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A Barefoot Scientist.


Major de Serpa Pinto, the Portuguese
explorer. recounts the following incident of
his journey in South Africa: ~. -.
u The whole Of the country travelled is
weli-peopied excepting the region of the
Cataracts. Southeast live the terrible
Macalacas. fighting race, but which when
vanquished supplies slaves to all the other
peoples of Africa. Exhausted, without re-
sources, looked forward with hope to get
ting to the junction Of the Cuando with the
Zambesi, for l expected to find an English
mission there. % eafz. s,<l IS 81 gl
But discovered that the missionaries
had perished ON the way, and instead of
Christians found chief who wanted to
fay me alive. ) 1t was here met an Eng
lish naturalist, DR.. Bradshaw, who was re-
duced to the greatest misery. He had for
covering nothing but torn shirt and trou-
-sars in a most rninons condition, He went
barefoot, though he always carried IN MS
hand pair Of shoes, of which he was very
saving. I never succeeded in comprehend
ing the motives of such economy. The
doctor, who had come from the Cape to that
distant region, was engaged in shooting
birds and collecting animals for the Eng
lish museums. He made my acquaintance
like true Epglishman, with the greatest
sang froid, by making his appearance. IN
drawers, and, in the center of Africa, pre-
ssnting me with card printed in London.
It was at this spot passed one ofthe most
terrible nights of the whole of my journey.
was in his tent, separated from my COM
panions, when the natives, who are of bad
disposition, surrounded it. We at once
put q table against the door, our loaded ri
fies upon it, and did nothing for the whole,
long night but watch the movements OF our
numerous enemies. At daybreak we learn
cd chat the savages had decamped with the
rest Of my baggage. Hearing there was q
French missionary o few miles of, l start
ed to visit him, but on the way violent fe-
yer seized me, and entirely lost conscious
ness. When l regained my senses, twelve
days after, ! found TWO ladies at my bed
aide, who spoke to me in Frsnchs They
were the wife and neice Of . clergyman
named Coilliard. owe my life TO the at
tention and kindness of those ladies. No
sooner, how ever, had recovered than the
idea of my discoveries became more intense
than ever. = .sz.,- -. z.
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Mckenzie, Tenn, Cor. N. Y. Herald.

| MchenZle, Tenn.. Cor. N. 7. Herald
Train after train load of Memphians
now almost hourly pass through here,
leaving crowd of anxious people at the
plague stricken city waiting for the first
to get away. Memph;ans say that the
people are so determined to get out of that
city that they clamor with one another as a
mob, and those passengers with the most
strength and determination are those who
run over the multitude of more timid peo-
| pie and escape.
People have crowded about the depot for
twenty-four hours before being able to get
on the train. Overcome with heat and "a
tigue, men, women and children sleep
closely huddled together until aroused
and told that the hour of their liberation is
near at hand. A fresh train has been made
up, and they pass out to the transfer sta
ton, which is always crowded. Instead Of
waiting for trains to carry them thither
they 60 out by every conceivable convey
ance, and by that means often take the
places of those who have been forced to
come out on the trains only to find that
they have been deprived Of the possibility
of an early escape to more healthy eli
mate.
Restive and combative under these cir
cumstances, men grow desperate and fight
like tigers. ReYolvers are drawn in the
most savage determination, and bloodshed
only prevented by the interference of
strong guard. People are so closely sand
wiched in the trains that the heat becomes
intolerable, passengers get restive, and
almost any one who makes ii known can be
accommodated by knock k-down. A gene
raj scramble for seats continues all along
the various lines until the conductor gets
rid Of the jam by dropping them here, there
aud everywhere. .r+. .'.i ~
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r II pUuE IILGIS DutEETSWPs
Sweet little gntter-pup,n etc.


REMARKABLE FREAK OF a WHIRLwIND.
The Reno New Gazette says: During the
high wind that prevailed yesterday morn.
ing. J. Moorrnan Cutter started out with .
half gallon Of Whiskey for his sick mother
who lives ont on Virginia street. He was
found some hours after, behind . fence on
the hill, in an inarticulate condition. Later
i'm the day be recovered sufficiently 70 ex-
plain the catastrophe that had overtaken
him. He said he stopped around corner
TO fix the cork in the jng. and while he was
taking the measure Of the orifice tremen-.
deus wind eame down on him. Il sucked
she liquor clean out Of the iug, blew It Ill
down his threat, and turned the jug inside
ont. He conlds remember nothing more Of
the occurrences. s sE5 &
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WHAT THE WITS SAY.
When the moon gets full it keeps lat
hours IN. O, Picagaas.

