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The Due de Grammont is dead. He
was Louis Napoleon's minister of foreign affairs
when the war with Prussia began, and is ac.
credited with having been the chief instigator
OF the war by stirring up the opposition to the
hohenzolen candidate for the throne of Spain
and provoking Benedict to insult King Wi
ham. The Due meant mischief, but produced
good; for out of the war he brought ON has
come the destruction of French Imperialism and
the installation of republic for which no re-
Puoncan need have shame or apprehension.
SUBSTITUTES FOR BRIDEsMAIps.-It
IS becoming the fashion at distinguished we'd
dlngs in Paris for page boys to be substituted
for bridesmaids. They are all dressed alike
mostly In red or blue velvet, or satin, with silk
stockings and gold buttons and for their bnsi.
ness, have to attend on the bride. carry her
prayer book and bouquet, support her train and
veil, and generally be at her bidding all the dav
Young brothers, or relatives under twelve wears
OF age, are usually selected for the ofice.=Lon-
don World
The farmers of France don't believe
in being humbugged in the matter of artificial
tertil lzers. The Agricultural Society of Meanx
has formed itself into league to punish imposi-
ton; farmer has only to send sample of the
manure delivered to him to be analyzed, when
he will be Immediately informed of its CONNER
clal value: If adulterated, the President of the
Society will make report to the Public Prose
cutor, who Will put the law in force
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CIRCULAR.
To the Pastors, Sessions, and Members
of the Presbyterian Church.:

10 the PASTORS, SESSIONS, ana Aen0eTs
of the Presbyterian Church.:
Dear Brethren,-In view of the approaching
March collection for the cause of Publication,
we ask your prayerful attention to the following
statement:
We had hoped by this date to be entirely free
from debt but in various ways our expectations
have been disappointed. and considerable debt
still remains.
This burden has for several years prevented
the active prosecution of work that is greatly
needed in the churches-the dissemination of
Christian literature and the aid of needy church
es and Sabbath Schools
We cannot as a-Chnrch afford to dispense with
this important agency, but 1T cannot be etfec-
lively prosecuted until we free from debt.
We have reached point where united and
earnest effort will accomplish the object for
which we have been struggling for more than
two years
1t is for the honor of the Church and the
cause of Christ that this should be done at once
that there should be no longer either reproach
resting upon us, or a dead weight hindering our
work
We need not remind you that the General AS
sembly of 1879 as we'll as the Assemblies of the
two preceding years, strongly urged the pressing
Importance of this work and directed collections
to be taken in all our churches for this object
but less than one-half have contributed any
thing during the past year
And now brethren can we not secure the aid
and cooperation of every pastor and session in
the Church in bringing this pressing need faith
fully before all our congregations?
Can we not have from every congregation,
and from every Sabbath School in our bounds,
liberal collection for this object-the payment
of the debit
Brethren, can we not do even better than this
and provide small fund besides for the prose
cution of the Publication work during the com
ing year2
We ask that the collection taken on the first
Sabbath of March be forwarded promptly to the
treasurer, as the financial year closes April LIST
In behalf of the Executive Committee of Pub
LEGATION. JAS. X. HAZEN. Secretary.
Richmond, "a, Feb l, 80.
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B6S~ 1t seems to be generally admitted bv all
who have taken the trouble to satisfy themselves
that the New No. Wheeler & Wilson
Sewing Machine is the very best sewing ap-
Paratus for the family the world has vet seen.
America and Europe coincide in the verdict and
the name of Wheeler & Wilson has become
household word wherever inventive genius is
appreciated. In the South this machine has far
outstripped every other its uniformly beautiful
stitch on every kind of fabric, simplicity, and
ease of operation, have made it universal ia
yorite. Depot for Virginia and North Carolina
9Th and Franklin streets, Richmond
oc29-ly Wheeler Wilson Manufacturing Co.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Receipts for Beneficiary Education from
January LIST to February, 1880.
SYNOD OF VIRGINIA.


