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PATEN rs.
GEORGE E. LEMON, Atty at Law,

WASHINGTON, D. c.
Send sketch or model for Preliminary Examination
and Opinion as to Patentabty, for which No Charge
made. If reported paentabe charge for services
Unless Successful. Send for Pamphlet of Instructions
ESTABLISHED IN 1865.
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DeSertiOn

from regiment vessel and enlistment In another
not bar to pension in where the wound disease
injury incurred while in the service of the United
States, and in the line of duty.
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House OF REPRESENTATIVES,

WASHINGTON, D. c., Hdrch-, 1875.
From several years acquaintance with Captain GEORGE
z, LEMON of this city, cheerfuy commend him 8
gentleman of integrity and worth and well qualified to
attend to the collection of Bounty and other claims
against the Government His experience in that line
give bin superior advantages
w. p. SPRAGUE, NJ. c.,
Fifteenth District of Ohio.
JAS d. STRAWBRIDGE, NJ. c.,
Thirteenth District of Pennsylvania
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Land Warrants.

Survivors of all wars from 1890 March g. 1855 and
certain heirs entitled hundred sixty acres
of land not already received Soldiers of the late war
not entitled.
Land warrants purchased for cash the highest mar.
ket rates, and assignments perfected.
Correspondence invited.
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Prisoners of War.
oney promptly collected.
Furlough RationS.
Horses Lost in Service.

Amounts due collected without unnecessary della
Such claims be collected without the urlough
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House OF REPRESENTATIVES,

House REPRESENTATIVES,
WASHINGTON, D. c., March T. 1875
We, the undersigned having acquaintance with
Captain GEORGE Z. LEMON for the past few years and
knowledge of the systematic manner in which he con-
ducts his extensive business and of his reliability for fair
and honorable dealings connected Herewith eheerly
commend him to claimants generally.
A. V. RICE, Chairman,
Committee Irdlid Pensions, House Reps.
W. F. SLEMONS, NJ c.,
Second District Of Ark~
W. p LYNDE VI. c.,
Fourth District Of VIA.
r. w. TOWNSHEND, Nj. c.,
Nineteenth District Of H.
Hs@ Any person desiring information as to my stand
and responsibility will request be furnished with
satisfactory reference in his vicinity Congressional
District.
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Claims of this character promptly attended to. Ma
claims of this character have been enormously reject
Correspondence in such is respectfully invited
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The first death in the family circle is sad
event-one long to be sorrowed over; one never
10 be forgotten. 1t is the second great epoch
found in the history Of home.
From it the time is counted. I" 1t was in the
year baby died." signs the mother. "The spring
before baby was taken from us we were so happy"
murmurs, the father. "Just after baby died
grandma came to see u.s." the children say; and
so the years and days, weeks and months of the
years are numbered as time adds link after link
to the elastic chain stretching toward eternity.
BY and by the childish forms put on the gar
ments of youth, and anon blossom out into the
full rounded proportions of young manhood and
wOmanhood.
The father and the mother, growing old, behold
their lives renewed in their children. They see
them taking up the burden of living cheerfully,
hopefully, ioyously. They see them like the
swallows whose nests are built underneath the
caves, fly away one by one from home upon voy-
ages of discovery and watch out for them as they
return ladened with the sights and sounds picked
up in the great outer world.
Ere long comes on the great event Kitty, or
Winnie or Lulu is to be married. The day is
set. Then there are mysterious consultations
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GEORGE E. LEMON.