When the moon gets full it keeps late
honrs.--N. O. Pieaguas.
II poverty is a disgrace mended stock
ings are a darned shame.-Neso Orleans
PieagNae.
g Better bare feet and conten tment there
With than patent leather boots and corn
on each toe.
Kansas City matrons frighten their way
ward offspring by telling him that when he
dies he win 60 to St. Louis s.-Karssas CITY
Times.
"a The mosquito: When slumber holds
your wearied frame, and all the world is
dark and still. he tends 90 business all the
same, and liquidates his little bill.
When you meet lady in company, don't
refer to the time when you used TO draw
her to schosl As years ago.-Eg. You see If
you do you give yourself dead away.-Bos-
ton Post.
A prominent Democratic Congressman
took his daughter to task the other evening
because she permitted her lover to stay a
while after 10 o'clock. ala, pa" said she,
'sewe were holding little extra session."
Hartford Post.
"Have you any objects Of interest in the
vicinity ?" the tourist asked Burlington
man. ST have, have" eargerly replied
the other, "but I can't get at it to show it
to you. It's o 80 days note and its down
in the bank now, drawing interest like
horse race or mustard plaster. ."-Bursing-
ton Has0keye. a@
1t was warm afternoon, and young Mr..
Cummagen did not go in the house, but sat
down in the pleasant porch. as was his GUS
tom, after ringing the bell Her little sis
ter came TO the door and looked at hlm with
some curiosity.
"Does your sister Mable know am here,
Nellie ?" he asked.
"Oh, yes, replied the innocent prattler,
81 guess she does; she told me to come out
and see how shady it made the front yard
when Yon put your feet up on the porch
railing" -.
He took them down and sat ON them
Ha0keys. ..-. II
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LINcoLN's IMAGINATION.
HIS HoMELY PHRASES CONSIDERED IN RE-
LATIoN TO POETIC SPIRIT.
Noah Brooks In scr;hper.

l8 sE Noah BROOKS in Scribner
In his letter declining an invitation to
attend the Illinois Republican Convention
in 1858, Lincoln made use of two striking
figures. Reviewing the military events Of
the past year which had been favorable to
the cause of the Union, he said: g The
Father of Waters again goes unvexed to
the sea-" And referring to the fact that
Southern Unionists and ex-sIaves had done
something to help on the good work, he
said: "on the spot, their part Of the his,
tory is dotted down in black and white.".
There was something in the phrase "dot-
ted down in black and white' which
nightly tickled the public fancy. At the
time, however, critisism was evoked by
this add fanre employed by the President |:
Nor must Uncle Sans web feet be for
gotten. AT all the watery margins they
have been present, not only Oh the
deep sea, the broad bay, the rapid river,
but also up the narrow, muddy bayous, and
wherever the ground was little damp
they have been and made their tracks"
He explained that the remarkable feats
performed by the gunboats in making their
way through sloughs and bayous, hereto
fore considered unnavigable, reminded him
of the stealthy passage Of waterfowl.
The pleasantly concerning light-draught
steamers going where " the ground is lit
tie Damp is familiar to everybody.
It will be long tlme before our people
will forget Lincoln's homely simile of
"eldsr squirts charged with rose water"
as applied to the conservative programme
for prosecuting the war. This was used in
Q letter addressed to Cuthbert Bullitt, of
New Orleans, in which letter he also said
that the conservatives were like complain
ing passengers on ship" The mutineers
must go untouched, lest one of these sa-
cred passengers should receive an acciden-
tai wound" His legislation was power
fully stimulated by any reference to the
history of the public. His addr ess at Get
tysburg, now one of the great historical
speeches of the country, suggests, rather
than expresses, crowd of images. To
Lineoln's mind, apparently, American his
tory was filled with noble and pathetic
figures. In some Of the loftier fights of
his eloquence may be found traces of a
strong poetic faney-an imagination fred
by love of country and inspired by the con-
temptation of the stirring events that have
marked its history. No more striking ex-
In the memorable words of his FIRST inau-
gural address " The mystic chords of
memory, stretching from every battle field
and patriot grave to every living heart and
hearthstone all over this broad land, will
yet swell the chorus of the Union, when
again touched, as they surely will be, by
the better angels Of our nature"
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R.;lrs.a sniIs;nr II the woss.

