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uDeaAh isy Iseeapifatiens@zM.

The Paris Figaro brecently 2 sentf q
/ special reporter ito witness the leoecn'
ton at Beauvaiss of an atroeious qnaur-
derer named EEEnier. ~ The moment
that the guillotine had done its work
the body and head were placed in a
basket and were taken to the cemetery,
4 where Drs. Evrard. lie Sage Chevallier,
hLesghHion. Roeha rand dDecaisDeswer
present. NJ. Evnard had asked forlanfl
obtained the body of the felon for sex-
+ pertinent, which, says the reporter,
''we followed with deep interest, for.
! besides their purely. scientific character,
I they related to a question so often dis
! cussed-does life survive deeapitation?
Five minutes had elapsed since the mo-
ment when the head WAS separated
from hetrunk. sandl ID was placed on a
stone IN the open air in front Of The lit
tie chapel of the cemetery Compare
lively little blood had flowed, and some
drops were running from the lcafotid
artery. Although the neck -was -~ery
short, the cutting had been veryscleans
Punched, stuck with needles, &C su bniittedl
to the most painful experiments, i the
head never moved; the face remained
unaltered, not a muscle qiivered.S., Tie
left ear was completely calcined in The
flame of candle without obtaining The
snallestappearance of sensibility. They
then divided theiskin of the head into.
sfour paris, and using the hammer,
lpel and saw, they took, away The
upper portion of the skull and with
drew the brain: This occupied . ten
minutes Immediately on being sub
lmitted to an electric battery Che remains
of the head at9oiice' displayed nervous
contractions-the testhH ehattered, the
mouth shut, the eve and 1.-The eheekmadei
those grimaces which are observed in
sleeping, people when tickled with a
feather With,tne body, thesan1e result
was obtained. twas absolutely with
out feeling. 1t was opened, the heart,
lungs and intestihes were removed, and
then, on being placed in contact with
the electric battery, the arms and legs
instantly moved. AT this moment DIR.
EYEard asked me- what clock it was,
and il appeared that forty minutes had
elapsed from the time of the execution.
Lastly came the concluding experiment
Under the action of the battery a shred
of hanging flesh, displaced blythe op era.
tons, stood on end, Oseillated and -qticfl
ly placed itself back on the spot from
which it had been cut.n The. conelu-
SION of the doctors is that the Iaoye7
melits observed in the bodies of persons
guillotined on being subjected to the ac-
ton of electricity are absolutely me-
chanical, and display neither any re-
mainder of life nor of sensation. The
experiment will be the subject of
memoir, which will shortly be presented
to the Academy1of Medicine by M
Evrard, and in which hewin demons
strate that death by decapitation is in
Simultaneous
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PITH AND P0NE.

CRATE style-An open fireplace. n !
III one little mouse in the pluralis mice,
The plural Of house should be certainly lie e
If women had the ballot, what would
she do with il? 1t isn't long enough for
belt or big enough for hustle.
WHEN two women with new hats on
pass each other on the stfest there is a
pair Of back stares made Immediately.
AN inn-keePer need newt Be at loss
for means 10 entertain his patrons, be-
ing always a host in himself
"MY dear, said a sentimental maiden
her lover, "of what do these .autum-
nal tints, this glowing bald-ic of the skies,
this blazing garniture of the dying year,
remind you?" Pancakes" he prompt
ly answered. And then she realized for
the first time that the two hearts did not
beat as one.
A LADY was heard to ask friend in a
street-car the other day: "Annie, is it
proper to say this erethst enc f'i' Why,
Kate, of courIsl not, 9 WAS tie rely
Well" said Kate, al don't know
whether it is proper or not, but L feel
cold in this ear from that air." The
conductor tainted. HTTW
CAN Boston beat THIS Tor aplng "cul-
chaw?' A young lady at a Louisville
hotel on one morning comes down to
breakfast with a.c9pyof certain maya.
zine IN her hand. On another morning
she has diffepeht naag azine ,aad orsthe
third morning still another magazine.
She is governed in her choice by the
periodical, the color of whose cover har-
monies best with her costume, r.-
elbow long has she been dead a. tSh-
quired bereaved husband as he quietly
stepped into the room, "About five
minutes, F" answered fearful bystander
Sc Well, it's all right, i never got a
chance to see aHysof nayf0ll1s draw.the cir
last breath. If q hundred Of my friends 4
were to die, t'woulds be Just my luck to
miss it every time. Al, Grief will assert
itself. .meiiod Aa'r - s0f" Il
a WONDER what makes. il, look so
dark and gloomy outdoors9,D said MRS.
Hickenlooper to the next-door neighbor,
who had just run in a minute to borrow
a couple Of freshshId eggs q K II gness
it's because your windows need wash
ing" gently remarked the next-door
critically running her fore
finger up and down the glass. And
then there was sortpf GOODNESS fell like
a wet sheet on thelsas senbIed multitude.
and the next-door neighbours cake
wasn't as rich by two eggs as it might /
have been.-Nel0 HaUee Register. - - I
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mustangs in Texas Thlrty Years Ago.

