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Herrmann,y bird Trick.

HerImannS bird trick, which has delighted
and mystlhed many audiences, is thus explained
Dy one VINO claims to have solved the riddle:
me reader Will remember that small glass
COX, about nine by four inches, was exhibited,
containing number of canaries This was
placed on the side tables and cage of ordinary
SIZE ana appearance was passed among the au-
olence, who were thus enabled to see that 1t
suspended from two wires which were fast
ened to a couple OF upright brass rods fixed in
Inc center table. Two large silk pocket hand
kerchlefs were placed over cage and box, and
hermann, standing at the small table, fired
PISTOL, instantly withdrew the pocket handker-
chiefs, and showed the glass box empty and
the cage full OF canaries. For q long time It is
salO lhlS trlck was puZZler, but the following
was found to be Its explanation: The ordinary
looking cage had In reality false top, or rather
false bottom to the top. The roof of the
cage was peaked, and between its ridge and the
DoftOm or the caves was what may be called a
garrett. Before being brought on the stage the
same NUMBER or canarieS were therein Confined
as the pOX contained. The wires which held
the cage suspended were connected with q bat
terry outside. The glass box was also peculiarly
constructed The SIDES were secured by brass
mliIe joints, but the bottom and TOD were held
together by wires concealed by these Joints and
cou!d at Will be Slid down until the top formed
,nS o9tS0m; ana the bottom hung below. sus.
tanned Dy the corner wires, like the standard of
q WhatnOt When the box Is placed on the
taDle 1t rests on spring trap, and the moment
me pistol Is fired Hermann presses the spring
the trap descends, With 1t falls the sliding too
ana potion OF the box. and the canaries are
is renewed, the box receives again it's TOP and
DOtt0m IN their places, and the canaries are Left
In Inc table. C01nstantaneOuSly with this
maneRVor the watchful attendant presses the
DOltom OF the battery. the floor OF the stage
garret" gives way and the released birds hut
Ter down into the
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Dreaming to Some Purpose.


Last FRIDAY lady went from Bevington to
Winterset and returned on Conductor Whites
train. Soon after leaving the coach she dis
covered she had left her purse In which there
was considerable amount OF money, In the
coach. A telegram was sent to Mr.. White, who
Immediately made diligent search, but could
not find the purse. When the coach was turned
over to the sWeepers In the yard on the east
side they were instructed to look out for the
purse. They thoroughly cleaned and swept the
coach, but saw no purse. AS might be eX-
pected, the lady worried over her loss ana lost
considerable sleep that night, but finally passed
into a dreamy state, when she says she went
Into the coach and found her purse at the end
OF the seat wherein she sat. The next morAl-
Ing, when the coach arrived, her husband
boarded 1t to get the purse. Its no use" said
the conductor; I'VE searched every place In the
coach and the sweepers have turned and swept
every seat in it. 1t isn't here" But know
just where 1t Is; my wife found it last night -
said the Womans husband, and precisely where
she found II In her dream was The purse. Con-
dCctor Whites two eyes stuck out like loco
motive headlight as he exclaimed: "Weu, that
beats mel"
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A Jury Of One.

You remark that jury of one man might be
better than twelve, because he could never dis
case OF the kind in a Justices court a Jury
mad been demanded but there was difficulty
about getting jury together. One juryman
mad appeared and IT was finally agreed by the
one. Accordingly the case was tried AMI the
jury (of onel retired to consult OF their verdict
under the charge OF an officer. After waiting
an heur or Two the jury were called into court
to see II they had agreed on their verdict, and
the foreman informed the court that they had
not agreed and that there was no prospect OF
out again, and waited two or three hours
longer for the result, when they were again
called into court, and they Informed his honor
that they had not agreed and there was no
prospect of any agreement The hour being
late the jury was then discharged without q
verdict. This may have been farce. but II 1t
was. II was no more so than are One-half Of our
jury trlais.-C0'respondence Aioany Lac
Journal.
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Are We Building Too Many Rail.
roads,
RAILROAD Gazette

