the erection, care aud main
tenance of the institution. Within the
Home" graded school, under the "Pub-
lic School System - of the State, is taught
by two competent teachers. He also re-
marks that "the Good Templars OF this
jurisdiction have accepted the self-imposud
duty of sustaining this Home gratefully,
and the membership is linked together IN
its support with unfaltering DEVOTION p
For the benefit of this grand institution q
literary entertainment will be given at Mo
zart Hall next Tuesday evening, Jan. 18th.
under the auspices Of the Good Templars
of Stockton n.--Sfoekton Independent, Jan.
10tA,
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A Heroine Of the Southern Plague.

A five dollar note would be an extrava-
giant price to pay for her establishment and
all it contains, but if heroic womanhood
ever found embodiment in human shape, it
can be seen nightly upon st. Charles street,
just below the Academy of Music. A week
ego Grandma Wilson was in Memphis, baf.
fling pestilence by her tireless vigils Hail
ed by a terror-stricken community as their
guardian angel, Elizabeth, In the zenith of
her splendor, could not have commanded
the aGulation which spontaneously went
forth to that plain old woman. For thirty
eight days and nights, during the frlghtful
harvest of death at Grenada, those wither
ed hands were often the only ones to soothe
the burning brow or close dying eyes. To
her tender care were committed their chill
dren by dying parents. Appointed by the
divine mandates of gratitude universal ex-
ecutrix and Administrative in that season
Of deadly peril and death the confidential
friend of the highest, and now sells pea
nuts on st. Charles street. She did SO be-
thousand homes, after another heroic battle
with disease, would do SO again but is
Cincinnatus, retured to his plow, much
moro heroic than Mrs Mary Ann Wilson,
returned from the devastation of Grenada.
Mrs. Wilson was faithful nurse in 1887.
During the epidemic of 1863 she was on
duty the entire summer. In 1856 she de-
voted her time to the sufferers of Norfolk
Another year she visited Georgia and, ID
short, for Al years this noble women has
flown to tine aid of the sick and suffering
the moment she heard their needs. There
is seat above for her among the best of
Gods ch,ldren.-Neso Orleans Times.
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The Vendetta in Kentucky.
Baltimore Sun.

The vendetta has hourished for years past
in Kentucky quite as bitterly and intensely
as in Corsica. In the latter island family
feuds were kept up for generations, ard
when one or more members of it on either
side were waylaid and shot down the assas-
sin took to the brush. The -oseton,- there
has long been that when man is slain his
son, or brother, or his nearest kinsman
must ayenge his DEATH by killing the mur-
derer, or the whole family will stand for
ever disgraced. In Kentucky feud CON-
prehends not only the members of families
at issue, but many of their respective
friends who take sides with them. The
feuds there. bloody as they are, have one
redeeming feature-they rarely result in
secret assassination. The fights they result
in are mostly carried on openly-some-
times in the streets of town, sometimes at
a barbecue, sometimes at social gathering
-wherever, in point Of fact, the parties
come into collision. If an attempt is made
to arrest them they resist. If they are
tracked to house and are surrounded,
they barricade the doors and windows and
kill all the besiegers they can. If hard
pressed, they take to the mountains. If
some arrests are made, they organize Sc
cret expedition TO rescue the prisoners. It
has been the defect of Kentucky justice
that it has tolerated this lawlessness and
dealt tenderly with the rufians who nursed
their vindictiveness and gloried in their
bloody exploits. There are very few in
stances in the history of the State IN which
such men have been made examples of.
The tacit encouragement thus given to
them has borne, in the feuds between fami-
lies and political factions, its bloody fruits.
Such vendettas and faction fights have
wrought incalculable injury 70 one of the
finest States in the Union, both as regards
climate and fertility of the soil, and have
done much to prevent quiet and industri-
GUS population from settling there. Is it
not time that the whole power of the State
shall be put forth to bring this reign of
lawlessness to an end?
