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Guiteau is again making himself conspicuous by
MS iantiStlc featS in the courtroom. These demon
STATIONS do not Show insanity so much as unpar-
aileled vanity IL would seem that some means
eouid}e devised OF stopping these egotistical dis
plays.
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WANTED-SEvERAL AGENTS MALE AN
wv female, to sell by sample; salary or commission
Post Office Box GOT. nl5-6t
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WANTED-HELP.

WANTED-TwO OR THREE GOOD PLASTER
w Apply at corner Of I'D and streets north
west. D1T-2ts
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CEC0ND-HAND CLOTHING BOUGHT, AND THE
- highest cash prices paid Also. Watches, Jeweiry
Guns, Pistols. &C. Call or address HEkZOd 500 9th
strs~t near pepnzylsania avenue. NARA
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EoR sALE-THAT FINE BLOCK OF THREE.
Il story Brick Houses, 10th street between S and
streets northwest containing each eight rooms with
modern improvements; on long time, il desired. and
northwest nl6-6t
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VINO INVENTORS.
Il MONEY ADVANCED ON IMPORTANT and VAL
uABLE INVENTIONS. either before or after Patent.
Box S5. Star Office. dec3o
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NINE WASHINGTON,
ORES6MAKING AND THINNING STORE
l2ll PENNSYLVANIA AVE,
Dree4eaI Suifz Costumes. Ooaka &C., made In Gulo.
nor style It short notice. Ladies' have Dresses
and baseed. and perfect ut guaranteed. -
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The commission of inquiry sent by Gov Long to
Richmond TO investigate the conduct OF the Ninth
Massachusetts regiment In that city find that the
charges made against members OF that command
are substantially true. Gov. Long has directed the
colonel TO ascertain who the guilty members are.
WIN the view OF making them bear the penalty of
thelr mlSdeeds. In case OF failure to find out the
members who perpetrated the outrages in Rich
mond, it Is said the regiment will be disbanded nv
the governor
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Major Bundy makes an eloquent editorial appea]
- MS paper, the New York Mail, to the Forty-sev-
enth Congress to vote promptly to the widow and
children of Garfield the undrawn remainder of his
salary ior the first year Of his term, pension OF
$,0O a year, and the ranking privilege for Life.
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Cod Feet.

It is. as we have often labored to
show. a mistake to suppose there IS any
warmth in clothes. Animal heat is the
direct result OF changes go ng on with
in the BODY itself. Nutrt on by food
and the discharge OF energy by exercise
are the eificient causes OF helt. Got es
& seem good and warm because they
prev ent the cold air and objects with
capacity for heat which surround the
body from attracting the heat generated
within its organism. The clothing is
simply an insulator. 1t follows that it
should be light in weight. and above all
things that it should permit the free and
full circulation of blood through every
part OF the syst INTO the end
OF every finger ;ad toe-and that
the muscular apparatus of the ey-
tremities should be in perfect wor.l
ing order. Ii we will wear 10 It-cover-
ings whether boots or stockings, which
com press the feet and render the epa-
rate action of each toe impossible. it is
simply absurd to expect to be warm
footed. Heat is the complement OF
work and nutrition, and if a D irt of the
organism is s. hound til.t. i. calas,Ot
work, and its supply OF iood is limited,
it must be cold. The resort to stouter
and heavier cloth ng under such cir
cumstances is siinpl, rili u,ous. Gen
erlily it is the stockings that com rcss
the feet. The g .rter a Is as a ligature,
and diminishes the b!ood-sup5lv, wnije
the stocging itself acts as bandage,
and impedes the circulation through
the eXtgC2l.t C5.---I0.tttI.. Lt..G..G..
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Sleep.


