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FOREIGN NEWS.

Twelve Nihilists have been hanged in
Russia within year.
The wet weather in England is SO
disastrous that it has actually begun to affect
the selling rate of consols, or Government
bonds 1t is ruinous to tenant farmers, who
will be unable in many districts to realize
enough from their crops to pay the rent.
A London dispatch announces the
death of Sir Rowland Hill, the founder of the
cheap-postage system.
BY the way of Rio Janeiro it is re-
ported that serious riots have occurred in the
Gillian capital, the people being dissatisfied
with the conduct of the war;
Late advices from Yokohama report
that the cholera in japan continues virulent
but there are signs of abatement within the
present month. Thus far, there have been
As, 900 attacked and % 900 deaths. The Gov
eminent displays unfagging energy in con-
fronting and checking the disease. The EN-
peror has given $40, 900 from his private funds
Ia aid of sanitary measures"
A large number of English farmers
embarked at Liverpool for New York last week.
The capital of some of them amounts to from
$1,000 to $4,000 apiece. Several of those not
quite 80 well off have formed partnerships,
pooling their capital, one firm having an aggre-
gate of $4,000 They will come West and @grow
up with the country"
Two bands of insurgents have taken
the field in Cuba.
The fire at Irkutsk, in Siberia, ac-
cording to an official report just issued de-
stroyed 200 houses and sixty lives
Within period of two weeks, end
in gold bullion was shipped from London to
New York.
w. S. q S. Game, iron merchants,
Liverpool, have failed. Liabilities stated at
4150,0O0 The failure is partly owing to losses
in the American trade.
News received in New York from Cuba
sets at rest all doubt as to the resurrection of
the Cuban revolution. The tidings are that an
army convoy has been captured by Capt Rojas
and small band Of Cuban patriots while on
the road from Manzanilla to Bayamo. The
booty that fell into the hands of the Cubans
was as follows: $4,000 in gold coin, intend
ed for the arrears of payment of troops; 1000
cartridges; 800 rifles, number of kegs of gun
powder, large quantity of clothing, provis-
ions, etc.
A Berlin paper publishes statistics
of the wheat harvest throughout Europe.
Take 100 as representing the average harvest,
that of the present year in Austro- Hungary
may be represented by rs; Germany, So;
France, rs; Switzerland, 80; Italy, 50; England,
&c; Russia, 20; Roumania, 80.
The whaling ship Our Queen, of
Dundee, Scotland, with fourteen whales, was
caught in the ice in Lancaster sound, between
Baffin's bay and Barrow strait, and crushed.
The crew were saved.
The American Consul at Alexandria
has officially notified the Egyptian Government
that the United States demand to be represent
ed upon the commission on the liquidation of
the Egyptian debt
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HOME INTERESTS.
Smile Whenever You Can.


ELRcrED BY MRS. X. NJ. STONE, ELKApER, low
When things don't go to suit YOU
And the world seems upside down,
Don't waste your time In fretting,
But drive away that frown.
Since life IN oft perplexiDg,
Ills much the wisest plan,
To bear all trials braveIy,
And smile whene'er you can.
Why should you dread tomorrow,
And thus despoil to-day.
For when you borrow trouble.
You always have to payy
IL IL good old maxim,
Which should be often preached,
Don't cross the bridge before you
Until the bridge is reached.
You might be spared much sorrow
IL you would keep In mind
The thought that good and evil
Are always here combined.
There must be something wanting,
And. though you roll IA wealth,
You may miss from your casket,
That precious jewel, health.
And though you're strong and sturdy,
You have an empty purse;
Earth has its many trials
Which consider worse
But, whether JOY or sorrow
Fill up your mortal span.
Twill make your pathway brighter,
To smile Whenever You can.
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A. Country Girl on Country Experience"


