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TremOr of Great Orators.

It is curious fact that great orators
seldom fail to be nervous with apprehen-
sion, when about to make an important
speech. Luther, to his last years, trem-
bled, when he entered the pulpit. TIE
same is true of Robert Hall. Mr.. Cough
confesses that he is always in tremor
in coming before an audience. Many
of the leaders of the House of Commons
i'll England have given similar testi-
mony.
Canning saidhe could always tell in adj
vance when he was about to make one
OF his best speeches 10y chill running
through him, caused 10y fear of failure.
Lord Derby, the father of the present
Earl, when a young man, was one of the
most impressive speakers in Parliament.
He was known as the prince Rupert of
debate" and seemed so self-possessed as
to be incapable of embarrassment. But
he said:
"When 1 am going to speak, my throat
AMI lips are as dry as those of man
who is going to lie hanged"
Tierney, whom Lord Macaulay calls
one of the most fluent debaters ever
known, said he never rose In Parliament
without feeling his knees knock together.
1t is one of the compensations of nature,
that the nervous temperament which
occasions the trembling is also one of
the causes of oratorical success.
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Marrying i'm Ill-liealth.

A prominent Eastern physician has
related that he was consulted by two
consumptives as to the propriety of mar
rying. They were both weakly in con-
stitution, but intellectually brilliant, and
their tastes were harmonious. They
loved each other ardently, and could hot
be happy apart. He counseled them to
marry, and they did SO. They lived to-
gether most pleasantly for about a
dozen years, AID died at about the same
time. According to the physical school
of thinkers, they should have remained
single, eacn dragging out the twelve
years in solitary discomfort. OF course
there can be no general iule for cases in
which disease exists; each instance must
he judged ON its own merits. --Cincip
ndi Gazette
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Cultured CanitaliStS.

Mr.. Mackay and his father-in-law,
Col. Hungerford, sat side by side in a
proscenium box in Paris theatcr. They
looked complacently over the vast and
brilliant assemblage.
"Bong tong audience" said Mr.. Mac
kay to Col. Hungerford.
"Wee," replied the Colonel to our
John.
Eleet-cram de la-hote tong, eh ?"
quoth John, as his sh. rt-bosom swelled
with conscious pride.
"Wee," said the Colonel.
The Colonel then shook hands with the
Comstock millionaire and congratulated
him on his flow of French.
The curtain went up, and one of the
stars flashed like n meteor before the
spectators.
Magnifeek cried the Colonel.
"Tray bean !! " shouted Mr.. NJ.
"Onkoreel shrieked the Colonel.
"Toot sweet yelled John.
After the play Mackay drew the
Colonel to one side and whispered in his
ear
81 don't mind tellin' ye, 1 spake
Italian as well as do French-do you?"
YES" replied the Colonel, q guess
we've both been cultured i'll the same
dollhouse. "-SLUcr cur Prospect.
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The Pension Office.

On turning over his Office to his successor,
Col. Dudley, Mr.. Bentley, Commissioner OF
Pensions, made the following statements as to
the condition in which he would leave the Office,
and as to the future of the pension servios
1.-THE number of new pensions granted during
the year will be about q, 600, exclusive OF the
War OF 1912 pensions. This is an increase OF
more than per cent over the number granted
last year. portion OF this increase il
accounted for by the fact that we have
handled very large number OF new
claims during the year, many OF which
were for gunshot wounds, or for
some disease OF which there was q record
This element will enter more largely into the
work Of next year and continue to increase
the number of annual settlements until the
claims that are pending but not yet reached
for adjustment have been fixed. After that
the work will again fall back into its usus
course. Inc settlements next year ought TO
reach from $4,000 to $4,000. First there
are probably from 5000 to 1000 cases
on the files ready, or nearly 30, for
the issue Of certificates Second, there
will be an increase Of the examining fore,
including that relieved from the work upon the
new records, equal to nearly so per cert
Third, there will be large increase in tho
number OF special agents, which, under tie
law az modified last winter, ought considerably
to increase the number OF CLAIMS that will be
settled. These advan' ages together with the
character Of the cl inns before referred to,
ought to nearlv If not quite double the
number OF allowances. We have ex-
hausted the pension appropriation this
year, S5O.302, $685. 81, and crave b, EN- oom-
PEELED to carry over into July nearly VII the
May and june settlements. l think they will
require for the first payments about S50, 100 600
This, added to the expected increase in the
settlement next year, will bring the amount for
next year up TO nearly or quite 900, 0O0, 900, so
there will be required for the pensions next
yesr an appropriation OF $40, 900, 600 In addition
to the $50. O0O0o0 already appropriated New
claims continue TO come in very rapidly There
have been filed this year upward of 30, 900
new original claims"
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
FOREIGN NEWS.