whether We are building too many railroads
Is an extremely important question, which very
closely concerns the future of the country but
whether too many or not. there can be no cues
ton that the activity In that direction now as
a great and favorable immediate effect on the
business Of the country. The whole subject we
hope 10 consider further when we come to re-
view the construction OF the year. But We NAV
safely say that the construction now Is at rate
Which cannot possibly be kept up for many
years without grave disaster. We chronicle
this week the construction OF G. 1879 miles since
the first OF January. and when all the inform
alton has been collected We shall find
PROBABLY that something like Z 600 miles
or railroad have been completed during
the year. an amount that has only once been
exceeded, and which IS equivalent to an
Increase OF fully eight per cent In the total
mileage OF the country, while the annual IN
~ per cent, and with the Unprecedented tmmi-
grafton or this year can not have been more
than 8 per cent. The inevitable result is that
there Is a smaller number OF people TO support
a nile OF railroad. AT the beginning Of 1Ss0
tnere were about SOC people In the United States
10 che mile or railroad; at its end there were
Only $50. Already for long time we have had
a much larger proportion OF railroad to popula-
uon IMAM any other country; and though there
may De circumstances, which Ia this country
quite frequently occur, where comparatiyely
few people can support a railroad, because It's
service Is OF extraordinary value to them vet
this process OF reducing the number OF persons
per mile cannot go on forever. The construc-
Gon In ls.9 was about $50 miles. The eject
OF the additional construction OF 500 miles over
1879. ana OF 600 miles over 1875 when aIraady
this industry had begun to recover on many
Important industries, and on the demand for
labor, has OF course been great. All the adult
the work or railroad construction In this cOun.
Try IN the year, to say nothing OF the produc
ton OF the materials used In construction.
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DECEPTION IN FURS.
The Skin Of a Very Com mon Animal
Sold Under Assumed Names.

indianapolis NeTs.l
Whlle Stfolling along the streets OF indian
apolis the other day, our reporter, in dusty
coDweooy window. saw piece of card board
-FOUR or i've inches square. on which was writ
ten, Pure skunk Oil aud coon OIL" moth
eaten, weather beaten coon skin hung above
the u0Or, which the reporter entered.
What do people buy skunk Oil for" said
the proprietor In his answer, repeating the
question. why, they buy It for rheumatism
and, say, It never fails 10 cure" The reporter
heard there were many worthless limitations
abroad, and was shown pint naSk Of an oily
liquid OF the color Of linSeed OIL The fluid had
DO more ana no worse odor than lard Oil. 1--WE
seal to all sorts OF people, white, black and vel
soN, the richest and the poorest the pro-
prietor continued This Oil We get from the
sk1ns-thats as much OF the skunk as 1 get
ana tAe yield Is usually about four GU noes to
the skin. sometimes we get half q pint and
sometimes, though seldom, as much as a pint
10 the pelt. There's no more than one skin In
thousand thatll yield pint OF OIL The AMI
MAJ Is thin In flesh In summer, but very fat in
winter. Skunk hides, last year. the best
quality, were worth from sl.75 to 81 each. They
Will not De worth much more than half as
much this year. handled 1900 skunk skins
last year nearly all OF which were caught in
lndl The animal abounds In southern and
central Indiana. There are a few In this
county, not many. The skins have been wOrt h
as much as $3.50, but they'll never see that
price agafn-nOt very SoOn ct least.
-" Is there any danger of the skunk crop In
This state becoming eXhausted?" "None at all.
A skunk will have from three to seven young
AT q lltter-uSually about five. Eve been a fur
buyer for forty two years. and there are more
skunkS In this state now than ever. There Is
a prejudice against the animal. which makes
IL necessary to sell the fur TO ladies who wear
1t under several pretty aliases. among which
are fitch, and American sable Besides being
mace into muffs and trimmings, the skins are
largely used In making fine carriage robes"
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a ass,. ne Is familiar with the furrowed i'm
ppren. a OF flnger-mark; but 1t Is not so gen.
Si gro known that the character OF the print
va les considerably for each individual. Indeed,
person can be readily and faithfully identified
by the marks of his thumbs when other physi-
cal peculiaIfties are aU fault Had the finger
II alks of the genuine Roger Tichborne been
archives OF that noble and notorious family,
the iGteTminable question OF his identity with
the person called the Claimant might have
been solved in moment and the time and
money and judicial eloquence wasted on it
might have been saved The slender
young Roger with the melancholy eyes
might grow into the adpose elderly party
now recovering his original agility en- the
wholesome regimen OF Dartmoor Prison; but the
wavy lines Of Rogers thumb would never alter
into the likeness OF the Claimants. The per
sonal development OF generation seems to
epidermfs. In general, the print OF mans
finger differs from that Of womans, and a
HinGus from a Europeans, but individual Diff
Ierences are So marked, even in the same
family. that 1t would be unsafe to pronounce
any given signature TO be that Of a male or a
female, Hid or an Eng .ishman. 1t is In this
Individuality OF the impression that Its value as
true sign manual lies, because this property
prevents It's being forged. Fer more than 20
years the method has been used with great sue
cess liz India by MIR. w. l. Herschell, who Low
prevent desertion and In the English prisons TO
identity the Criminals Mr.. Herschell tried L.
f1rst on the Indian government pensioners, (and
Tor OTientals, who seem so much alike TO the
european eye, there Is special advantage In
employing it:) then he tried 1t In several regis
tration offices, where IL ''put summary stop
to the very idea Of either personafon or repuoi-
ation," and lifted the cloud OF suspicion which
alu avs hangs over such Offices In India
Finally, he introduced II into the JAIL 10y max
Ing each prisoner sign with MS fing:r: and auy
Olflclal visitor could thereafter satisfy himself
n an Instant OF the identity OF the man before
him.
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Regulating Railroad Regulnttons.

