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"Buzzers."
Toledo Blade.)

These good natured people are not SO
disagreeabe as they have the reputation
of being, and their disagreeableness
would sink to minimum did those who
were afflicted with them know how to get
rid of them after reasonable interval.
All that you have 10 do is to let the
b;zzer run on at random. 1t is unneces-
stry to say any thing yourself. Give
him rope enough and he will tell you
everything-where he has been, and all
about it. All that you have to do is to
grant an occasional yes or no, and ply a
question here and there. He is an indu.
bitabe bore, but he must be endured, for
in polite society it is not permissible to
pick quarrels with people merely because
they get us into corners and talk to us
overmuch.
The buzzer has his reward, 1t consists
| in his estimate of himself. 1t pleases
him to think that he knows everybody
and that everybody knows him; that his
memory is stored with anecdotes and thai
his tongue is never at loss for words
that he can accustom himself with sor
of vulgar ease to any society he happens
to be in, and that his Incompatible cheel
knows not what blushing means. A mar
thus favored by nature may make th
world his home; he would not be "slen
upon a peak in Darien." No grandeur
no sublimity would have the power t
thrall him. He makes good gabble, an
on that account is acceptable at larg
dinners or small tea parties.
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Sovereign of the country where they
are accredited. They should more
over be so versed in the details
of commerce and history as to say
when the finest laces and cos
metics could be procured, where the
loudest assemblages of the demi-monde
are accustomed to congregate and what
is the programme at the theaters and
cafes chantants, and be able to name on
the ends of their fingers all the objects
of curiosity in the vicinity; and they
ought to be paid for such arduous duties
in good hard cash since there is no honor
in these official positions now that all the
business of the least possible conse'
quence is arranged at Washington by
the Secretary of State. What will you
take, gentlemen, to run the foreign min
isterial machine on the true Turvey'
dropian principle payable monthly or bl
monthly in cash?
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An Intelligent Dog.

A few months ago | made the acquaint-
ance of a dog, which, think, is worthy
of place among the dogs and cats and
rats and mules that are helping the pages
of Nature to determine the degree and
kind of animal intelligence.
"Priest's" isa hotel on the way from
the Caaveras grove of big trees to the
Yosemite. In former years, on the arri,
val of the stage, the landady would send
the dog to the poultry-yard to catch
chickens for the tourists dinner. Now,
the dog stakes time by the forelock." The
| stage is due at six o'clock. About five
o'clock the dog saunters leisurely down
the road till he meets the stage. he then
bounds back to the poultry-yard, catches
chickens, bites their heads off and takes
them to the cook. The number of chick
ems he kills bears a relation to the number
of persons he saw in the stage. A gen
tleman who was stopping at the hotel tol
a few weeks went into the woods one at
ternoon with a gun. When he returned
the dog came to him in much excitement
to see how much game he had taken
Finding his hands and his bag empty, the
dog ran into the forest, and returned ii
less than an hour with bird, which HI
gave with an air of compassion to the un
skilful hunter.
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To BE CONTINUED.

(The Scientific Alncrican.)

One of the first and most imperative
symptoms that the strain of living is be-
coming too great is the jaded head,
which DR.. Agnew described as one that
could not be depended upon for a long
stretch Of work, that grows weary prema-
turely, that has to be coaxed from the
pillow in the morning, and that does not
face the work of the day cheerfully.
There are more of such heads than
might be supposed. They are found in
every rank of life, but chiefly among per-
sons Of sedentary pursuits and among both
sexes and almost all ages above fourteen.
Generally the early symptoms Of the NAL
ady is discomfort during head work in the
back of the head and the upper part of the
spinal region. He is happy man who
meets this symptom with rest, and seeks
in sunlight and fresh air some fresh in
vestments for his nervous system, and
drops every habit that does not do him
positive good. If he takes to artificial
stimulants for relief he will begin ca
reer which, soon or later, will place him
among the incurables or bring him to an
untimely end.
Alcohol and all sleep producing drugs
are dangerous in the highest degree, for
they mask the malady without curing it.
No organ in the human body is so abused
as the brain, and no organ is SO well fitted
for daily use. Still, the brain is not SO
susceptible of disease as some suppose. 1t
was probable there was not man pres
ent who had not during the day abused
his brain by overwork, anger, tobacco,
alcohol, fuss, hurry, too little sleep, too
much sleep, by Incidence, by not studying
to be quiet, by not doing his own busi-
ness, by attempting to do something be.
yond his reach, by attempting to do some,
thing for which he hadn't been sufficiently
educated, by carrying an evil conscience
or by the unmanly strain of trying te
outdo his neishbor
The remedy for the jaded head is thu
giving up of all habits which can not b'
defended by the highest kind of reason
ing; the careful determining of each maj
of his ability to stand work; the avoid
ance Of doing anything for which MAJ
has no adequate education; rest, recrea
tion and the keeping up OF the tissue
building powers by Wholesome food,
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Lively Stock Operations.