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THE FRENCH CROWN JEWELS.
THE ASTONISHING PROPOSITION TO DISPOSE
OF THEM By WORLDWIDE LOTTERY.

PARIS, December Is, 1s7s.-A great
piece Of news has reached me through q
member of the Budget Committee. He
tells me that to ease the octroi duties weigh
upon the city of Paris, and to create in the
Champs de Mars a permanent Exhibition
of Industrial and Decorative Art, univer-
sal lottery will be created, of which the
crown jewels will be the prizes. The
scheme has been seriously discussed at the
sittings of the Budget Committee. When
it was first brought forward it was pro-
posed to issue tickets at five francs each
Should the project be carried out, and do
not see why it should not, after the prece-
dent of the great National Exhibition Lot
terry, the price of tickets will be fixed at
high fgure-perhaps at ten, fifteen or
twenty francs. 1t is impossible to forecast
all the millions which may be thus brought
into the French Treasury. "Hundreds of
millions - are spoken of. When heard
the words just quoted proceed from the
mouth of the news-bearing deputy, |
after he had explained to me on what his
hopes were based, admitted their accom-
plishment within the reach of possibility,
1t is very short time since tickets were
issued for the National Lottery. Nearly
1000, 900 of them are already sold, and
100000 by anticipation, for the issue
conld not keep pace with the demand.
What was not suspected before the middle
of last month, foreign countries have got |
bitten with the mania. The applications
from abroad for tickets are too numerous |
to be anything like satisfied. A speculator
in New York wanss million of them. In |
London they are sold at a premium of 25
per cent, and in Vienna of 40 per cent.
Depressed as are the finances of the Russian
Empire. there seems to be plenty Of money |
in st. Petersburg and Odessa to risk in
tickets for the Great Exhibition Lottery.
If the crown jewels are disposed of in the
manner contemplated, the drawing will
not take place for eighteen mouths Or two
years after the issue of numbers. Should
the price of ticket be ten francs and
100000 of them be sod, the sum total
received would be one fifth of what the
Prussians exacted in 1870 of the French to
them for their war expenses.
In calculating on twice and a half more it
loes not appear to me that the members of
5he Budget Committee, who promote this
scheme, are over sanguine.
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ALL ABOUT GOLD.
HOW IT HAS SKIPPED AROUND FOR THE
LAST SEVENTEEN YEARS.
From The Philadelphia Ledger, Money Artie

From the Philadelphia Ledger, Money Article
On Monday, January 13, 1868, nearly 1
years ago, as shown by the following table
our paper currency, composed of Unitet
States greenback notes and national banl
notes, has been at discount on gold. Tht
more popular phrase has been, "eold hal
been at premium. The expression, al
know, is a misnomer. Gold is never at a pre-
| MUM on itself. On the 18th of January
as above quoted, the banks suspended spe
Gle payments, and on that day paper mon
ey was really at discount of 8 per cent.
though gold was quoted at three per cent
premium. The fluctuations thereafter in
the rate were wide and frequent, selling
that month as low as / and as high as 81.
About the middle of the next month, Feb,
ruary, gold sold at 4s above paper, and the
lowest that it touched was q. 1t ranged
within those rates ali through the winter
and spring, and until near the end of
spring, when the rate advanced to 81.
From this it rapidly weut up to 1904 in
July falling BY the end of the month, how
ever, to 1143. From the beginning of Au-
gust to the end of the year it ranged at al
most all points from 1sa to "a, which was
the quotation for Dec. 81, 1862. The
highest it reached in 1868 was in February,
7s3, and the lowest in August 22!,a differ
ence Of just SO cents. On July II, 1864,
the highest discount on currency and the
highest quotation for all the time between
suspension and resumption was reached,
185,-that is, it then took 2S5 in paper to
buy one gold dollar. The lowest quotation
during that same month 244. Pretty much
all the time after July OF that year the diff
ference was above SO of paper for 81 coin.
