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The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20

In striking contrast to the modest simplicity of the terms of the late Prince 1mperial's will is the last testament of his father, Napoleon III. The follow ing is the text: f.- z. ..........
 THIS IS MY WILL
 l commend my son and wife to the high constituted authorities of the State (aata grdaads corps de reteD, to the people and the army. The Empress Eugenie possesses all the qualifications requisite for conducting the regency well, and my son displays disposition and judgment which will render him worthy of his high destinies. Let him never forget the motto of the head of our family Everything for the French people,: :" let him fix in his mind the writings of 1 the prisoner of St. Helena; let him study the Emperor's deeds and correspondence |; finally, let him remember, when circum- stances so permit, that the cause of the people is the cause of France. | Power is a heavy burden, because one cannot do all the good one could wish, and because your contemporaries seldom render you justice; so that, in order to fulfill ones mission, one must have faith in and consciousness of ones duty. It is necessary to consider that from heaven on high those whom you have loved guard and protect you; it is the soul of my illustrious uncle that has always in- spired and sustained me. The like will apply to my son, for he will always be worthy of his name.-
 I leave to the Empress Eugenie all my private property. It is my desire that on the majority of my son she shall in- habit the Elysee and Biarritz
 1 trust that my memory will be deal to her, and that after my death she will forget the grief may have caused her With regard to my son, let him keer as talisman the seal used to wear at tached to my watch, and which comes from my mother; let him carefully pre-. serve everything that comes to me from the Emperor, my uncle; and let him bt convinced that my heart and my sou remain with him.
 make no mention of my faithful ser wants. 1 am convinced that the Elm press and my son will never abandon them.
 shall die in the Catholic, Apostoli and Roman religion, which my son vii always honor by his piety.
 NAPOLEON.
 Done, written and signed with m hand, at the palace of the Tuileries, tn 24th of April, 1865. NAPOLEON.
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C Startling EffectS.N

Peep-Showman-" On the right you observe the 'xpress train a-comin' along, an the signal lights, the green and the red. The green lights means caution, and the red lights si'nifies danger -"
 Small Boy (with his eye to the aper- ture)-'' what's the yaller light, sir an ..s .ss.r ...... --..
 Peep-Showman (slow and impressive) -t'There ain't no yaller Gght-but the green and the red. The green light means caution, and the red lights si'nif-" ..--..
 Small Boy (persistently)-" But wha's the other light, sir?"
 Peep-showman Closing patience)- '.'Tell yer there ain't nc" "-(takes a look in consternation)-"B Flowed if the darned old show ain't a-fire !"
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Fashions in China.

A foreigner may live for years among the Chinese and never notice any change to relieve the monotony of their dress. Yet, as a matter of fact. some variety, even of hat or shoes, is introduced al- most annually. The fashionable caI is squarer or rounder at the top, as the case may be; the shoes more or less pointed or ornamented after some novel design. And so it is with fans, which are made of different material and of different sizes for different seasons of the year, in pro- portion to the quantity of breeze re- quired. In the Miscellanies of the Western Capital" we read: "The fans for the son ofheaven are, for the summer, of feathers; for the winter, ot silk j" and in poem by Ow-Y Tang Husi occurs this 1 line:
 t In the tenth moon the people of the capital turned to their warm fans.' | At the present day the distinction be- tween warm and cold fans can hardly be said to exist. Those for spring and autumn are smaller than those used in summer, reminding one of the old Roman luxury of summer and winter rings. It I is also nGaeUdis ton to be seen with a fan too early or too late in the year. There are indeed no days absolutely fixed fol the beginning and end of the fan season as in the case of the summer and winter hat worn by all employees of the govern ment, and which are supposed to De changed simultaneously all over the em- pire; but Chinese custom has made it as 11<~,,e c.. fr. faya kn fore or after a certain conventional date as it would be with us to wea1 white
 waistcoat in March or November.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20
A Child's HerOism.