In n financial article the London
Times advises the withdrawal of the English
representatives from the Monetary Conference.
1t states that England is firmly welded to the
single (gold) standard, and only entered the
bi-metallic conference out of compliment to
the United States and France.
Cornell University crew has completed
arrangements to row at Vienna, Aug. 5.
Bon Amana, the rebel chief of Oran,
Algeria, is said by spies to have murdered the
French soldiers captured by him, and spared
only thirty-three OF the Spaniards whom he
took prisoners near Saida.
The French astronomers say that the
comet has no head worth speaking Of, but an
immense tail which is 100000 leagues in
length. It is to be visible about three weeks
longer and then to disappear for seventy-feur
years.
T. T. Gould, retired business mali,
was murdered while travelling on an express
train from London to Brighton and his corpse
thrown out at Bacombe tunnel.
Herr Most, editor of the Communist
paper Freileit was sentenced in the Central
Grimm Court, London, to sixteen months
imprisonment, with hard labor, for having
written al article meeting to murder.
McAuliffe, O. process-server who gave
evidence against the President of local land
league, was shot dead at his residence near
Castle island, County Kerry, Ireland.
A landslide is in progress above Lake
nj I'm, tb,,
land are meadows and houses, and the whole il
gradually sliding into the lake. In the Canton
of Grisons 1880 sheep with their shepherds
were overwhelmed by an avalanche.
The leaders of the Home-Rule party
in the House of Commons, Messrs. Parnell,
O'Conror and Mccarthy, have appealed to
Irish electors throughout Great Britain TO
remember the ingratitude of Liberal mem
bers who are ardent in the cause of coer-
cion," and whose election was assisted by Irish
votes.
A Paris dispatch reports the appear
nnce of new and wonderful contagion re-
semblng leprosy at Toulouse.
Russia wants more ships of war, and
the Minister of Marine proposes to spend for
them 216, 100000 roubles-about $780, 0OJ.
In the Henley regatta, the Cornell
crew were 4" a bad third" in the race for the
Stewards cup. The Americans we're said to row
in a cramped jerky, slow style
Coleman's mustard warehouse, at
Norwich, England, burned Damage $3.50, 600.
The National Liberal party of Ger
many proposes to demand the reduction of the
term Of service in the army from three years
TO two.
Turkish brigands have captured the
manager Of the forest works belonging to Baron
Hirsch, and demand G15G0O ransom.
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An Explanation.