~
The word mustang is. sascorruption Of
mesteno, the Mexican name, Tor wild
horse. Many age there were
thousands, no doubt rnftionsy of those
animals in Texas. In 1870, and for sew
eral Years thereafter, they1were numer-
Gus in the region between the Nueces
River and che Rio Grande. They were
found further north, but not in such
numbers Inmefise herds of gild HotSes
could be seen CRAVING ON the prsiries
When they saw any one approaching
the, leader would rpftenT TmoYe ~ the
front and make a Reconnaissance. IF
things did not suit him, he would give
his head a. peculiar toss, wheel and
sound the note of alarm. These DEMON
strations would be followed by prompt
fnoyementlon thelpartd fthe herd ,some-
times to the 'front.', but more .nsually to
the rear They would wheel into line,
change front, move m line, or IN column,
with aas much precision, and order as
cavalry, 1t was wonderful to witness
how well they were drilled and dis
iciplined: In the event retreat was, or
,dered, the leader would, move in. the
rears for a. while If any Jagged or.
struggled they were very apt to feel his
teeth, if not his heels. On some occa-.
siofis a movement to the front was or
dered. !, 1t was "a ! charge, in line, -or in
column, proudly headed by the leader.
This was $the case sometimes wilen
mounted men were in sight The Texas
Rangers operating in THAT country
We're followed by paek-fnules in, charge
of q guard 1t was necessary at times
to lorna hollow square, place themnles
inside, and to throw out skirffishers 10
fire into the ,animals. If the leadereouid
be struck, the charge would be broken.
The horses would retire at once. The
were hunted by Mexicans, and
ones singled out and las.
seed. Whole herds were driven at
run into pens having extended wings,
which contracted as they approached
the gate, As many as 500 mustangs have
been peRIsed at one ''run." They were
~ q.
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A Farmer Who Sold Himself.

They tell a Good story of a ..Corree-
tionville farmer, who sold q load OF, corn
at that town the other day. When ID
was weighed lie slyIy stepped on the
scales, and then drove off to unload
When the wagon was weighed he took
good care not to be in ii, and congratu-,
lated himself that be had played 1t on
the buyer in GOOD shape The grain,
dealer called him I'M and after, figuring
up the load paid him in full As he
buttoned up his coat to 90 out, the buyer
kindly asked him TO ssmokeDe with, ahim,s
and then talked over the crops, and the
price of hogs, and the likelihood of the
Maple Valley Railroad abuilding ar, that
way, till the farmer fairly saurmed il
his chair with measiness about his
chores at home, At last heeould stand.
it no longer, and said he must GO The
dealer quietly said that i. vas net to !, be
thought of, that ne had bOHgh the farm =
er al full weight and paid him hisqovn.
price, and that be wouldlinsist on doing
as he pleased With hisl eBnz property
The raiser of corn saw, that he had in
deed sold himself, in one sense at least.
He acknowledged the corn As Il were
and compromised the affair. Now
when he markets grain he dom. stand
on the scales.--SSeslg 6s1t sl0ssr'Nal. 81
Ex-MARsHALB1zxisE Is nowafsrm
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An Astounding Discovery.