Mr.. EDITOR 1 live in Iowa, and in the
country Though consider it pleasant at all
seasons, it is particularly 80 now, In these
grandly beautiful days. And, living in the
country, l have considerable acquaintance
with country folks. / have also had the good
| fortune to associate quite good deal with city
people. find so many good, hospitable souls
in both classes that it is hard to tell which en-
joy most And want to tell you city ladies'
how we like to have you come to see u.s. and
how much we enjoy society, which is necessa-
rily so limited on the farm. But did it ever
occur TO you how incOnvenienti ii IL for farmers
wives and daughters to have company
| through harvest time and the excessively hot
weather. Is 1t pleasant for you to sit Oh cool
verandas, or wander through gardens and
| orchards plucking the choicest fruit and flow
ers, enjoying all the pleasures of indolent
country life, while your hostess stews, and
roasts, and boils, and bakes, preparing dainty
articles for you to eat?-milking and churning
| early and late in order to procure the 'sweet
cream" and "grass butter" for you to grow
| romantic over, wnen You come leisurely in
from stroll in the cool, shady grove, and sit
down to a well-dlled table. Spring chickens
that she has tended since the cold weather in
April, fed daily and watched of nights to keep
them out of the reach of rats, weasels and
tramps; after they are big enough to eat. it is
not pleasant task to kill and dress for cooking.
These, and hundreds of others are duties that
fail to the lot of country women, which their
city sisters las rule) do not think of when
they wish to "rusticate" for few weeks
for / know many weary woman who
tolls through this gloriously beautiful
weather, with never moment TO look at its
beauties or heart to enjoy them, just to render
the visit of friends from the city pleasant, and
furnish them with the dainty articles Of food
which appear so indispensable to their enjoy
ment If you wish to be elegantly entertained,
and have your meals and rooms to order, 20 to
first class hotel. There you have the right
at least to expect it. When you go visiting, 90
to see the folks and have pleasant, friendly in
tercourse of minds, and accept such accommo-
dations as the house affords If il does not agree
with you, suppose you do not have to go again.
COUNTRY GIRL.
OAK RIDGE. Iowa.
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West.

At Columbus, Ohio, the other day, q
es2ectable-looking man walked into the Capt.
tol City Bank, called President Rickley's atten-
ton, and entered into conversation about the
purchase Of some bonds. In a few minutes
another man came in and also engaged Riok-
leys attention concerning some other business
The first man slipped away walked over to the
water-cooler, and Mr.. Rickley supposed he was
only taking drink. Rickley's attention being
drawn toward the last man, he lost sight of the
man at the cooler. Presently he saw him leave
the bank. Going into the vault, Mr.. Rickley
discovered that s., 600 in currency and $500
In bonds were stolen. The bold sharpers made
their escape.
The Chicago Commercial Bulletin
prints reports from 30S counties of the North
west in regard to the condition OF the spring.
wheat crop The increase in acreage is placed
at ~ 70 per cent; the average yield per acre il
estimated at I'VE bushels, against H. ~ last
year, and the grand total of the yield is fixed
at 1884, $780, l5 bushels against los, IA ga BUSH
els in 1873. This yield is divided up among
the States az follows: Illinois, 3, 4O6. 7O5 BUSH
els; Wisconsin, 2O,634, 450; Dakota, 1905. 800:
Montana, O., 500; Minnesota, 80, 573, 4O6 !. Iowa
1885,, 600; Colorado, ISL 600; Idaho, 100000.
The winter-wheat crop in Ohio, Indiana, ILL.,
nois, Michigan, Missouri, Iowa, Kansas, Ne
braska and Wisconsin is estimated by the B,,l-
ietin at between 100000 and 100000 600
bushels
The Utah Supreme Court has re-
versed the order Of Judge Foreman, under
which several of the Mormon chiefs were i'm
prisoned for contempt, in refusing to obey the
court in the matter Of Brigham Young's estate,
of which they are executors The prisoners
are now at liberty, and some other means will
have to be found by the claimants TO get at the
state.
Full-page advertisements in the Chi
cago Sunday morning papers announced the
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENO1.
East.

Weston and Rowell. the pedestrians
have arrived in New York from England
They come to take part in the inteinationa
walking tournament to begin at Gilmores Gar.
den, New York, on the 22d OF September.
The Oneida Community, whose in
ternal discussions and troubles from externa
causes have been the occasion of many articles
during the last year, have taken an importan
step toward reorganization, by formally aban.
doning the system of complex marriages, Oh
promiscuous intercourse of the sexes.
A magnificent statue of Gen. Custer
costing $4,000, has just been unveiled at wes
Point
The grand jury at Harrisburg, Pa.
has indicted three members of the late Penn
eylvania Legislature for conspiring to advise
and promote corrupt solicitation of members OF
the Legislature.
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MISCELLANEOUS eLRANINas,

Col. l. d. Ingersoll, Librarian of the
War Department, at Washington, and well
known IN newspaper and political circles in the
West, died recently in Colorado of consump-
ton.
The August crop report of the De-
partment of Agriculture at Washington shows
that the general average of the condition of
corn on the lst Of August was 90, against SO in
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Good Scum.