The current of recent events has given
great impetus to business in Wall street.
and many successful turns are reported
where immense profits are made in short
periods. The most successful way that we
have heard of yet for operating in stocks is
by the Combination Method of Messrs
Lawrence Il Co., Bankers, New York. By
this system thousands of orders in various
sums are pooled into one vast capital and
operated under the most experienced and
skillful management, thus securing to each
shareholder superior advantages and prof
its, not possible in any other way. Profits
are paid at end of thirty days. A gentle
man in Boston made $747 80 on an invest
ment Of 500. Many others are doing as
well or better. Capital in any amount from
$40 to 100000 can be used with equal pro-
portionate success by the Combination or
Cooperate Method. $l5 would make $75,
or per cent. on the stock; 500 would re-
turn $500, or 8 per cent. during the month,
and so on, according to the market. The
new circular contains two unerring rules
for success" and full information, so that
any one can operate with profit. Stocks
and bonds wanted. Deposits received.
Government bonds supplied. Apply to
Lawrence & Co.. Bankers, 81 Exchange
Place, New York City.
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tie, and inquired, whether to one, the
source of SO much comfort to others, the
natural felicity of her age was not de-
MED.
Could young being like her be very
happy, living with two old people, and
without one single companion of her own
age? Without prospect, without interest
in that coming life, which the young
imagination paints in such lovely colors.
One may boldly affirm she was not so
happy as she deserved to be, and that it
was quite impossible, with heart formed
for every tender affection, as was hers,
that she should.
She began to be visited by trouble
some guest, which in the days of hard
ship she had never known. The very ease
which surrounded her, the exemption
from all necessity for laborious industry
actually increasing the evil, gradually
seemed to grow upon her. There was a
secret distaste for life, a void in the
heart, not filled by natural affections, a
something which asked for tender rela-
tions, more earnest duties, home, a
household, family of her own!
She blamed herself very much when
first this little secret feeling of dissatis-
faction and discomfort began to steal
over her. How could she be so migrate
full? She had every comfort. in the
world, more, much more, than she had
any title to expect; infinitely more than
many far more deserving than herself
were allowed to enjoy. Why could she
not have the same light, contented spirit
within her breast, that had carried her
triumphantly through so many hard
ships, and enlivened so many clouded
days?
Poor Lettice! 1t was vain to find fault
with herself. Life would seem fiat. The
mere routine of duties, unsweetened by
natural affection, would weary the spirit
at times There was a sweetness wanting
to existence, and existence, without that
invigorating sweetness, is to the best of
us tedious and exhausting thing.
So thought Catherine, when, about
eighteen months or two years after her
marriage, she came for the first time
with Edgar to visit her father and
mother.
The regimental duties of the young
officer had carried him to the lonian
Islands very shortly after his marriage !;
promotion had brought him home, and he
and his young wife, with sweet infant
of about twelve months old, fastened
down to the Hazels to visit Catherine S
parents.
TO BE Continued
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(Ft. Worth letter.