If the latest discoveries which the EN-
inent philologist, DR.. Rudolph Falb,
claims to have made during his lin
guistic researches in South America
should prove to be well founded, we
shall have to interchange the titles
which we are giving at present to the
two hemispheres America, according
to DR.. Falb's hypothesis, is the "Old
World - Europe, Africa and Asia real
ly constitute the 9 New World. = we
learn from his own summarysof his re-
searches, communicated to the Neue
FREE PreSse of Vienns,, that the Jan
guage spoken by the indians in Perm
and Bolivia Especially IN Quiehua and
Almara) exhibit the most astounding
affinitieS with the. Semitic languages,
and particularly with the Afabiea il
which tongue Or. Falb himself has been
skilled from his boyhoOd Following
up the lines of this discovery, d: Fans
has found (D a connecting link with
the Aryan roots, and e has ultimately
arrived face to face with the surprising
revelation that [" the Semitic roots,,are
universally Aryaa 'ttal The common
stems of all the variants are found in
their purest condition in .Quiehua, and
Almara, from which fact DR. Fab de-
rives the conclnsien that the high plains,
of Peru and Bolivia must be regarded
as the point of exit of the present hu-
man race. SoAdam was an American, !,
To,7oL,sl 9Lolp . .---1 s. ,-l-4 81 trsF- sen
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"A sure Thing.

III 4 ttlHA
n, DR., Hunters Specific and Injection No.
are Warranted toaeare aGonorrhea,a elect,
COrdee, Structure, diseases Of the Kidneys,
Bladder and Urinary Organs of males and
females. hSx i"N' ii "A'
DR.. Hunters Specific No. 2iis q sure rein-
'edylfDr Spermatorrhea, Seminal Weakness,
Nightly Emissions and Loss of Power caused
by self-abuse iorh EXCESSIVE indulgence.
Price of DR.. Hunters Specific g per bottle;
injection ST.. Sent everywhere by express.
DIR. J. Dinsbeer, sole proprfetor,s No 4f5
North Seventh Street, ST.. aLoiiis, Moo Send
two stamps for treatise =, Cures guaranteed,
or money refunded,
@Dr. Dihsbeer win treat all chronic
diseases and furnish medicine for less money
thanssany iotherj physician in St. Louis.
Write or call.
For sale at Coley's Drug Store, Milan,
Tennis .GsH44K i7si t.stoK T
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Nevada NuptiaIs.

Sam Chung and Annie Youck, SAYS a
Nevada paper, were united last evening
in the holy bonds of wedlock by his
honor Justice Nicholson. The ceremony
took place at the Justices office, and was
attended by a number of Celestial friends
of the bride and groom, by Mr.. Jesse
Leach, and the reporter of The Times
ReUieo0. The bride was elegantly attired
in a pair of blue bingham pantaloons,
cut flowing from the waiStband down, a
Josie of the same material trimmed with
circus spangles, a pair of rocking chair
slippers, and a silver. hairpin. The
groom's makeup differed but little from
the ordinary apparel of the average
Oriental gentleman excepting that he
wore a pair of -long-handled buckskin
gloves, and a brace of india, rubber
Overshoes. Judge Nicholson was gor-
geously arrayeda in asspotted necktie,
and the reporter was dressed in calico
shirt, cut bias and a pair of alligator skin
boots. His honor propounded the Usu-
al questions in digEiiedEsnd impress
i've manner, and they were responded to
most soiemnly blythe groom, when
prompted by the reporter, who acted in
the capacity of " best man. The bride
Clipped in regularly at the appropriate
times, and in a few, minutes the twain
were one flesh. His honor. was the first
to carom on the bride'sl eOuhtenaBce,.
with his bill hitting her, smack, in the
mouth. The pencil shower, however,
made a mislick and carried awaE the
major portion Of the india, ink which
composed her sinister eyebrow. The
balance of the company waived their
Osculatory privilege, and latter the groom
had tipped his honor the usual fee, and
treated the crowd to cigars, the Celestial
portion of the bridal party bid their
Caucasian friends adieuyand disappeared
in the gloaminot hsa'5s3' ssie q, = 3 -iot
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A blue satin banner illuminated
with gold and resting on a gold case
placed in a box of Turkey morocco.
mounted with gold, is an invitation that
was sent a distinguished guest by the
Chicago Academy of Design. szis nj hssu
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VIZ 7 TEKlF DI-I@T n I NJ ~ ~
An Improbable Customer.

