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NapOle0hfs Marriage.
iHarper's MAQNgine.l

The marriages Of the Bonapartes play
an important p,rt in the story of their
fortunes, and none Of them were 40 signi-
ficant and important as these Of the En-
peror. To one who, like him, looked
upon the world as made for him, and
upon laws merely as something which
were good for him to impose upon others,
it must have appeared that his two
wives were admirably planned for his
use. Josephine de Beauharnais was an
ideal wife for a young and rising man Of
genius. She had everything which would
appeal to fancy like his, at once selfish
and passionate. She had beauty, rank,
the power of pleasing, and a certain in
dolent grace that promised an obedience
reasonably free from jealousy.
Up to the time that he mounted the
imperial throne and seated her by his
side, she was all that his narrow heart
and boundles ambition could desire.
But after the marvellous victory of
Wagram had opened up to his feyered
imagination still wider perspectires of
dominion, he looked for another style of
wife, and found her in Maria Louisa Of
Austria. Her blonde beauty, formed of
pink and white color and roundly curry
ing lines and the golden floss Of chlld's
hair, appealed strongly to his jaded taste.
He was not old, but, as he said to the Di-
rectory, "one ages fast upon the field of
battle" and be wanted some such solace
as this soft, unintellectual beauty (some-
body has called it the Alderney style of
prettiness) in his home. if such word
may be used Of the Tuileries.
Besides, he doubtless felt that an EN-
pqror should have an Emperor's daugh-
ter TO wife, and this was a young girl
who had hundred m0narchs for her an
cestors, and yet she would be gentle and
obedient, and not argue with him or an
swer him. and would give him heirs. He
was genuinely attached to her, and II he
knew nothing about her, and had no pre-.
monition Of Count Neipperg, it was all
the better for him. She also was quite
taken by storm with him, and for awhile
the novelty of being loved BY IN ogre
for such she had always consideredhim-
. was agreeable to her. But his tumultu
GUS glory was quite too much for tht
daily food of such a human small being
as the Empress, and she was doubtles'
relieved when the indignant soul Left hi
body at Longwood. and she was free t.
follow her ignoble little heart and MARI.
Neipperg.
| Josephine would have had her reveng
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doubt, the sanction of the Apostles and
of their Master.
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doubt, the sanction of the Apostles and
of their Master.
1t had the sanction of the venerable
Churches of the early ages, and of the
sacred countries of the East. Baptism
by sprinklng was rejected by the whole
ancient Church Except in the rare case
of death-beds or extreme necessity as no
baptism at all. Almost the first excep-
tion was the hereto Novatian. 1t still
has the sanction of the powerful religious
community which aumbers among its
members such noble characters as John
Bunyan, Robert Hall and Hayelock. In
version of the Bible which the Baptist
Church has compiled for its own use in
America, where it excels in numbers all
but the Methodists, it is thought neces-
sary, and on pathological grounds it is
quite correct, to translate John the Bap-
tist to John the Immerser.
1t has ever been defended on sanitary
grounds. Sir John Floyer dated the
prevalence of consumption to the discon-
tinuance of baptism by immersion. But,
speaking generally, the Christian civil
lied world has decided againstit. 1t is a
striking example of the triumph OF COM
mon sense and convenience over the
bondage of form and custom. Perhaps
no greater change has ever taken place in
the outward form of Christian ceremony
with such general agreement. 1t is a
greater change even than that which the
Roman Catholic Church has made in adj
,ninistering the Sacrament of the Lords
Supper in the bread without the wine.
For that was change which did not
affect the thing that was signiiied;
whereas the change from INNER
sion to sprinkling has set aside
the larger part Of the Apostolic Ian
guage regarding baptism, and has altered
the very meaning of the word. But
whereas the withholding of the cup pro-
duced the long and sanguinary war Of
Bohemia, and has been one of the stand
ing grievances of the Protestants against
the Roman Catholic Church, the with
dlawal of the ancient rite of immersion,
decided by the usage Of the whole an
cient Church to be essential to the sacra-
ment of baptism, has been, with the ex-
ception of the Anabaptists of Munster,
adopted almost without struggle. 1t
shows tie wisdom of not imposing the
customs of other regions and other eli
mates on those to whom they are not
congenial. 1t shows how the spirit which
lives and moves in human society can
override even the most sacred ordinances.
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Jersey Butter.

