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A Life In Bed.

A few weeks ngo, says the Lowell
(Mass.) Mail, we published a paragraph
concerning q woman, iE some far away
land, who had been twenty years in bed.
We have been told of a case more re-
markable than that, in n town in New
Hampshire, within half a days ride OF
Lowell. More than forty years ago, a
handsome, intelligent daughter of a
thrifty farmer of that town became at
tached to a young man in her neighbor-
hood, toward whom her parents were
not favorably disposed. They would
not consent to her marriage, and she,
although competent to reason with her
self and them on the subject, gave up a
school which she was teaching, went to
her bed, and never again rose from it to
work or 20 into society. At 1.-The time
she was not more than seventeen or
eighteen years old-healthy,. sprightly,
intelligent and g~ood-looking. The
world to her, it would seem. had as
many charms as for any one else; but
without the mar of her choice-thougl
that choice may have been regarded as
a poor one by her friends-h her bed was
her world; and for more than forty
years she chung to it, never once leaving
It to help herself to anything out OF her
room. The members of the family were
her servants.
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Memory In Different Races.

NJ Delaunay has made a communica-
ton to the Socicte de Biologie respecting
memoir as studied under various bio
logical conditions. The inferior races of
mankind have more memory than those
of a higher type of civilization. PRINT
tive races which were unacquainted with
the art of writing had wonderful mem
ory, and were for ages in the habit OF
handing down from one generation to air
other hymns as voluminous rs the
Bible. Prompturs and professors of de-
clamation know that woman have more
memory than men. French women viii.
learn a foreign language quicker than
their husbands. Youths have more
memory than adults. 1t is well de-
veloped in children, attains it's maxi
mum about the fourteenth or fifteenth
year, and then decreases. Feeble indi-
viduals of a Emphatic temperament
have more memory than the strong.
Students who obtain the prize for mem
DRY and recitation chiefly belong to tue
former class. Partisan students have
also less memory than those who come
from the provinces. At the Ecole Nor
male and other schools the pupils who
have the best memory are not the most
intelligent. The memory is more de-
veloped among the peasantry than among
citizens, and among the clergy than
among the laity. The memory remains
intact in diseases of the left side of the
brain. and is much affected in those Of
the right. from which it may be inferred
that the right side is more the seat of
this faculty than the left. From y physio-
logical point of view memory is dimin-
ished by overlooking, by physical exer-
else, and by education, in this sense, that
the illiterate have potentially o
memory than those who know how to
read and write. We remember, more
over, better in the morning than in the
evening, in the summer than in the
winter, and better in warm than in cold
climates. Memory is, therefore, to n
certain extent, in inverse proportion to
nutrition, and, more than that, it is in
inverse proportion to evolution, since it
is greatest in those individuals who are
the least advanced from an evolutionary
point of view-inferior races, children,
the feeble, etc. In short, according to
NJ. Delaunay, there is m evolution of
the memory, which is first %sensoriai,
literal, and then intelligent; but men,
DRY, properly speaking, diminishes in
verseiya as the evolutionl-MedicM Press.
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A Little Romance Of Broadway.

Three pretty young girls from Jersey
City had left the ferryboat to walk up to
the Elevated road, says q New York let
ter, and unluckily were provided with
only n whalebone and silk covering
for their heads The narrow sidewalk
made it almost impossible for the three
to walk abreast, and consequently n
ofthem, who was addresseda rs Annie, re-
ceived all the drippings from the caves
of the umbrella upon her unselish head.
A gentleman walking just behind
them noticed this, and tried, as unob-
trusively rs possible, to shelter her with
his own. For q block or so she ignored
t,11 attempt, but finally was forced, in
GRO sing the street, to accept the cour-
tesy. which she did with an embarrassed
BIO u. 1t happened that the youth had
been we'll brought up, and understood
her fear lest he should in any way take
s1vantage of his courtesy to be imper-
tinent, and being Of a rather mischiev-
u turn of mind, he waited until he
caught her eye, as she looked slyly up,
when. assuming that far" look so often
seen on the faces of the deaf and dumb,
he pathetically touched his finger to his
lips, and shook his head.
The girl looked so immensely relieved
that he cnme near laughing right out;
especially when announced that he wa
speechless she showed she wasn't by
quietly observing to n of her friends,
"Oh, Mary, isn't il too bad this hand
some young mar is deaf and dumb?"
Mary thought it was, and wondered
how it was he ever got along in the world,
and, much to the amazement of this
knight of the umbrella, the three pro-
ceeded to discuss him girl-fashion, and
from the color of his eyes to the cut of
his clothes he was fully criticised,
"Annie" deciding that, as a husband,
Ae would be sans reproche, never swear
Ing, never scolding, making silence
golden.
When they reached the station the
three girls bowed and smiled and
grimaced their gratitude. when, to their
profound horror, the youth, witha sweet
smile, raised his hat, reularking, with
painful distinctness, that he was very
happy to have been of service" With a
suppressed shrek, the merry maids
rushed up the winding stairs. and the
youth walked on, whistling Beautiful
Is-er-bellar."
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Some nav.