Regulating Railroad Regulations.
An English statute provides that - railway
company may make regulations for certain ex-
press purL oses, and generally for regulating the
travelling upon or using and working OF the rail-.
way. A bylaw OF a railway company provided
that mo passenger will be allowed to enter any
carriage used on the railway or to travel therein
upon the railway, unless furnished by the com
pany with ticket specifying the class OF car
rage and the stations for conveyance between
which such ticket is issued. Every passenger
shall show and deliver up his ticker {Whether a
contract or season ticket or otherwise) to any
duly authorized servant OF the company, when
ever required TO do SO cor any purpose. Any
passenger travelling without q ticket, or falling
or refusing to show or deliver up his ticket as
aforesaid. shall be required TO pay the fare from
the station whence the train originally started
to the end OF the Journey. A passenger, With
out fraud, refused 10 show his season ticket on
passing over station platform of the company
TO which his ticket applied. and was convicted
by magistrate under this by law In the amount
OF the fare from the starting place of the train
by which be had just travelled, held. that this
bylaw was void for unreasonableness In the
amount fixed for the penalty, and that the con-
viction must be acknowledgement High Court
nT Y,ycf
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q. tae demand of scientifically quickens,d

Of the demand OF q scientifically quickeneo
age! Prof. Hufeland laid down with acmirapis
insight the rules OF healthful living, the resoG
OF patient years OF observation OF subject HISS
understood 100 years ago than now. Ceitaer ~
lions or the mere feeding and grooming or the
human body. He recognizes that the
physical man cannot be separated from
his higher moral object, aud he thinks
that 1T VIII heighten the value OF the moral
laws IN the eyes OF many by showing that they
are indispensably necessary for the physical
support and prolongation OF nfe that without
moral cultivation man is In continual contra
diction with his own nature: and that by cul-
ture alone be becomes even hysically perfect
Perhaps no more pithy and complete sum
mary OF the rules for attaining long life was
ever made than this by Pluiarch: Keep your
head cool and your feet warm; instead OF en-
ploying medicine for every indisposition. rather
fast a day: and while you attend 10 the body
never neglect the mind. "-Sprinlneid RepHtls-
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~
HE
HE FRENCH REPUBLICAN
LEADER.
NJ. Gambetta's Achievements-Hi
Past Services to France q Guar.
ahtee of the Future.