OFFICES, 6i5 Fifteenth ST., Citizens National Banks
WASHINGTON, DC.
P. o. DRAWER 325.
Pensions.
however slight the disability apply thousands
entitled.
Heirs.
Widows minor children, dependent mothers father.
and minor brothers and sisters in the order named are
entitled.
War of 1912.
All surviving officers and soldiers of this war whether
in the Military Naval service of the United States who
served fourteen 90 days; if in battle or skrrnish
for less period and the widows of such have nos
remarked entitled to pension of eight dollars
month Proof of loyalty is longer required these
claims.
Increase of Pensions.
Pension laws more liberal now than formerly ana
many now entitled to higher rate than they receive
for services in claims for increase of pension where
new disability is alleged unless successful in procuring
the increase
Restoration to Pension Roll.
Pensioners who have been qnjustIy dropped from tia
from by of failure draw their pension for Pc
NOD OF three years or by of reenlstment may
have their pensions renewed by corresponding with ths
house.
Desertion
from regiment vessel and enlistment in anothe7
is not bar to pension in where the disease
injury incurred while in the service of the United
States and in the line of duty.
Land Warrants.
Survivors of all wars from 1890 to March g. 1855 and
certain heirs are entitled to one hundred and sixty
OF land not already received Soldiers of the late war
not entitled.
Land purchased for at the highest mar.
ket rates, and assignments perfected.
Correspondence invited.
Prisoners of War.
Ration money promptly collected.
Furlough Rations.
Amounts due collected without unnecessary delay.
Such claims cannot be collected without the furough
Horses Lost in Service.
Claims of this character promptly attended TO- Many
claims of this character have been rejected
Correspondence in such cases respectfully invited.
Bounty and Pay.
Collections promptly made
Property taken by the Army in States
not in Instruction.
Claims of this character will receive special attention.
provided they filed before January 1880 If nos
filed prior to that date they barred by statute of i
tation.
Naval claims oevery description procure Patents Trade
Marks Copyrights attend to business before the General
Land Office and other Bureaus of the Interior Depart
ment, and all the Departments of the Government.
We invite correspondence from all interested assuring
them of the utmost prompttude energy and thorough
ness IN all matters intrusted to our hands.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10
ONE EYE A TELESCOPE. THE OTHER
A MICROSCOPE.

a Hartford dispatch to the New York
Times says: Last winter gentleman liv-
ing near Litck field took his daughter, l6
years of age, ON a sleigh-ride. The day
was cold, but very sunny. On their return
the girl complained of her eyes. The trou-
BILE grew worse, and finally the girl was
kept in dark room, and there remained
with no ray of light until few days ago,
when she experienced peculiar sensation,
which she describes as follows g 1t seemed
as if my eyes were running out, or part Of
them. Putting my hand up to my eyes 1
could feel something coming out over my
lower eyelids, which 1 took hold of and
pulled out. It gave me some pain to do
SO, but almost Immediately my eyes felt
better. Instead of smarting sensation
when I winked, they felt cool and natural.
and it was pleasure to wink them. Then
came the thought: "Why, my eyes are
better, and l believe I could bear the
light which thought was SO impressed
upon my mind that determined to try.
Hesitatingly l opened the door, when to
my great Joy found that was able
to bear the light as well as I ever
could. The feeling that came over
me at the moment that | found
out that could once more leave the dark,
dismal room and see the glorious sunlight
again was so overpowering that l gave one
scream for Joy and then tainted away"
Now comes the strangest part of the story.
Six months ago the girls eyes were straight
and natural now the girl is cross-eyed,
but she pays no attention to that. She
sees things just the same as she always
did, but let her close her right eye and
look out of only her left eye and she can
see distance of eight or ten miles, and
distinguish things as well as an ordinary
person can only sixty rods away. She is
able to look clear to the lake, distance of
three and half miles, and identify any one,
describing their dress even. The distant
hills are brought close to her, and she can
see the farmers getting in their hay, even
counting the number of heaps, which in an
air line are seven miles from her. To test
her field. glass was used, and her sight
would far outreach any object that could
be seen with the glass. If she closes her
left eye and looks out of the right, then she
cannot see anything except close to her,
but that eve is a perfect microscope. She
is able to distinguish things that the
natural eye cannot see. The point
of a needle looks as blunt as a
crowbar, and it is wonderful to hear her
describe the beautiful colors of flies and
other insects. To her the hairs on a per-
sons head look as large as darning needles,
and in the finest piece of linen she can
count the threads as easily as any one can
count bean poles. The moment she opens
both eyes they assume the cross-eyed ex-
preston or shape, and then she sees again
as any other person. 1t is the intention OF
her father to take her to New York at NO
distant day, to let some of the celebrated
physicians see this wonderful phenomenon.
The girl herself is very bright, pretty
girl. but very timid,
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INHERITED DEFoRMIrIEs.