Willie Bowen, aged nine years, was slate picker on the piers of the Della ware and Hudson Canal Company at Honesdale, Pa. Two ponderous iron rollers, one close over the other, revolved slowly few feet above the boys head where he worked. A piece of slate from the coal that is carried from screen to screen on endless canvas belts got be- tween these rollers. The boy reached up from the scaffolding on which he stood to take the slate out. His hand was caught by the rollers and drawn slowly in, until the little fellow was raised from his feet and was suspended over of his arm was drawn between the roll CTS before his terrible situation was dis
 covered and the machinery stopped. Be- fore the boy could be removed messen- ger had to be dispatched to the machine shop, some distance away, for machinists to take the machinery apart. This re- quired more than fifteen minutes. All this time the lad hung suspended by his crushed hand and arm, the flesh being entirely torn away, exposing the bones and cords. The little fellow never ut tered cry nor shed tear His father, an employee on the pier, was a weeping witness of the terrible scene, and the boy kept saying, Don't cry, father; they'll get me out all right" The lads arm had to be amputated at the elbow.
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The Grievances of a Newsgatherer.

7a There are some days Tn the year when nothing will happen, when not even counterfeit bill will come to pass. Days dry, listless, indifferent days-when nothing succeeds in falling and nothing fails of success days when no one will drown themselves, accidentally or pur- posely. when fire keeps out of mischief when children won't be run over and machinery ceases it's war of mutilation against human flesh; days when no one dies or resigns, when no one is reluc- tantly elected to office or without reluc- tance kicked out, when lightning sheathes it's sword and thunder issues no dictum; days when life's broad river on in silent majesty without murmur or a ripple; days when a reporter can- not lay up an item or a cent, when every dog is muzzled and every voter regis tered, when no one gets drunk, and, as a consequence, no one fights or feels like | fighting; when street cars run on time and the impassive hours run on to eter- nity-and one of such even, eventless, easy-going days was yesterday. Once
  nished by an indiscreet pigeon-and to a reporter even pigeon is looked upon with interest. Noah, who was the first marine reporter and press agent of a ''Noarchian aggregation" thought a great deal of pigeons. He appointed one United States mail-c;rTier. Well, we ]. i've always had fascination to have a pigeon run over by street car, and to-day we thought the hour of gratifca- tion had come. The pigeon was squatted upon the track and paid no attention to the advancing car, and the car went square over it. Ha! ha! a run-over pigeon at last! And one felt like cut ting a pigeons wing right there on the spot. But where's the pigeons remains: Nowhere to be seen. But look yonder There is the pigeon, as sure as we arc alive, flying out from under the car alive and well, and acting as if nothing had happened. And after all the pigeor was right nothing had happened i OsCGT' HelU1H
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20

Charles Johnson, the largest man in Washington, died there recently. He was born slave on the Carroll estate in Maryland, but was freed before the war A year since he was 700 pounds, but at his death was reduced to:4O0. A special coffin had to be built and the side of the house had to come out to let the body be carried to burial. Deceased was five feet nine inches high, three feet two inches across the chest and hip. and measured three feet around the thigh and six feet around the waist.
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Seal Catching.

Nearly ali the live seal, sea lions and sea elephants that have been sent to the Old World and the Eastern States dur ing the last fifteen years have been cap tured from the Santa Barbara Islands. Every year more or less of these animals are captured on the islands for the pur- pose of supplying menageries in the Eastern States, and parties engaged in the business always come to Santa Bar bara to secure men who have had years of experience in capturing them. Three or four expert vacaueros approach the animals that are out on the rocks near the beach, select (perhaps from a hum dred or more) the big bull, which usual ly starts for the water, and, when the bull arrives at convenient place on the sand, three riatas are, fpossible, thrown simultaneously, one over the animals neck, one over either of his front fiippers and one over his rear fippers, making spread eagle of him instantly. The riata that holds the bulls rear fappers takes away his motive power, and while his other front fipper is lassoed, the riatas are all fastened to the rocks, or trees near by, or held by the men en- gagged. while the large box-which has already been made-without the cover brought and carefully stood on end close behind the animal, unobserved, and, with man on top of it, is dropped over the sea-lion as he lies stretched at | full length on the sand. Small ropes are worked under the box and the ami nal and lashed to the top of the box, and at a given signal the riatas are loosened, the box turned over, and the animal held on his back in the bottom of the cage until the cover is securely nailed down, when the ropes and riatas are loosened. and the animal free to move around in his cage at will. - Sdnta | Bdr5ara Press. e..sE2ats.B
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GA Thrilling Feat" Spoiled.

