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Heat and Cold.

We find the body capable of resisting
Il temperature sufficient TO decompose
dead matter. Animals rs well as man
have been exposed to a degree of heat eX-
ceeding that of boiling water, and with
out injury, when at the same time ther-
mometer placed under the tongue has
indicated an elevation Of Il few degrees
only above the natural standard. The
power of resistance is Of short duration,
for the nervous influence is exhausted by
so extraordinary a demand. Chemical
agents come into play, and matter is re-
solved into lifeless form. AS regards
cold, the same law prevails, the Limits
are the same. However great the power
may be of resisting it, rs soon rs the
nervous energy is exhausted the system
is subject to injury.
l have witnessed the effect of cold too
long endured upon the little positions,
who are barbarously exposed to it in the
winter season at St. Petersburg. The
lads bear it for time, as they sit on
their horses clapping their hands and
singing to keep up their courage; but
this fails them by degrees, and finally,
benumbed, til " fall from their saddles
in state of torpor, which nothing but
rolling them in snow will overcome.
There is seldom a fete given at St. Peters
burg in the extreme cold weather that
occurrences Of this sort are not recordc''
In very cold nights the sentries are fire.
quently frozen to death, if not relieved at
short intervals. AS long us nervous ex-
citement can be kept up the resistance of
cold is very great. General Pirofsky
informed me that in the expedition to
Khiva, Notwithstanding the intenseness
of the cold. the soldiers marched along
singing, with the breasts of their coats
open, but only as long as they were
flushed with the hope of success.
Where there is nothing to excite, and
where exposure to the cold takes place
only under the common routine ofparade,
its depressing effects are lamentably felt
by those long exposed to it. In the time
of the Grand Duke Constantine, regi-
ment Of horse was marching from Stelna
to St. Petersburg, n distance of twelve
miles and upward. lie marched at their
head at II foot-pace all the way. He had
we'll -wadded himself, and smeared his
face over with oil.
1t was q qualification of a whim to eX-
pose the soldiers to great degree of
cold. They arrived ut the square before
the palace, and were dismissed to their
barracks. The following day one-third
of the regiment were in the hospital, at
tackled by nervous fever, Of which
many died. There was no stimulus of
necessity in this case. but the moral feel
ing aggravated the physical suffering
Sir g. Lefevre's Apology for the NcrueS.
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Words Of Wisdom.

A hopeless person is one who deserts
himself.
Ignorance has no light; error follows
Il false one.
A fine coat may cover fool, but never
conceals one.
There is no grief like the grief which
does not speak.
He who blackens others does not
whiten himself.
Genius is sometimes arrogant; knowI-
edge is always ditlidcnt.
We are never so proud and so humble
as when we are praised.
What is styled timidity is probably
nothing but the fear ofslowinS TO" fli'Is
merit.
A good constitution is like monr:y
hox-its full value is never known TIL 1t
is broken.
Good taste is the modcsty of ulr mind;
that is why it cannot be either initiated
or acquired.
In general, there is no one with whom
life drags so diSagrreahly rs with Inn
who tries TO make it shorter.
II the shoe of n monarch could DO as
much rs the monarch himself. the court
would be divided between his majesty
and his shoe.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.