In an article in Nature on " Inherit
ance," Mr.. Darwin cites curious case
where even physical injuries in parent
were transmitted to the children for two
generations. Mr.. Darwin says; Mr..
Bishop has given me case of inheritance
of popularity which arose, as it appears,
from an injury. accompanied by a diseased
state OF the part. This latter fact seems
to be an important element in all such
cases. A gentleman, when boy, had the
skin of both thumbs badly cracked from
exposure to cold, combined with some
skin disease. His thumbs swelled greatly,
and remained in this state for long time.
When they healed they were misshapen,
and the nails ever afterward were singularly
narrow, short and thick. This gentleman
had four children, OF whom the eldest,
Sarah, had both her thumbs and nails like
her fathers; the third child, also daugh-
ter, had one thumb similarly deformed.
The two other children, boy and girl,
were normal. The daughter, Sarah, had
four children, of whom the eldest and the
third, both daughters, had their two thumbs
deformed; the other two children, boy
and girl, were normal. The great-grand-
children of this gentleman were all
normal. Mr.. Bishop believe that the old
gentleman was correct in attributing the
state of his thumbs to cold aided by skin
disease, as he positively asserted that
his thumbs were not originally
nisshapen, and there was no record
of any previous inherited tendency of the
kind in his family He had six brothers
and sisters, who lived to have families,
some of them very large families, and in
none was there any trace of deformity IN
their thumbs.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10
SETH GREENS SPIDER STORY.

If you anchor pole in body of water
and put spider upon it he will exhibit
marvellous intelligence by his plans to es-
cape. At first he will spin web several
inches long and hang to one end while he
allows the other to float off in the wind, in
the hope that it will strike some object.
OF course this plan proves failure; but
the spider is not discouraged. He waits
until the wind changes, and then sends an
other silken bridge floating off in another
direction. Another failure is followed by
several other similar attempts, until all the
points of the compass have been tried.
But neither the resources nor the reason
ing powers of the spider are ex.
hausted. He climbs to the top of the
pole and theoretically goes to work to
construct silken balloon. He has no hot
air with which to initiate it, but he has the
power of making it buoyant. When he
gets his balloon finished he does not go off
upon the mere superstition that it will
carry him, as most OF men do, but he
fastens it to guy rope, the other end OF
which he attaches to the island pole upon
which he is prisoner. He then gets into
his aerial vehicle while it is made fast, and
tests it to see whether its dimensions are
capable of the work of bearing him away.
He often finds that he has made it too
small, in which case he hauls it down,
takes it apart, and constructs it on a larger
and better plan. A spider has been seen
to make three different balloons before he
became satisfied with his experiment.
Then he will get in, snap the guy rope and
sail away to land as gracefully and as
supremely independent OF his surroundings
as could well be imagined.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10
CoLoRIEG WALLS.