The programme at New Y ork theater says that Ella Zuila is an "Ethereal Queen," and that George Loyal is a '' Human Projectile. D They have a trapeze performance. Then follows their great feat. A cannon of tremendous size, mounted in nearly upright posi- tion on low truck, is pushed out upon the stage by six men, who, with much difficulty, owing to it's great weight, get
 to the proper place. Loyal climbs q ladder up to the mouth of the cannon and slides down into it, until only his head is left visible. Zuila, who is an ac- tive little woman, climbs rope up to a small trapeze at the top of the audito rum, and hangs by her feet, head down. ward, with her arms extended. Loyal and Zuila wear solemn faces. and the spectators are wrought up to feeling of dread
 "FIren' cries Loyal.
 An assistant touches off the cannon, there is an explosion, flash of fire, puff of smoke, and Loyal is shot to the top of the auditorium, where Zuila catches him. Then both descend to the stage, all the spectators applauding.
 That is the usual way. One afternoon there was variation, beginning at the point where Loyal was in the cannon and Zuila was hanging from the high trapeze, each with solemn visage.
 Firet" Loyal shouted.
 The assistant tried to touch off the cannon; but it missed fire, and there was no detonation, no flash of fire, nc puff of smoke. However, there was the sound of an unloosed spiral spring, and Loyal was shot out ofthe cannon without any expenditure of gunpowder. Proba- bly the absence of the usual detonatiOn put Zuila off her guard, for she did moi catch the Human Projectile when ht rose like Q rocket, but let him go down like a stick. There was an outcry by nervous women, but the man struck il the net, which sagged nearly to the fool under his fall, but saved him from further harm than a scratched nose. H. widowed in the netting until he reached the edge, when he let himself down witt a rather graceful somersault to the stage where he was hastily joined by Zuila and both bowed themselves off witt smiles that were suspected of bein! forced.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20
All About Mush.

Mush of all kinds needs more boiling than cooks usually give it. We should drop the name of hasty" pudding, for in this case "haste makes waste," as the full nourishment of corn meal, even the finest, is not brought out by the very quick cooking usually given. It is won derful how oatmeal improves with long boiling or steaming. There is differ ence in the quality. That which is fine or foury needs less cooking and is pal atable with half an hours boiling, but 1 the best oatmeal-that which is coarser and frmer and safer to buy in large l quantities, as it keeps better-needs two hours steady boiling, and three or four | hours will not be in vain, if the mush is 1 not scorched. To prevent this, put the oatmeal with four times it's bulk of cold water and little salt in a tin pail or stone jar inside a kettle of cold or luke warm water. It can be cooked safely in a steamer or steam-cooker, or farina ket- tie. After it comes to boiling it should boil for two hours. It can be cooked more quickly if soaked over night. Oat- meal mush is such favorite dish with us now, that a days supply is put upon the stovet to cook, nearly every morning as soon as the fire is built, and it some- times happens that one or the other of the family relishes it so much as to eat nothing but oatmeal and milk for 8 breakfast or supper. Since we have learned to cook it so long we have for gotten to use sugar on 1t, except as there is sugar with our berries, or other sauce eaten with it. It is very nice cooked with nilk-as I have previously told half milk and half water. A good sprinkling of raisins boiled in graham ol oatmeal mush makes q very pleasant va riety.-Americoa1 Agricasltasrist.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20

Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, is eircu- lating tract which shows that the peo- pie of the United Statts pay over $700.- OO0,00 a year for spirituous and fer mented liquors, and only 1895, soc, ,OOO for education and S4s, 900, 900 for religion.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20

A newspaper man may "dry up" a contemporary in a discussion, but the other fellow will "wet down" his paper the next week just the same.-Ottasca Republican.
The Newtown bee., 1879-08-20

A Chicago editor wrote panic stricken citizens;' the types made it prairie chicken citizens J
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FARM, GARDEN, AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Cultivation of Millet.

