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Comfort for a Very Hot Day.

Readers who are impatient under
temperature of ninety degrees in the
shade will lind comfort in paper read
by Rev. Owen Street, before the Ameri-
can Geographical Society. on the Gil
mate of Central and Western Asia, the
region where our race originated.
They have hot weather in those coun-
tries. 1t is SO hot that human nature
dwindles under it. In some parts OF
Persia and Arabia, the mercury rises to
III degrees IN the shade and l70 de-
grecs in the sun. The highest temper
ature ever recorded By trustworthy
witness was that of Muscat in Arabia,
when the thermometer marked 189 de-
grees in the sun, which is only twenty
three degrees lower than the tempera-
ture of boiling water. We could not
bear our hands in water. nor handle
iron, of anything like that heat Trav-
elers describe their sensations when
subjected to this extreme temperature
as being almost beyond bearing.
Sir Robert Ker Porter writes, mo
object appear to modest us, except the
almost insupportable sun /; and under
it we continued to march three hours
and half across the mountains. with
out breath of air moving to cool our
scorched skins or drop of water to
slake thirst that was become intoler-
able. The poor dogs, overcome with
drought, actually lay down again and
again, and howled in such apparent
agony that began to fear they would
go mad"
Henry Ballantine. in his "Midnight
Marches Through Persia" says, 1.-The
climate during June. July and August
is that OF fiery furnace. The heat OF
the sun, increased by radiation, be-
comes so intense as to make existence
simply misery. An ordinary ther-
mometer bursts in such temperature,
and those that are graded high enough
give the astonishing maximum of 1879
degrees"
Mr.. Layard. in his 'Nineveh." bears
similar testimony. In the trenches,
where daily passed many hours, the
thermometer generally ranged from IL
degrees to lis degrees in the shade,
and on one or two occasions even
reached III degrees. The hot winds
swep. over the desert; they were as
UldStS ITOm IutHdCo uuIlHS TIC uass
and even at night they drove away
Sleep"
w. X. LOTUS, in his "Chaldea and
Susiana," describes a terrible ride :
1.-The gravel reflected the suns rays
so powerful as to cause men and ami
mails to seek for temporary shelter
| under the scanty shade of the little
round towers which at intervals guard
the road Our very dogs howled
piteously, being obliged to follow us,
lest they should be left behind. When
ever the eye rested for an instant on
any object it felt scorched and blood
shot,
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1881-07-30
Dress in Summer Recreation.

The benefits of summer rest or travel
are often lost through the absurd habits
of dress prevailing at fashionable re-
sorts. Anxious weeks are spent in pre-
pairing for the jaunt, and huge trunks
are filed with dresses. The successive
changes needed for each day are a
source of perpetual worry. If some
sensible women. leaders of fashion.
would boldly institute d change in the
style of summer dressing, an immense
relief would be experienced by our
American ladies. Ladies of rank in
England. and those whose social posi-
ton is established, are far more sensi-
BILE. They travel for comfort and rec
reation, and refuse to cumber them
selves with needless dresses. An Amer
lean lady, while travelling. in England,
formed a casual acquaintance with an
English lady, who showed in her man
ners and conversation the highest cult
ure. But the English lady's costume
was so simple and unpretending. with
collars and cuffs. coarse though fault
lessly clean, that even the American $
maid looked down on it with a sort of
contempt. When they parted and ex-
changed cards, the American lady found
to her surprise that her chance compan-
ion was Lady Augusta Stanley, the wife
of Dean Stanley, and one of the favorites
of Queen Victoria
To gain health from y summer vaca-
ton, the mind should be kept as free as
possible from care. 1t is riding, boat
ing, walking. being stimulated by what
is grand and noble in nature, and espe-
cially rest from all distracting subjects,
that give tone to the nervous system,
stimulate digestion and fill the veins
with vigorous life. Make your summer
vacation as simple as possible if you
have impaired health. : YOUTHS Com
pdnion.
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Continuing to Gabb e.