The Railroad Age calls the wonderful ac-
tivity in the building of railroads in the
West SO remarkable and inspiring specta-
cle." During the first six months of this
year over Thousand miles of road have
been completed, much greater number
than has been finished during the first half
of any year since the panic, and the second
half of the year will show still greater pro-
gress. The Grand Trunk extension and
Vanderbilt schemes have infused life into
Michigan railroad enterprises. In Ohio and
Indiana many narrow-gauge roads are be-
ing built, and the network of trunk-lines is
being perfected as rapidly as possible. Illi-
nois has already greater mileage than any
other State, but o new narrow-gauge is be-
ing pushed across the whole width of the
State. From Chicago and Milwaukee the
three main roads leading to the Northwest
are pushing vigorously for the Black Hills
country and constructing feeders to all i'm
portant points within reach of their lines.
In Minnesota there Is the greatest activity.
The St. Paul and Pacific system, recently
reorganized, is extending long arm up
the Red River of the North, and pushing
several connecting links toward sompie-
ton, and work on the Northern Pacific
does not flag. The Chicago s. Alton have
Just opened 100 miles OF road to the Mis-
souri, and west of the Missouri the extreme
Of activity in railroad progress Is now to be
Witnessed. Kansas and Nebraska are alive
with new enterprises, and NO less than half
dozen branches to the Pacific roads, over
260 miles in length, are in progress. In
Colorado the Denver 6 Rio Grande have
issued bonds TO construct 565 miles miles
to Lsadville, San Juan and Albuquerque.
aud no less enterprise is shown in Utah,
New Mexico, Texas or on the Pacific Coast.
The two most inspiring things about this
| new life infused into this railroad business
ars that the cost Of construction is now but
Ia fraction Of what it was in s1S71-75, not
swithstanaing the use of better material.
and the lines being built are not wild spec
ulative schemes, but enterprises having a
| solid foundation, and promising to do Q
paying business. This is certainly asub-
stantial evidence or national prosperity.
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THE vAIEDIcToaY.
SLIGHT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT is
SAID AND WHAT rs THOUGHT.
Detroit Free Press.

What the Valedictory said-Kind teach
ers, ever shall we look back TO the happy
days when, under your patient and loving
pilotage, we climbed the hill Of knowledge;
ever shall we hold the recollection of your
self-sacrificing devotion among our holiess
remembrances. And, classmates, though
the links are broken that have 80 long uni
ted us in their tender Chain, yet we are
still permitted, in memory's forge to re-
weld the scattered fragments, and live once
again in fancy the happy existance that has
s7sl sh sh gs 6 m
more. @ -e
What tho Valedictorian thought thank
tho Lord, shall soon see the last of old
Smith He never was fit for teacher
anyway, the cross old bear! And then he
shows partiality SO! never could see
what he finds in Sal Stebbings SO attrac-
i've. No matter what she does, he's good
as pie to her. guess I'd have to take it if
should come to school with lessons no bet
ter prepared than hers. And Miss Jones
HIM! the old maid She's just hateful.
And Miss Brown, too What dowdy
she is No wonder nobody'll have her /!
Thank heaven! Pm free of them all now
I don't believe I'd speak to one of them ii
/ should meet them on the street. Let's
see must cut that Periwinkle girl right
away. don't want to be dogged around
by her any more, and what's more won't.
| shall have to keep on good terms with
Steve Stower's sister, though / do hate her
so, for Steve's got jolly team, and he al
ways dresses SO nobby, and all the girls
envy me and Steve when we go riding
long. Well, I'm glad it's all oyer. ney-
or want to think of school again or see q
school-book. What a life have led, to be
sare But shall go into society now,
thank forum, where belong!
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From the Detroit Free Prese.