ron smooth the tangics from my hair
Win gentle touch and tenderest care,
And u the years ere you shall mark
Bright silver threads among the dark
Smiling the while to hear me say,
You'll think of this again some day
Some day"
1 do not scorn the power of time
Nor count the years of fdeless prime,
But no white CLEANS will ever shine
Among these heavy locks of mine;
Aye, laugh rs gayly as you may,
You'll think of this again some day
Some day,
Some day I shall not icel, as now,
Your soft hand move about my brow;
| shall not slight your light commands,
And draw your trcsses through my hands;
shall be silent and Obey
Ard you-you will not laugh SOM DAY
Some day.
l know how long your loving hands
Will linger in these glossy bands,
When you shall weave my latest crown
Other trick masses, long and brown;
But youswill see no touch of gray
Adom their shining length that day
Some day!
And while your tears are falling hot
Upon the lips which answer not,
You'll take from these one treasured tress,
And leave the rest to silentness-
Remember that l used to say,
You'll think of this again some day
Some day"
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Yellow Fever Notes.

Mr.. A. d. Langstaff, president OF the How
Association OF Memphis, arrived in New York
the other day, the object Of his visit being to
solicit funds with which to continue the WOO
of the Towards in mid OF the yellow fever sui
ierers. Mr.. Langstaf say there are now
about l, 100 whites and IL, 900 negroes in Mem
phis. Thirty-two thousand OF the population
have left. Probably the majority OF those re-
manning would follow hem if they were able
and were allowed 10 do so. There are now
about 400 patients in the charge Of the How
ard Association, and to care Tor these, rs well
as for the poor who cannot quit Memphis,
about ST., 900 per day is required. Owing to
poverty and sickness few in the city are able
to provide for themselves. Tho real cause OF
the prevalence OF yellow fever in Memphis
this year, Mr.. Langstaff says, has never been
explained. Last year it was brought from New
Orleans, to which city it was carried from a
foreign port. This year New Orleans has not
suffered more severely than usual, while Mem
phis has. The cause is discovered in the fact
OF the detective sewerage OF Memphis. The
city has no system OF water sewers, and all the
refuse is deposited in deep vaults.
A late Memphis dispatch to the New York
Herald says: 1.-THE lever has seemingly taken
a fresh start. It was thought that the ex-
treme cold weather Of the past week would in
q measure check its spreading. But so much
Tor human hopes. There is no Disgusting the
TACT that it is spreading both in and outside
the city. Scarcely q day passes but some new
victim who has fled a short distance into the
country to escape the ravages OF the soourge
is stricken, and owing to the poor accommo-
dations afforded away from the city, suoh per-
sons generally die. II tho weather continues
to grow warner, the greatest danger is TO be
feared that the disease will spread to all those
tow s adjacent to Memphis that were secured
las, year. The quarantine regulations are be.
inc ripidly enforced by the State board OF health
officials, but it is next to impossible TO prevent
their occasional violation in a city the size OF
Memphis, and, vigilans as the officers may be.
they cannot imprison the l6,oOO people VINO
vet remain in the city, many OF whom, forced
by their necessities, are daily finding their way
TO the country in search oil labor. These are
the ones that carry the infection with them.
In every instance where the fever has de-
vcloped beyond the city the infection could be
traced directly to Memphie.
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TremendOus Roll Down Hill.

