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The Paris Baby.

A baby was born into the family of
Victor Lablanc during my stay in Paris.
The newly born was dressed in little
sacque. doubtless with flannel shirt
under 1t, without any petticoats or socks,
but with its body we'll wrapped in little
blanket,which was then doubled up be-
hind to protect the feet, and pinned up at
the sides. A thick cap was put upon its
head. 1t is useless to say, 1--WE do not
put ON caps; we do not confine our child
ren's feet" Is not Paris the centre of the
civilized world? But OF one little fellow
over a year old who did not work, 1 am
told that he had not been allowed to use
his legs soon enough. l said to the
mother that we do not pin up babies feet.
Mot N the winter ?" she asks.
The habit of putting on caps, which
seems to be generally prevalent in France,
and often doubtless with disagreeable ne.
suits.
But to return to the newly born girl in
our own apartment in Paris. France is,
remarkable in registering babies, and in
the legal papers called acts of birth.
Madame Leblanc could hardly cOmpre-
hend our getting along without them. On
the birth of a child, notice must be given
at the Mayors Office within three days.
France must know when he is twenty-one,
law required that the child be brought to
the Mayors Office, and its sex examined !;
but the exposure was thought injurious,
and the law was modified so as to allow a
person or persons to visit it. While Victor
was absent for a short time they came, but
did not come up, and requested that the
child should be taken to the Office. So on
Sunday morning Victor gets a carriage,
and assist him by holding the badly, and
he keeps the carriage shut up close, al
though il is the latter part Of May. The
Mayor is not in the Office, but his clerk
is there; and there is another party before
us-a plain man and the nurse and baby,
and another man as witness. This baby
is day old, and has been brought on foot.
What is your name, and what is y,ur
wife'ss what arc your ages ? what is your
profession what is hers? These ar Ill
the questions l remember. No-whei Ter
the baby is to be put out to nurse, is asked
somewhere. Victor's is not. He allows
the clerk to make the requisite examina-
ton, that France may not be cheated out
of young soldier, and we are at liberty.
The law does not allow Victor to give a
family name. Had the little one been a
boy, we could not have named him for our
friend Lenoir Leblanc, lest he should say
that his name was Lenoir. and cause con-
fusion. France is often fca,ful or guarded.
But we may name him for :; great man
we may call him for Victor Hugo-[Phoebe
Earle Gibbons, in Harper's Magazine for
June.
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gave directions for securing his grave
against desecration from body-snatchers
II has, however. been disputed whether
the giants bones still rest in his grave, or
form one of the curiosities OF the hunteri,
an Museum, though we believe they still
lie undisturbed in deep-sunk grave.
Poor O'Brien had to take his constitution
ais under cover of darkness, to avoid be-
ing mobbed by the curious, and like most
big fellows proved himself simple and
in0ffensive man; though once he mad
vertently terrified watchman almost to
death by lighting his pipe at a street
lamp, the sudden appearance OF which
strange apparition threw the watchman
into fit His colossal proportions once
saved the giant from being robbed, the
highwayman who stopped the carriage
riding away in terror at the sight of
O'Brien's huge face thrust through the
window to see what was the matter
chambers Journal.
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~vYhar-s Your HOss p