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There was marriage at the upper end
of the Detroit, Lansing and Northern road
the other day. A great. big chap, almost
able able to throw car load of lumber off
the track, fell in love with a widow who
was cooking for the hands in a sawmil!,
and, after a week g acquaintance, they were
married. The boys around the mill lent
William three calico shirts, D. dress coat
and a pair of white pants, and chipped in
purse Of about $50, and the couple started
for Detroit en- bridal tonr one honr after
being married. s4 Id s.8 ses -
"This 'ere lady" ex xpiained William, as
the conductor came along for tickets, " are
my bride. just spliced 3tifty-six minutes
ago. Cost 90, but darn, the cost She's a
lily of the valley. Mary in, and l'ms the
right bower in new pack of keerds. Con-
ductor, salute the bride ~
The conductor hesitated The widow
had freckles and wrinkles and turn.up
nose, and kissing the bride was no gratifl-
cation. eH8 = Iscs Gsssss a.Es 45&
- Conductor, salute tho bride. or look
ont for tornadoes. II confused William, as
he rose up and shed his coat. - Egas
The conductor sa-luted.a Ii was tha best
thing be could do just then, - sziS
/ 81 never did try to put ON stylslbsfore,"
nuttered William. but Unbound to- see
this thing through il i have. te6ght all
Michigan. These 'era passengers has got
tolcome up to the chalk, they hasi''ssd
E The car was full. William walked down
the aisle, waived his hand TO command at
tsntion, and said; sl5s5Aai sE3 81 xs4s
"Pve just been married lover thar sots
the bride. Anybody who wants to salute
the bride can do so now. Anybody who
don't want TO will have cause to believe
tree fell on him." i.
One by one the men walked np and kiss
ed the widow until cn!s one was left He
was asleep. William reached OVER and
liftsd him into , sitting position at one
movement, and commanded :.s.ga
5 Gar ye going to dust over thar and kiss
the bride % fsA4ls "a ests ra.fsae
g Blast your bride and you, teo y growl-
the passenger. sa7 taFtA ansa sssn
/ William draw him ever the back Of tho
seat, land him dewn in the aisle, and was
makinga bundlel Of him iust Of o size to
60 through the wiRdow, when the man
caysd and xens over and saluted. e.4,
zss" !" Now, then, Z said William, % he put
on his coat |" thiss bride tower will be re-
sumed as nsual, and Il Mary and me
squeeze hands orgst TO laling heads en- one
anesher's shoulders, I shall demand 20 know
Who lafied . bout IL and iii make him
e-magine I'm hull boom full.o the
biggest kind Of saRlogs, and more COMM
down on the rise. Nov, Mary, hitch along
sne lot me git ny arm aroand 70 y
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THE FARMER FEEDErH ALL.


"My lord rides through the palace gate,
My lady sweeps along IN state,
The sage thinks long on many thing.
And the maiden muses. on marrying;
The sailor.plows the foeming sea,
The huntsman kills the good red deer,
And the soldier wars without fear;
But fall to each what e'er befall,
The farmer he must feed them all.
Smith hammereth cherry-fed the sword,
Priest preacheth pure the holy word,
Dame Alice worketh braiding well,
Clerk Richard tales of love can tell;
The tap wife sells her foaming beer,
Dan Fisher fsheth In the mere,
And courtier's ruffies strut and shine,
While pages bring the Gascon wine.
"Man builds his castles fair and high,
Wherever rivers runneth by;
Great cities rise in every land,
Great churches show the bailder's hand,
Gfeat. arches. monuments and towers,
Pair palaces and pleasing bowers; ~,
Great work is done, be 1t here or there,
And all men worketh everywhere.
But work or rest, what e'er befall,
The farmer he must feed them all.
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Methodist Itineracy:
New York L etter to Boston journal,