Jersey butter is all the fashion, and it has
become so, mainly because the makers have
kept up uniform color through the year,
using artificial color when necessary. Dairy
men whn wish to be in the fashion must
use the Perfected Butter Color made by
Wells, Richardson & Co, Burlington, VT.
Hon. i. D. Mason, President Dairy Associ-
alton. saws: 1T gives the brightest and
most perfect color to the butter of any sub
stance have ever nsed. know it to be, as
you say, as harmless as salt, and it adds
several cents per pound to the value of but
ter"
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A letter Of Josiah Franklin, father of
the philosopher, written in l744, and CIV
ing singularly clear genealogical ac-
count of his family is about to be sold in
Boston. 1t belongs to the collection Of
the late Col. Brantz Mayer, which con-
tains also the celebrated letter of Gen.
Charles Lee to Samuel Puryiance, Of
Baltimore, ordering the arrest of Robert
Eden, the last royal Governor Of Mary.
land. This, 100. is to be sold as we'll al
the ], ,298 other valuable MISS. Of the col
lection.
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fNineteenth Century.J

The practice Of immersion, apostolic
and primitive, as it was, was peculiarly
suitable 10 the Southern and Eastern
countries for which it was designed, and
peculiarly unsuitable to the tastes, the
convenience, and the feelings of the coun.
tries of the North and West. Not by
any degree Of Council or Parliament, but
by the general sentiment Of Christian lib
erty. this great change was effected. Not
beginning till the thirteenth century, il
has gradually driven the ancient Cath.
olic usage out Of the whole Of Europe
There is no one who would now wish to
60 back to the old practice. It had, nj
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Hon. John Cessna a,

Under date March 81, rs. writes:
"In the space OF twelve hours my rheu-
matism was gone, having taken three doses
of Dnrang's Rheumatic Remedy. My broth
er, J. b. Cessna, of Bedford, Pennsylvania,
was cured by similar amount.
JOHN CESSNA,
"Member of Congress from Pennsylvania" F."
1t cures the worst case In the shortest
time. Sold by all retail and wholesale
druggists in Cincinnati. Write to r. K.
Helphenstine, Washington, d. c., for his
40page pamphlet.
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HOTELS.

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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-13
Death of General Shields.

Brigadier General James Shields,
hero of three wars and United States
Senator from three several States,
peacefully ended long and honorable
career at Ottumwa, Iowa, last Sunday
night, in the sixty-ninth year of his age.
He was born at Dungannon, County
Tyrone, Ireland, December u, 1910,
and came to this country in his six
teenth year. In 1882 he began law
practice at Kaskaskia, Illinois; was a
member of the Legislature four years
after; Auditor of State in 1889; Judge
of the Supreme Court in 1843, and
Commissioner of the General Land
Office in 1S45. Having previously
served as a subaltern officer in the
Florida war, he entered upon duty in
the Mexican war with considerable
prestige, which was gallantly sustained,
and he was made a Brigadier General
of the United States Army July /, 1845,
and, after his dangerous wound at
Cerro Gordo, was brevetted Major
General. He was again severely
wounded in the storming of Chepulte-
pee, and closed his Mexican campaigns
with distinguished honor. In 1848 he
declined an appointment as Governor
of Oregon Territory; was United States
Senator from Illinois one full term,
1848-55; upon his removal to Minnesota,
was elected to the same position for the
short term, 1858-60; and, as a citizen of
Missouri, served by appointment for a
few weeks as Senator from that State
in the Forty-fifth Congress. He also
served with credit in the late war as
a Brigadier-General of volunteers,
winning the battle of Winchester, al
though receiving a severe wound in the
skirmishing of the previous day, but
losing the fight at Port Republic June
9, 1862, few months after which he
resigned. The gallant old General
leaves little but pleasant memories.
He had many friends and few enemies.
Peace to his ashes Cleveland Leader,
June g.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-13
Large Farming Precarious Business.