Grant continues to gable, and the
burden of his gable still is Grant
Robertson was made Collector be-
cause he proved traitor 10 me at Chica-
CO." says Grant. land my friends have
been insulted because they have stood
true to me. Blaine is at the bottom of
it. Garfield is weak and easily in
fluenced."
In some respects this is the most re-
markable confession Grant has made
since he threw aside the mask of
reticence end began to gable. 1t
eliminates with an electric light, so to
say. the posture of Grant before the
Chicago Convention. 1t is a confess
sion of his third-term ambition; a con-
fession that he descended from the
illustrious attitude of ..first citizen of
the world to the ignoble character of
common oifce-seeker; a confession
that his snowy march across the con-
tinent was the spectacular filing of an
electioneering melodrama; confession
that his circumnavigation of the planet.
with its accessories of correspondents,
advertising agents, trumpet blowers,
and so forth, was the theatrical prologue
of third-term Presidential campo On.
All this was alleged at the time by
many sagacious observers, who were
forwith written oown by the little
goosequill "supes'' in the play not
merely as Grants enemies" but as
persons who hated Grant on account of
his victories over rebel enemies. Itwas
denied with the utmost emphasis that
Grant was posing as a third-term can
didate for President. 1t was declared
that he had no personal wish to be
President again; that the matter did
not even engage his thought, as his
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A Difficult Church.

The faculty of one of our largest the
illogical seminaries received some time
since letter, in which the inhabitants
of small town in Kansas applied to
them for a young clergyman to take
charge of their spiritual education. The
long and formidable array of qualifica-
tons which the minister must possess.
and the extreme meagre salary attached
to the position, threw the good doctors
of the faculty into something akin to
despair After much thought. one sug-
gested that the reply should run thus:
1.-THE only man of whom we know
who could satisfy you is our reverend
college president, now dead some few
years, and who, having accustomed
himself to heavenly food (air), could
perhaps exc out a bare subsistence
upon the salary which you propose.
This, after due elaboration, was re-
jected. and the next proposal listened
to: 1--WE know of no enc. except the
Apostle Paul. who approaches to your
standard of piety; he might preach of
Sunday, and get his living by sail
making on week-days.n This was at
length also rejected, and the following
reply finally hit upon and dispatched:
I'VE know of no man upon earth good
enough for you, or who could possibly
live on the salary you mention. We
therefore advise you to secure the angel
Gabriel, who could board in heaven and
come down Sundays to preach. "-Har-
per's Magazine.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

The income of the Free Church OF
Scotland last year was S3.003,ooo.
The Association of Atlanta Preach
crs have signed respectful protest
against the issuing OF Sunday papers.
George l. Seney, of New York, has
given 800, 900 more to the Wesleyan Fe-
male College at Macon, Ga, where the
finest college building in the South VIII
be erected.
Bishop Wiley has appointed the
Rev. l.. N. Wheeler to open the pro-
posed new Methodist mission in West
China. He will be accompanied by the
Rev. Spencer Lewis. The mission Will
be in the province OF Szchuen. The
missionaries will sail about the lst OF
September.
Mexico is becoming the favorite
field for missionary enterprise. The
Methodist Church South appropriates
49,. 500 this year, and other denomina-
lions are showing increased energy in
that direction. Mexico will. at this rate.
soon outrank China and Africa in mis-
sionary estimation.
"A committee has been appointed
v
expediencv of revising the Welsh New
Testament according to the Greek text
adopted in the English version. The
present Welsh was not translated from
the original, but from the English YER
sion. and, therefore is not regarded as
sufficiently idiomatic.
The London Institution for the
Daughters of Missionaries" opens its
doors to the daughters of all Christian
missionaries and provides them with an
education and home. 1t was founded
forty-two years ago by some ladies who
sympathize with missionaries :" in the
great trial Of necessary separation from
their children while carrying on their
work in heather lands"
The United States has double the
number of school children of any other
country in the world. The number is
stated by the Bureau of Education to be
9,424.0 86. The nearest approach to this
figure is made by France, which has
4,716, 935. Prussia follows with 1901
l76, and England and Wales with .7l0,-
1888. OF the total population, the
school-children OF the United States
form nearly twenty per cent; of France,
twelve per cent. of Prussia, sixteen per
cent; and of England and Wales about
thirteen per cent.
After all it appears that the Revis-
ing Committee of the New Testament
in substituting Glove" for charity
have only returned to the old render
ing. In the edition printed by Robert
Barker. of London, in 1910, Glove" APP
pears throughout the thirteenth chap
ter of the First of Corinthians, thus:
Though l speak with the tongues of
men and angels and have not love. |
am as sounding brass or tinkling
cymbal." Again in the fourth verse,
''Love suffereth long," ETC.. and in the
thirteenth, "And now abideth faith,
hope and love. even these three; but
the chiefest of these is love-"
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The Old or the New.