Greenbrier Pre85ytery--Libertv. $40.
Hpntelsville, 44O; Baxter, SO; Bev-
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1892 Missionary Society, Coalsmouth
church, 8; Centreville, 26l; NJ. HB
|; Lewisburg, 22,O7; Kanawha Salines
20; Spring Creek, L 20; Muddy Creek
~ g. McElhenny, 5. 90 go
Chesapeake Catoctin, 16.47; Warrenton
7.93; Salem, 3.45; Second church, Alex
andria, Is. 40 81
Vest Hanover-New Store, 15O; College.
1910; Lebanon, 3; jamestown. 3. Is
Trinity, 8; Madison. 8 Farmville, 81
70; Charlottesville, 1850. lO1 81
r oGnoke-Chatham, 73O; Blue Stone 3
%; Roanoke S28; Briery, g. 26 SO
Montgomery-R Mount, 5. 5 90
Lexington Monmouth, 1882; Will
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sonburg, 1915; First church, Staunton.
$780, Mt. Carmel, 10. 1873 79
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IL. 10 nm
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The London Freeman pronounces the
utterances of Dean Stanley, on Christmas day,
Extreme Unitarianism. The divinity of Christ
is reduced to the simple fact of His goodness
The Incarnation and Atonement are put aside as
of Redemption"
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"A FAMINE IN PERsIA.-It is so Sc
we're that people are selling their children for
food Mr.. Cochran, one of the American mis-
sonarles IN Persia, has forwarded an appeal
which says Already bread riots and mob VIC
lence have ruled in the markets two DAYS the
past week some have died of hunger, and the
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Christians are the poorer and more Impressed
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me famine IS very severe, and many are fleeing
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Christians TO whom God has given more abun-
dainty. This is the appeal Of 5000 Christian
families in our immediate vicinity and indirectly
OF ten times as many Mussulmans and Jews in
this district"
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The Osceola times., 1880-06-05
Four Hugs to the square.

The man who walks at night sees
funny things. On Wednesday night,
between 10 and IL o'clock, while a fact
slater was cleaving the dimness of Wal
ton street, his attention was attracted by
a youthful couple who were walking at
the frightful speed of fifteen minutes to
the half square. While he was thinking
how long they could keep up this pace
without stopping, they stopped within
the friendly shadow OF huge bill
board, and the young man clasped the
young lady to his heaving bosom and
kissed her. Then he looked up and
down the street, as though expecting
some one whom he sincerely hoped
would not come, and then suddenly re.
mcmbering that he had previous en-
gagement, he turned and embraced his
companion IN a long, lsving and bust
ness-like manner, and then he kissed
her. Somehow he seemed to feel that
he had not made a complete success, and
he kissed her again. Then, as il dis
pleased with his style of work, he re-
peated il in sort of Emma Abbott way.
This struck him as being quite the
thirg &, and he practiced it several times.
After while he stopped kissing the
young lady and hugged her. And just
here he displayed real genius. He was
master of the art. He showed a per-
feet familiarity with every possible style.
He clasped her gently, then he squeezed
her rapturously, then he grabbed her
violently-then he embraced her slowly
and impressively-then he hugged her
as if he had firmly resolved never to go
into any other business as long az he
lived, and then he thought he heard
somebody coming, and they walked off
as if nothing in the world had happened.
They turned into Broad street, and hav-
ing joined their friends, the shadows,
near Wilson's coal yard, they repeated
the Walton street performance without
any material change OF programme.
And then they strolled leisurly into
Luckey street, between Forsyth and
Broad, and in answer to an encore gave
another performance of the same des-
cription. After this they passed into
Forsyth street, and when they neared
the first Baptist Church the idea oc-
Cured to the young man that he would
give farewell performance. They did
so. Both seemed deeply affected, and
the uns cen audience was almost moved
to tears at the extremely touching sight.
And then those happy nocturnal closer
to nv bosom comes moved silently down
Walton street, and the unseen audience
Of one slowly dispersed.
The Osceola times., 1880-06-05