fiJ ~ All ----7,azssN Ia -1lft.
hQ'TArsiyol IN a hurry Pa Brooklyn
oyster dealer INQUIRED of a man fol
whom he was opehing his third oyster
!, The man had ordered a dozen, and was
/ plainly in hasteJ but seeing that lady
! had entered the saloon,l he said that he
had plenty oftime, and began to mInc h
Broken crackers, until the, oysterman
wa s'again ready to wait upon, him.
niis WhatacanI do for you, ma am ?''
the dealer inquired, turning to- the
q Are your Goldfish fresh 2'h the Gus
toner demanded. looking silspieiously
at some large ones on the board eds
os' Only two hours out of, the. water, =
the dealer answered :. !, Hardly dead
yet 1.0nlyS cents a pound 81 n
SAT- Weigh that one for me, . the lady
said. The fish weighed five pounds
that, was too large Another weighed
two, but thatRvastoou smalh JA third
weighed three and half; that was just
right; but the lady had changed. her
mind, and preferred, haddock, This,
also, was 6 cents, and a fish of suitable
weight was soon, found but 4 cents a
pound Was an that the customer Was
willing forgive. Moreover, she had now
'set her heart upon smelts, and, as there
were none in the-saloon, -she- turned her
attention to oysters. scg" nSsnehl. .. c.
. want them for frying,e' she said.
How much are they a hundred2 d
GA dollar and quarter,k NvasF the
replyia4 and cheaper at. that than you
can get them anywhere else else in At the
Then Then open fifty for me, if you
please the lady said. a tcIiaaIii %
o." VIII you allow me to attend to this
gentleman firsta'l the dealer. asked,
pointing to the man who had been
'obliged to take a recess alters eating
three oysters, s.A,J-,, adj H. .. IL,
's Certainly not,i' the lady said, snap
pishly. !" I'm in a hurry, nand as the
man had by this time finished nearly all
the. crackers and, in a great measure,
lost his appetite for oysters, he said,
politely, that he was willing to wait. ~
The fifty oysters were opened, and,
after closely examining 419rpin G them, the lady
I'd Snow, I don't mind giving you fifty
cents for those, if you viii paste them
over with flour and egg, and fix them
up for frying just as they do in Fulton
MARKET. s.g hrai sdf rsya tg amer
The dealer breathed very hard as he
looked at his unpromising customer.
Z" Perhaps, - he said, fsyou would like
me to- go to your house and cook them
for,yoi. no 'oH s7ij ,7T3Sitl fi'i E,
2 Without another word the lady gath
cred mp her gloves, handkerchief and
reticule, restored her purse to its place
in the latter receptacle, and bestowing
upon the dealer look of combined
acknowledgement, swept out of the
"a e Well, 'wo11en is queer creatures"
the dealer nsuttered, as he looked at the
receding form. -, g Skinfints, all of ,'em.
J. wouldn't trust my own wife where a
bargain was TO be had. o..And he turned
around to find the man who had eaten
the three oysters. But that person had
forgottento pay for the oysters, emptied
the bowl of broken, crackers, and gone
out.-zNeU YOfk SIM A ~ 20 DIE
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price for choice horse. These mus
tangers were wild eet,s often no better
thanIndianss 4 semeiof them were hon
sest,s good menss They swere guilty of
many murders and robberies. The
Conlanches made many visits to that
region They would pounce upon the
ntstahgers, Set them afoot, or XIII them,
as caprice dictated The Cofnanche
waatedsthe mustangs to ride andyto eat.
Horsefesh is a great delicacy with them.
lThechoiee part is, the fataimmediately
under the mane.i a Hhe section in gques
ton was; very hot in thosesdays for
Americans. A Texan was considered a
hereditary enemy BY both mustangers
snd Indians :, IFS only protection was
therifie and the Six shooter and a horse
of strength and bottom.AEesas Mate
RT97OPT -~------<s - -
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An Unfortunate Ram. =