closing on the 31st of December of tnat
year at $2.27 for 81. The year of 1865
opened with gold at 134, and 1t sold down
during the month of January as low as
28s. In 1866 the highest quotation was
973 and the lowest 25 !; in 1867 the highest
was 46s and the lowest 49, The quotations
IN 1868 and 1869 were not materially differ
ent from those in the year 1867. In 1870
there was very material narrowing of the
rate, the highest quotation Of that year
being 234 and the lowest 10. That period
seemed to have been the turning point,
as the rate at no time after that year
reached 20 in it's upward course, and in
1874 fell to 8, and trough the next year it
advanced to 165, it closed the year at 12s.
During the year 1876 it fell to 7, and since
the difference has been gradually wearing
away, SO that at the end of 1877, one year
ago, it was down to p, and for the ten
closing months of 1878 1t has sold within
per cent, much of the time at 4@3 of 1
per cent and for the last week or more
cur paper money and gold have been quoted
at par, resumption having come in advance
Of the time prescribed by law for that
event
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Queer Ways Of Making a Living in New York.

There are many ways of getting living
| in great city which one would never think
of if one did not see them announced by
placards and sign-cards and sign boards. 1t
| is curious to walk the streets IN certain
quarters and read the announcement over
! shop doors and in shop windows. Far up
town is an old-fashioned, tumble down,
wooden house for the sale of pet animals,
and sign informs the public that "sick
dogs are medically treated by the week or
MONTH" A bird d-fancier on Broadway ap-
prises his patrons that he takes "birds to
board" In cross street on East Side we
learn where "dogs ears and tails are cut
in the latest fashion" An out of-the-way
tradesman advertises that he buys "cigar-
stumps at the highest market price,"
An eccentric person in the same neighbor-
hood "educates cross dogs to be gentle and
well behaved" "Ladies' and gentlemen's
feet and hands and professionally and ar
tistically treated by the job or season." in
an upper apartment not far from Broad
way. "Young ladies are invited to come
in and learn the name and calling of their
husbands" in a neighborhood that looks
anything but reputable. Round-shoul-
dered persons made straight is another
announcement in the Bowery, and in the
same thoroughfare, "Perfect grace is
taught in twelve lessons, and satisfaction
guaranteed" "Sore eyes in poodles effec
tually cured" is bit of valuable informa-
ton that comes from East Broadway.
Ladies deficient in valuable wardrobes are
fashionably dressed by the month or year, +"
in Catherine street; and in Division street
"Babies or children are hired or exchang-
ed.' In Sixth avenue "First class funerals
are thoroughly equipped, and not far from
Tompkins square, "Country theatres are
supplied with every necessary" False
noses as good as new, and warranted to
it." reads placard in region where it is
probably the fate of residents to have their
noses bitten off during amiable discussions
with their neighbors. " Marriage ceItif-
Gates are furnished at once" in Elizabeth
street; "black eyes are painted over neat
ly." In various places dress coats are
furnished at reasonable rates." and "trust-
worthy information given as to lucky lot
terry tickets" If one-half of all the
announcements made here are true, no wo-
man in New York would need to be other
than graceful. beautiful and accomplished,
possessed of fortune and happiness, and
every man might be rich, gifted, healthy,
vigorous, celebrated and imperishable.
What new paradise Manhattan would be,
if advertisements could be strictly depended
on IN Y Times
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P 0 E T R 7
IN PRAISE OF SLEEP

There is land where nightly repair,
At whose dim gate lay my cross aside.
Stretch ont my arms toward Rest, as toward bride
And am withal assuaged All! even there,
Beyond false hope, beyond the stress of prayer,
Beyond the hurt and smart of wounded pride,
With no more hunger for sweet things denied,
My heart has rest and respite from despair,
o Land of mystic shapes and lauguid pleasure!