The hair crop is very short this sea-
son.
Oil-wells vary in depth from 100 to
l,l0O feet. ~
Walking skirts-The gardens mar
ginal path.
Sticking to the bittsr end Chewing
rhubarb root.
There are sixty light women preachers
in the United States.
London has go dry days in the year
and Dublin but $50.
Kansas expects to raise 32,OO0,o0O
bushels of wheat this season.
The Indian possessions of Great, Brit
ain have population of 24l, ,Ooo, coo.
The very latestis fish flour for domeS-
tic use, made from dried Goldfish ground
The Bank of England was the frs
joint-stock bank established in England.
Father Time has but little credit in
this world. Two-thirds of the people
"take no note of time." 81.
The japanese government has Just
purchased in New York State 200 Me- /,
rino and Cotswold sheep.
The dearer and more gaudy the silk
handkerchief the further it is a!lGwed'to
stick on of the coat pocket.
A woman in Mt. Sterling, Ky,,. eight
teen years of age, has been married So
years and has three children.
It is very dangerous to make hp, your
Judgment concerning a young ladys
weight by measuring her signs.
A small boy in New York was brought
to life after having been at the bottom
of the Hudson for eight minutes.
An article in an exchange is. called
" A Woman After All.n lnsatiate fe-
male! would not ten thousand yor SO
suffice ? She may be after all, but it is
hardly probable thatshe will catch them.
-Norristow,a Herald.
An earthen bowl filled with rice and
fish, with four lighted candles stuck
into it, and the Whole surmounted by
calf's head, was found on the stoop OF a
New Orleans house. Somebody had un-
dertaken to put the inmates under
voudoo spell.
The great elephant fair Of India is an
nually held at Sonepoor, on the Ganges.
Thousands Of horses and hundreds OF
elephants may then be seen, and the bar
cain-driving and deceit OF etephant-seIl-
ers seem to be fully as great as The tricks
of horse-dealers at home. The price OF
elephants has risen enormously OF late
wears. In 1885 the price Of elephants
was 1925 per head; on the Bengal gov
ernment requiring seventy of these am
mails in 1875, the sum of 800 each was
sanctioned but not an elephant could be
procured at that price. Seven hundred
and fifty dollars is now the lowest rate
ut which young animals. and then chiefly
females. can be bought. Tuskers OF any
pretensions command from $4,000 to
S7,5O0, but the Koomeriah, or best strain
of elephant, will fetch almost any price;
$4,000 is not an unknown figure.
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Beware /!

Keep waketll eye and ear. my friend,
For all mankind;
Thou canst not know nor tell, my frier
What turks behind
Tho flattering speech, the gracious smile
How little truth, how much Of guile,
Is hid within the heart the while.
Beware
Remember, cen thyselt, my friend,
,.. Hast crafty grown;
Consider how deceit, my friend,
Erst deeply sown
Within thy breast, slow led upon
It's kindlier nature, until won
The victory DER thy peace undone.
Beware.
All, life's losing game, my friend,
A taunting blank
When love itself is tricked, my friend,
BY wealth and rank;
Take council of thy wit, and seek
No iavors that thy feelings pique-
OF both the tawntng and the meek
-. l...,.'.n Beware,
Trust him who makes thee pay, my frierc
And squarely, too,
For all he grants; tits he, my friend,
Alone that's true.
He hath no subtertugc, no plan
To cheat or cozen; such a man
Thou canst respect, and waive this ban
t.. Beware
' -Erratic Enrique, in Puck
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BY HUGH WILSON AND W. C. BENET.
A Summer Mood.

We said, when wan November days
Had buried all the flowers,
The world no longer wears the charm
OF April's sparkling hours;
A subtle change, nameless spell
Has turned the bloom to mold,
The days are dark, the nights are drear,
And we are growing oldw
But when the vivid foliage woke
Beneath the soft spring rain,
And from the maple boughs we heard
The robins sing again,
With the first note our hearts grew light,
Our lips no longer cold,
Grew glad with kindred melodies
Can this be growing old?
Rare meanings, radiant prophecies
Each day and evening gave,
All fairy land revived again
In verlure, sky and wave.
The violet on the rivers brink,
The river as it rolled,
Sparkled in sunbeams at our tcet,
And smiled at growing old
Then listening to the woods low stir,
The rapture of the birds,
In the warm light OF natures smile
More eloquent than words.
We cried" Be ours the heritage
So joyously toretold-
Onr youth but slept; our souls are strong
There is no growing old"
.)h, friend, lave cheer within the breas
Eternal summer lies,
Our chidhoods vanished rose is wet
With dews OF Paradise.
The river OF our Joy runs deep
And flows DER sands OF gold,
We drink the wine Of youth divine,
We never shall be old
Frances L. Mace. in Portland Transcript
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DR.. Keith, of Illinois, asserts that diph-
liberia comes from potato eating. DR..
Keith claims this notion to be the result
of his own experience as well rs that. OF
his father, extending over twenty-ninee
wears, and embracing eleven hundred
cases of diphtheria. In all of these cases
the patients were potato eaters. Persons
who eschewed the potato escaped the
diphtheria, though residing in the midst
of IN infected district. 1t may pre-
sumed that this sweeping charge does
not apply to healthy tubers, but only to
those affected by the peluto rot.
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Her liege lord had a bad cold, and she,
though she is perpetually nagging him
and even wishing him dead, goes in
tears to confide to friend the gloomy
apprehensions inspired by her poor dear
husbands hacking cough. All, my
dear" she concludes, 81 shall immedi-
ately call on the best medical talent the
directory affords, for if I were to lose
my husband know I should 60 wild"
AFTER wIlGns?' says her friend.
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s Eccentrics."