The following figures are given by a
San Francisco correspondent of Phil
adelphia paper, as evidence that farm
ing on gigantic scale is profitable
neither to the country nor to the
farmer. He says: "1he largest wheat
producer in California, or in the world.
is DR.. H. J.sGlenn. He was formerly
from Monroe County, Missouri. He is
a man of great enterprise and energy.
His rancho lies in Colusa County, and
comprises 10000 acres, nearly all ara
BILE land. He has this year 40, 600 acres
in wheat, which, at low calculation,
will produce 900, 900 bushels. His wheat
will sell for eighty-five cents per bushel,
or $765, 900. DIR. Glenn has been farm
ing ten years, and one would suppose
he ought to have a handsome sum to
his credit in bank; but what with
failure of crops-which occurs two
years in every five-and the enormous
interest he pays on his loans, he is said
to owe round million of dollars. Last
year his credit was bad, as he had no
crop. Now, with his splendid crop in
prospect he will probably get out. The
Dalrymples of st. Paul, who, ten years
ago, were the largest farmers of wheat
in Minnesota, raising as much as 400,-
600 bushels in a single year, went TO
the wall. Another large wheat raiser
is d. M. Reavis, whose land lies on the
borders of Colusa and Butte counties
He is also from Monroe County, Mis-
souri,, and has an unpretending little
estate of $1,000 acres, $4,000 of which
are in wheat, which he thinks will aver
age this year thirty bushels, or 100000
bushels. He also is hard pressed, and
| am told is paying nine per cent on
couple of hundred thousand dollars of
borrowed money. If farmers raising
half million to a million bushels of
wheat cannot get out of debt, it might
be well to inquire what is the use of
having so much landP The truth is
that from the frequent failure of crops
in California and the waste that attends
on large operations of that kind, farm
ing on gigantic scale in this portion
of the Pacific coast must be considered
a failure. North of this, in Oregon and
Washington Territories, there is no fail
ure of the harvest; farming operations
are carried on on a smaller scale, and
consequently the farmers, while not
rolling in wealth, are all well to do"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-13

A correspondent writes from Sea-
ford, Del, to the EUery EUening of
Wilmington: An old man nearly seventy
years of age occasionally shuffles nerv-
ously into this, one of the most beauti-
full places in Sussex County, from his
home between here and Concord on the
line of the Wilmington and Delaware
railroad. A few days ago while here
he was listening to an account of the
Pocasset tragedy which was being read
to group of men in Squire Aliens
Office. The story seemed to fascinate
him, although he did not wait for the
end of it, but went away apparently
overcome with emotion. This was no
wonder, for, as l afterward heard,
he had been the principal actor in
tragedy as horrible as the crime of
the New England Adventist. Giles
Kitchens was tried twenty-five years
ago in the Georgetown court for the
murder of his own child, and the cir
cumstances of the case have almost
faded from the memory even of old
people. heard the story the other
day from an old man who assisted in
Kitchens arrest. "In February, 1857"
said he, "Gilles was farmer and
lived near Concord, at the same place.
| think where he now resides. He was
well known in his section, but was al
ways looked upon as a queer sort of a
fellow with no very established char
acter. His wife was an estimable
woman, much liked by the neighbors.
One day was in the woods splitting
rails when neighbor came to me in
great excitement and said L must 90
with him to 'Gilles Kitchens house,
for he had murdered his baby and his
wife was almost frantic. Two or three
of us got together supposing we might
meet with resistance, and when we ar
rived at the house we found Kitchens
bending over the bedside where
lay the child, a boy of about
eighteen months, with his head
gashed from ear to ear and almost COM
pletely severed from the body. The
bed was soaked with blood, which was
oozing from the wound, and there was
a line of blood from the front door to
the bed. The mother was weeping
Historically, but by this time had be,
come almost exhausted. Kitchens was
calm, but there was fierce. burning
| light in his eyes. He seemed to be
praying, and made no resistance when
we were securing him so as to take him
to Georgetown. He said he loved his
boy, but that the Lord had commanded
him to offer him up as sacrifice, and
no voice said, Stay thy hand The
night before the horrible deed he had
attended Methodist protracted meet
ing and confessed conviction. When
he came home late in the night he APP
peared to be under great excitement.
The sermon had been about Abraham
and the sacrifice of Isaac. This APP
! peared to have made a great impress
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-13

