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grecial DApateh ia The Chicago Tribune.
er. Jt,tlN, N. H.. April 5.-Tho Ncr. Father
Lefutyrr, uf Motnrnmcutk. N. H., has beeh Civ.
Ink his rnrlshloncra Rome adyice concerning tho
exous. lie said tho disease Of emigration had
sprnal to s,lch Mt, extent TINT It wns iMrnrtant
IL RtnE Il. ill., thu interest nj religion, Ut Hntlun-
nifty, aud Ur tho ctlttairy III RtnGrnt.
, 1881-04-06

fr1IlE REV. HENRY Il. PERRY WILL
l. CONDUIT tho Episcopal Lontsn nuUn surylces Ia
f1ufrlt,Y DfnlI ttI.,lnf.
, 1881-04-06
MARRIAGES.

We recommend Eldredgo sowing machines
, 1881-04-06

EJHilE C0SCLUD1Sti LECTURE OF TIE
iIsy lr. luwe,I II t,.s IathSra ss rster and Paul
ills w r!1tn4 ut eutk Subject: "1hv American
Church ~ lilo lteruncilur Ut ChElstentlntn."
E1,llE WEST SIDE W. G. T. u. WILL
L hold ~ rnEulnt lonthly neett,,9 st the ElIb!h
stx iii. ntlessuuA Wl3 o'cucs. devotional MsetLHK
Ut O'Clock.
, 1881-04-06

r1.IlE April. MEETING OFTIiE HO.AItD
i. 1T Managers Ut thp ChlrnH0 Exctsa..uo tpE
W1,lnK Work viii be hold NJ lutr rGon!s. Ut
WnDnsl-av. nid aloMrua.st. ThAraflRy mGrlnR ut lU
O'Clock Tho now nnsla1erS nrG particularly rc1uuat-
4u 10 b. rr44Grt-
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-26
SUM MONS.


TN THE DISTRICT CURT OF THE 2ND
j Judicial District of the state of Nevada in
and for the ounty of Ormsby.-ActiOn brought
ir the District Court of the Second judicial Dis
rict of the state of Nevada in and for the County
of the Jerk Of said District Court.
ALICE POLLARD, Plaintiff,
JOHN + POLLARD, Defendant.
The State of Nevada sends greeting to John T.
Pollard, defendant: You are hereby required 70
appear in action brought against you Dy the
above named plaintiff in the District Court OF the
Second judicial District of the State OF Nevada, IN
and for the ounty of Ormsby. and 70 answer the
conn plant filed therein Ia copy OF which accom-
panies this summuns) within ten days exclusive
of the day of Servcel after the service on you OF
this summons if served within this county; or if
served out of this county, but in this district,
within twenty days, otherwise within forty days
or Judgment by default will be taken against
you. The said action is brought TO recover q
judgment and obtain a decree dissolvirg the
bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing
between you and the above named plaintiff upon
the grounds: tirst-That you have failed. neg
lected and lefuscd for the space OF more than one
ye last past, to provide for said plaintiff the
com anon necessaries of life when such failure
and neglect was not the result OF poverty, which
you could not have avoided by ordinary indus
try Second-That you have contracted since
marriage the habit of habitual, gross drunken
ness which incapacitateS you from contributing
your share toward the support of this plaintiff.
Plaintiff afro seeks to obtain a decree giving her
custody and control of your minor child, Lewis
Pollard, and judgment for costs. And you are
hereby notified that if You fail to appear and
swer the said complaint as above required, the
manded in her complaint herein now on file in
the office of the Clerk of said Court
--, Given under my hand, and the Seal of
! SEAL the District Court of the Second Judi
t@-' cal District of the state Of Nevada In
and for the county of Ormsby, this 18th day of
June, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty
MD, HATCH, Clerk.
jelsts
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NOTICE TO cRFDlTnElS,