Some years since, when the State of
Missouri was considered Far West"
there lived on the bank of the river of the
same name as the State, a substantial
farmer. who, by years of toll, had accum-
ulated a tolerably pretty pile of casting;
owing, as he said, principally 10 the fact
that he didn't raise much taters and un-
yuns, but right smart of corn. This
farmer, hearing that good land was much
cheaper farther south, concluded to move
there. Accordingly he provided his eldest
son with good horse, and sufficiency
of the needful to defray his travelling con-
tingent expenses, and instructed him to
purchase 200 acres of good land, at the
lowest possible price, and return immedi-
ately The next day Jeems started for
Arkansas, and after an absence OF some
six weeks, returned home.
"Well, Jeems," said the old man, how'd
yu find land in Arkensawrg'
"Tolerable cheap, dad"
"Yu didn't buy more'n two hundred
acres, did yu, Jeems:"
mo, dad, not over TIL hundred, 1
reckon"
"How much meney hev yu got lefty"
Mary red, dad cleaned rite outp
why, had no ldee travelin' was 'spen-
i've in them parts, Jeems."
wal, jest yu try it wonst. and yule find
out, 1 reckon"
"wal. never mind that, let's hear 'bou,
the land, and-but wars yure hoss ~
"Why, you see, dad. l was going along
some day, an met feller a. said he Wa
going my way tu-"
"But wars yure hoss?'
bod darn my hide, ef yu don't shet up
dad, I'll never git tn the hoss. Wal, q:
We was both goin' the same way, me and
him Jined cumpeny. and bout noon We
hitched our critters, and set down aside
Nv branch, and went to eating a snack
Arter we'd got thru, this feller seZ to me
Try a drop of this red eye, stranger
| Wal! l don't mind, sez II
| But wars yure hosss"
| "Kumming to him bime.by, dad! S,
me and this feller sot thar, sorter talkin,
and drinkin', and then he seZ, Stranger
let's play a leetle game Nv seven-up,'
takin' out Nv his pocket a greasy, roun
cornered deck NV keerds. Don't keer e
l du, sez /. So we set up side Nv a stump
and kummenced to bet a quarter up, ant
1 was a slayin' him awful!'
But wars yure hossm
cumming tn him, dad Bime-by
luck changed, and he got to winnin'. an
pretty sune 1 hadn't not nary nuther dol
lar. Then seq he, Stranger, I'll gin you
chance tn get even, and play you one NOR
| ydluc. we'll, we polu pldycu Iitc tie
and that game l swore, an we was boil
six and six, and
Wars yure hoss.'
"Kumming tn him, dad, We was ST,
and SIX, an twas his deal"
"Will yu tell me wars yure hoss!" salt
the old man, getting riled.
"Yes, we wos six and six, and he turnet
up the jack"
Wars yure hossH'
The stranger won him turning tina
jack"
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massachusetts, teacher writes to the
M"s,onal journal of Education describing
an experiment in the schooI-room which
,he I'M ,,nr;,. ~ oG successful Instead of facing
tne pupils he has his desk behind them.
and thus overlooks them to great adyan'
tage The naughty little ones not know.
ing when his eye is upon them. dare not
whisper VIII sLn and play. They have" he says,
so frequently come to grief in attemptinS
to calculate chances, that they have con
GUIDED to make virtue of necessity, and
give up play in the school room as nm.
profitable, costing more than it comes to
An0tner decided advantage of this system
ing from the rest of the school; the reel
tation benches being in front of the teach
er's desk, between him and the school
and the backs of the pupils being TOWARD
each other, communication by look o.
sign is cut of the question. The Onl,
special rule made is that the pupils should
not look around"
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A Big lPishnaall.

The Emerald Isle has long been famous
for producing giants. The most celebrat-
ed of these was a well known O'Brien,
whom we first hear of as great raw
youth crying In public house because
unable to pay the bill, having been left
penniless through u quarrel with his ex-
hibitor. A gentleman taking compassion
on him, paid his debt, and advised the
young giant to set up on his own account.
Acting on this recommendation, O'Brien
started public house in Bristol. long known
by the sign of the Giants Castle. A
memorial tablet in Trenchard street Ro-
man Catholic Chapel records his stature
rs haviig zen 8 feet 3 inches. He was
very anxi.;is that his remains should not
fall into the hands Of the anatOmists, and
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-22
FRED. Douxl.. and the Negro. Future.

1t is rather a significant fact, in connec-
tion with the negro exodus, that Mr.. Fred.
Douglas, of Washington, is very much
opposed to the movement. The future of
the negro is thus sketched by Mr.. Douglas: !:
There are no colored men in Congress
and only one in the Senate. By the
breaking up of things some of us were
tossed up to positions we could not fill.
As the country settled down to its normal
state our dark heads disappeared. But
am not disposed to despair for this. They
came up prematurely and they went down
in the same way; they came like the
earthquake, they went like the whirlwind.
Slavery was q poor school in which to de
velop statesmen, and colored Legislators
have proved this; but when a race has
gone through and lived through what we
have it cannot be blOtted out, and look
over the dark sea of millions in the South
for heads to rise up able to take part in the
government and civilizing institutions of
the country: Southern men will be instru-
mental in this work, and the Moses who
is to lead us may be white man. By vio-
lence we were deprived of the elective
franchise in some places because among
our leaders there were none Of the old
master class. They are now all of one
party, but after time they Will find more
cats than mice in the party; some of them
viii; want to 60 to Congress; rival ambi-
tIons will spring up; they will apprehend
that this is nation, not a league of States,
that great as may be State the United
States is greater; that is idle, wrong and
mischievous to disregard the Constitution,
and apprehending this, they will say, "If
the colOred people want to uphold this
standard we will help them or die in the
track" say nothing as to social rights,
for they will take care of themselves, and
are neither matters for legislation nor for
the application of any principle. If am
black do not want to introduce a white
man into my house unless he is of the
right stripe or hungry, and then will
feed him.
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New York Dry Good. Market.