There is no fact more clearly esuao-
lished i'll the PHI siology of man than
this, that the brain expends its energies
and itself during the hours of wakeful-
ness, and that these are recuperated
during sleep; if the recuperation does
not equal the expenditure the brain
withers; this is insanity. Thus it is
that in early English history persons
who were condemned to death by being
prevented from sleeping, always died
raving maniacs; thus it is also that those
who are s. s'arved to death become in
sane; the brain is not nourished and
they cannot sleep. The practical infer
ences are three:
Those who think most, who do most
brain work, require most sleep.
That time saved from necessary
sleep is infallibly destructive to mind.
body and estate.
Give yourself, your children, your
servants, give all who are under YOU
the fullest amount of sleep they will
take by compelling them to go to bed
at some regular, early hour, and to rise
in the morning the moment they awake
of themselves, and within fortnight
nature, with almost the regularity OF
the rising sun. will unloose the bonds
o sleep the moment enough repose has
been secured for the wants of the sys-
ten. This is the only safe and sufficient
rule, aud as to the question how much
sleep any one requires, each must be a
rule for himself; great nature viii nev-
er fail to write it out to the observer,
under the regu lations Just given.
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or inquiring whether it means a. m. or
p. m. The only disadvantage it has is
that all the watches and clocks are ad-
justed and figured for the twelve-hour
system, but with person not absolutely
stupid at figures it would be no trouble
to make the calculations mentally, or
watch and clock dials could have the
additional figures marked in an inner
circle to those already on the dial. But
it would be but little while until all the
the mind, and to say eighteen O'Clock
would convey a certain meaning to the
mind Just as much as when we now say
six O'Clock p. m.
As we said before, the railroad mana
gers of the country have the matter of
time in their own hands. They fix it
for the country, can introduce this sys-
tenn, and greatly simplify their time
tables, besides reducing the cost of
printing them, and give them in more
compact form. We have suggested such
change to number of our railroad
friends, and while they all appear to
wonder that time-cards can not be
readily understood by the public, they
quickly concede that the system above
described would be simpler and not lia-
BILE to be misunderstood, and that the
adoption of it by one of the great
through lines of the country would bring
it into general use at once. The COM
panies, too, could count upon the active
cooperation of all the printers in max
ing the public familiar with the change,
for these a. ms and p. ms cause no
end of swearing every time time-card
is set up in every Office in the land.
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n the rear Of the fast-retreating herd.

n the rear o. the faSt-fetreaLing nero.
Lec'e ere and Dutch followed hard upon
his heels. but the colder biooded McXi
cans remained 10 skin the buiialoes the
little party had slain.
Meanwhile. Win had given himself up
for lost But he looked his per- IN the
face, with a courage begotten OF life
among dangers.
Suddenly, a desperate thought oc-
CURED to him. He had heard drovers
end trappels tell OF Indian hunters whose
mode of killing bufaloes was by
running on Their backs, jun ping from
one to another. and spearing them IS
they ran. Way could not he esca e
that wa? The animals We're close TO-
gether, and, though missteo would b.
fatal, to remain N his pres Mt position
WAS eerta n death.
A dense c.oId of black dust hur,,
over he herd. through which naught
was visible but the tossing sea beasts
near him. He, there. ore, had no idea
how many of the animals intervened
between himself AID safety. H
ten but the stumbling OF his iots. de-
cided him to make the attempt.
More thoughtful than most boys
ike his, he unbualSied his horse : . ',,!e
and tied it ardun lis u (ei'.cn
"a 7 Cd -tta0pe % i btc J, aRdl ',
geUt " cd rs sadd onrp thr tt.rse :
wi hers. he loose | Tue >i.'tn i.sd ,et
fall to the ground, intending, shou,d he
succeed in making his escape, TO 90
bae1 and pick it up. He now rose to
his teet on the horses back, holding to
leaped to the nearest buffalo, holding
his gun, like a balancing pole. in both
hands.
The animal plunged, but ne jumped
to the next and the next, like Z iza
crossing the Ohio on the ice in ''Une3e
Tom Cabin He had accomplished
half the distance, when one of the buf-
faloes. see ne him coming, jumped to
one side. The boy fell between, but
dropped his gun IN time to grasp the
animal by its long hair, and with ditii
Guilty he climbed upon the terrified and
| plunging creature and jumped des-
perately on till he rea, h.t the outs de
Of the herd, when he led II the ground
and rolled over and over, with his head
/ swim ming ana a heart leaping FOR Joy.
! He was yet in danger from the stram-
g iefS on the eu9e OF Ihe neft, nuG the
/ cloud of dust and the animals it OBJ
scured passed by and faded into q
smoke-like billow, leaving him unin-
| jured.
Ten minutes after, Grocer and his
two followers galloped up and, to their
! great 10Y, found the boy unhurt beyond
/ Il f. Y bruises.
/ VIII rode home behind his father 5
/ saddle. but whe her OF not the advent
ure hid an effect for good on his stub
! born nature the chronicle saith not.
| Let us hope it had.--F. IN0,s tCtjJ White,
! in st. NjchOJus.
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A Famous French Seigneur.