IN THE DISTRHT COUNT OF THE
1 Second JuGIca, District Of the state of foysrn in
and for the County OF Ormsly --Jostp b hy,re va
His CTt ditolsN"tite To Creditors Of lLso veu-Tur
suant to order The Hon :. ID. King Jutpe Of the
said District Court i and for Emsi county notice IL
hereby given to all the creditors the "a Jrsoyeut
Joseph Irvine to be and appear before the said Judge in
OPP Court, the roc m of said Court il, arocr,
CITY IN the sand county OF Ormsty. on tie EltyEATH
DAY OF JULY, A. d. 1881 at 10 O'Clock NJ Of that day,
thn and II ere show cause if any tie, ,un why the
rayer # said hsolvent shou not be granted and an
assnm mt OF his es ate be made, lie be DISCHARGED
from nj debts and liabilities, In pursuance of tie Statute
in such case made and provided and in the ire all
proceedings against 81 d Insolyent be stayed.
Witness my hand and the seal of said Court this 81.
IsEALl day of June, a. D. 1881
June9-aod NJ d. HATCH, Clerk.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-07-26

Col. Robert Ingersol, in speaking OF
Lord Beaconsfeld as gluttoD, says: Most
OF his charac' ers are ike himself-puppets
moved by the strirg of self-interest. The
men ar adroit, the women most heartless.
They catch each other with Ease bait. They
have great world wi>d I'M. The virtue
and vice are mechanical They have hearts
like ocks filled with wheels and springs.
The auth r winds them up. In his novels
Disraeli allows MS to enter the green room
of his heart. We see the ropes. the pull
legs AID the old masks. In q things, in
politics and In Literature, he was cold.
cunning. accnra'e. able and successful
His b'oks will IN Ii tie while follow
their author to the grave.
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Gipsy superstitiOns.

For class Of persons that are popular
ly supposed to live by working on the su-
perstitions and credulities of their fellows,
the gypsies are themselves singularly su-
perstitiOus. Some gypsies set their boots
erosswise when they go to bed, fancying
thereby to keep away the cramp; a female
gypsy carried the skeleton Of mole S foot,
which she called a "fairy boot because
she believed it good against rheumatism;
and it Is a standing truth among them that
babies in teething should wear necklace
made Of myrtle stems which, for boy,
must be cut by a woman; By a man, for
girl, An adder's slough, or a bit of noun
taIR.sah, is Oertaia to bring good luck, aad
with the same object, some of the chill
dren wear around their neoks black bags
containing fragments Of bat In order
to hurt al enemy, you have only to stick
pins in red cloth rag and burn the same;
others, for the same end, resort to the cruel
practice of sticking pins in toad till it
looks ike a hedgehog, and bury it, with
certain ohservaRees. The sight of a wa
ter-wagtail, If it does not fly when conjur-
ed in a certain rhyme to do so, is sign
that strange gypsies are to be met with on
the road. OF an old woman, Vghost-
seer" we are told that she carried in her
pocket little china dog dressed like a doll.
81 mind, says the gypsy who tells the
story. "she lost it once, and she was in an
awful state till it was found, and she used
to fancy it would talk to her when she was
all alone smoking her pipe in the wagon.
You should have seen pack she had Of
very old fortu telling cards, which was
painted in diff rent colors. She used to
select the different ones for each day
sometimes she would have those with the
devil and sarpints or 'em, then other days
she would carry those with birds and pal
aces Chambers Journal
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A Winter in Russia.