New York etter to Boston journal,
Quite large number of Methodist mir
listers who have left the Church and gone
into the Congregational. have done 20 out
of dislike for the itineracy. A leading Me
thodist pastor said to me the other day ::
ssThe itineracy would be well enough If the
bishops and official men would carry it out
honestly. There is so much fayoritism that
ordinary men don't have q fair chance. Our
leading churches ride right over the bishop
select their man, pay him his salary. and
take it for granted that the bishops viii en-
dorse their action. will give you leaf
OF my history. was induced by the Pre-
siding Elder to leave the New Jersey Con-
ference, to which l belonged. and come in
to the New York Conference. You shall
have any church in the Conference said
the Elder. Two large and thrifty churches
asked for me. selected one, and started
home to prepare for my transfer. A tele-
gram reached me from the bishop, notify
ing me to wait before moved. found
myself assigned to little country charge.
aud one of the Inducements was that was
10 have sno privilege Of -e.iiai-es=a ehurch-
As a loyal Methodist started with few
things had bought, for my location. The
heavy freightage on my goods exhausted
my money, and had not dollar; when
within fifteen miles of my home borrow
ed a dollar of the railroad conductor, and
had thirty cents when reached my station.
The parsonage was dark, untidy and with
out furniture, except an old stove and one
broken lounge. There was not bed nor
a looking-glass nor washstand in the
house. bought enough food with nay
thirty cents to last over night. The people
were all wealthy farmers, and there was
hardly man in the parish who did not
own valuable farm. The sumptuous pay
allotted me was five hundred dollars year.
I was very popular in the neighborboood.
Lectures, festivals and reform meetings
demanded my services. | was nearly starv-
ed. AS the year drew to close the neigh
boring churches proposed to give me do
nation visit. The large-hearted people 4
was among responded. Nearly all the 1000
and the money came from the outside par.
ishes. The money donated amounted TO
one hundred and thirty dollars. The rent
Of the parsonage, one hundred dollars, was
unpaid. The trustees took one hundred
dollars from the amount and paid the rent.
They owed ms thirty dollars on my salary
~ ~ al
cosey place promised me 1t the end Of the
year, / was sent to this sterile land. wrote
to the bishop that be must renove me Or /
should remove mysslf. Still | have alway
been loyal to the Methodist church. and
have usually gone without complaining,
wherever was sent. Every shadow Of cake
donated by outsiders was carried of by the
bcnesolsnt women who presided over the
soh,aitf ais III ss510H ss55ai fsf55.Elsi " ~a
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THE FLIGHT FROM MEHPEIs.

PEOPLE FIGHTING TO GET AWAY AND
BLooDsHED ONLY PREVENTED BY A
STRONG GUARD s' 5
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Philadelphia Ledger. Money Article.

Philadelphia Ledger Money Article.
j Few Of the persons who handle Bank of
England notes ever think OF the amount of
labor and ingenuity that is expended on
their production. q According TO an Official
report these notes are madet from pure
white linen cuttings, never from rags that
have been worn. They havs seen manu-.
.factured FOR nearly 200 years BY the th same ~.
family, the Portals, Protestant refugees.
80 carefully is sbe paper prepared that even,
the number of dips into the pulp made by
each workman is registered on dial by
maShinery, and the sheets are carefully
counted and booked 10 each person thraugh
Who whose hands they pass. The printing is
done by a curious process 10 MT. h Goes @ ds-
nartrnent within the bank building. There
il an elaborate arrangement for securing
that 10 note SHAH be exactly like any other
in sexistance. Consequently there never
was duplicate of Bank of England note
except by forgery. According to the CITY
Prsss the stock Of paid notes of seven years
is about 81, ,O0O, 900 In number, and they
fiji is, 600 boxes, which, if placed side BY
aide. would reach three miles. The notes
placed in pile would be eight miles, or il
ioined end to end would form ribbon l5,-
600 miles long. their. superficial extent is
more than that OF Hyde Park; their origin
al value was over I'll, 900, oo0, 900, and their
weight over 112 tons ~ n ss...ssss..., .
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P Q ET r Y.
MORTALITY.

How do the roses die?
Do their leaves fall together,
Thrown down and scattered by the sky,
OF angry weather7 ara gr E-r
No, the sad thunder stroke
o'ersweeps their lowly bower;
The storm that tramples on the oak
Relents above the flower.
No violence makes them grieve,
No wrath hath done them wrong,
When with sad secrecy they leave
The branch to which they clung,
They yield them one by one
To the light breeze aid shower.
To the soft dew, cool shade, bright sun.
Time and the hour.
........ sd. q. .... Spectator.