A few weeks since some miners dis
covered very singular curiosity in the
mountains near Bonanza City,. Idaho
nothing less than the mammoth head
and horns of a mountain ram grown
into a pine treey The skull was found
firmly Undecided in the growing pine,
the trunk of the latter being some eight
cen inches in diameter, with the horns
protruding, and one in it's nataralacdrre
re-entering the wood eight inches, Mr.
Fred Meyers, of the Challis and Bonanza
stage line, soon heard of the "find,''
had the tree felled, and the section con-
tainingthe rams head neatly sawed off.
Nh. Meyers has expressed the unique
specimen to Thomas L.. Kimball, gene
raj passenger and ticket agent of the
Union Pacific, in whose office it is now
on exhibition.
1t was a source of much .surmising
yesterday upon the part of dozens of visit
Ions at. the Union Pacific headquarters
as to, how the horns became thus fast
ened. and how many years this lord of
the sheep tribe has, been impaled in the
lonely mountains of Idaho. Some are
of the opinion that the animal, in
search Of food, was caught in the forks
of the tree scores of years ago, when it
was a mere sapling, and unable to exE
trieate itself, there died, the tree grad
.ually growing over the skull. Such in
stances. in the case of deer are very
. common, but none has ever been chron-
icled, orzat1east not reported,m which
the wonderfully muscular mountain ram
has met such fate. 3
Another theory is that some Indian.
or old1time employee of the great fur
companies receiYeda straighfSaway hit
from the ram; ,andsin a lit Of revenge
hung his ramship up torecah5the Incl
dent. of the unfortunate affair and IN
dulge in remorse, but forgot to take finn
down. Another is,that ! in one of those
terrific battlssfn>which mountain cams
often indulge each others- this zone mas,
"dodgedH by his antagonist al Very
critical perioas and a ;;forked saplingl
receiyed the onslaught, neterafter CIV
ing up its embrace Oertain it isSthes
ram got in a very bad fix,isS dead, Sand
is one of the most valuable and cufieas'
specimens everysenf5 to SMr.sklmball' :.
reffice. 4 Onaaba, Repsaicaz 9 %
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NOTWITHSTANDING the .competition
of American companies, 100000 sewing
machines were made in, Germany last
year, and probably many more, have
been made this year. .lIIlH
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-Robert Burdetteis tired of Occurring
ana travel and fame, and writes: 81
wish 1 was just. seven years Old, and
Christmas lasted three months, and /
had a stocking las long. as Autobiography
pole, !" W. .si1s
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Ex-MARsHALBAzAlNE is now Alarm
q IL ' - 81 = :. 4 =. a 3, .. Z, s n
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The Healing Power Of the Imagina.,
qHaHnn taB 800 tIi MU.

= The records of medical practice are
full of Illustrations ofatife infiuehee Of
the ina gfnation, for good OF evil, over
the functions of the body and
philosophy finds in them a key to- the
wonderfal persistence OF many popular
Esuperstitions. The firm belief that any
disastrous physiological result, even
death itself, will surely follow'a given
act or occurrerfoe.s isrery apt to- bring
about the dreaded calamity; and every
.tepeiti9m of the seeming sequence u
-eause a ads feet, j tends to confirm and
strengthen the mischieYous belief. As
a meanssf eounteractiig this tendency
Of berverted Imagination, 1charris often
play a really beneficial part9 iThepro1
tection is.as imaginary as the dreaded
evil; b9tya sslnnhrg a'belief in the ficti-c
stiousa anger- jbeliefsstrongly tending
TO make Sthe; danger zeal, the, teharm
substitutes more hopeful belief, and
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-17
AMUsEMEHgs.
DAVID aARRIcK sY AMArEURs.