just as the church bells were ringing
their nine o'clock chime yesterday Mr..
Smiley remarked to Hannah, {" Pass me
the book"
(which will you have, Ichabod, the
old or the new version, !" and she brushed
the crumbs from her apron and reached
for the mantelpiece.
- Hannah. as long as l live / shall
read from that old leather covered
Bible. The first thing remember about
my grandfather was his reading the
parable of the foolish virgins from that
very book. Twas q wee little boy then;
but l remember l cried and asked
grandma il she couldn't spare some oil
for those who were left outside. And
then, Hannah, I've heard my father
read from that very same book thou
sands of times. That book" and he
patted the open pages lovingly. " that
book is old. the leaves are yellow with
time, but it is sacred in this house. 1t
has been in service at every wedding
aud birth and funeral in the family for
nigh on to hundred years, and every
morning aud every evening has some
great truth been read from it. No.
Hannah, the new version may do for
the young folks, but you and /, with the
gates Of heaven just turning their hinges
for US, have no time to fool with it. l
will read this morning the last chapter
of Revelation, and let the glory of the
future shine upon us and do our hearts
good" and as he turned his eyes to the
printed page there was thick mist on
his glasses. -New Haven Register.
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A Democratic Awakening.

Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
thinks the course taken by the Demo
Gratis in the Senate during the late ses-
sion has greatly strengthened the Ma
tional party.
This seems to be so. The Democratic
party has certainly become possessed
of quality within the last few months.
which, it was supposed, had passed
beyond its grasp nerve. 1t seems
now to manifest some confidence in it.
self and in its ability to accomplish re-
suits. There is less hesitation, less
timidity, less awkwardness. "What
ought to be done" has become "What
must and shall be done" The special
session was of value to the party in
bringing out this feeling
THE Democratic party ply be de-
feated often, butt will never die" This
has become sort of political proverb;
and it is true. But of what practical use
is such parlyP What ghth has it tolive?
For twenty years Democrats have been
Democrats on principle solely. The en-
couragement that arises from victory.
the confidence that springs from sense
OF real importance. have both been de-
MED them. They have fought in that
time five National battles, and. in effect,
have lost them all. They won in 1876,
but their victory was nulliied. They
lost in 1880, when every seeming adj
vantage was ON their side.
Tne way to succeed is to succeed.
In political conflicts party must have
pluck. 1t should never be resigned to
defeat until defeat is assured. The
Democracy has need of pluck during
all these years; the absence of the at
tribute has really been the cause of
many failure.
Senator Butler looks forward to .
better day. He thinks the long de-
layed keynote has been struck at last.
Hereafter Democrats will deserve vic
tory by bravely fighting for it. They
win surrender when beaten, and not
before. When they triumph they will
hold to their honors.
For the good of the country. this
should be true. Let US hope it is
Washington fOSt.
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HOW SIMON PEyERITT GOT MAR.
RIED AT LAST.

Master Wesley, clerk and sexton in
the small village of Woodham, was one
winters morning sitting by his CHEEKY
fireside, Watching alternately the rain,
fiercely beating against the latticed
window panes, and the brisk move
ments of his active little daughter, as
she moved to and fro, busy about her
household work. Presently she came
in, bringing q hat, great-coat and UNI
brella, observing: "You will be want
ing these soon, father. 1t is nearly
eleven o'clock" She had hardly said
this. when q loud knocking was heard
at the outer door, followed by the alb
rupt entrance of little middle-aged
man in state of great excitement, his
face red, his hair rumpled, his boots
splashed with mud and his coat drip
ping with wet.
"Why, Simon. what on earth's the
matterP" said the clerk. "You don't
look much like bridegroom
Bridegroom! MOI" the little man
exclaimed. with bitter emphasis.
master Wesley, you'll hev to tell
parson can't get married to-day"
"Why. how is that?" asked the clerk.
II can't get Mary up." quoth the in
dignant and disappointed lover. "Tve
been rattlin' at her door, and THROWN
stones at the winder, and shoutin' till
I'm as hoarse as q rock; and I'm nearly
wet through with the drippings from
the husens [the caves of the house, |;
but / can't get she up. She only jest
nut her head out of the winder FOR q
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