NJ. Gambetta's Achievements-Hi
Past services TO France u Guar.
antee OF the Future.
In editorially commenting upon the recently
issued volume Of NJ. Gambetta's speeches, the
London Times says: 'It Is impossible az the
present time to say anything about France aud
ereLcs TO the name OF M. Gampttta. In all
home and foreign questions, the frst
thing asked is, what does II. Gambetta
think, what does he wish, what viii he
DO? BIS position and influence upon the minds
OF his countrymen are inconteStable. How are
we 70 account for them? What has this
man. young still as years are counted among
politicians. done that ne should thus take rank
as al undoubted leader OF men? How comes it
that his highest words are listened to aud
weighed and taken into account az giving the
best oDtainable clue TO the course watch France
Will follow; that his unexpressed wishes seem
to fulfill themselves: that his presumed favor or
disfayOr have certain anc Immediate influence
upon the i0rtuneSo OF ministry; that, 10 word,
he hOidS In his hand The reality OF power, While
he declines the responsibility which the cut
ward possession OF power would bring VITA lt?
His past career is the sufficient explanation OF
IL all He Is no untried man. France,
during the public life OF GambeJta, has gone
through the darkest period OF ner mis-
tory. During the general despair which
almost alone among Frenchmen never de-
SPARED. To the very last he was the center and
hope OF the French resistance. Successful he
was not. The protraction of the struggle en-
tailed only more severe suffering and more un-
favorable terms OF peace, when Submission had
at length become Inevitable. But France now
stands higher In the estimation Of Europe than
If she had given way earlier, while she had still
some resources available and some ground left
to do battle On. The moral credit she has pre-
served is due In 10 small degree to the force
with which NJ. Gambetta inspired her. To the
now dominant political party In France he had
doDe good service before 1870, and he has done
good service since. But 1870 was, so to say, the
test year OF his career. To the charge OF now
shrinking from responsibility he can oppose
arises, his country knows where she may look
Tor the like firm guidance and irrepressible en-
ergY of resource.
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The Wife Anxious to Please.

Dearest, do you know you grieve me
More than / can well express:
You are lovely, but believe me,
Something y wrong about your dress.
1t may be the height of fashion,
What, in fact, is always worn;
But-dOn't get into a passion
Change it ERE the morrow morn "
Like kind, Obedient lady,
Straight the good wife went, I ween,
Robed herself in yesture shady,
Faced him in a sad sage green
Quoth she, bowling to correction,
g Here IS the last aesthetic fad'";
Said he, with wild interjection.
Bless me, dear, you must be mad"
Then she wore jeysey, fitting
Like an eel-skin all complete,
With skirt so tight that sitting
Was an agoniZing feat
Crled she with supreme con viction.
i bis, think, will suit the men;
1t was not benedction
That lie breathed upon her then,
Still she kept her temper sweetly,
And with agerayating smiles
Dressed herself-and did it neatly
In a mixture of az styles
Modern. classic, D lily Warden;
Then she brought him to his knees,
For he cried, g. beg your pardon;
Dress, IN future-as you pleased"
IPunch's Alp.nnG,
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Baroness COuGts, wedding "Forth.
COmingss Again.
ILondon Correspondence New York Times1

tLondon Correspondence New York Timesl
The marriage OF the Baroness Burdett-Coutts
WIN MT. Ashmead Bartlett having been
FINALLY postponed sine die, MT. bartlett hav-
Ing applied 10 have himself elected a member
OF the Bachelors Club, the whole business
most forgotten, am authorized 10 declare
after the manner OF the people In Gllberts far.
cical wedding Procession" that 1T is on
again." You may be sure that take no pleas
ure In making the announcement except sucr
pleasure as comes from giving you piece OF
exclusive fntelligence), seeing that my last
note about the baroness was the chronicling
OF Mr.. Bartletts intimation that IL was 'afl
on
Perhaps the young Anglo American sent ir
his name 70 the New Bachelors Club in order
10 mislead the press and put an end TO rumor.
be That as IL may, am I'm a position TO inform,
you that next month nearer the latter enc OF
II than the firsD Lady Burdett Coutts will DC
married 10 Mr.. Bartlett In. York Cathedral,
This famous church is selected for the ceremony
because IL is out or the diocese OF Canterbury.
whose archbishop, at the request or the Queen.
demonstrated with the Baroness about her de-
sire to marry.
The Rev. Henry White. OF the Savoy. viii be
the chief officiating minister. The lady gives
up her mouse In Strattan street. Holly Lodge
and all interest In Coutts bank The will of
the Duchess OF St Adams entorces these sac
r11ces In the event OF marriage. This Will was
made more than forty years ago 10 protect the
Baroness from the matrimonial Vaccinations
OF friend OF the Count d'Orsay. It excites
ODD reflections to think that bullet so
ohOitis Odct iuf utdu OI
years ago should 10 day bring down a young
American not then born.
IL is true that the other day. when consols
We're at par, the baroness sent the young fellow
100000 worth OF scrip. but not as consolation
tip" for broken-on marriage, but rather a
contribution ia advance. a tribe TO wheJ the
golden appetite. just as one gives a friend
oysters aud chablls TO lead up TO canvas back
ducks and champagne. III riches are the '.be
all and end all OF this life, Mr.. Bartlett is
greatly 10 be enyfed, for his 'lady-love" can
n fnr hp Ut rI,s
to become his wife, and stin have a prfncely
revenue left.
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Sluffing q ROv.