No greater contrast could be presented
to the impression likely to be formed from
current reports of lawlessness in Texas
than the actual condition of affairs, at
least in the northwest portion of the state.
There are occasional quarrels here, as
elsewhere, with additional consideration
that they are more apt to end in shooting
scrapes here than in some other states
but Texas by no means deserves to be ele-
waited, to a very bad eminence in conse-
quence. Law and order are steadily assert
ing themselves, and the man who shoots
is marching on. Immigrants are steadily
pouring into the state in disregard of the
exaggerated reports of lawlessness here
and the valleys are fast filling with class
of people not likely to bother Legislators
with requests for special acts TO protect
them.
Men who mind their own affairs are moi
often more ANNOYED in Texas than else
where. So vast in its extent is the ter
ritory of the Lone Star state it would be
next to impossible to trace the individual
who ventures here in pursuit of wealth OF
homes. Many contemplating sheep rails
ing 90 toward tho southwest. A grea
number intent on farming go to all points
of the northwest, while for cattle raising
the far west is at present attracting gooe
deal of attention.
Already the valleys for hundreds o
miles west of this point are filled up will
the abodes of ranchmen and the crude
huts of the advance guard of civilization
The OK train and emigrant wagon nov
wend their slow way along where yer,
few years ago the Apache roamed ant
slaughtered and stole ponies as the robbie
Cheyenne does in the northwest to-day
In few years haofe the railroad will driv
| off the OK train.
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The iron interests of the United States
present striking contrast to those OF
Great Britain. Here our mills and fur
naces are crowded with orders several
months ahead, and many of them run
ming double time. In England, on the
other hand, the works are stopping,
workmen are thrown out of employment,
and general depression and stagnation
prevail. The Duke of Devonshire gave
notice of his intention to close his mines
at Grassington on the LIST of August
Production at the North Mines, as com
pared with last year show decrease oi
rising of thirty-three thousand tons
Workmen from Sheffield are arriving il
New England with their families, and
large emigration of skilled workmen are
likely to arrive in this country during
the balance of the year.
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Myra was grievously disappointed upon
her side. She was quite one to be blind
to the solid advantages of her position,
and to look with querulous regret upon
all the fashy and brilliant part of such
business, in which she was not allowed to
take the least share.
Precisely because she was 50 beautiful
did Mrs. Fisher exclude her from the
show room; that theater which was to
have been the scene of her triumphs.
The beautiful things she was employed
in manufacturing left her. hands to be
seen no more, and, alas! never by her to
be tried on. 1t was tantalizing work to
part with them, and forever, as soon as
they left her hand.
Then she was Obliged to be punctual to
moment in her hours, grievous yoke
to her who had never beeil educated to
submit to any. To dress with the most
careful attention to neatness, though
there was nothing but pack of women
to look at her," to listen to "a prosy
book" book, forgot to say, Was read
aloud in the work-room, instead OF gos-
siping and having little fun; and to
walk out on Sundays under the wing OF
that old, hideous harridan, Mrs. Sterling,
instead of going with her companions
where she pleased. In short, it was worse
ethan negro slavery" but there was no
help for it, there she was, and there she
was obliged to stay.
Well, and did she improve under this
good discipline? Was She any better fol
| it? am sorry to say very little.
There are subjects that are almost un
improvables She was, by nature, apoor
shallow, weedy thing, her education hae
been the worst possible for her. Evi
habits, false views, low aims, had beer
limbibed, and not one fault corrected
whilst young; and self experience, which
rectifes in most SO much that is wrong
seemed to do nothing for her. There wa
no substance to work upon. Mrs Fishe
was soon heartily tired of her, and coul'
have regretted her complaisance to Mrs
Danvers' wishes in receiving her agalns
her Judgment, but she was too good t
send her away. She laughed and accept
ed her as a penance for her sins, she sale
as thorn in the flesh, and she let tn
thorn rankle there. She remembered he
| lionored Fisher, and the scene by til
bedside of poor Saunders. She locke
, upon the endurance of this plague as
fresh Offering to the adored memory.
She bore this affliction like marty
for long time; at last smart youn
tailor fell in love with Myra at church,
place where he had been better employe
r thinking of other things. And so ! b
lieye he thought after he had married he
r in spite of the white dress and silk boz
:; net, and the reticule with. pink ribbon
4 and the brides pocket-money, which MI
t Fisher bestowed with more pleasure al
!. alacrity than even she had been known
e do npon many worthier object.
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Russian merchants recently returned
from the interior of China to st. Peters
burg have furnished terrible details re-
specting the famine which has for some
time past prevailed throughout certain
provinces of the Celestial Empire. They
depose to having seen people die in the
streets of many towns and villages from
sheer starvation, and state not only that
,u,,,r,,,,,,,,,,.. ,,,.T' IS " "racticed upon the
bodies Of the dead, but that famished
men attack the living, and prey upon
them with ferocity. One Of them alleges
that he was present at the examination
of mendicant who had been ar
rested for some petty theft, and
in whose professional wallet the
mangled remains of an infant were dis
covered. This man confessed to the
magistrate that for some time previous
| to his seizure he had lived exclusively
upon the fresh flesh of human beings, as
he could not surmount his antipathy to
that of dead bodies. Another appalling
case which came under the notice of a
Russian merchant was that of young
man who had persuaded his father to as
sist him in numbering and subsequently
eating girl to whom he was betrothed
Men have been executed for killing and
eating their,ow children, and sons have
slain their fathers in order TO appease thu
pangs of hunger. In some of the north
ern districts whole villages stand empty
their inhabitants having one and all per
ished for want Of food.
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The Watertown Dispatch says: Mon
day morning young man named Plumb
tree, while going along the road leading
from Little York to the Russell Turn
pike, ST. Lawrence County, saw some
thing in the road, which he picked up,
not knowing what it was. To his sorrow
and surprise, it proved a shell Of giant
powder, which had been dropped through
the carelessness of some miner Holding
it between the thumb and forefnger OF
the left hand, and while engaged in ex-
amining, the little pressure he gave
caused an explosion of the shell OF sucl
force as to blow the thumb and fore
finger of the left hand off at their frs
Joints.
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What Causes Thsndert