st. Petersburg is situated on parallel
62, which is about equal to the latitude
of Labrador. In December the sun rises
at about nine o'clock in the morning and
sets about quarter past two o'clock in the
afternoon. About the first of September
a slight hoar frost is noticed each morning
and in less than a month foot of snow Is
upon the ground. This will be the case
whether there have been any snow storms
or not, for this light hoar frost falls at all
times and in the clearest days itsglint may
be seen in the sunlight. About the mid
die of October wheels disappear from the
streets and are seen no more until summer.
One popularity of the Russian Water
noticed by the lecturer was that, while it
is necessary for person in going into the
open air to put on the heaviest outer cloth
ing and to encase the feet in warm wraps,
the weight of the house dress is not chang
ed on account of the season. 1t is the
inyariable custom among the Russians for
one in entering church or house to i'm
mediately take off the outer garments at
the vestibule and resume them on going out.
The winter amusements are very inter-
esting and, except those enjoyed by the
upper classes simple and plain. The prin-
cipal ones are sleighing, sliding and skating.
These are common to all the people, and
are INDUCED in generally. In driving, the
Emperor goes at full speed and thus sets
the example to the grand dukes, who, in
turn, are copied by those Of lesser rank, so
that every one hurries along at the livliest
rate possible. The foot passengers rights
are not respected at all, and when BY
chance the unlucky sayfarer is run over
he is at once taken to she nearest station
house aud obliged to state how he hap
pened to be in the road.
The Russian sleigh is drawn by three
horses who travel abreast, the middle an
imal trotting while his companions run.
In order to accomplish this the head of the
| .rostiug horse is checked up as high as
possible, while from the bits in the run.
ners' mouths long lines reach back to the
traces, pulling the head down and forcing
the animal to run. Tie ice hills are also
feature Of the ST. Petersburg winter
The platforms, each sixty feet high, aud
distant from each other 1900 feet, are
erected, aud between these inclined planes
extend. These are covered with greaI
blocks Of ice from the river Neva, and
down these improyised hills the Russian
boys aud girls, aud even adults glide a
headloDg speed.
Skating also comes in for its share o
patronage, aud each winter the skating
club ereets upon the Neva an ice palace
The snow is swept from about two acre.
Of ice, and around this n solid wall, twenty
or thirty feet high, is built of blocks fou
feet square The interior is divided int
dancing rooms, waiting rooms aud restau
rants. When this palace is illumiDate'
with red, green, blue and yellow lights th'
sight IS most magnificent. At the open
ing of this ice palace notable gathering
consisting of the Emperor, the Crow
Prince aud dignitaries, is preseut.-Er
Cor. JesoeEs LsctsTs
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make other arrangements. While | live
[ intend to hold the reins and drive when
l please. When 1 am gone l hope you
will do the same. Don't tempt little Jim
mic as have tempted you. 1t was wrong,
all wrong, Human nature is very weak,
and tie old must go to the wall if the
young so will it. The Lord forgive us all.
But shake hands and be friends, Jim.
III give you some more COWS. Eliza shall
have the dairy, but not in my dear old
room. The back lot shall be drained, but
the pine trees must stand"
jim gave him his hand, or, rather the
old man took it and pressed it warmly.
Jim seemed like one dazed The farm
not bis! The deed burned Could it be
possible p?
Before he was fully aware Of the situa-
tion Eliza came in the father told her Of
the destruction of the deed aud his reasons
for doing it. Already she knew that
something was amiss, SO the blow was not
so crushing in It's effects upon her, aud
She walked up to Mr.. Lamson, kissed him
on the cheek and said ;-"0f course, dear
father, you will do as you please iu the
matter, aud LEFT the room TO prepare
breakfast Then Jim repeated her words
parro,-like, and went to the barn to chew
the cud of remorse.
Mr.. LamsOn lived five years longer,
then died with an apople,ic shock, as his
daughter. in-law had predicted. But he
never had occasion to regret that he burn
ed the deed. His heart had soileaed
more aud more to his children, he only
holding the reins, allowing them to man-
are the affairs Of the farm and dairy as
they pleased; but when he pleased he could
be the master.
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Her children take her family name-not
her husbands. Her husband cannot will
the property. The wife, and the unmar-
ried woman also, does pretty much as she
pleases. The husband does not make a
bargain to carry party up the river in
boat without asking his wife what the price
is to be, and so of all the furs they SELL
she decides the price they shall ask.
A curious and ingenious arrangement
for hallibut hook was exhibited. Also
specimens of native boats. They cut
down big tree, burn out and hew the
middle, fill it with water, put in red-hot
stones to boil the water, cover it over, let
the wood become steamed, then spring it
out, into the requisite Aariug boat shape,
by inserting stiff cross-wedges.
The resources of the country include
great amount of furs, besides those OF the
seals, which pay So each to the Govern
ment, and the company is permitted to
take 100, 900 year. The timber is val
asble-spruce, fir, and beautiful yellow
cedar bright aud lasting. The fisheries
are abundant, and superior to those OF
newfoundland, etc, for which We pay
such sum in money aud life. The abun-
dance aud size of the salmon is amazing
and cod and halitut abound. A little fish
like the sardine, but more delicate, is
thrown ashore by the ton.
Bears and deer are plenty, the finest
yeuison 10 the world is there, aud the
cheapes Berries are in variety-even
wild strawberries, and two or three yarie-
tics of huckleberries Birds Of all kinds.
even to the eagle and the swan.
Gold mines have been opened, and are
doing we'll. Iron seems TO be there in
great amount. 1t defects the needle 29'
Coal is found All that is needed to start
Alasks on the road to prosperity aud pop
ulatior is the establishments laws, This,
Congress should sec to.
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The BONANZA Fans Of the Wet.