The reason why snow at great eleva-
tons does not melt. but remains perma-
nent, is owing to the fact that the heat
received from the sun is thrown off into
the stellar space SO rapidly by radiation
and reflection, that the sun fails to raise
the temperature of the snow to the melt
ing point. The snow evaporates, but it
does not melt. The SUBMITS of the
Himalayas, for instance, must receive
more than ten times the amount of heat
necessary to melt all the snow that falls
on them, withstanding which the
snow is not melted. And III spite of the
strength of the sun and the dryness OF
the air of those attitudes, evaporation Is
sufficient TO remove the snow.
At low elevations, where the snow
fall is probably greater, and the amount
of heat even less than at the SUBMITS,
the snow melts and disappears. This
we must attribute 30 the influence of
aqueous vapor. At high elevations the
air is dry, and allows the heat radiated
from the snow to pass into space but at
low elevations very considerable por-
ton of the heat radiated from the snow
is absorbed III passing through the at
mosphere. A considerable portion OF
the heat thus absorbed by the vapor j,
radiated back on the snow but the heat
thus radiated, being of the same quality
as that which the snow itself radiates, is
on this account absorbed by the snow.
Little or none of it is reflected, like that
received from the sun. The conse-
quence is, that the heat thus absorbed
accumulates IN the SHOW till melting
takes place. Were the aqueous vapor
possessed by the atmosphere sufficiently
diminished, perpetual SHOW would cover
our globe down to the seashore. 1t is
true that the air is warmer at the lower
level than at the higher level, and by
contact with the snow must tend to melt
it more at the former than at the latter
position. But we must remember that
the air is warmer mainly i'll consequence
of the influence of aqueous vapor, and
that were the quantity of vapor reduced
to the amount in question, the differ
ence of temperature at the two positions
would not be great
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also extended into Pennsylvania, and In the
vicinity OF Pittsburgh several houses were IN
rooted and otherwise damaged.
Thirty-seven women and five children
we're among the killed by the recent railway
disaster In Mexico.
Col. Obergon, who was commissioned
by the Mexican Government TO inquire into
the cause OF the Moreles bridge disaster, has
reported that the sole cause was the defective
construction of the b ridge.
There are i,496 postoflices in the
UDited States. During the year 2, S9i were as
t,bnshed and LAOS discontinued. The number
OF Pos.mastero commissioned is l0,44l.
Work on the Yorktown centennial
monument, which is to cost slOO, OOO will be
begun at once.
The Mercantile Agency of Dun, Wy
man g. Co. announce the extent of business
failures for the first six months in 1881. In
number they amount to 2,S62 as compared
with z, 497 in the first half OF 1880, and 4,0ls
in 1879. The liabilities for the first nalf are
stated to he $4,000, 600, compared with
533, COO, 600 the first six months Of 1880, and
S65, 0O0, 900 in 1879. The semi-annual circular
issued by Dun, Wyman & Co. contains reports
from forty-four trade centers, nearly all Of
which indicate a highly-prosperous condition
Of business, with reports almost uniformly
favorable as to the condition of the crops, not
only of grain, but also of cotton, rice, sugar,
tobacco, etc. The entire business outlook, a.
1,.-,
tremcly favorable. The necessity of some eau
ZION is at the same time indicated.
The Chicago Times has obtained the
views of the Western State Boards of Aer
culture as to the growing crops In Ohio tn,
yield is expected to be about 80 per cent. OF
that of last year, the early sown being
the best. The acreage in Michigan is about
the same as in $780, and only ten or twelv,
bushels per acre are looked for. Indiana
expects a crop of only 80, 100000 bushels, az
against $1,000, 600 last year, the quality bein-
excellent. Wisconsin has large acreage il
spring. but a half breadth of winter wheat.
and the crop is in fine condition. The Iowa
board estimates the spring-wheat crop at half
that of last year, and the winter sown at A
per cent.
Fifty-four national banks organized
during the last fiscal year, with an aggregate
capital Of Sc, 400, 700. Nineteen banks, with AL
aggregate capital of $1,62O, 900, went into vol
untary liquidation, and there has been no fail
uro of national bank during the year. The
number Of such banks now in existence is q 1872.
The coinage of the United States minis
for the year ending June 80, 1881, was as fol.
lows; Gold, $7S739, S64 silver $37,649.
O6675; other metal, s4O5, 1895 %, making to-
tai of SlO6, $50, 9667O.
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Freaks of the Telegraph.

Names are always great stumbling
block to the clerks, and addresses are
composed of names. Most of us have
tricks of writing names In any but a
distinct fashion; and, although the post
office persistently reminds us, on the
forms given us to write our kilograms
on, that the writing should be plain,
this advice, like most other advice, Is
but too often neglected. Hence many
kilograms get altogether astray, some
times TO the not slight discontinue OF
those into whose hands they fall, and
who, unwilling that any error has been
made, forthwith act upon them. 1t Is
related that woman residing III some
small street in Manchester once re-
ceived what appeared to be summons
from her husband to come up to HIM III
London. Very much alarmed, she at
once started. On her way she got III
conversation with another woman who
was in the same carriage, and who she
found was also going to see her husband,
who was in London i'll. This woman
had been expecting to receive tele-
gram from her husband, and, not hear
ing, had grown anxious, and had finally
set off without the telegram. Further
parley revealed the fact that their names
were the same; that their husbands
names were the same that they both
lived in the same quarter III Manchester;
and it finally transpired that the tele-
gram which had been delivered to the
hrst woman was the very one which the
second had been waiting ior-the error
in delivery having been caused by some
such mistake as Hamilton street for
Henrietta street" "a mistake very
likely attributable TO want of distinct
ness in the writing. Another curious
case of coincidence of which we have
heard was that of telegram addressed,
John StiIlingwise, Brookdean, nr.
Mirkby Lonsdale, from Robert Sitting
wise, his brother, begging him TO come
ut once to him at hotel which he indi-
Gated, in Leeds. The address Brook
dean" was In some way altered, and the
telegram was delivered to another John
Stillingwise living somewhere in the
neighborhood of Kirkby Lonsdale.
This unfortunate man, who had not
heard from his brother Robert for some
twenty years, at once started Oft III
stormy, wintry weather, reached Leeds
in the evening, and was told by the
landlord that he could not see his
brother that night, as he was very far
from well, and had gone to bed. The
next morning he was ushered into Robert
Stillingwise's room, expecting TO see his
long-lost brother, when, 10 his extreme
astonishment and disgust, he found him
self confronted by an utter stranger =
BLQckWOOd's Mo0dzine.
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MOSAICS.