THE most striking type Of what the
nobility of France was during the last
century is to be found in the person of
Baudry d'Asson. This gentleman owns
immense property and extended tracts
of land in Brittany, in a part of France
which railroads have not yet reached,
and where the telegraph is unknown. He
there reigns almost as in feudal times.
His castle sits on the top of the hill, and
looks as proudly and defiantly down on
more modern constructions as its owner
is taught to look on therest of mankind.
So great is the reverence of the inhabit-
ants of the country for this representa-
tive of an ancient race of privileged
lords, that he lives and rules as q mon
arch, and no Government official has
been able to combat his authority.
Baudry d'Asson Is what is called q
sportsman, spends his time hunting, and
owns 800 dogs, number of which are
at present at the Jardin d'Acolimation,
and can be seen by the public. He Or
ganiZes at his chateau grand hunting
parties, when he has whole regiment
Of servants dressed in the hunting livery
of royal days, and ladies accompany the
gay cavalier in costumes of red velvet
shItl 1OLS PAuuuCo III tACli hd1o, oheA
gloves and collars such as worn in the
days of Louis. Everything, in fact, is
performed ON grand and liberal scale,
and the magnificence, and elegance, land
the almost unlimited power of the chate-
lain over his dominion carry one back q
century or two, and he forgets that the
feudal days are past and that humanity
Is busy treading social barriers under
foot. Baudry d'Asson, like all grand
seigneurs, refuses himself nothing. He
Is the direct descendant of the famous
"Blue Beard" the hero and heroine o1
our infantile days, and he possesses him
self handsome, long, fac, black beard
which adds much towards strengthen
ing the rumor. He is what may be
called bon garcon, is neither vindictivt
nor cruel, Is, in fact, gentle in his man
ners, but he does not differ from othel
members of that society which he repre-
sents, and is dull and unintelligent
with no taste for anything outside o
dogs and hunting, and whenever he doe
appear at the tribune his speeches art
not only absurd and illiterate, but arr
spread over great sheets of paper in let
ter so large that six-year- old chilt
could read them-Poris Letter 10 Sacra
| 7ne1lfO Bee
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The Thermograph-A New Invention
In Medical Science.

A NEW instrument has just been in
troduced to the medical profession,
from the use Of which we may anticipate
results of great scientific importance.
It is named the thermograph, and its
purpose is to continuously record the
changes of the temperature of the body.
The principle upon which it is based is
easily understood, and may be briefly
explained as follows: A cooled spring
is made of two lamall9 of brass and
steel, the brass forming the outer part
of the coil. This spring is fixed in the
center, but the free end presses gently
against the contents of a short vulcanite
tube. As the temperature of the appar-
atus rises the metal coil expands, and
the pressure exerted by the free end
varies and always corresponds to the
temperature. The vulcanite tube is
filed with powder composed of plum
bago, gas carbon and silver, in finely
divided condition. The electrical con-
ductivity of this mixture changes with
the pressure to which 1t is subjected.
Wires from an electric battery are con-
nected so that the current passes through
the powder, and it will therefore be un-
derstood that with the rise and fall of
the temperature, and the consequent
changes in the pressure of the coil upon
the powder, the intensity of the current
will vary. 1t is now only necessary to
arrange q means of recording these al
terations in the current, and this has
been done in very ingenious
manner. A wire helix, of special con-
struction, forms part of the circuit,
and into this soft iron core is passed,
free to move ur or down. The position
of the core is governed by the strength
of the current, and as the core rises and
falls it communicates motion to an in
dex, which records its position contin-
uously upon q moving strip of paper.
The battery and the recording part OF
the instrument are placed in a neat cast
iron case, while the coil is inclosed in q
German silver case about an inch and a
quarter in diameter. To use the ther-
mograph it is only necessary to place
the little case in the axilla of the patient,
and a continuous record of the temper
ature Is thus obtained. Already the in
strument has revealed q minor heat
curve characteristic of typhoid fever,
and the physician is therefore enabled
to determine upon diagnosis much
sooner than would otherwise be possible
The course of the disease is permanent
ly recorded, the slightest modification OF
variation caused by exposure or by the
remedies administered being revealed
and the effects of the latter can be close
ly followed. Moreover, definite instruc
tons may be left with the nurse ir
charge, who would be directed to watcl
the Indicator and to be governed by i
in the use of remedies. The invento
believes that the instrument will alst
prove to be of great service in the scienc
of meteorology, for it will indicate ant
record the slightest changes in the tenn
perature of the air, and on account of it
low cost, only about $50, it can be OK
tensively used in the Signal Service.
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A SImpIified Timetable.