or even TO estimate numerically the
maxima and minima of the eccentricity
of solar motion, may safely affirm
that they are quite sufficient to produce
an enormous amount of disturbance of
the solar atmosphere; complication
of clashing tides, of irregularities of
velocity in the different portions of this
vast atmospheric ocean, and the con-
sequent formation of mighty mael-
stroms, vortices and cyclones, hurri-
canes and tornadoes, of fury incon-
ceivable to the dwellers upon this COM
paratively tranquil earth. Whether we
regard the nucleus of the sun as reeling
irregularly in the midst of his profound
fluid envelope, on his atmosphere as
dragged here by Jupiter, there by We
nus, hither by the Earth, thither by
Saturn, and everywh-re in the mean
time by this vivacious Mercury, we
cannot fail to perceive in this ever
VARYING resultant of planetary attrac-
ton an agent for perpetually stirring
up, interchanging and mingling to-
gether the various strata of The solar
atmosphere" 1t would seem that the
influence to which Mr.. Williams refers
is no hypothetical magnetic, or electric,
or imaginary repulsive force, but sim
ply that of gravitation, the action and
reaction of which, as is we'll known,
are mutual and contrary. The sun
cannot bend the course of Jupiter or
Venus into curvilinear orbits without
suffering equal reaction from them, or,
in other words, the gravitation of Jupi-
ter on the sun is exactly equal to that of
the sun upon Jupiter. The same ap-
plies to all the other planets.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-13
"You look lonely. dear" said the

You look lonely, dear" said the
child with the soft, gray eyes.
Il cannot play like sister Julia"
said the cripple, g but they-don't mind
me-" The voice trembled as she ut
tered these words and the eyes filled
with tears.
az will play with you, Helen," re
piled the listener.
"Whatl leave all the merry sports
to sit with me; nobody ever does that. +"
1T will make me happy, Helen to
see you SMILE"
Heart's-ease exerted all her powers
to entertain the sufferer and soon the
two were entirely engrossed by the
pictures and the pleasant games. Two
or three committees called Lucy away,
for her sprightliness was indispensable
in such party.
al think that you might come"
said Matilda, "we just want one more;
it's really mean in you, Lucy Rey-
nolds."
"Would you have me leave this
lonely childP' said Heart 's-ease, for
was she not this to Helen SeldenP
Matilda joined the merry ones, but
Lucy tarried with the cripple. She
was lively child and the laugh around
the table in the corner was quite as
heartfelt as that among the active
groups who played blindman's buff and
hindmost of three.
Lucy loved merry plays as well as
other little girls, but she gave them up
willingly this afternoon and was much
happier than those who strove to be
head one in the sports.
And now, perhaps, some little girl
may ask how it was that Lucy Rey-
nolds saw so much that others passed by.
We answer that down in the depths of
that young heart was fountain of love
ever bubbling up, and opening the soft
gray eyes upon all forms of human
grief and joy. We admire the spark
ling black, the melting hazel and the
deep blue, but we love the sweet eyes
that are always on the watch for deeds
of kindness and mercy; pure eyes that
will hereafter look upon God in his
holiness; plying eyes. that will here
after obtain mercy-such eyes had Lucy
Reynolds, rejecting the Christ-like
temper that dwelt within.
We trust that not early will the
films of death veil their sweetness, but
that through joyous childhood, use
full, happy youth, and blessed life of
ripe maturity, these truthful eyes will
tighten many weary pilgrims on their
way to Heaven, and at last see "the
King in his beauty" We can scarcely
part with Heart s-ease, for we have
learned to love the picture that we
have drawn. Have you my dear little
grip Then try to be like her, and you
also will be Heart 's-ease in some happy
home.- Harriet B. McKeeUer, in PbiLa-
deLphid Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-13
A Rather Fly Subject,