AMBITION is the evil shadow of aspir-
ation.-George Mac Donald.
You become more the viler for dis
praise. Thomas a Renapis.
IT takes bold man to roll his own
idea into the world.-A.&. Gardner.
ALL uphill work when we would do; all
down hill when We suffer.-Baitey.
No MAN is more miserable than he
that hath no adversely. Tdy-
Tor.
No LIFE can be utterly miserable that
is heightened by the laughter and love of
one little child.
Youth is the tassel and silken flower of
love age is the full corn, ripe and solid
in the ear.
SUCCESS il like climbing mountain,
IT'S hard 10 reach the tip-top;
Who uld catch the bright gem Of the fountain
Must watch for the water to drop.
EDUCATION begins the gentleman, but
reading, good company and reflection
must finish him.
REFLECT upon your present blessings,
of which every man has many; not on
yCur past mist, rtunes, OF which all men
nuNc SOult.-tItttIbco LIIChcWo.
SOME men with swords may reap the field,
And plant with lauIels where they kill;
But their strong nervrs at last must yield
They tame but one another still
THoUGH avarice will preserve q man
from being necessitously poor, it gener-
ally makes him too timorous to be veal
thy.-Ihomas Paine.
THE best die and the cunning live.
Courage goes ahead and scales the ram
parts and falls in the ditch. Cowardice
skulks and populates the earth.
Ii he really thinks there is no distinc-
ton between virtue and vice, why, sir,
when he leaves our houses let us count
our spoons. johnson.
A GOOD book and good woman are
excellent things for those who know just
ly how to appreciate their value. There
are men, however, who Judge of both
from the beauty of the covering.
Two things thou shalt not long for, if thou love a
mind serene:
woman to thy wife, though she were crowned
queen;
And the second, borrowed money-though the
smiling lender say
That he viii not demand the debt until the judg-
ment day.
Emerson.
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DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
East.

The Bradford oil district is alive with
excitement over two rich strikes across tho
line in New York, flowing 100 to $50 barrels
per day.
In quarrel between two lads, aged
IS and 16, respectively, in Boston, the younger
one shot the other, inficting a fatal wound.
Mr.. Euler, o fireworks dealer, was
fined i've shfilings in Philadelphia for breach
of the anti-hreworks act, passed in 172l
("against the peace OF our sovereign Lord, his
most gracious Majesty King George the First OF
England'). The magistrate insisting on the
fine being paid in shilhngs, the defendant
bought them Of broker,
John G.. SAKE, son of the poet, died at
Albany, last week.
By the capsizing of a yacht on Long
Island sound, five of a sailing party of seven
young people were drowned.
The Yale and Harvard boat race at
New London, Ct, was won by the Yale crew by
two lengths. Yale's time for the three-mile
course was 22:13; Harvard's was 22I9.
A cyclone in Tangier sound, Chesa-
peake bay, lasted nearly four hours, wrecked
number Of schooners and fishing boats, and
caused the loss of several lives.
West.
The valley of the Kansas river, in
Kansas, was devastated by destructive storm
last week. The farmers are tho principal suf-
fsrers.
Piute Indians in the Dolores country,
Col. attacked party Of fifty-four citizens and
killed five of them. Capt. Carroh, with men
OF the Ninth cavalry, went in pursuit OF the
redskins.
An accident on the Chicago, Burling-
ton and Quincy railroad took place near Hins.
dale, Ill The lightning divided a stock train
so that part continued on its way with the
locomotive the part remsining behind was run
into by another advancing stock train, and two
men were killed.
The members of the national and tho
State Boards of Health met at Chicago and dis
cussed the question OF preventing the spread
OF smallpox.
The congregation of the Rev. Mayor
Kalloch, of San Francisco, Cal, have written
him letter asking him not to run for Office
again. He responded that he would not.
Cincinnati is to have new stock yards,
for which $500, 900 capital was subscribed.
From March to June 30, this year,
the number of hogs packed in Chicago war
1,225, 600 against 500, 900 for the correspond
ing season last year.
South.
Five persons were killed and five in
jured by the bursting OF the boilers OF the
steamboat Phaeton, near Maysville, Ky. The
boat was racing when the disaster occurred.
Dick Wood, q notorious character in
Western Texas, was taken from the Sheriff,
near Cariso, and shot TO death.
A fire destroyed five buildings at
Dyersburg, Tenn, the other night.
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TWELVE years ago George Smith, of
Columbia county, N. Y, married u pretty
girl named Carrie Miller. After several
years of welded life wealthy bachelor
fell in love with Carrie, and George con-
sented to sell all right, title and inter-
est in her for the sum of $1,000. The
money was paid, George resigned his
wife, and lent the $1,000 to his brother
Abner, of Duchess county, to be in
vested in improvements upon farm.
Now he wants the money back and sues
for it, and it is in the prosecution of this
suit that Georges true marital history is
brought to light. Abner sets up a coun-
ter claim for board, Washing, clothes
and supplies, and threatens George with
q criminal prosecution for theft.
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MISCELLANEOUS GLEAN1NGs.