THE Chillicothe (O.) Gazette presents
10 the railway managers of the country
the following suggestions for simplified
form OF timetable:
The railway managers of the country
are the live, active men Of the day, and
are not rs rule those who carry dead
weight because their fathers did. Yet,
in their time-cards, they all carry an
incumbrapce that positively confuses
the uniniti.,t-G. Not one man in fifty
can take al ordilary time-card and, in
the multiplicity OF a. ms and p. ms
dittoing as they do FROM the top and the
bottom OF the card, figure out the time
from New York to st. Louis or Chicago
without becoming confused aud uncer-
tain, and from New York 70 San Fran
cisco It becomes positive impossibility
with many more. Not only this, but
the railroad companies pay thousands
OF dollars every year for the setting up
of these letters by the printers, and for
the cardboard and paper on which they
are printed, besides making their time
cards large and cumbersome.
II Is within the power of the COM
panies to get rid Of these letters. They
now furnish the standard time to the
whole country. There is no more rea-
son why there should be two twelve
o'clocks in one day than there Is why
there should be two twelve mile posts
on n twenty-four mile railroad. Prac-
tically the day commences at midnight,
consists Of twenty-four hours, and ends
the next night Mt midnight. By ac-
knowledging that fact and dividing the
day into hours and minutes, numbering
consecutively up to twenty-four hours,
the record of time would be greatly
simplified. Thus, instead, of saying
1915 a. m, we would give the time as
fifteen minutes, written .15, showing
that It was the fifteenth minute of the
day. Instead Of saying 1890 a. m,
80, or in the same manner for any
number of minutes up to l O'Clock,
which hour would be written instead
of n. m. The same rule would be fol-
lowed up, emitting the n. m. and p. m.
up to ~ 80. What we call O'Clock p.
m, under the new system we would call
thirteen o'clock or thirteenth hour
! 80 p. m. would be 1890; z
o'clock p. m, IL, and so on up "a
twenty-four.
The system might sound little odd
at first, but the ear would soon become
accustomed to II, and 1t has the positive
convenience that any figures which may
be written can designate but one time
81 day, and that Is certain as soon q.
you see or bear them, without searching
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Dangerous Sport With a Lasso.

The tomfoolery often indulged by
yaaueros on horseback came near caus-
ing tragedy at the Mormon Ranch last
week. A party of vaqueros were lasso-
ing each other, sticking brush under
their horses tails and otherwise amusing
themselves, when one Of their number,
named Hawkins, himself on horseback,
threw brush under horse ridden by a
Mexican. As soon as he did 1t he put his
horse to run to get out Of the way, but
the Mexican's lariat was to quick for
him, and he was spatched out of his sad
dies senseless. Restoratives were ap-
piled, but it was three hours before he
regained consciousness. He carries yet
big red stripe around the neck, where
the rope marked him. That kind OF
sport will have no charm In the future.
Homer (Ayizona) Inder.
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and it can be saved only as by FIRE. So
il is. IN a true sense, with the .nlivi3 /
al He who does not have wa and
where ore in the things ne owns is not
oniy m ssing the real enjoyment and
service oi lie is not only eXertlng upon
others an influence which Is the reverse
of beneficial. but is also unconsciously
betraying his own most serious detects,
and showing to every thoughtful be-
holder that his life has entered upon
"decline and fall not less true than
that Of the Roman Empire. s. S. Inns.
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Cur YGIng Readers.
4 SECRET