New York, May 17.-Dry goods and
fannels continue very active and agents
stocks greatly reduced. Kentucky Jeans
are in good demand and firm for mems
wear. Woolens are in fair request. Cotton
goods are very firm, and fruit of loom and
>ndroscoggin, Lcnsdale bleached goods
and Pepperell r. and E. fine sheetings ad-
vanced by agents. Prints quiet. Laces
are selling well
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Cincinnati Market.

Cincinnati, May 17.-Flour strong,
higher family 9O@5 IS; wheat in fair
demand; easier, red 1 O4@1 OS; corn in
quest; firm, 37@3S; oats firm; good de-
mand 33@35; rye dull, so; barley, scarce
firm choice fall 10; pork quiet firm 10 90
lard quiet, current make 10; bulk meats
in fair demand. 3 60, 65. 4 S71s; bacon
scarce; fine 4 0O1{, 5 25, so, 5 0Oss
O11a; whisky steady 02; butter fancy
creamery 11@1s; CHOICE Western reserve
1904; choice centra1~Ohio 1O@12; lin
seed oil st ,ady 81; hogs steady firm; CON-
mon 2 50@325; light 30@3 IS; pack
ing 4O@3 IS; choice 3 65@3 S5. Re
ceipts 1179; shipments 7S6.
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Queen Margaret OF Italy.

Margaret of Italy was fond of poetry, o
novels, of government debates and SQUAD
bles. She is even interested in archaolo
gy. She reads little of everything, and
when she is about ts see literary celebri
ties is said to "cram" their writings in
preparation for the interview She has
Just received Mr.. Samuel Smiles, whose
works, by the way, are very popular
through translation, in Italy. The Queen
met him very cordially, talked with him
most understandingly about his books
and sent HIM away enchanted with i,er
graciousness and good sense.
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Toledo Market.

Toledo Nav 17-Wheat easier; Michi-
gan O6; No. extra white Michigan
OS bid; amber Michigan spot OS; cash
071a bid; June 0624; July O34; No.
2 amber Michigan 05; No 2 red winter
spot 0S2; May 0S11a; June l 0624; Ju-
ly 03; No 3 red O5; rejected Wabash
81; west amber 12. Corn quiet: high
mixed SO; No. 2 spot 3Sa1; June held at
371s@3718 bid; No. 2 whit, 80 bid, 33A
asked Oats dull; No. spot 32@324 !;
white 3311z; rejected %.
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The Alleged Oldest Ma. in the World.

prohablv the oldest man in the world
lives in C9,omh;a Xta meeting of nhv.
s;c;ana held in Rorota DR. Iuis fernando
gave an account of a visit he paid to a
SaIfbiood farmer named Miguel Soils.
IL d,..Ils q, tho tno, of the Sierra Mes.
Nh Mno Ga % sa,,s he ;s 100 ,,oaro Old b,,t
! ma. HThs s"ys -. .I, To- = o, .,.Ii,, liz
ms neig5uors na'uan MaI .nis he hea n.,snna, 11
mucn oiuer ;,S % .o.na ns,h oidast ham ;nhah;
,n % ,,. VIII ne;%hborhood S % anS tbev told
70; ,anss .b.. ~, III tr,,,, sha;r ch;Iihood tSsv re.
nnnr,,h hersd the cid man Soils verv we'll
XWl,n,' ,ta,, ,,-aro nIov;n~ around as tovs
Wnen my ~ p,"y y,,,tSad ~ ho r,or. thon
nS Ioo ~as ,aa.s nid IL hfmseif acInowledces
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-22
Iucidental Sheep Ausbandry.