For green fodder crop, we have no more valuable plant than millet and under this name may be included Hun garian grass, which is very similar to it in character, habit and uses.
 The cultivation of millet is simple and easy. It succeeds best, as may be ex- pected, on good soil; its most congenial soil is light, warm, rich, sandy loam The season of growth is during the mid summer, when the heat is greatest, but it needs considerable moisture, either in the soil or through frequent showers, to procure full crop, It luxuriates in what is known as "corn weather "-hot days, with showers and damp, sultry nights; but it will resist more drought than corn can. Consequently the best time to SOW it is from June to August, when the crop can enjoy congenial warmth of atmosphere and soil. The growth being rapid, millet of any kind may be sown up to August and produce a satisfactory crop in forty to sixty days from the sowing. This length of season and rapidity of growth renders it pecu- liarly adapted for green fodder to help out pasture and for soiling of dairy cows, or fer cured hay. The feeding value of the fodder is very high, as it is unusually rich in albuminous or flesh forming matters. as may be seen by refer ence to to table of analyses of fodder substances recently given in these col ums.
 The seed is small. and half a bushel is ample foran acre; being small, it should be but lightly covered, and the ground should be thoroughly well prepared and mellowed. The fodder depreciates very rapidly as the seed ripens, becomes hard and woody, and difficult of digestion. The bristly character of the heads when the seed is ripe gives it an irrita- tive effect upon the intestines of animals especially horses, for which it is held tc be injurious on this account. It should be cut and cured, therefore, before the seed is formed and before the heads ac- quire maturitY.-E5cchdrage
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Recipes.

RICE CAKEs.-Boil cup of rice very soft; mash it fine; add pint of milk and three eggs; stir in little flour, but ter the griddle and turn on the batter in small cakes. Serve with a little nut meg and fine sugar.
 PRESERVED GREEN ToMAroEs.-To seven pounds of sliced tomatoes slice two lemons, and add three and half pounds of sugar; spice to suit the taste with either ginger-root or cloves and cinna- mon. Boil until you can run the pro- verbal straw through, then put in the jars; boil the syrup until thick, and pour oyer.
 TAPIOCA CREAM--Put two table spoonfuls of tapioca to soak in cold water; set it on the stove, and, when thoroughly dissolved, pour in a quart of milk. When this begins to boil stir in the yoke of two eggs well beaten, with a cup of sugar. When this boils stir in the whites, beaten to stiff froth, and take it immediately from the fire. Flavor to taste. ..
 SOUP WITHOUT MEAT.-In pot that holds a gallon put all vegetables that are in season in equal portions, cut up and lay in layers, and sprinkle lightly with salt, and add one ounce and a half of butter, worked into enough flour to amalgamate into paste, and with pep per and salt, and add quark of water. | Cook for one hour. .
 CHILDREN's APPLE BREAD.-To one quart of meal put one pint of ripe chopped apples, one egg, a small piece of butter, little salt, and fresh water enough to form a stiff dough. The ap- pies should, of course, be peeled and minced very fine. Some persons like a little sugar on the dough, but it is gen. erally preferred without. This is a favorite with children.
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Another Napole0nic Will.

In striking contrast to the modest simplicity of the terms of the late Prince lmperial's will is the last testament of his father, Napoleon III The follow ing is the text:
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-03

DEAL GENTLY WITH THE sToMACH.-It
proves refractory, mild discipline is the
thing to set it right. Not all the nauseous
draughts and boluses ever invented can do
half as much to remedy its disorders as
few wineglassfulls-say, three a day--of
llostetters Stomach Bitters, which will
afford it speedy relief, and eventually ban
ish every dyspeptic and bilious symptom.
Sick headache nervousness, sallowncss of
the complexion, fur upon the tongue, verti-
20 and those many Undesirable and disa-
gyeeablc sensations caused by indigestion,
are too often perpetuated by iniudicious
dosing, An immediate abandonment Of
such random and i'll advised experiments
should be the first step in the di-
rcction of cure; the next step the use of
this standard tonic Alternative. which has
received the highest medical sanction and
won unprecedented popularity.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-03
yEGETINE
VEGETINE
THE VERY BEST MEDICINE
-FoR--
Dyspepsia and Indigestion.