The youth with the white duck vest
and heavy gold chain never buttons his
coat up.
No boy is tender-hearted or sympa-
thetic enough to feel bad when his
teacher is sick and has to stay at home.
The worst of short crop with retail
dry goods clerk is that j. won't enable
him to hold his lead pencil behind his
ear.
No man can walk along Broadway
without meeting an acquaintance-that
is, if he happens to have on his old
clothes.
Fame should never open its golden
portal to the being who will attempt to
burnish his silk hat with blacking-
brush.
A man can never tell what kind of an
axiom he possesses when he carries a
Chinese laundry check around in his
pocket.
When you have rheumatism so bad
that you can't stoop you are pretty sure
to discover three-cent silver piece lying
on the sidewalk.
She sits and smiles
By the window-sill
She's sweet rs rose
In valley still.
And no one knows it better than herself.
At picnic it always seems to be the
fate of the man with the pearl-colofed
trousers and white vest to be called upon
to ascend tree to adjust swing for q
stout girl who chews gum and speaks
ungramatically.
No pen will ever correctly describe the
sensations which thrill man when he
raises his hat on meeting young lady
on the street-that is, when his hair is
cut so close to his head that he can't
touch it with his hand.
No matter how great a poet may be,
no matter how far his fame extends, no
matter how much he is admired and
courted by society, he is never eccentric
enough to attempt to wash his face with
his hat and eyeglasses on.
Now the elilies-ot-the-valley
On the nantlcpiece are willing,
And now the golden butterfly
On dandelions fitting.
Tis now the morning sunbeam glds
The coleus and onion;
IT'S now the clumsy croquet ball
Doth seek the tender bunion.
1t is argued by philosophers that the
hardest-earT.ed triumphs are always
sweetest. This may be, but it can't be
aid to be the case when man, in at
tempting to open knife, almost rips his
thumb nail out by the roots.
What makes even good-natured man
wild with rage, while running past the
ferry cashier in q crowd is, after laying
down u trade-dollar, to attempt to pick
up the ninety seven coppers which con-
stitute the change without being knocked
down.
IN JUNE.
The dandelions burn
Amid the wavy fern
By the stream.
All! these balmy, golden days,
With their robin-roundelays,
Like q dream
Steal upon us, and elate
Make our bosoms, while sweet Kate
With Sir Launcelot eats plate
OF ice-cream.
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checked shirt and black tie. He escorted
his younger sister. Lady Mary Camp
bell, a pretty young woman of eighteen
or twenty, with wavy auburn hair, who
was dressed like her sister in travelling
dress and plain black cloak"
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TIMELY TOPICS.