A young man had a curious adventure
and a rather serious mishap the other
night on Prospect hill. He was up there
with his girl late in the evening
rather q curious place for them 10
be at that time of night. Stand
ing neal the edge of the main point to-
ward the river, he lost his footing and
rolled over and over to the bottom. In
credible us it may seem. he was rahurt.
and neither did he stop until he reached
the bottom and landed on the muddy
bar, just at the foot Of the bank. He
tried to catch upon some bushes and
brush on his downward course, but had
such a clear track, it was so dark and he
was going at such a lively speed that he
was unable to stop. He says that in his
rolling career he thought of the river
into which he expected to fall, not know
ing there was a bar of soft sand and
mud to receive him, and he made frantic
efforts to catch hold of something on the
way.
When he struck the sand unhurt he
got upon his feet rs soon as he could and
tried to look over the ground he had so
recently travelled, but it was too dark to
see anything. He called to his girl to
see if she had given him up for dead and
zone to tell the coroner, but she was
waiting to see how he stood the racket,
and asked him if he was hurt. He re-
sponded that he felt as if he had gone
through a threshing machine or had
Teen blown up in q powder mill, but
further than that he believed he was all
there and the separate parts of his body
were all united by their several liga-
lures in the proper manner, though he
couldn't swear to that fact. His hat
was missing and he quarreled with his
girl for not coming down and aiding
him in the search for it, but as she was
300 feet away from him his quarreling
did not amount to much. She certainly
took less interest in the quarrel anu the
search than she had taken in seeing him
make a bowling-aliey of himself.
After a long search he found the miss
ing hat and laboriously clambered to the
top. He stood for a moment on the
bluff gazing downward through the
darkness over the road he had so recent.
ly travelled on the double-Quick, and
calculated, "Well, I'll be hanged"
Perhaps he will, for the man who. could
make such a trip rs that, unaided and
alone, and come out with unbroken
bones, is certainly saved for some end
which an inscrutable Providence alone
knows of.-Siour City (lI.) Journal.
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The extreme length of Illinois. north
and south, is 378 miles; the width OF the
State varies. being ut one section 24o
miles, but the average width is about
$50 miles. The area OF the State covers
55,4l5 square miles. or over 100000
acree,
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It is Just Twenty-Five years since Carl
baldi was a SOAP and candle maker on
Staten Island, New York harbor. He is
s%eventy-three years of aye.
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IN my puIsat1nR arInsE fau gUHe WIZ
myself, or did any great blue star Of all
in heaven wear Stella's facep
1 was walking on that beach a month
later with my wife's hand in mine, when
old Ben Simpson looked up from his
nets, over which we had nearly STUN
bled, and. grinning, touched his fore.
lock. "You see, I told you, sir" said
he, "there was no need to worry with
Ben Burnham at the hellum!"-Harper's
po,or
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JudGo for Yonrself.

By seuding thirty-five cents, with age, height,
color OF eyes and hair, you viii receive ny re-
turn mail a correct Photographic of your future
husband or wife, with name and date OF mar
rage. address W. Fox, P. o. Drawer 81,
Fpltonvij1e N. Y. .Tr. 81. ..f' go tF D.
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COUGHS AND CoLDs.-fhose who's are suffer-
ingfrom coughs, colds, hoarseness, sore throat,
etc., should try "Brown's Bronchial Troches."
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, only G. Gilbert's Corn Starch.
Daushters, Wives and Neither;