Then he placed kerosene lamp close 70
he edge Of HE counter, and put this
wire hoop strung with fish around the
lamp. As he went away he released the
cats, and when they found the hsh, the
only food in the place, they began to
pull at il, and naturally pulled the lamp
Cd the counter. When it struck the
fioor II broke, the fame met the oil, and
there was a fire. ! never had proof
enough to cause the mans arrest, al
though myself convinced OF MS quit
ine. perhaps, to hear from him again in
this line at some future time.
IL have also in mind another clothing
dealer, whose method Of creating fire
was TO heat stove red hot, leave open
the damp,rs and then turn ON all MS gas
lets. In the course Of the night there
was an explosion, and we had one more
accidental fire where the facts all point
ed 10 arson"
The Osceola times., 1880-06-05

This Mr.. Ferris, the Captain explain
ed, was the son Of the owner Of the pro-
perty in England on which he Capt.
Williams) had been born, and was Il
gentleman who had given himself up 10
science ana philosophy. Capt. Williams
had already sent him some queer odds
and ends gathered in his various travels,
and considered that fragment Of this
strange article which had played such an
important part IN poor Hans Jorgen-
sens career would be acceptable. MIR.
Ferris will doubtless be recognized by
the Chronicle readers as the celebrated
Prof Michael Ferris, +. X. g, author Of
The First Principles of the Cell Theory"
and one of TyndalPs most promising dis
ciples.
The article was carefully packed and
sent to Prot. Ferris, who, in acknowledg-
ing its receipt, wrote the following letter
which We are permitted to publish
LAP PARK Row, CHELTENHAM, January
22, lSSO.-My Dear Williams: The box
with its contents came to hand safely
enough, but what AN unsatisfactory fel-
low you are. You should have written
Inc every detail concerning your late
friend Jorgensen's adventure, described
his death and told me the facts concern
ing the affair even if it kept you back
whole season. Above all, you should
have sent me all those precious deposits
instead of pitching them like heather
into the sea. | don't know if YOU are
aware of il, Capt Williams. but when
you threw those "cussed stones" into the
Alaska sea you threw away my chance
OF becoming immortal. In revenge
have great mind to tell you, in the
hardest language | can think of. what
those "cussed stones" contain. Are YOU
aware, sir, that they had been lying on
that desert Aleutian isle for more thou
sands of years than you could ever dream
OF? DO you know, sir, that they con-
tained the elements of life from which,
cycles of years before Adam was born,
the first living things sprung into exis-
tencet Do you know. sir, that if it had
not been for some volcanic action
whereby those masses of Jelly were
prlsoned up in their silicious shell,
from them would have sprung the be-
ginning Of a life which, going on from
stage to stage, from embryo to perfec-
ton, might in time have peopled the
world? Do you know, Capt Williams,
that there lay IN those "cussed stones"
a collection Of energis of the vital order
in which forces would have become
forms, going on necessarily producing
and multiplying new forces and new
forms, and that and my masters would
have given our heads to have been able
to make the discovery which brought
Jorgensen to his death? Do you know
what Jorgensen discovered, Captain
Williams? He discovered the be-
ginning of cosmic energies, he dis
covered priceless microcosm; it was
Protoplasm that he tasted, and he tasted
enough to stock a province, with any
thing from tadpole to megaceros. 1t
is no wonder, | think, that Jorgensen
| died, and it is no wonder either that
sign myself
Your erievously disappointed friend
MICHAEL FERRIS
The Osceola times., 1880-06-05

The gross expenditure for five years
Of the Gladstone government was fS5s,-
OoO, 900; for five years Of the present
government it is E4Ol 100000. The
Gladstone government had net surpluses
in the five years amounting in the aggre-
gate to El6,96O, 900; allowing for the
surpluses of the present government, in
the Eve years they had net deficit of
nearly E3, ,5O0,O goo, which is most likely
TO be increased this years end. In five
years the Gladstone government RENTED
taxatisn to the amount of 9l2.450,0 1000,
while the present government had re-
mitted BY il E1 300
The Osceola times., 1880-06-05