The two great facts shown by Observa-
tious Of the Bonanza Farms Of the West
are. tha, those who have goBS into wheat
growing upon large scale, making use Of
the most improved machinery and cheap
labor. are making colossal fortunes at seven
~ cents per bushel for wheat, limited on
IL by the number Of acres cultivated aud
the skill with which the work is dene, and
tha, vhsa, may be grown at large profit
for less than forty cents per bushel; bat
that. on the other hand, the small farmers,
depending mainly on their own labor, With
limited capital and less machinery, are not
making comfortable subsistence, bat are
running behindhaod, and must go under,
and that further reduction in the mar
ket price for food products must hasten
their end
The development Of the large farm in
sercss has the direct and immediate effect
of inpoverishing the sections IN which the
farms exist, aud skinning the lands With
oai any eoupensating benefits. Not one
dollar Of the gross auoun,or net profit re
seived from the products Of the soil IS re-
turned and placed uPOa the land which il
Is taken, except 10 the construction Of The
iewest buildisgs ncecSsary TO shelter aad
protect the lsboTers 10 the working season,
aud for the care Of the work stock aud the
tools. On the whole $500 cultivated acres
/ of The GrandiB farm there vas NOS one
family finding permanent home BY virtue
Of title 10 the soil, where there should have
been a, least one to every 6ity acres Of
plow iaud, or LOG families. This would
give 100 houses 10 place Of the i've there
at present, aud LOG barns il place ofthree,
with other buildings ia like proPortiOni
aud a population Of at least 500, where
there Is not nov one fixed inhabi,aut, with
all the accessories Of household comforts
and home improvements that do not now
exist 10 the smallest degree.
The large development Of the tenant
system Of farming Is an evil Of the great
es, magnitude. The effects of the system
have been too apparent 10 Europe to re
quire any discussion in these pages. But
xilh Us il mas features worse ihan any
ever known In Europe. The tenants in
England hold leases and occupations that
practically run for life, aud often are kept
in families for generations, which give en-
eouragemeBt for great Improvements, aud
the farms are practically hOmesteads. But
with Us the leases are uniformly for short
terms, with no encouragement for improve
ments, and the farms are neSer homes.
In England the rent has rarely reached
aud never exceeded, Oue-quarter the gross
product; but 10 the United States it is
commonly one-half Under the English
tenant system the land Is thoroughly cult.
waited and improved; with US it is impOv-
erished. There is not one redeeming fea-
ture 10 the whole system in America, and
it is in every way worse than in Europe.
l-.JdRHdry AhaRtic
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Diamond Cutting.