DAVID aARRIcK BY AMATEURS.
It was a pleasant and select audi
encc that gathered at the Casino club
hall, corner Of Union and Second
streets last, night, to witness a dra-
matte performance by T. W. Robert
son, entitled David Garrick. The
play is a popular one, and has been
illustrated here in years past by
companies under the lead Of such
actors as Sothern, Boniface
and Frank Evans, and it was not to
be expected that as finished a rendi.
ton would be given by home folks.
However, the piece a smooth and
without a balk from first to last, each
performer acting in SO acceptable a
manner that hearty applause frequent
ly rewarded their efforts. 1t was a
notable fact that the prOmpter mad
little to do, all knowing the
text to the letter. One Of
the most delightful features of the
play was the lyric duet. "Only Thee,
by Miss Genevieve Specht and Mr.. G.
D. Hutton, a selection full of varia-
tions and difficult vocal exercises.
Many unfamiliar with the air had an
idea that it was a part of some opera,
but this proved not to be so. 1t was
so charmingly sung that an encore fol-
lowed, and the song was in part
repeated. Mr.. Hutton. though
suffering with influenza, did
splendid. The play ended, a
hop followed in which the guests who
remained, took part in a most enjoys-
BILE manner. The cast of the comedy
was as follows David Garrick,"
Mr.. Frank Kahn; Mr.. Simon Ingot,"
Mr.. Louis RoSsnthal; Squire Chivy,"
Mr.. Joseph Specht, IT,; mr., Smith"
Mr.. NJ. ]. Frsnklandi "Mr. Brown
Mr.. G, Dixon Hutton "Mr. Jones"
Mr.. Geo. Mount; Thomas" Mr.,
PetsFsopi George" NJ. ], F-i
"Ada InsOt,'' Mrs. Stella Walter
mrs, Smith Misa Flora Myers
fMiss ArRminta Brown Miss Gene,
We've Specht,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-17

from $3.50 to s. per bunch, according
to size and condition.
For the first time here the quota
tons for cotton futures at New Or
leans we're yesterday posted at our
cotton exchange. The figures to-day
range from 1870 for February to
.12.41 for August delivery.
Photographic illustrations of Jno.
Mccullough, as he appears in his
great Roman character of Yirginius,
adorns numerous Main street front
windows, and attracts the attention of
promenaders and sight seers.
1T has been many years since a
winter passed over this latitude ac-
companied by so many heavy thunder
storms, and so much electrical phe-
nomena. So says a scientist who has
been Watching the situation.
IT. +. johnson, a white man, fell
off the bluff between Monroe and
Madison streets this forenoon. He
was in a timber state Of jOyfulness,
and the tumble of about IS feet did
not appear to hurt him much.
The local insurance companies
were lncky to-day. -Four fires and no
losses, the only policy held being by
Mrs. Campbell, and for $1,000 on wear
ing apparel, furniture, etc, the risk
being in Greene & Beasley's agencies.
From the date to the close of last
season our cotton receipts were lOl,-
S53 bales. Allow as much to come in
between now and the end of August
and this years total will reach 1872
6S2 bales. We are now 1902 bales
ahead of last year, aud 1879 bales
ahead of year before last at this date.
The requiem mass observed this
morning at St. Peters Catholic church
for the repoSe of the soul Of the late
Julia Semmes Tobin, was largely at.
tended. A full choir assisted at the
solemn exercises, and Mrs. John r.
Miles sang ANGELS Ever Bright and
Fair in an unusual impressive and
excellent manner,