Waste fields of poppies, without track, it seems;
o scentess lilies, by the yoiceless streams
Where come my ghosts and dance silent measure,
Hold my lost JOY now only in dear dreams;
Give back to me, sometimes, my buried pleasure.
have no heart m me for Loves delight.
How sweet the summer was! know its spell,
Who care not now what stars may have to tell.
For me the day is void, and void the night.
Upon her dim and inaccessible height
Fame stands above me, robed and crowned. Ah
well!
Let those who love her fnG her pleasurable.
She hath no grace merit in my sight.
/ only am in love with tender sleep
Dew on my ead, unfruitful flower life,
OF which no man the memory may keep.
Of most divine forgetfuness of strife
My sky Is not too gray, my path too steep.
While thou art mine, for friend, for love- for wife
Philip Rouke MarSton In Independent
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There has always been, even in old slave
times, grade of aristocracy among the
colored folks in the South. In those old
times the negro claimed a arespectability ac-
cordng to that possessed by their masters,
and all felt that to be owned by a rich man
was palliation of serfdom. These held
| their heads high, and looked down upon
their less fortunate brethren.
Education, advantages for which are to
be had in Nashville beyond any other
Southern city,is the foundation upon which
this society bases itself. Eminently a city
of schools and colleges, the colored people,
assisted by their friends, have erected in
Nashville and vicinity several very hand
some educational institutions, besides pos
sessing equal advantages to those of white
children in public schools. Many thous-
ands of them have received excellent edu-
cations in the last decade, not leaving out
parlor accomplishments. As race they
have an aptitude for music, their melodi-
GUS plantation melodies always striking any
one remarkably, who heard them for the
first time. 1t is remarkable fact that two,
thirds of the students at Fish University
are quadroons and octoroons, and it is
through this class mostly that the race is
being led on to higher life. At present
the " best society" is represented by bar
bers. hotel walters, hack drivers, with
few politicians, lawyers and magistrates
Their wives, generally ARE seamstresses, and
are, for the most part, quiet and lady-like
in manner, and are endeavoring to raise
families that will be credit to them.
Last New Year. for the first time. proba-
bly,, in Nashville, several of the "upper
ten" colored families kept open house, and
received numerous callers frolh the class
above mentioned. This year, fac custom
Of New Year receptions were more gener-
ally observed. The negro, as race, is
very clannish, but there is certain antag-
onism felt by the lower classes toward those
who are gravitating toward the top, and
rising above them. In politics they never
forgive or follow renegade. A Demo
cratic ''nigger" is to them an adherence;
and he, there efore, possesses but little in
duence with them. And then they cannot
bear to be dictated to by one of their own
race, who is supposed to hold himself aloof
from or above them. Fred. Douglass has |
never been forgiven by the colored masses |
for attem pting, in speech, to advise them,
so they thought, as to how they must do |
and what they must do. A genuine Afri-
can has no use whatever for person show
ing liberal mixture of white blood. 1t is |
not at all unusual to hear an old black /
" auntie," with skin of darkest ebony, thick |
lips, shining white ivories, and real nigger |
kinks, exclaim vehemently, as she watches |
some brown skinned damsel trip along the |
streets, 81 do 'spise white nigger."- |
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INCREASE OF GRAssHoPPERs.--Of late
years, the grasshoppers haslbeen the theme
of much discussion. Men Of science are be-
ginning to think that there may be some
connection between the destruction of for
ests and the rapid increase of grasshop-
psrs, and in proof OF the idea point to the
fact that insects mo, injurious do not breed,
near woods. The Gust of the east is bred
in open plains that narbor no birds to feed
upon the Larvae, that gather no moisture to
destroy the eggs. and that let in the fnl.
light of the sun te hasten Matching. At
tention is called TO the fact only since the
telling of the forests of Asia Minor has the
grasshopper become destructive here. The
remedy, of course, 10 ee.pianting on a
large scale.