A correspondent of Mature" writes: NJ
have lately seen it stated in textbook
upon electricity and magnetism that the
phenomenon Of thunder is not fully ac-
counted for by any theory as yet brought
forward. Whether this be so or not am
not sufficiently acquainted with the SUBJ
ject to say. l believe that the commonly
accepted theory is that vacuum is created
in the path of the electric spark, and that
the subsequent thrush OF the air produces
the detonation. If, however, it be
allowed that the electric spark is not a
material substance, but merely natural
force or natural mode of motion, the
possibility of this theory is at once dis
posed Of
at is we'll known fact that the pas
sage of electricity in high rate of ten.
sion through a mixture of oxygen and
hydrogen not only causes an explosion,
but also causes the formation of water,
and it seems to me that, given the exist
ence of free oxygen and hydrogen in the
region of the electric disturbance, the
phenomenon of thunder is sufficiently
accounted for. Whether the normal
amount of hydrogen in the air is sufficient
to cause the stupendous noise of thunder
/ am not competent 10 judge, but if not
would suggest that the presence of an
abnormal amount might be accounted for
by the process Of the electrolysis, which
would probably occur between the two
poles of the thunder-cloud before the
tension became SO great as to cause a
rupture of the circuit and consequent
discharge of the electric spark. ] would
also draw your attention to the fact that
every thunderclap is Immediately fol-
lowed by an increase in the quantity of
water deposited in the shape Of rain.
Does not this point to the formation of
water by the explosion Of the gases3 1t
is frequent experiment of Dr.Tyndalrs
to show his audience red clouds; | feel
convinced that by following this line of
inquiry he could give us real thunder
Storm" 8
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COMMODORE SCHuFELDT, U. S. N, is
evidently an observant old tar who takes
notes; but he offers very little encour
agement to the missionaries and school
masters who have designs upon Africa
He. says that the natives of the Lower
Congo, who have been in. contact with
whites for nearly four hundred years
have only had engrafted upon their in
nate barbarism the lowest vices of civil
zatiOn.
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Candy.

The statement is made that more candy
is made and eaten in this country than in
all the rest of the world combined. Bos-
ton manufactures about 1900 tons annual
ly, New York about 1000 tons and Chi
cago does large business in the same
field. The exports from this country to
Europe include "the best French candies"
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MISS ARNOLD.
Another Story Of Love that was True,
but Didn't Rum smooth.
BY THE AUTHOR OF 'Two OLD MEMS
TALES" ETC.
CHAPTER VII (CoNrINuEp).

1t was soon found by experience that
the work done after this refreshing
pause more than made up for the time
thus expended.
Such were some of the plans of this
kind-hearted and highly-principled man;
and the blooming looks, the gay spirits,
the bright eyes of the happy little COM
munity did credit to the scheme.
Fisher lived but a few years to carry
out the rule he had instituted; but to
his wife it was as sacred legacy from
his hand, and during the whole course of
her subsequent life she faithfully adhered
to it.
Her house was like a convent in some
things, but it was a very happy con-
vent. Everything proceeded with a
clock-work order, and yet there was a
liberty such as few girls thus employed,
in spite of their intervals of license
could enjoy.
1t was happy party, over which this
remarkably handsome, and now distin-
guishedly fashionable milliner, and dig
nifed-looking lady, presided. Nothing
indiscreet or unseemly was ever permit
ted. The rule, perhaps, might be a lit
tie too grave, and the manner of the
young ladies too scdate, but they were
innocent and good; and they had their
recreations, for Mrs. Fisher took them
out, turn and turn about, upon aSunday
in her carriage, and the others walked
with the two superintendents; persons
carefully selected for their good princi-
pies and good conduct.
Mrs. Fisher, too, was little bit OF a
matchmaker; and if she had a weakness,
it was her fondness for settling her young
ladies. Nothing pleased her better than
when they were sought, and they were
such nice, well-behaved girls, this often
happened, by worthy young men in theiI
own rank of life. Mrs. Fisher always
gave the wedding gown and bonnet, and
wedding-dinner, and white satin reti.
cule or bag, drawn with rose-colored rib
bons, with a pretty pink and white purse
in it, with silver tassels, and rings, and
containing nice little sum for the brides
pocket-money. You will easily under
stand how Mrs. Danvers had struck up
quite friendship with Mrs. Fisher
Once, indeed, in her days of youth and
gayety, she had been one Of her most
valuable customers. She had long done
with fine things, but the interest she took
in the affairs of Mrs Fishers establish
ment had endeared her very much to that
good lady, and hence she had, at hel
earnest request, consented to take Myra
though her own instinct, the moment she
cast her eyes upon this beautiful, david
ling looking being, had assured her that
she was, to use her own phrase, not one
of her own sort.
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PARTIES possessing opportunities Oh
correctly estimating, claim that not less
than three million cattle have been driv-
en- from the State of Texas within the
hast ten years, exclusive of those that
have been shipped thence by railroad OF
sea. Taking 81 as the average net re
ceipt to the stock raiser of Texas, it is
assumed that two and half million dol
Lars have been paid to this interest annu
Slly during the last decade.