Russia thinks that if England can pro-
test against the action of Fenians in America,
to limit the conspiracies OF exiled Nihilists.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin Booth and Mr..
J. II. Mcvicker arrived in New York on the
steamship Bothnia from Liverpool
The American Protestant Association
held its thirty-irst annual convention in Phila-
delphia. Samuel Liggctt, of that city, was
elected Grand Master, and John Pike, OF CHI
csgo, Deputy Grand Master.
A furious wind and rain storm pre-
vailed over large section of Ohio, causing
much injury to lifo and property. The storm
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An Immense Suggestion.

A Boston young lady of culchaw, who
is much annoyed by the staring of rude
young men in the horse-cars, and who
is. moreover, beyond her years shrewd
Judge of human nature, has discovered
a simple remedy against the discomfort.
She reports that by gazing at the shoes
of such silent admirers with look of
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-07-08

Hiram Warner, formerly Chief Justice
Of Georgia, died at Atlanta, after long i'll
ness. He was born In Williamsburg, Mass,
in 1902
Henry p. McGrath, the well-known
Kentucky breeder and owner of running horses,
il dead.
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WASHINGTON NOTES.

Attorney General --acVeagi insists
that there will be no "let-up" in the star
route prosecution. the President and the Cabi-
net being determined to go to the root of the
business.
Auditor French, Commissioner of
Railroads. was dismissed by Secretary Kirk
wood. The reason for this action was o VIC
lation Of the law which required him to repor
his action TO the Secretary of the Interior, ano
not to the officers of the Central Pacific
railroad.
Secretary Window las just issued the
104th call. 1t is for per cent. registcred
bonds, issued under the acts of July II, 1870
and Jan 20, 1871, which will be paid Oct. l,
1881.
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composed equal parts of amusement and
depreciation the most annoying bore Is
reduced to contemplation of the same
articles, and in wondering what is the
matter with them is kept diligently en-
ployed for an indefinite period. Troy
Times.
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A BRrDGEPoRT woman slipped down
on banana skin, the only case on rec
ord, we believe. In the fall she dragged
a man down with her, which has &C.
Cured before -Ddnbry Meas.
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The Increasing Cost Of Paupers and
Criminals.

The California Legislature not long
ago published report prepared by
Chancellor Harrison, of Napa, Chairman
of the Committee on Prisons, which
contains some startling statistics. The
cost of maintaining criminals and pau
pers is shown as follows:
ls50-Population of United States %, 19I 1916
Criminals and psupers annusly.., So i4S
ls60-Popuation Of United States. ......3 ,4i332l
Criminals and paupers annually 80. s., "a. l43
1sT0-Pupulaton Of United States .Ss 5jS as4
Criminals and p4upers annually SIT, $3.50, I2a
II is calculated that the census for
1880, when completed, will show an out
lay OF over $40, 900, 900 per annum for
the cost of maintaining criminals and in
firm people. This does not include the
enormous outlay incurred by the arrest
and trial of criminals, but simply to
their maintenance in prison.