The carpenter likes it; so does the
editor-good adze.- Cambridge Tri6-
une.
1t is said the German word s.pfing-
stem" comes from the old Greek s.penti-
coste.' Yes. and dyspepsia comes
from sauerkraut. Puck.
do not tell man he lies. 1t is
vulgar. Saw that his conversation sug-
gests to your mind a summer resort CIR
cular. Philadelphia NeUs.
The Old Testament will not be re-
vised for three years yet. People will
have to break the ten commandments.
as they are for the present. -NeO HaUen
Register.
IF the weeds in the field could be
chopped out over the counter of the
corner grocery, while talking about the
weather, the crops would not be so
nightly in the grass. "-Teras Sift-
ings.
What is the greatest charge on rec
ordPn asked the professor of history.
And the absent-minded student an
swered, Seventeen dollars for carriage
hire for self and girl, for two hours. y
Boston Post.
The little ones will keep on saying
things. Six-year-old Mabel is industri-
ously engaged in s'cleaning OUT pre-
serve jar which her mother had Just
emptied. Four-year-old Bobby looks at
her for awhile and then blurts out. Say,
Sis. don't you wish you could turn it in
side out, SOS you could lick it?'-Phiia-
deiphia Herald.
-"Going away this summer" quer-
led bootblack of fellow mortal at the
postoffice yesterday. ''Nawr' ''Well,
you needn't be so short about it,"
"Maybe 1 needn't, but the idea Of
our going off to Saratogy when we
can't raise $40 to git dad out of the
Workhouse does us injustice as fam
ily."-DetroI Free Press.
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There once was q girl In Duluth,
Who had an aversion TO truth.
So when her beau kissed her
And made her lips blister,
She told folks she had sore tooth.
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Rabbi Misrachi. native of Persia,
is collecting money among the Hebrews
of New York with which TO repair the
tomb of Mordecai and Esther.
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Some boys, swimming in Cane
River. louisiana, cornered a buffalo
fish weighing forty pounds, and caughs
him with their hands.
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No, Sdiu Cliu, o0outiy WOr
no fault o. mine. l was ready to do
my part this morning. 1t was you as
run word. But I'll eat humble-pie no
longer. If you don't want to hev me,
l know one as does. I'll marry you
tomorrow, if you like. If you don't,
FL never ak you again.
Mary was "a tall, black-eyed, comely
looking spinster of forty or more, re-
ported to have a hot temper and a
shrewish tongue but for once she kept
both in check. IL was evident that
Simon meant to be triHed with no
longer. Moreover, she could not help
secretly admitting that he was right,
and admired his spirit and manly de-
termination. Ii would never do to let
so good fellow and so faithful lover
fall a prey to a designing widow-not
to mention the humiliation she would
have to endure!
Z Next morning. the rain clouds had
cleared of, and bright sun poured its
rays through the old church windows
upon Mr.. and Mrs. Simon Peveritt as
they walked from the altar-rails into the
vestry, to enter their names in the
parish register. Sim, with a broad
grin on his face, laboriously executed a
big black x as "his mark" informing
the rector that he was "a sawyer by
trade" and that his "owd gal had
been of age this twenty yearsr' after
which he turned to his friend the clerk,
with knowing wink, and said in an
undertone 1--WE did it well between
us, didn't we! Mary was up at six this
morning. and he'd to wait for me! I've
got the whip-hand, to begin with and
l promise you won't give up the reins
again. Then he added in a louder
tone as they were about to leave
Now. Master Wesley, you must come
and help me eat the wedding dinner.
The pork and apple-sass will be none
the worse for waiting day; and my
missus and me'ull make you as well
come as flowers in May. There won't
be happier folks in Woodham. And,
Master Westley, you shall have some oil
the finest logs in my Undergrad, tc
keep up your fires this winter. I'm
not the man to forget good turn or ar
old friend. "-Chanabsrs' Journal.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1881-01-20
NOTICE.