Yes, I'm going TO SKATE" he answered. "a
his teeth ratified together and his ears stood
out like sheet-iron medals. '.They tried to stuff
me with story OF a boy who frOze to de Atm on
the rink at the park, but wouldn't take it."
Ibid one freeze to death?n
NAV! Come to find out about It. he lust
foze his ears and nose and fingers and toes.
and the rest OF his body wasn't touched at ali!
hOrrOrl"-Detr0it free Press. -
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STRANGE ELECTRIC DIsTURBASCE.-A Telegram,
TO the ". Z. Herald. from Omaha Neb. Jan. q
says: During the last twenty-f0ur hours q
singular atmospheric phenomenon, known as
The annual electric storm. has been raging be-
tween Omaha an6 ogden. During that time
The telegraph wires have been useless through
that region. The storm was accom-
panied by snow and high winds over eight
hundred miles, between Omaha ana Green
River. The Intensity OF the storm IS shown
opentd 10y the operator a steady electric lICht
burned at the connecting points. It is now
practically over, and the wires are again open
L. ID. korty. Chief operator OF the mon Pacific
telegraph lines, has kept record for years aud
with but one exception In twelve years. this
storm occurred on the 9Th, 9Th or 9Th or jan
uary. lt Is believed that the entire Rocky
Mountain region is visited by them. These,
storms have attracted the notice OF electricians
and scientific men generally
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GERMANS FOR THE Superintendent Ger.
man immigrants arrived at New Orlaans last
week and were Immediately placed at work IN
fnstalment is expected Ia q few days and the
agent VINO went over to Germany writes that
OWING TO the number of applications, they were
aDle 10 PICK the best carpenters and ium6ermen
M Ine country. The New Orleans paDers ex-
press the opinion that the tide OF German immi.
Grauon ID about to set toward the sonfh.-
charleston Netos, sd. WV 'S~S''-
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THB AMERICAS CUP.-The London Field, De-
cenoer Is, publishes history of the Americas
glad to find that English yachtsmen are again
taking an interest ia the cup won at CoweS BY
the America In 1851. We have been asked sew
eral times OF late concerning the conditions
under which challenge has 10 be made and
We feel pretty sure If 1t were made certain that
two or three E3gle-handed matches with the
same vessel could be sailed for the cup that
some some British yachtsman would make chal-
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PAINTING A CORPsE.-Miss Barbara Ita,seld O
young lady who died few days ago In the
western part Of the city, and whose corpse was
SO Iiehke that some people. seeing rosy tint
belief that she was in trance, as a matter of
precautlon WaS not buried but deposited In a
vault with the coffin lid loose. The physician
saIe1Ung her, however, was well enough sat
nave investigated the cause of the lifelike an
pearance OF the flesh have had revealed to them
new art, the invention Of an undertaken. who.
Dy tne use OF sulphuric acid and other AGENTS
10 enabled to give q temporary bloom TO the
cheeks OF the dead, instead OF the customarv
pall0r.-RalttnlOYe Sun, eth.