A Vienna journal says that when start
ing for Livadia, the Russian Gar went to
the station in m ironclad carriage, escort
ed by about 400 mounted guards. The
station was surrounded by military and
police, and entrance was strictly pro-
hibited. Similar precautions were taken
at all stations along the line. A train
full of police and, guards preceded the
emperor's, and no one for twenty-four
hours was permitted even to approach
the rails.
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"How do you tie love knott" asked
Laura, toying with a bit of blue ribbon:
"Oh, any way" growled Tom, behind
his newspaper, "just so it will pull ou:
easy"
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Gen. Henry Lee was the author of the
phrase, First in war, first in peace, first
in the hearts of his fellow-citizens." /
was used in a series of resolutions pre-
sented to the National House Of Repre-
sentatives, December. 1893.
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There are certain comparisons between
the vital statistics of France and Prussia,
in recent report to the Academy of
Sciences of Paris. Thus, itappears that
in France 100 marriages; give about goo
children; in Prussia, 46O. 1t is also
shown that in France the annual in
crease in population (births over deaths)
is 2,4OO for each million of inhabitants,
while in Prussia it is 13,6OO.. At this
rate the population of France should
double in 10 years; that of Prussia in
forty-two!
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When the Duke Of Argyll, father of
the Marquis of Lorne, Canada's Gov
ernor-G General, arrived in New York, on
q Cunard steamship, he was interviewed
before he could land by the ubiquitous
reporters, one of whom described the
Scotch nobleman and his family rs fol-
lows: "Then came pleasant, somewhat
stout gentleman. with red hair, gray
whiskers and slightly freckled face, who,
it was whispered, was the Duke of
Argyll. He wore n dark. mixed summer
ercoat, standing collar and black
cravat; and although he had three or
four servants in attendance, was Uttered
up with the small traps Of n traveller.
On the Dukes arm was his eldest daugh-
ter. Lady Elizabeth Campbell, a tall,
delicate complexioned blonde, with light
auburn hair and pale face. She wore q
black cloak of some plain stuff, with 4
black fur collar. over IN ordinary travel
ing-dress. Behind this couple came Lord
Walter Campell, Il younger son of the
duke. and almost an exact picture, saw
ing that he looks younger, and that his
hair is redder, of his brother, the Maj
quis of Lorne. Lord Walter wore a
blue flannel yachtman's suit, q blue
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The failure Of jury to convict the
Yoakum brothers of murder, at Bakers
field, CAL, displeased the populace. A
mob broke into the Jail at night, and
one of the prisoners was quickly hanged
to the bars of his cell, moose being
thrown over his head, and the rope
pulled through the grating. Then the
iynchers went to the others cell door,
and found that he was fettered to the
floor. AS they were unable to enter,
they tried to lasso him, as they had
done with his brother, and then choke
him to death by pulling at the rope,
but he lodged the moose successfully.
So they killed him with their revolvers,
firing so recklessly that two of their own
number were accidentally wounded.
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thinking of to have gone off and left
your sachel like that
"Why never had thought the boat
was going to blow up, did p"
1t don't make any difference" he
persisted. "Some one would have
stolen it, as likely as not, if the boat
hadn't blown up, There was no sense
In it, anyway, and it was foolish thing
to do. I don't suppose there's any use
to go looking for it now"
81 know there aint," she answered,
because | was sitting right where the
boat blowed out, because it was warm
there"
"Wel, it can't be helped, I suppose,
but it is too bad. The next time YOU
go away you'll show more sense, I hope,
than to go gallivanting all over boat
without your sachel. "-Danbawy NeaUs.
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Curious Things.

A pair of ladies' shoes that aren't "a
mile too big
A newspaper communication that was
not "struck off in a hurry"
A clowns joke less than forty years
old
A country residence for sale that ism t
within five minutes walk of the rail-
road station"
A newspaper that isn't "the best
advertising medium in the county"
An impartial baseball umpire
An infant that isn't 'just the sweet
est baby in the world"
Anything advertised three weeks be-
fore Christmas that isn't suitable for
holiday presents"
A paragraphist that never made a
pun on Turkey, in connection with
Thanksgiving day.
A didn T. now-it-was- loaded gun that
never killed anybody.
A political stump-speaker who never
abused the opposition candidates.
A young lady who can pass a plate
glass window on the Sabbath without
turning her head. -NorrjstoaUn Herald.
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A Tender Husband.