DE-. ANARCHISTS Uterine CATHOLICON win posi-
lively cure Female Weakness, such as Falling Il the
Womb, whites, Chronic Inflammation or liberation Of
the Womb, Incidental Hemorrnsge or Flooding, Painful.
Suppressed and Irregular Menstruation. &c An old and
reliable remedy. Send postal card for a pamphlet. with
treatment cures and certificates from physicianl and
patients, to HOWARTH L BALLARD, UncA, n. y.
Sold by oil Druggists-$l!0 per bottle.
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Probably no one. Doubtless we have all
suffered to some extent the disagreeable SEN
sations which a disordered or languid liver
can infict. Sallowness of the skin, constipa-
ton, nausea, vertigo, soreness In the vicinity
OF the organ affected, q sensation a. OF conges-
ton in the head, positive headache, q loss OF
appetite, extreme thirst, a high color OF tho
urine, are among the symptoms which an.
nounce a perverAion or vitiation OF the bile.
The remedy oil remedies Tor the above is Hos
letters Stomach Bitters, administered by med
ical men; pronounced pure and wholesome
ny them, and popular as q comprehensive
family medicine, and as q specific preventive
and remedy for chills' and lever and bilious
remittents throughout America, and to q wide
extent in foreign countries. Disorders in the
stomach and bowels as well as liver, are
speedily remedied with this popular and lime.
honored medicine. ... =
Children do not die OF tho Group to whom
DR.. VIM. Halls Balsam for tho Lungs is ad.
uinistered. Parents will do well to remember
this TACT and keep a medicine, which saved 80
many lives, in the house ready for an emer.
gency. The Balsam overcomes q tendency to
consumption, strengthens weak and heals sore
lungs, remedies painful and asthmatic breath
ing, banishes hoarseness and cures all bron-
chial and tracheal Inflammation. If you have
a cough use it "early and otten." All drug
uiata sell IL.
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Three dozen Boxes t1.4 gross,,s will be
sent TO PEDDLERS, STOREKEEPERS,
DRUGGISTS texpressage paidh on receipt
'uf 81. OO-about eleven cents q box.
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About O gans, this fact is conclusive: Mason
& Hamlin Organs have taken the highest
honors at every worlds exhibition for twelve
years, and no other American organ has taken
the highest award at ANY such. .r-,...
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SURE RELIEF FOE TIE SUFFERER.

nth century by Dr.. William Grace, Surgeon In King
James army. Through It's agency he cured thous:
ands Of the most serious sores snd Tounas tnes
his day. and was regarded by all who Knew him as
o public benefactor.
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a Bsautifai. Ents NssnsIY EapeT. -
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~pPIIs embittered BY Dropsy, Kidney,
Bladder or Urinary Complaints,
Brght's Disease, Gravel or General
lily Debility, take SO!
eAAu Hunts Remedy.
49, Retention Of Urine, Diabetes, Pain
In the Side, Back and Lolns, Excess
es anil Intemperance are cured by
Hunts Remedy. All Diseases
~ Of the Kidneys, Bladder and Urinary
|, cured BY Hunts Remedy. Family
use HUNTS Remedy. Send for pamphlet
[. K. CLARKE, Proyidence;,R-L
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One pair OF boots or shoes can he saved
every year by using Lyons Patent Heel Stiff
ener. Sold by shoe and hardware dealers.
Chew .Iackson's Best Sweet Navy Tobacco.
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Western and Southern States.

At the Nebraska Democratic State Conven-
ton in Lincoln, a ticket with Elger Wakely
for Supreme Court Judge was put in the field.
The platform denounces the use Of the army
at the polls, and declares the President to have
been irauduleutly counted in.
The jury in the case OF Henry j. Gully, on
trial Mt DeKnlb, Miss, for the murder OF Judge
Chishol,n's daughter Cornelia, returned a ver-
dict of "not guilty"
Acting Cashier W. ". Keene, ct tho North
western National Bank OF Minneapolis, Mimi,
has confessed that he is a deieulter to the OK
tent of Sl35, 900, which he lost in speculations.
About So, 900 nave been recovered.
In the Maryland Republican Convention, at
Baltimore, j. J. Creswell, ex-Postmaster-
General, after declining. a nomination tor Gov
ernor. named James a. Gary, who was nomi-
mated by acclamntion. Samuel Mollafen was
nominated Tor Comptroller; Francis NJ. Darby
for Attorney-G General, and James I. McCul-
Tough Tor Clerk OF the Court of Appeals. The
committee on platform adopted resolutions
which are, 80 lar ns they refer to national
topics, about word for word the same ms the
platform adopted at Saratoga by the New York
Republicans.
Robert Lancaster was hanged at Batesvills,
Ark, for the murder, while drunk, OF Thomas
JOHNSON, in December, 1873 The condemned
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Mason 4 HamIin Cabinet Organs
. monstratsd best BY HIGHEST HONORS AT ALL
v NELDS EXPOSITIONS FOR TWELVE YEARS, Wit:
at "a 1875 vIENNA, 1873; SANTIAGO, 1915; PEL1DI1-
rHA, 10. PlRis, 1878, and GRAND SWEDISH GOLD MInAl,
1878. Only American Organs ever awarded highest hon.
urs at any such. Sold for cash or lnstallments., hlul:
YRAfKD CATALOGUES and Circulars With new styles AND
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FOREIGN News,