On this subject the Building Ne,cs gives
these practical directions Ceilings and
walls are often finished in distemper, but
very often turn out unsatisfactory, from
the want OF knowledge in the mixing and
laying on. Absorption in the wall should
be checked or stopped, or one part will alb.
sorb more color than another, and an I'M
even or spotty appearance results. Various
preparations are used for preparing walls
and to stop absorption. One OF these is to
mix about dozen pounds OF the best whit
ing with water, adding thereto enough
parchment or other size to bind the color,
two ounces of alum, and the same weight
of soft.soap dissolved in water; mix
we'll and strain through screen of coarse
cloth. In mixing the distemper. one writer
says, 1.-TWO things are essentially necessa-
ry clean and well washed whiting. and
pure iellied size" The whiting should be
put to soak with sufficient soft water to
cover it well and penetrate its bulk. When
soaked sufficiently, the water should be
poured off, which will remove dust from
the whiting 1t may then be beaten up to
a stiff paste byIs the hand or spatula. Size
is next added and mixed together. Care
should be taken not to break the jelly Of
the size any more than can be avoided.
Another caution is that distemper should be
mixed with jellied size to lay on well-the
color then works cool and floats nicely /;
but when the size is used hot it drags and
gathers and works dry, producing rough
wall A little alum added to the distem-
per hardens it and helps to dry out solid
and even. The best size is made from
parchment clippings, which are put into an
iron kettle filled with water and allowed
to stand twenty-four hours till the pieces
are thoroughly soaked, then they are
boiled for five hours and the scum re-
moved. The liquid is then strained
through cloth. For mixing colors the
whiting and the color required, finely
ground, are dissolved separately and then
mixed to the required tint. For example,
lampblack mixed with whiting makes gray,
and the most delicate to the darkest
shades may be obtained. For French
gray the whiting required is taken and
soaked in water, and Prussian blue and
lake finely ground in water are added to
produce the necessary shade or tint. Buff
may be made by dissolving in like manner,
separately, whiting and yellow ochre. A
little Venetian red gives warm tone. A
salmon tint is produced by adding to the
dissolved whiting little of the same red,
Just sufficient to tiDge. Drabs of various
tints can be easily made by grinding up
finely little burnt umber and mixing it
with the dissolved whiting. The sooner
the distemper color dries after being laid
on the better and the best plan is to close
windows and doors during laying, and
throw them open afterward.
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WOULD BE WERE A BOY AGAIN.

James I. Fields, the distinguished liter
airy gentleman who died recently, once |
said in one of his lectures, speaking OF what |
he would do if he were boy again:
| think / would learn to use my left |
hand just as freely as my right one, so that |
if anything happened to lame either of
them the other would be ready to write
and "handle things" just as if nothing
had occurred. There is no reason in the
world why both hands should not be edu-
Gated alike. a little practice would soon
render one set of fingers just as expert as
the other; and have known people who
never thought, when a thing was to be
done, which particular hand ought to do it,
but the hand nearest the object took hold
of it and did the Office desired.
l would learn the art of using tools OF
various sorts. l think | would insist on
learning some trade even if l knew there
would be no occasion to follow it when l
grew up. What pleasure it is in after
life to be able to make something, as the
saying is-to construct neat box to hold
ones pen and paper; or pretty cabinet
for sisters library; or to frame favor
lite engraving for a Christmas present to a
dear kind mother. What loss not to
know how to mend a chair that refuses to
stand up strong, only because it needs a
few tacks and a bit of leather here and
there? Some of us cannot even drive
nail straight; and should we attempt to
saw off an obtrusive piece of wood, ten to
one we should lose a finger in the opera
ton.
1t is pleasant change from books and
study to work an hour every day in tool
shop and my friend, the learned and Low.
able Professor Oliver Wendell Holmes,
finds such comfort in g mending things,
when his active brain needs repose, that
he sometimes breaks piece of furniture
on purpose that he may have the relief OF
putting it together again much better than
it was before. He is as good a mechanic
as he is a poet but there is nothing me-
chanical about his poetry, as you all know
who have read his delightful pieces. Ar
English author of great repute said to me
not long ago Professor Holmes is writ
ing the best English of our time" And
could not help adding =" Yes, and invent
ing the best microscopes, too"
A boy ought also to be at home in {
barn, and learn how to harness horse
tinker up wagon, feed the animals and de
q hundred useful things, the experience o.
which may be of special service to him il
after life as an explorer or traveller, wheI
unlooked.for emergencies befall him.
have seen an ex-President OF the United
States, when an old man, descend from hi
carriage and rearrange buckles and strap
about his horses when an accident oc
Cured, while the clumsy coachman stoot
by in kind of helpless inactivity, no
knowing the best thing to be done. TIL
ex- President told me he had learned abou
such matters on farm in his boyhood, ant
he was never at loss for remedies on tn
road when his carriages broke down. II
were boy again l would learn how to roy
boat and handle sail.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-09-10
THE LUMINOUS CASCADE.