One of the strongest of the elements that
has brought disaster to effort at sheep
husbandry has been the desire to do big
business. Men reared to other callings,
seeing the profits others were reaping from
well-directed efforts at sheep husbandry,
have FASTENED to become the owners of
fiocks; while still others, who have made
money from a few hundred sheep, have
become imbued with the idea, ''the more
sheep, the more money" and have soon
placed themselves beyond the bounds
of prudence. by incurring indebted
ness on the one hand, and more care and
labor than they are able to bestow on the
other hand-bOth have been overtaken by
the disaster their temerity invited. To a
majority of farmers small flocks--that is,
numbers remaining in the hundreds
will be the most profitable. The excep-
tions to this rule will occur to every care
full student of sheep husbandry. Not
only can the highest profit upon invested
capital be thus rendered more certain, but
the disappointments that occasionally fol-
low the best of plans, and the most care
full manipulation, are by no means so dis
astrous. Where sheep are handled as an
incident to general farming operations
the plan now contemplated-care s.iould
be had that they do not trespass upon the
other interests. When the farmer feels
that his sheep are a burden-that is, that
they are drawing upon the other depart
ments for the time and feed not before as.
signed to them-he should fatten, and sell
down to such number as will convenient
ly work along his crops and other live
stock. Local butchers will always pay
fair price for few good heifers, and
some neighbor can usually be found
ready to make room for few desir-
able store sheep. AS the facilities for en-
hancing the numbers of the flock improve
the annual drafting may be confined to
fullgrown wethers, and such ewes as, by
reason of age or other disqualifying
peculiarities, are undesirable. The flex-
ibIlity of small flock is one of its
strongest recommendations it to
be accommodated to the circumstances or
ambitions of the owner more readily than
any other live stock property.-[National
Livestock Journal, Chicago.
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3. DO1.AND,
Manufacturer of
CARRIAGES, BUGGIES,
Wagons and Sleighs.

Having purchased the interest of P. c
Thomas In the carriage business, 1 shall de
vose my entire time and energy to supplying
evssytnink In my line that the necessities of
my eustomers demand.
l have large stock of new and second
ne1a cosxAA9ee, which will be sold at prices
Omce and Factory al the old stand as
formerly. Thankful for past favors, so.
lieit continuance Of your patronage.
24Oy1 T. DOLAND.
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Detroit Market.

Detroit, Mich, May l7.-Flour quite un-
changed; wheat easier; extra 81 O624
asked No. l white, 81 O5; May, 81 05
asked; June, 81 04ss; July, 81 O45s:
milling, 81 OF asked; amber, 81 O6 bid;
receipts, wheat. q, ,253: shipments, So, 8S3.
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The tireates. Rlessing.

A simple, pure, harmless remedy, that
cures every time, and prevents disease by
keeping the blood pure, stomach regular.
kidneys and liver active, is the greatest
blessing ever conferred upon man. Hop
Bitters is that remedy, and its proprictors
are being blessed by thousands tina: have
been saved and cured by it. Will you try
it? See other column.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-22

Keil & Bro. have mounted on canvass
the workings OF many of their finest and
best patterns of Wal Papers, showing the
combination of the Dado Borders Paper
and Frieze and their effects on the wall
These samples will be sent to any party
wishing to make selections.
KEEL & BRO,
dap Ft. Wayne, Ind.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-22

A preacher who arrived at the kirk wet
through asked AN old Scotch woman what
he should do, to which she replied Gang
into the pulpit as soon as We can. Ye'll be
dry enough there"
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mean make money faster at work for us than AT
enythtne els.- CAPITAL not required; will
start you ei3 day at home made by the indus.
VtYiouA uen. women, boys and girls wanted
svvsyWAsrs 70 work for ms. Now Is the time Cost
b s1tns and terms free. Address TsuE Co., An
6naa, MsiAs- ll-sTyl'
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-22

In China where the opium habit ruins
and destroys many men annually, the
efforts of the government to abolish or di-
minish the use of opium have recently
been more energetic than ever.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1879-05-22

China produces an annual average of
60, ,OOO, 900 pounds of tea; Japan. 40N0, 900; !;
India, 35,OOO,OOO, and Java 6,OO0,O00
pounds.
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Chicago.