To Al BARRIER, Charles Green, and all owners
of the Mineral Point mine: You are hereby no.
titled that the assessment work, as required by
the Act OF Congress OF the United States Of
May 10th, 1872 has been done by us on the
Mineral Point Ledge of the Mineral Point Com
pany, situated in Mount Rose District, Hum
boldt County, State Of Nevada, upon the orgi-
nal location thereof, for the year 1850, and
other expenditures of money and labor on the
said ledge of the company to the amount of
500, and that II you DO not contribute your
proportion S25 each, in gold coin-and before
ninety days from this date your interest in said
Mineral Point Ledge and Company will become
the property of the undersigned, and that we
demand immediate payment thereof
j. +. LUCAS,
WM. R0DEFER.
Spring City, January 8, 1881. jy7-90d
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NOTICE.

To A. kleinhans and all other owners of the
Beaconsfied mine: You are hereby notified
that the assessment work as required by the
Act OF the Congress of the United States, Of
May 10th. 1872, has been done by us on the
Beaconsfeld ledge, OF the Beaconsfeld Compa-
ny, situated in Winnemucca District, Humboldt
County, State of Nevada, upon the original To-
cation thei eof, for the year 1850, and other ex-
penditures Of money and labor on the said
ledge of the company 10 the amount Of sl00;
and that il you do not contribute your propor-
ton, SIS, in gold coin, on or before ninety days
from this date your interest in said Beacons-
field Ledge and Company will become the prop
erty of the undersigned, and that we demand
immediate payment thereof.
WILLIAM PO0LY.
.. JOHN POOLY,
CHARLES BRAY.
Winnemucca, New, December Is, 1850 90d
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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION.

In the District Court of the Fourth Judicial
District OF the State of Nevada, in and for the
County of Humboldt:
In the matter of the application of the Para
disc Cooperation Association to dissolve and
d dsIncorporate- Notice:
Notice is hereby given, that the Paradise CO.
operation Association, corporation, duly or
ganized and existing under and by virtue OF the
laws OF the State Of Nevada, has presented to
the Hon. VIM. 3. Bonnteld Judge of the Dis
trict Court Of the Fourth Judicial District Of
Nevada, in and for the County of Humboldt, a
petition praying to be allowed to disincorpor-
ate and dissolve; and that
Monday, the l4th Day or March, 1881.
At 10 o'clock A. NJ, has been appointed as the
time, and the Court room of said Court, in
winnemucca, Humboldt County, Nevada, as
the place at which said application is to be
heard.
H. ST. Inwitness whereof, ! have hereunto
set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court,
this 18th day Of January, .lSsL1raafkA 9slT
J, r. SABINE, Clerk.
BY A. DAVIDSON, Deputy.
J. ii. wISDLE, Atty for Corpofaeion
jalS-Sw
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ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

Notice is hereby given, that in pursuance of
an order Of the District Court of the Fourth
judicial District, State OF Nevada, made on the
18th day OF January 1881, in the matter of the
estate of Asa Nichols deceased, the under
signed, Administrator of the estate of said de-
ceased will sell at private sale, to the highest
bidder, for cash. in the Bar-room Of the 81.
Nicholas Hote. in the town of Paradise, in
Humboldt County Nevada,
On Tuesday. thc 18th Day or February,
A. ID. 1881, at II o'clock A. NJ, the following
real estate, belonging to the estate of said de.
ceased, 10 wit:
Lot three(3 of the northwest fractional quar-
ter Of section six, Township forty one, north
range, forty east, and the northeast quarter of
the southwe,t quarter Of section twenty-five,
township forty-two. north range, thirty-nine
east, Monte Dablo base and meridian.
TERMS OF sALE-Ten per ceHt Of the pur-
chase money to be paid on day of sale, and the
balance npon the confirmation of said sale by
said District Court.
CHAS A. NICHOLS.
Administrator Of the estate Of Asa Nichols, de-
ceased. jalS-3w
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ID. N. HASKELL.
TOWNSHIP AGENT. c. P.R.R.
TOwN LOTS FOR SALE or LEASE.

PARTIES WISHING TO LEASE OR PUR.
chase Lots in the town Of Winnemacca, ara
or on business relating thereto, should be. ed
dressed to the undersigned at San Francisco,
at the C. F. X. X. office where they will receive
prompt att1ntion
those occupying lands belonging 10 the eon
pany, without having bought or leased the same,
are also notified to attend 10 the asAstsr without
delay and avoid trouble. s
nole. .. u HASKELL.