DEAR Mr.. EDITOR: I will give you a
recipe (Which friend gave us last summer)
for an appetizing soup Take six tomatoes;
through the colander; let three pints of milk
just come to boil; stir into IL the tomatoes
roll half-dozen crackers fine; break an egg
into this and stir; season the soup with salt
and pepper and pour into the tureen; have
some bread cut into small squares; fry them
brown in butter and put into the soup.
KIrTIE.
CHICAGO. Ill.
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Washington telegram says the total re-
ceipts from internal-revenue taxation during
the past year were sll3, 44s, $50. The revenue
came from six different sources, namely, the
tax upon whisky, highwines and distilled Ii
ouors on manufactured tobacco, beer, and 9th 2
fermented liquors; on the capital and deposits
of banks; from the sale Of adhesive stamps to
be placed upon bank checks, perfumery,
watches, patent medicines, and other things,
and from few other smaller sources. The
following table will show the exact amount OBJ
tanned from each:
Distilled spirits ......................$ o25O 2S4
Tobacco. cigars and snuff. ............ 4olS5,OV2
Fermentd iiquors..... ............... lO.@'9@
Banks and bankers.. ................ o.ao' 80
MISCELLANEOUS sources .............. 5i7 SUE
Si13, 44s.S $50
g'The increase in the production of distilled
spirits within the last year has been greater
than in any year since record was kept being
more than ~ per cent In the fiscal year 1879
the production was ST. ,S92, 1853, while in 1873
it was but $50, l0S, 053 making an increase OF
$15, 7S9, 500 In one year.
The amount of distilled spirits remaining in
warehouse at the close of the fiscal year of
1873 was valued at $14,OOS, 773, while the
amount remaining at the close Of the fiscal
year of 1879 was SIS, 2OS, COB, an increase OF
S. 1883
The increase in the expectation Of liquors
from this country during the last few years has
been very remarkable, and from mere tribe
five years ago it has grown to be one OF the
largest branches of expectation. We are send
ing liquors to the countries from which we i'm
ported them five years ago. The following
shows the value Of liquors exported during the
last five years.
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A MAN cannot help being contented
with his lot when he's buried in it.
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SILVER CIRCULATIO,

During August the silver payments from the
United States treasury and United States minis
amounted to 81 ,S65, 900, exclusive of the amount
returned for silver certificates. The aggregate
weight Of the coin thus distributed is fifty-six
tons.
BOND CONVERSIONS.
Up to Sept l the receipts of refunding GER
tiicates for conversion into 4-per- cent. bonds
aggregated s35, FOG, 600. The total issues of the
4-per-cent loan by the Treasury Department
amounted to s740 795, 800, leaving s726, 600 not
yet disposed of.
SILVER DOLLARS.
The number of standard silver dollars coined
during August was 2, 7S7, $50; number coined
up to Sept /, 40 237, $50.
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FEDERAL FINANCE.
COINAGE.

The coinage executed at the United States
Mint in Philadelphia during August aggregated
1884, go pieces, valued at q, 23S, 49. OF this
amount 1,s76, $50 were silver.
OUTSTANDING CURRENCY.
The following is the statement OF United
States cnrrencx outstanding ON the Lat inst:
The Newtown bee., 1879-10-01
TEMPERATURES OF THE SOIL.