Mr. X. II STEVENS
!, Dear siTIonce more take the pen to praise the
KING OF Medicines, Vegctine when | began 10
take Negetine two years ago with such marked ben.
cht; my friends thought 1t was stimulant effect,
ana would soon subside, leaving me a. bad as be.
lore, thinking that some OF those who read the
lesumonlal that wrote at that time, might think
lhG same write once more TO satisfy them on that
point. since began 10 take Vegetnc almost two
years ago have gained steadily until the present
llihe at which am enjoying my former health, and
consider myself cured by Vcgetne Two years
ago was as low as man could be and live. ! was
cOnlned to the bed for eight months, and given up
70 ole oyeight doctors. some of the most skill.
ca IN the State, They said | had several
diseases, including consumption, heart disease and
several others, equally fatal, and must die But
Negetne, taken as last resort, brought me IN rough
and TO that ! owe my life. Since my health began
20 improve nave made study of disease, and ind
the cause OF my symptoms 10 have been Dyspcpsia
or indigestion, and also find that Ave cases of
disease ID every Fix, are effects OF the same cansn
Nncn the 1000 ~ not properly dgested I'm the s,orn
acn' ~ becomes poisonous, putrid mass which il
ABSORBED into the blood, and by that l. conveyed 10
Az parls OF the system causing symptoms Of disease
~ any or az OF the organs Of the body: and II this
cause u not removed, these symptoms become in
lime organic diseases. | have given Vegetine a
thorough test IN my own case, and also In that OF
many OF my acquaintances and find 1t 10 be the
very pest medicine eStant for Dyspepsia or fndipes
tlon one OF the symptoms OF which Is usually the
Dellei mat you have some organic disease | am
Wen known IN the towns OF Gotistown. Weare and
Newton, OF this state IN H., and can furnish an
uhGeniahc confederation Of all these statements
VIII Willingly answer any letters Of inquiry In re.
cara TO my own case or the use Of Vegctinc.
Yours truly A. j. BURBECK
II NEGETlSE l. taken regularly, according to di.
t ' certain and speedy cure Of Dyspepsia
VIII follow Its use
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-03
CHURCHES.

A FRICAN NJ. E.-Fourtceuth street, between
~ Walnut and Cedar streets; services sabbath II
Il. N. and 7:SO ?. ~; Sunday School l:3O p. IN.
(,HRIs rIAN-E Eighteenth street: meeting Sab
" bath 1879 ?. m. preaching occasionally.
CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER-tEpIs
y Fourteenth street; Morning prayers sabbath
i03J q. n; evening prayers, 80 ?. m; sol jath
school u, N. Rev. st j, DioR-Lee, Rector.
LIRsT MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
i Preaching at 1890 q. m, 3 ?, m, and IjJ ?. m
sabbath school al 40 =. III. Rev. / j. shores
pastor.
I UTHERAN-T Thirteenth street; services Sab
l. bath II T.. r.. and ~ ?. NJ; Sunday school a.
r.. Rev Duer-cAncr, pastor.
METHODIsT-Co Eighth and Walnut streets
wi Preaching Sabbath lO:3O q. m. and p. n
PRAYER meeting, Wcdue sday : 20 p, tn; Sunday
SCHOOL, r. Ia Rev. A. 7. Morrison, pastor
DRESBYTERIAN- Eighth street; preaching on
i sabbath az ll:ro 3. m. aud 7:5l p. n; prayer
meeting Wednesday 81 13l p. m; sunday SchoO.
at .. N. Rev. b. y George, pastor
CECoSD FREE-wILL BAPTIST - Fhecr'h
- street. between Walnut aud Cedar streets; ser.
vice. sabbath at and I:3D ?, m.
CT. JosEPH's-IR oman Catholicl Corner Gross
- aud Walnut streets; services sabbath 1850 q.
m: sunday Schoo, at p IN; Nespers p m. ser
vices every day al p. n
CT PATRICK S-tRoman Cathollc) Corner Ninth
- street and Washington avenue; services Sab,
bath and 10 q. m: Nespcrs ?, IN. Sunday scGoo!
2p. m; services every day 81 ?. N. Rev + Iabt.'
p-itsf.
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-03
THE MAILS.

GENERAL DELIVERY open $50 A. m: closes
VI $3.50 pm; Sunday: s to o a. m ~'O'''
Money order Department open at 8 a. M; closes
al p. m, ' 49,
Through Express Mails via Illinois Central and
MISSISSIPPI Central Railroads close ut 1870 D. m
Cairo ard Poplar Bluff Through aud Way Mall
closes at l2:50p, m. wy ''''''
Way Mall VIA Illinois Central, Cairo and Vim.
cenhes ana Mississippi Central Railroads close at
Way Nail Coz Narrow Gauge Railroad closes at s
a. NJ
CARO- GEd Evansville River Route closes at $3.50
?, IN, ca!ly except friday
The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1879-06-03

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