Chicago, May H. Flour nominally un-
changed. Wheat in fair demand at lower
rates, but unsettled. No Spring, 81
cash; 971 May; SO June; 9611s July; sales
971a a@981s, July. No. 3 Chicago Spring,
S04. Corn in fair demand at lower rates,
35 bid, cash; 351EE June: 361k July Oats
irregular; easier at 2S cash; 27ss June
and July. Rye firmer at 51A Barley
tive. and shade higher; 8 20 cash; Q 20,
bid, June; 8 80, bid, July; 80, bid, Au-
gust. Lard in fair demand at lower rates !;
new, 171a cash, June; 6 20 bid, July: %
August. Bulk meats easier: 65@4 so
q a 95. Whisky steady and unchanged ut
1O2 Hogs, mixed packing, 8 35@3 50 for
light. Bacon a shade higher; choice
heavy, 3 50@3 90; So for Chicago heavy
a few Philadelphias. 3 65@3 20; closed
qui t.
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New York sMay 17-Flour dull !;
superfine and state western, 300
8 80; common to good extra, 3 1904 90;
good to choice. 4O5@4 so; white wheat
extra, 55@5 25; extra Ohio, 4 OO@6 co.
Wheat steady; No 2 spring, O6@l OS:
ungraded winter red, l 1901 IS; No 3 do,
1 l6@1 1873; No 2 amber, 1901 151a !;
ungraded white, 11@1 IA: No / do,
l 1311s@1 IA. Rye; western, 6O@62 Bar
ley dull. Corn nominal and unchanged :;
steamer, 444@45; western yellow, 47@
40. Oats dull mixed western, 341s s@35
white western, S71s@394. Eggs easier;
western, 1O@1115. Pork firmer; old mess,
1215; new mess, 10 25@1O so. Lard
strong; prime steam, 721s. Butter quiet
and steady; western, 5@19. Whisky dull
at O5@1 051a.
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Rev. George Bowers, of Coonville N. j.,
has been sentenced to three years in the
States Prison for forgery.
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OUR owN-N0. q.

Droadcloth and Cashmere Coats, 81 and 3S eaeh;
pressed Address, ROBERT On. Raleigh, NC.
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nm surRMAN in new at his branch once,
South Fifth street st. Louis NO., whore his petsa0
and those wishing his treatment may conso" : M
during the months of May and june. Ms -,
with Photographic kenesses Of bad cases before ~
after cure mailed for ten cents. Principal omSe, 2.
Broadway, New York. m| IVY
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thing but romantic; who gave neat little
suppers, and invited neat little girls to
them; who drove neat little skeleton
wagons, behind neat little fast horses, at a
neat little fast pace; who spent neat little
incomes in neat little periods of time. and
lived neat little lives generally. 1t is not
my intention to tell you how they per
suaded ME to wear short hair English
collars, and christianity habiliments. 1t
is not my intention to tell you of two or
three love affairs, more or less serious, in
which indulged, nor of the divers and
sundry experience / passed through be
fore became one of the excessively jolly
and unromantic fellows myself Suffice It
that l did undergo all these phases Of
young manhood, and two years after the
incident with which my story opens, ]
looked back upon my life at that time
with An unalterable conviction that any
man who could fall in love with a pearl
colored kid-glove-no matter how dainty
or delicate-must be a-spoon-an unqual-
ified spoon!
During these two years had not once
any desire to. My sister, however, had
frequently visited there, and had, malgre
Mr. Morley's and my uncle's antagonism,
become fast friend of the formers daugh-
ter Ada.
One morning, as l sat in my dressing
room, reading the morning papers, with
the accompaniment of my matutinal
meerscham of Latokia, my sister uncere-
moniously entered, holding in her hand
a letter-a very voluminous letter-written
in that pretty, charactcrless hand that
well-educated girls always write.
"Who is it from, Pussy" said l.
ADA Morley; what do you suppose she
is going to do."
As young girls never do but one thing
in their lives worthy of record, of course
guessed at once.
''Going to get married"
"Yes; to your former friend, Charles
Proctor She seems to love him very
much," said my sister, with a sigh, land
expects to be very happy; l only hope
she will"