A YALE college student who visited
Colorado during vacation last summer
found young girl companion to climb
the mountains with him, and through
her means made a very important dis
covery, which can be tested by any one
having the time and the girl. He
noticed that the further ne went the
heavier the girl leaned upon his arm,
and then he set himself about finding
the ratio of increasing weight to the as
cending altitude. He found that his
girl.pressure increased at the rate of one
pound to every hundred feet and that
at the height of two thousand five hun
dred feet the girl commenced encircling
him with her arm. He experimental
with a number of girls between the ages
Of sixteen and twenty-six with the same
invariable result, which enabled hun to
reduce his experiment to scientific
formula. He advocates the girl-barome-
ter for the purpose Of ascertaining alti-
tudes, and also as stroke Of political
economy, as its adoption would give
employment to large number of the
idle women who are waiting for their
sphere.
The Osceola times., 1880-06-05
Odd implements Of arson.
y. Y Times.

A large wire ring with pieces of dried
Goldfish is one Of the curious relics of
fires that Chief Engineer Thos. +. New
ins, of the Brooklyn Fire Department,
possesses. The story Of that relic" he
said recently, will tell of one of the
most ingenious attempts at arson | have
ever heard of. We had an alarm of fire
one night from the clothing store of a
man who had locked up and had gone
with a friend to the theater. The fire
was under considerable headway, but
we cxtinguished it while il was yet con-
fined to the store. In making our search
tor the cause we found the bodies of three
dead cats, a broken kerosene lamp upon
the floor near the counter, and mis- ring
of wire and dried fish.
There had been no fire in the store.
and there was but one explanation of
the mystery of the fires origin. The
cats were much emaciated and the pieces
of fish were partly eaten. Now, what
do you think we concluded? Why, that
the man, trying to get his insurance,
had invented an ingenious plan OF hav.
ing the cats set fire TO the store while
he, accompanied Ey witness, was at
the theater. BY starving the cats for
two or three days he got them into
condition to attack any food with ardor.
The Osceola times., 1880-06-05
Born to be Drowned.

y
a fatality to be drowned seems to hang
over the members of the Love family
old and wel-known residents of PORT.
land, Oregon. Away back in Illinois,
one Of the brothers, when boy, fell in
to well and was drowned. Some years
ago another brother, who had come TO
manhood, was drowned in the Columbia
slough. About q year ago still another
brother, William Love, was drowned in
the slough, in nearly the very same spot
where his brother was drowned wears
before. About month ago Albert Love,
a son Of William Love, went to work on
the steamer Cnlliope. A few DAYS ago
the Calliopc went down the river TO
raise the slnken steamer Maria wilkins
and while walking along the guard of
the boat, on Wednesday afternoon, he
fell into the river. The alarm was gwen
immediately, and strange enough, of
the several men working around the
steamer, none could swim. The Young
man had heavy garments on which soon
became heavy as lead and weighed him
down, so that nothing but the top of his
head was visable. The drowning man
made several attempts to reach a scow
which was laying alongside the wharf
but could not touch it. Before assist.
ance reached him the young man sank
in sight of his relatives and friends,
who were powerless to aid him
The Osceola times., 1880-06-05
A Virtue Of the Flea,
Chicago Tribune

Sooner or later every creature finds an
adyocate, Now appears from Armenia
a much-trayeIed Briton, by the name of
Captain Creagh, and loudly sings the
soothing, soporitic virtue of the wicked
hea. This astounding wanderer assures
us, as OF his personal experience, that in
Armenia at least "the crawling of insects
from the crown Of the head to the so,es
OF the feet, is so lethargic, and, like the
action of shampooine, so soothing to the
limbs of the weary traveller, that the in.
slant the fieas have covered his body in
as great multitude as the ants on an
ant heap, he, with a smile of satisfaction
ON his face, drops gently into profound
and refreshing slumbers. An English
Consul. after long residence in Arme.
MIA, having retired to his native country
on pension, had become 30 accustomed
To the fieas that he was unable to sleep
without them. and his house maid al
ways carried snuA-box full upstairs
and put them into his bed with the
warIning.pan,'