Professor Levi Stochlri7Ge, Of the
Agricultural College at Amherst. has
made some interest NJ experiments dur
ing the past year upon the temperature
of the soil as conn AIRED with that of the
mir. the result Of which will create quite
a stir among scientists and agrlcn turlsts,
since they upset some universally receiv-
al ifleas regarding the growth aud cnl-
tivation Of plants, aud particularly the
OH leurv that lew is the condensation
of moisture from the air. BY large
number of ohservnt :ona, extending
through six months of lat year, Prof.
Stockbridee has proved that in all kinds
of soil ani in almost every locality, the
temperature is tually six Il grces warm
IT thau that of the atmosphere. In :ly
one instance was the air found warmer
than the soil and that was in dense for
est on very hot, ttill night. Similar
observations on the temperature of
plants, very ingenious!y conducted,
proved that they were one and a half de-
grees warmer than the atmosphere at
night. The usually accepted theory Of
dew fall' hns been that the dew was
water condensed from the air l'y coming
in contact with the colder surface of the
pIhuIS hu'i splt, huit tIe lCo pisohSI ban
been the fayOrita illustration. But these
observations and other ingenious exp-r-
iments which were made, prove that the
dew is water evaporatad from the soil
and con ehsed ~ coming in contact with
the colder air. Hence the dew rises in-
stead of falls. A familiar proof of this
theory will be found in the moisture
which collects rrofusely on the inside OF
hot-bed windows at nigh.
The Newtown bee., 1879-10-01
TO THE RIGHT.

In the Biological Society Of Paris. DR..
Delaunay has recently communicated a
series of investigations he has made con-
corning the curious Partially all civilized
nations show for the fright side" We
read and write to the right, we turn to
the right when passing somebody in
driving or ridin on horseback we like
E, have the wall to the rigl LIT when walk
iDg in nm enclosed room we deviate to
The rioht from the straight hue when
walking blindfolded, &c. This Partially,
however, the Doctor does not consider
as n mere incideutal agreement ut as q
natural instinct. 1t begins TO show itself
When child has re he'd the third year
Of age, and it does not leave man unit
ne becomes del.ilitated by old age or is
insane. With sane people the instinct
is r rsed. They keep to the left. Aud
in In attic asylums it is generally consid-
cred good symptom, an Indication of a
return to the normal state, when the par
TALLY for t right reappears in patient.
Some Of the applications which DIR.
Delnunay makes of this instinct ere
rather fanciful, ut others are very in
terestiny. Thus, we do not dou that
he is some extent right when lie es-
Sc Is that it has played certain roie in
the migrations o mankind. Placing
ones self with the face to the south. t.
the sun, whence tie light comes, west is
to the right, and to the west all migra-
ii us have gone, certainly from ether
re sons, too, but probably started from
the very first by this instinct.
The Newtown bee., 1879-10-01
SWISS svENEl.rI4 aalaY WEATHER.

Interlaken Las the ADVANTAGE of being
very interestin in rainy weather. The
long valley is weird and mysterious when
the procession of white clouds has de-
soended into it, far below the RANGES of
mount in perks, ind when gentle rain
is falling. l walked ont this morning
across the looming fields, and from lie
hind the hedgerows came the delicate
odor Of new-mown h v, while frpm the
mountains blew down n cool breeze,
which Ina in it some hint OF the snow
| freshly fallen to crown the Jungfrau's
already glittering irow. From time to
time great curtain wnui arise, and be-
| fore me saw mighty chasms, gigantic
elevations, fantastic barriers OF rock,
around which were twined wreaths OF
mist. Then the curtain fell, and ms /
turned away from one view | + md an
other awaiting me. When the sun smites
the mountains ro ky sides the effect is
marvellous rich grays and browns are
discovered there is picture to be had
for every glance Not ing in the neigh-
b rhood can rival in impressveness the
dome of the Jungfrau. The nearer one
approaches it the higher t seems to rise,
until one can almost persuade himself
that il is enchanted and flies as one goes
! toward it.
The guides whom one fin IS seated OF
rustic benches along the II heweg await
in patronage are splendid fellows. Hon
esty and go3d-nature speak i'll THEN
woather-henten features; their lroao
hats and their rclliu; gait give them a
slight resemblance to our western tam
sters n, d stage drivers. Tuey delight III
action, aud they are full of st ries of
adventure. Wien they have nothing to
10 Of an evening til v sit over TASKS of
wine in the pretty gardens of the inns,
singing songs which 8 und like Huguenot
psalms, an which forcibly remind one
TINT the Reformation made good Roadway
and was RICHLY enforced in this canton
OF b rne rs on as it ha begun t. take
70 I elsewhere The und of song is
heard every night here unit long after
twelve o'clock it is never rude or hois.
ferrous, hut alw .ys harmonious AMI gen'
orally solemn. A people that sings 81
much and So we'll may be trusted, for il
il sare t. have abundant goo mess of
heart. -EdpGrd King, in n. y. Post.
The Newtown bee., 1879-10-01
WEIGHT INCREASED BY DEATH.