In an admirable series of articles by
Lewis Wright, on "Optics with the
Lantern" now appearing in The English
Mechanic, this experiment illustrative of
the total reflection of light is described ::
three and half inches in diameter, with
as large necks as possible, and in each
neck fix iby corks glass tubes of similar
size, as large as possible, not less than
three.eighths of an inch clear bore, and
one-half inch is better. Black-varnish all
outside, except circle three inches in
diameter, opposite the nozzle meant to be
horizontal, and adjust this close against
and projecting into the lantern nozzle (the
hange nozzle with the objective removed)
on wire tripod, filling with water first,
and corking the tube in the horizontal noz-
zle till all is arranged. Several feet higher,
fix some sort of supply tank Ia bucket will
do) with bit of tube fixed by cork in
the bottom, and connect with the top noz-
zle by flexible tube. Finally adjust the
light at such distance from the condensers
that the greatest possible amount is con-
centrated into the space occupied by the
emission-nozzle. Having adjusted all this,
and filled the tank, remove the cork from
the nozzle and let the water stream out IN
a gentle curve into bucket on the floor.
The effect is beautiful, even on this small
scale. The jet is like stream of living
fire; and if you have colored glasses, and
slip them alternately into the ordinary
slide.stage of the lantern, you get blood
red, blue, or whatever color you desire.
All this is owing to "total reflection" Ii
the water did not issue. and the cork was
replaced by ground-glass stopper with
fiat, polished ends, the light from the
lantern would be thrown horizontally into
the room. But it meets the stream of
water on every side at much more than
the angle..of total reflection, and so it can
not get out, but is reflected from side to
side all down the stream, making it brill
iantly luminous by the small notes in the
water. Put your hand in the jet and it is
bathed in light-that light which cannot
get out of the stream except where you
thus break it up.
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DEAR CREATURES.

Flesh-colored silk stockings embroidered
with crimson rosebuds are very fashionable.
Bracelets made OF old silver medals.
linked together with silver beads, are the
fancy of the moment.
Wedding shoes of white satin are laced
up the inside and finished at the tops with
delicate friil of rich lace.
The people drove Clemens out OF Terry,
Ala, because he took second wife three
days after the death Of his first.
New bathing dresses are made of white
terry and trimmed with white worsted
embroideries wrought in bright Oriental
colors and in odd designs.
Surah petticoats of pale blue, pink or
corn color are worn under thin white even
ing dresses. The underwaist of the white
bodice is also of the colored Surah, and is
cut low in the neck and with short sleeves.
Mrs. Reeves heard the doctrine of sane
LITIGATION preached at camp.meeting at
Harrison, Ind, and not only believed it,
but was sure that she was sanchfied. Be.
| ing thus fully convinced of her fitness to
die, she at once committed suicide.
/ A policeman saw woman digging in her
garden at Paris, KY, before daylight. She
was not noted for industrious habits. and
therefore he covertly watched her until she
brought out box containing $780, the
proceeds of recent bank robbery.
The rage for artistic costumes is con-
stantly increasing, and some exceedingly
quaint and beautiful dresses are imported,
both for dinner and evening dress, snd the
fair wearers look as if they had stepped
down from the old family portraits Of cen
turtles ago.
Emigration always results in leaving the
women in the country whence it take
place considerably exceeding the men IL
number. This is notably the case in Ire
land, and still more SO in England, wher'
women are always unwilling to abandon
their home.
Worth is already preparing magnifcen
number of real antique dresses to be sen
to America in season for the Autumn
openings, at the order of our leading i'm
porters. A great proportion OF thes
dresses are to be in the style of the sixteent
century, and the portraits of Queen olaud
of France, of Maria de Medicis, and all tn
other noted beauties from Francis /. t
Henry ~ are to be laid under contribu
ton.