At the Toronto Exhibition, the other day,
Secretary Evarts was present as the guest OF
the Marquis ct Lorne and the Princess Louise.
In the evening Secretary Evarts attended a
reception given to the Governor-General and
lresnonded to q complimentary address.
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Organs are cureu Dy Lie
Physicians use Hunts Re
10 WM. Z. CLARKE, i
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JUNCTION CITY, KANSAS,
We place loans on improved farms 30 asto
net investors from 4 to 10 per cent. 49,
No loans are made for exceeding one.thtrd
tho appraised value Of the farm.
Titles perfect and property personally ex.
amined by US. Write for full particulars.
@New England references given. lr
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nothing. When Ben Burnham piloted
in Boston bay, and knew he couldn't
make Highland Light, he put her helm
hard down and scud for Squam. He
was in blue waite. before the first whis
per of that gale, sir, and he's been there
before and often in like case; and when
he is, he heads for the Bermudies, sir.
And you'll be finding. when the
Flight comes in with all her linen
stretched, that they've been a-rambling
over the Bermudies while you've been
a-eating your heart out, sir"
Poor fool! At that moment / stopped
to pull Il bit ofsea-weed, I ribbon of the
dulse from the wav breaking at my fee
it was the little golden pennon Of tho
Flight!
There was nothing more to say. ]
held it up before his gaping face. The
world turned black reeled away, ant
hid myself that day. My darling! my
darling. While I had been painting
fhesc treacherous seas, she had been ir
their deadly grasp, she had gone dowr
their black depths-and with him! Fol
ali eternity with him! While | haC
rested in the sunshine. she had passed
lhe great agony-she so young. so fair
so innocent! She had died while rag,
was in my heart for her sweet sake.
held out my arms to nothingness; m,
heart beat with mere pangs. If l Nigh
die myself, if I might have but one hour
one moment, of this eternity, to beg he
10 forgive me, and then to accept nililit,
for all the rest! All, for n word
Where was she? In what upper re
lions, what regions of light? lopene'
my eyes. as l lay there in the evenln!
dusk gazing up skyward, and the idl
uIought came, as idle thoughts alight OF
one perhaps in the very death-struggle
that at that moment there was nothing
in tie universe between me and Lyr'
Vega. The great blue star shone owe
me.
Did great blue stars have faces, thel
fair faces with faint rose 1ushes, will
soft baby hair blowing round item
with smiles, with tears, with eyes LIKE
stars themselves, with lips full OF warn
fragrant kisses? Did stars descend on
of the far night sky and fashion them
selves into such creations as this sWee'
and sobbing thing that all at once l helt
, 1879-07-24

a dozan Of tho Southern States would
vo<s. Thsro wonld have bsen no
Solid South to-dny. They would
l,avs had their rights ea oittzena, aud voted.
without molcstation OF intimidation, tho
ticket OF their choice. They would h"vo
compelled tho ohtvalry to treat them fairly
and justly. But century OF slavery has
broken down their courage md spirit, and
th,y could otror no more resistance 10 their
opprossors than sheep. Tho zulns, though
without improved erma or sufficient suhslas-
onoo, had never beon hroken down in spirit
by slavery. They fought with the natural
bravery Of man fighting for their freedom
from foreign rule, though against immense
odds; and their splendid effort ontitlea them
to the highest crodit o. bravo warriors. The
Immediate result will soon bo seen. The
Engtish are always sdmtrora Of pluck, and 1t
will not bo strange II tho Zulus speedily ind
their place in the front rauka OF tho native
South African troops in tho English army
place thsy are entitled to hold by virtue OF
thoir courage and prowesa.