The Society for Promoting the Con-
dition of Flies has issued another adj
dress to the country through the Boston
Advertiser. 1t reminds us that in the
warm days at this season heavy and
unhappy old flies crawl out from their
hiding places and walk sluggishly about
on the window pane. According to the
calculations of Professor Unborn, each
of these is now about to lay 1000 eggs
before June /, and from each of these
1000 young ones are hatched which
are ready to lay before July l, to fur
nish each brood before Aug. 1, the
number of descendants from this single
ancestor by Sept. l, is sixteen trillion.
1t is, therefore, we may conclude, the
duty of every one who sees fly in
these days to incontinently demolish it
with all the energy and sweet satisfac-
tion which can be inspired by the knowl-
edge of annihilating, at one fell swoop,
sixteen trillion of these concentrated
Gehennas on wings.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-13
How to Tell a Horses Age.

A horse has forty teeth, composed of
twelve incisors, four tushes and twenty
four molars; the mare has correspond
ing teeth, except the tushes, which are
in the female almost invariably absent,
hence she has only thirty-six. ALI teeth
are composed essentially of enamel,
dentine and crusto petrosa. A curious
but remarkable fact presents itself re-
specting the growth of horses teeth,
which is not common to other animals,
namely, that the teeth are growing con-
tinually from their development to the
animals death. They are forced up
from their sockets to supply the ma
terial removed by attrition. Tushes
are never shed; they make their ap-
pearance between the animals four and
a half and fifth year, hence if they are
just protruding we know, without any
confirmatory evidence, the horse's age.
Either at birth or from one to four DAYS
afterward the colt has four milk teeth
called the centrals. The lateral teeth
appear between four and six weeks
after birth, the corner teeth about the
eighth month. The centrals, or those
which first make their appearance, are
shed between two and a half and three
years; the laterals are shed between
three and half and four years; the
corner teeth between four and q half
and five. About this time or a little
before the tushes are fall grown, the
animal IS said, in horseman's phrase
ology, to have full mouth. We come
now to the important part of the sub
ject, where an animals age is deter
mined by the appearance of the black
spots, or more correctly, the infundi-
bulum. The infundibulum or black
marks are worn out of the superior or
smooth surface of the lower jaw at six
years old, and that of the lateral are
commencing to disappear, and is COM
pleted at the seventh year. Thus al
this age we find the wearing surface of
both central and lateral inferior teeth
smooth, the black marks having been
worn away by attrition, and the marks
of the corner teeth begin to disappear
and have entirely disappeared when
the animal becomes eight years old.
The horse is now considered "aged,"
and no conscientious veterinary surgeon
or horseman would positively assert the
animals age, only approximately.
Some people aver they can determine
the exact age by signs other than the
teeth, but such indications are unrelia-
BILE. AS the animal advances in age
his teeth gradually grow long and ap-
pear to become more horizontal. The
mouth, which at five years old was cup
shaped, now loses this appearance and
becomes elongated. The teeth, which
were in the age last mentioned nearly
perpendicular, are now slanting, and
this process appears with advancing
age. AS horse becomes old the en-
amel loses its original beautiful white
ness and assumes cloudy or smoky
yellow instead, and becomes striated
with brown and black marks, and the
tushes infrequently drop.-Sptrit Of the
Times.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-06-13


In a dream last week a Middleton
(Conn) man passed through a trial for
murder which seemingly lasted three
weeks, in which a great many witnesses
were examined and eloquent pleas
hours long delivered. At last he was
convicted and sentenced. While on
the scaffold protesting his innocence to
the last, the trap was sprung; but the
rope broke and he ran away. He was
pursued by the people and the police,
but he eluded them until nightfall,
when he ventured to visit his home.
There he found his wife attacked by a
gang of rufiians. He killed one of them
and drove the rest away. Then he
awoke and discovered he had been
through these terrible ordeals, all this
suffering and anguish, and the three
weeks trial, while sleeping only three
minutes.