" NA'r'rs. I've secret Willv said:
. Tell it, then, before you go TO bed"
g. Take me in your arms first. ma NINA degr.''
q" Wen, sir. now the secret ieT me hear.''
+" VIII you promise, mamma, not to teIl?-
q" Ay, sir, and FL keep my promise well.''
s' In whisper must tell II low
" Well. You rogue, your secret let me know
g Are you sure you'u keep it safe and sound?''
" Ay, so safe tha- ii SHAH lot be found"
" Then. bring nearer to my mouth your ear .
Nov, then: - Hush! love you, mamma
dear.'
- Oh you rogue. I'll shake you now-I will!'
Z" Shake away-but shall love you still
-idG Fay in Nursery
UUI CporEFR AND THE FIFE.
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4 Poor Printers Only Love.

A PORTION of the facts in regard to a
romantic and tragic love affair have
come to our knowledge through corre-
spondence, and we are not aware that
the story has yet been published in
Eastern papers. About two years ago
young printer in Belfast, named
Frederick Carter. married and went to
Montana with his bride There he OBJ
tanned work in printing oifico. and
soon became the intimate friend OF an
other compos.tor in the same p, ace.
Through Mr.. and Mrs. Carter the
printer friend (whOse name we have
not yet learned), began a correspond
ence with Mrs. Carriers sister, a Young
and good looking lady named Mary
Riggs, then residing in Belfast. Ere
quent letters were exchanged, and,
though the young couple had never
seen each other, they became more in
terested in one another. At last the
composition, who had saved m oney, pro-
posed to marry Miss Riggs; she accept
ed, and he paid her fare to Montana,
and spent considerable money for her
outfit, furniture, etc. She went to that
distant territory and the time was at
once set for the marriage, but the young
lady delayed; then Il second date was
fixed, but at last she told the young
man that she did not like him and could
not marry him. He was deeply in love
with her, and his disappointment was so
keen that he committed suicide by shoot
ing. g.-Bang0r (1fe.) Commercial.
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4 Pleasant VI tiOd OF Travelling.

For those who desire to see Alaska in
its best aspect, canoe travein : is one
OF the pleasanCest known means of
iourneying through the country. With
Indians for Guides, the VOYAGE can be
easily undertaken. The larger canoes
made by these Indians will carry from
one to three tons, rise lightly over any
waves likely to be met on those in,
land channels, 90 we'll under sail, anil
are easily padded along shore in calm
water or against moderate wind, while
snug harbors, where they may ride at
anchor or be pulled up on Il smooth beach,
are to be found almost evorVwhere.
With plenty of provisions lacked in
boxes. and blankets, and W. IN cloth
ing in rubber or canvas bags, YOU may
be truly independent, and enter I'M o part
nership with nature; be carried with
the winds and curreuts, accept the no
BILE invitations offered all along YOUR
way to enter the sublime rock portals
of the mountain floods. the homes of
the waterfalls and the glaciers, and
encamp every night in fresh, leafv
coves, carpeted with iio y, r ename.cd
mosses bene.th wide out-Sorenh n
branches of the oye'greens. accnmm
dations com arel with which the brs
20 be found IN artircjalpalaces are trus
vulgar and mean.-ErchdmJe.
-
About six miles west OF Beowawe
Station, on the Central Paciic Road,
there is II true geyser on the side of a
mountain, or rather forty of them. The
one which throws the highest stream
is only about an inch and n half in Il,
ameter, but at intervals pf thirty IN u
utes it casts up boiling waterto aheiri,'
Of twenty-five feet. A lot of others gus
up in the vicinity over about forty acres
| of ground.
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HELIGoLAND is the most celebrated
station in the world for studying the
migration of birds. This little island is
hardly hundred acres in extent--an
isolated, triangular rock of red sand
stone, with perpendicular ellis two or
three hundred feet in height all round
it. 1t is mostly cultivated, and its resi-
lent birds are hardly more than II dozen
species; but in spring and autumn mi
grating birds make it u resting place,
and these are watched for, and shot or
trapped, by almost the whole pooula-
ton, and the results have been carefully
chronicled for the last twenty five wears
by Mr.. Gatke, an experienced resident
ornitho iogist. The amazing result is,
that as many species of birds have been
obtained in this minute islet Us in any
country in Europe; while the vast num-
Der of the migrating llocks is shown by
the fact that $1,000 larks have some-
times been caught in one night