When the news OF the Adelphi's ex-
plosion reached Danbury, citizen,
whose wife had sailed from New York
that morning by way of the boat, took
the first train for Norwalk They had
never at the best been a very loving
couple, but they were >eminently re-
spectacle. He had pursued his way and
she had gone hers, each finding pleasure
in characteristic channels. But now,
with the presence of her death upon
him, the old tenderness with which he
had won her came back to him, and dur
ing that long and dreary ride to the sea-
side his thoughts were busy with the
past He could recall with painful dis
tinctness every help he had refused
her, every cross word he had given her,
every GOODNESS he had shown her. Ali
the little acts governed by petty selfish
ness Of which he had been guilty, and
which had passed from his memory in
the doing, now rose up before him as
deeds of monstrosity at whose presence
his heart sank trembling away.
As the last train reached Norwalk, he
hurried out on his wretched search, ask
ing here and there for intelligence of
her, his white lips and trembling frame
testifying most eloquently to his anx-
iety. At last his search was rewarded,
and he found her. Not dead and mu-
tilated, but alive and unframed. It was
a happy meeting -not demonstrative.
because both were sorely out of practice
in that, but he was relieved of terrible
weight on finding her as he did
$50 you are all right?" he said
"Yes," she answered; II amt hurt a
bit, but | was terribly frightened"
you must have been-horribly so.
1t was terribly narrow escape. Where's
your sachel?"
Il don't know. [ think it must have
blown overheard"
Didn't you have it with your
NO; left it on a bench, and had
gone to the front of the boat to look
out on the water when the explosion
came"
"That was dreadfully careless. /
don't see what you could have been
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Lamar and Douglas.

During the electoral count of 1877 the
Democrats held frequent caucuses to
consider whether they should prevent
it's completion by filibustering. Lamar
was opposed to this plan, and made
several earnest, convincing speeches
against it. During one of these speeches
Douglas came in, drunk, as usual. He
interrupted Lamar several times, in an
irritating way, and finally approaching
him called him traitor to the South.
Lamar took no offense until the charge
was repeated, when he turned to Doug
las and said, in a low tone:
"You are not in a condition to talk
with gentlemen, sir. Your words are
beneath my notice"
Douglas pushed up closer, and,
shaking his fist in Lamar's face, re-
peated the charge with increased en-
phasis. Lamar replied:
"You lie, sir. You are yourself dis
grace to your State and your country"
Douglas attempted to strike Lamar,
when the latter, ivid with anger, hurled
him off into crowd of gentlemen who
approached to separate them, and
shouted:
g Take him away; take him away, or
I'll kill the drunken brute. p flashing
tom letter.
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ANNA DICKINSON writes to the New
York papers to say that she has not been
frightened off the stage. AS to her
plans, she says: "That I have not been
at work for the last year is solely the
consequence of ill-health. I propose
Gin answer to almost innumerable re-
quests) to talk about the platform and
the stage from the platform, and, later
in the season, to do what I can upon the
stage in new piece of my own writing,
and in an engagement already made"
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BATTLEFoRD, in Northwest Territory,
Canada, having established reputation
as the coolest place in North America,
has established a newspaper to be known
as the Saskatchewan Herald. It has
the dangerous motto Progress at it's
head, and will reach it's Southern sub
scribers about four weeks after the day
of publication. Battleford is $50 miles
west of Winnipeg. Manitoba, in the
district marked OH the old maps as Sas-
katchewan.
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AND now Dakota-to use the

AND now Dakota-to use the accent
ed phrase-is knocking at the doors of
the Union A bill for her admission
was introduced in Congress recently.
1t is not unlikely that the next census
will prove her population sufficient to
justify the demand; and there is a GER
tainty that in character it will be the
equal of any State in the Union. The
fertile prairies of the far Northwest.
with their wonderful wheat-producing
capacity, are drawing to the country
along the line of the Northern Pacific
some of the best farmers in the West
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JAPAN is pushing ahead quietly but
steadily with her industries, and much
faster than some people will like. The
large cotton mills and spinning factory
erected at Sakai several years ago are in
successful operation. A visitor to these
establishments reports that the build
ings are very substantial, and that they
are provided with good machinery. In
the factory there were employed about
$50 hands. In considering the condi-
tions of successful foreign trade, it will
not do much longer for Western nations
to overlook what the people of the East
are doing for themselves, not only in
Japan, but in China and India.
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A YOUNG man at Woolwich, England,
recently committed suicide on the day
appointed for his marriage for no dis
coverable reason, except that his aft
anced had made trifing objection to
some furniture purchased for their sit
ting-room. The sensitive youth left a
note, in which he said: "They will not
change the things, and it is the means
of breaking my heart. My dear, only
fancy how have been waiting for the
day for you to be mine, and now it can
not be. Do, my only and ever true love,
forgive me, for I do not know where
am. I would that I were in your ever
loving embrace. Your broken-hearted
Ted"