The art o { diamond cutting is usually
supposed to have been invented by Louis
Van Berguem, of Bruges, in l456, but
closer inquiry shows that he only intro
daced important improvements into
method already in use. 1t is said that
there were diamond polisheIs at Nurem-
berg in 1873, and the same trade was ex
ercised early 10 the following century at
Paris, where cross-Way called "La COur-
arie, once inhabited by the workmen, still
exists among the diminishing relics of the
past. Nor is it to be supposed that this
art was entirely unknown to more ancient
nations. In India, from the earliest times,
q mode of releasing the crystal from its
native husk was employed, which, proba-
bly,, differed less in principle than in ap-
plication from that now used in London
and Amsterdam. The gem engravers of
antiquity not only worked extensively with
the diamond point, but in some rare cases
engraved the "indomitable" stone itself.
In the Duke of Bedford's collection, for
instance, is diamond engraved with the
head of PosidOnius, and one bearing por
trait of Roman Emperor was to be seen
at the Paris Exhibition of 1878. After
the barbarian Invasion, the art became the
fepret ofa very few, without it would seem,
ever declining to extinction; for the dia-
mond clasp which fastened the imperial
mantle of Charlemague at the coronation
had the natural faces Of the crystals rude
ly polished, and cut diamonds have occa-
sionally been found on medieval church
oruaments.-Fraser's Magazine
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Any hard steel will cut glass with great
facility when freel ywet with camphOr dis
solved in turpentine. A drill bow may
be used, or even the hand alone. A hole
may be easily enlarged by round file.
The ragged edges of glass vessels may alsa
hB easily smoothed thus with a fiat fle.
Flat window glass can be readily sawed
with watch spring saw by acid of this So
luton. In short, the most brittle glass
can be wrought almost as easily as brass
by the use of cutting tools kept constantly
moist with camphorized oil of turpentine.
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A Coon PLACE TO BE INsURED.-Mr.
Burdette, in lecture at Hartford, said
"This is Hartford-you can get insured
here in any way and for anything you wish
mutual, endowment, tontine, accident,
intentional, nOmadic, diferential, protO-
plastic, Baptist, Old School Presbyterian,
Congregational, Bob Ingersol, Renais-
sance, Gothic, Byzantine, greenback,
composite, CoEinthian, Scotch, ,cheviot, gos-
samer, seamless, new Wheeler & Wilson,
barbed wire, liver pad and hard finish. 1t
is the central and distributing point for
the entire insurance business of America,
No insurance company is genuine unless
Hartford" is blown upon the bottle.
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Select Aoetrg.
OUR EARLY FRIENDS.


our early friends, how dear they seem
When childhood's sunny dream IS past,
And memory brings us back a CLEAN
oftiues that were too good to last
OF SUI NJ days that passed us by,
Ere We had learned the bitter truth
THAT twenty years would bring full supply
ofeares not dreamed Of in our youth.
We NAV have friends in later days,
Towhom the heart devoutly clings;
We may have hopes, we may have ways.
But not like those that memory brings;
For now we've learned that we must meet
A portion in our common lot"
ofgroundless hopes or base deceit,
But then, oh JOY, We knew it noti
Our early friendsi All where are they
Some of them hare eeen blindiy LED
In search Of gain fas9,gar away
And some are numbered with the dead;
some have grown up around our door,
And on them, mayhap, much depends,
But they are early friends no more,
In memory live our early friends.
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A SILENT WoMAN.-Madam Rigner,
the wife of a law officer at Versailles, drop
ping some remarks which were out of
place though not important, her husband
reprimauded her before company saying:
"Silence, madam, you are fooll'
The lady Immediately subsided. She
lived twenty or thirty years afterwards, and
never uttered single word to anybody
not even to her children. A pretended
theft was committed in her presence, in
the hope of taking her by surprise, but
with no effect, nothing could induce her to
speak. When her consent was requisite
to marriage of any of her children she
bowed her head and signed the contract,
and even when she died she merely sigh
ed "adieu,"
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A Chicago paper tells of man who was
complaining that he had invested rather
large sum of money in Wall street aud lost
it oil. A sympathizing friend asked him
whether he bad been a bull or bear.
He replied, "Neither; was jackass."
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Men are capable of taking peculiar
kind of revenge against the women who are
weak enough to believe them perfect. A
few months before marriage they sue for
the ladys hand, after that she is compelled
to sew for them.
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You can't make your child love you by
seolding and fretting all the time any more
than you can catch bird by flinging your
hat at it.
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Happiness is bird that owns no cage
but the pure bosom,
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\ BAD HABIT-The young man who
shirks his duties as often as possible never
succeeds in life. You may Sc: it down at
once that sooner or later he viii be drone
in the great hive of human industry, liv-
ing without any purpose in life and scOru-
cd by all who have willing hands, and fol-
low up whatever they can fud to dc.
Young man, if yon want to gain the conf
dencc and esteem of your employer, never
shirk from duty. If oyertasked, lay in
your complaints and you will always get
hearing. If you begin life a shirk, you
may set it down as a fixed fact that the
habit will follow you through life, and in
stead of success you will be an utter fail
urc. And there are enough failures in the
world already