Dakota, the Black Hills especially,
would seem to be o place to die in,
for those who wish their lineaments }.
he pres aft,r death. The Black
Hills Times, in giving an account OF the
exhuming of the renal IS of Wild Bill,
who was killed by Jack NJ Call. at Dead
WOO !, in 1875, says: The holy at utter
ment weighed ab ut $50 pounds, hut
uppn its removal II weighed not less than
300. There was no 0 Tor and no perc pti-
BILE decay, aad it is supposed by those
who examined it that petrifaction lad
taken place, as it was hard as wool, and
returned the same sound as a log when
strusk with stick. Every thing was
found in the coffin inst as it was placed
there, and the rumor TINT the grave had
been rihed is all bosh. The ouly article
buried with tie boly was II cari,ine. and
that was in as COOL st tie OF preservation
as ever. Tuere were no knife and rev IL
vers buried with him, as reportsI, ana
those who should KIN Nv say he never
owne pist ii in the Hills. His hair
was as glossy aud silken as when in life,
aud lock OF it il now in pos session of
VIM. Learned, musical director of the
Gem Theatre. His moustaehe was hard,
an seemed, like his body, to have been
petritied.
The Newtown bee., 1879-10-01

WESTERN MEN or MEANs. The Cali
fornia correspondent OF the Troy Times
writes: The few rich men here are ennr-
mously rich. / presume that James G.
Flood, of the lonsnza firm. il veal
thest resident ON the coast. s me have
placed their estimates of him as high as
So, 900, 600. This N y be too much. but
beyond question he Yields enormous
power, controlling the stock GARD and
having the ability to manipulate mining
stocks t, bis own personal ends to any
extent. What othor power in the mu-
nicipal or even the State government
such wealth mi hit give is only matter
Of conjecture. Ex-Gov. STANFORD. Chas.
Croker, d. O. Mills and few others, go
TO make mp the controlling wealth of the
State. Having gathered their fortunes
all within few years. grown from pow
erty to riches, and built VERY foolishly)
palatial residences unsurpassed in the
entire country. these men naturally be.
came tile target for every socialistic and
communistic tramp, every beat Of the
street ana every agrarian Of the ranches
The Newtown bee., 1879-10-01

A SIMILARITY. DIR. Leonard Bacon
thinks there are some things in the past
md present which are alike, and relates
the following: About sixty years ago q
somewhat typical minister OF Connec-
ticut church made visit to Bust IN aud
returned-a trip which was Ivy no means
M easy then hs now. "Well, do tor, =
said one OF his practitioners to him, :" do
you bring us any news from Boston r.
"Yes." he replied "the Lord reigns,
aud the devil 10 trying to-" That was
the summary and upshot Of the news
sixty years ngo; and 10 II 10 to-day.
The New York herald., 1879-07-01
Death by Lightning.

An unusually large number of deaths by
lightning have been already reported this
summer, and last summer, it may be re-
membered, there were several remarkable
accidents of this kind. Not less than ten
persons were killed. In nearly every
notable case it turns out that the VIC
Tins perish in circumstances which exc
hibit their thoughtlessness OF the danger
in circumstances in which persons who are
timid about lightning would not have been
found at the time. 1t is worth moments
consideration for people whose lives are OF
some value to their families at least whether
after all it is not better to purchase Sc
curity ut the cheap rate of flight from an
enemy against whom no courage can avail.
1t is not shameful to run to shelter in case
of an impending thunder storm, and it will
the run is made judiciously. Two men
were killed last summer on church steeple.
Half an hours time lost would have saved
both their lives Up at Preakness man
worked at a metal roof and was killed
this summer. Had he judiciously chosen
another time for the labor his life also
would have been saved. But it is not safe
to take shelter under trees, especially if
the trees are tall or stand in isolated posi-
tions In the case OF the little children
killed under q tree on Sunday death came,
of course, before there was fairly occasion
to take alarm, and we refer to the danger of
trees, therefore, without special reference
to that case. Shelter in the woods is not
generally dangerous, but it is better to be
drenched in the open fields than to take
sheltar uudar a tall isolated tree.