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An Oriental Sunday Among the Mer-
chants in Bombay,

An Indian correspondent of the Wash
ington Republican writes: The Sabbath
In Bombay Is, rs 1t Is on the Continent.
n busy day. The natives find that the
labor of six days does not render them
revenue enough, and therefore continue
their traffic on the seventh The Euro
peans remain quietly at home, but this
does not prevent them from being visited
by the merchants and their wares. They
enter the hotels and boarding houses and
strew the floor with their goods, and very
beautiful they are, too. Cashmere shawls,
embroidered Persian garments in silver
and gold, cunningly wrought jewelry,
sandal-wood fans and boxes. The Gus
toms and manners of the merchants are
unique and not Just what we are accus-
toned to in a civilized land. His goods
are transported by coolie who remains
outside The merchant who is bare
legged and not dressed, squats on
the floor while he displays his merchan-
disc and glibly tells of the superior quail
tiles of the articles. He names at first
an astonishingly high price. He expects
to be beaten down; and, as you express
disapproval, gradually lowers the price,
until, if you purchase, it has been low
cred nearly two-thirds. The Jews, who
have always carried off the palm for this
particular mode of trade, would find
themselves in nearly every instance put
to shame by native Indian trader.
There is no necessity for ladies to go out
shopping in Bombay, for all kinds of
apparel and fancy articles are brought to
the houses and bungalows for them to
choose from. All of the native shops
are open on Sunday, and mechanics go
to their daily labor as a matter of course,
the large cotton-mills and manufactures
rumble on regardless of the holy day
The natives have different days for their
religious worship throughout the month
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Our Opium Eaters.

Almost any physician of reputable
practice is qualified to tell us that the
intemperance that agitates society and
puzzles legislatures is after ali not the
most subtle or dangerous that affiicts
the country. Disease in its varied and
acute manifestations, is to be dreaded,
not simply because it infiicts immediate
injury upon the body and sometimes the
mind, but because 1t so often opens wide
the door TO the habit of opium eating,
which is a greater evil than almost any
disease can be. 1t is not easy to satisfy
our sense of justice by holding the vic
TINS of this habit to a strict moral ac-
countability, for about the first effect of
the drug used habitually is to deaden
the will power and make the partaker a
slave to a craving that was planted in
dependently of his own motion. Women
are the greatest sufferers. The nervous
disorders to which they are subject, and
the pains and maladies which attack
them in myriad forms, seem to drive
the doctor 10 the morphine bottle as the
inevitable resort for the relief of his pa
tients. This is like feeding babies up
on soothing, syrups. 1t accomplishes
what ii is intended to accomplish for the
time being, but it exacts a penalty which
1t takes the suffering and sometimes the
agony of lifetime TO satisfy. Alcoholic
stimlIlants never establish a mastery
over body and mind in the same short
period of time that suffices to implant
the opium craving in an ordinary human
CONSTITUTION. The sesects of alcohol
manifest themselves even TO the most
ordinary observer The effects of opium,
on the other hand, almost defy detec-
ton by the experienced eye of the skill
full physician. Those under its influence
are lively, cheerful, frequently brilliant,
and they get the credit of being in ex-
cellent health and spirits, when, in fact,
they are in deadly warfare with all the
laws of physical and moral health. The
result of this now widespread practice,
which is as secret as it is terrible, is to
enfeeble the generations that come from
these impure sources. The importation,
and, we suppose, the consumption of
opium in this country has increased 40
per cent. during the last four years, and
we fear the doctors are responsible for
not little of this startling exhibit. They
should use opium and its preparations
only in very extreme cases, and then not
long enough or regularly enough to Gre
ate a craving. Otherwise they may be,
and in many cases will be, laying the
train for habitual opium exhilaration and
drunkenness, which is almost worse than
death itself.
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True to the Last.

Daisy Shoemaker, the pretty daughter
of a farmer hying near Richmond, Va,
had agreed to elope with Westland Pierce.
but when the critical moment arrived
she feared to transgress her parents
wishes, and would not go to the rendez-
vous. Her sister Jane, two years her
senior, begged her to keep her trust with
her lover, but all in vain. '"Well. if YOU
don't keep your word with West Pierce,
I'll do it for YOU" she said, and indig-
nantly leaving her sister, she got into
the screams of her sister. Miss Jane
reached the waiting place; explanations
were made; she said she was willing to
take her sisters place. The lover,
touched by her pluck and captivated by
her determination not to let the plan fall
through. did actually marry her-so the
story goes.
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Plans OF POlygamy.

Some idea of the avowed designs Of
the Mormon Government may be formed
from the following public statements by
their Bishop, Lunt:
''Our Church has been organized only
fifty years, and yet behold its wealth
and power! This is our year of jubilee.
We look forward with perfect confidence
to the day when we Will hold the reins
of the United States Government. That
is our present temporal aim; after that
we expect to control this continent. We
do not care for the territorial officials
sent out to govern us. They are
them Nor do we fear any practical
hold the balance of political power in
Idaho; we rule in Utah absolutely; and
in a very short time we will hold the
balance of power in Arizona and Wyom-
ing. A few months ago President Snow,
of st. George, set out with band of
priests for an extensive tour through
Colorado, New Mexico, Wyoming, Mon
tana, Idaho and Arizona to proselyte.
We also expect to send missionaries to
some parts of Nevada, and we design
to plant colonies In Washington Terri
tory. In the past six months we have
sent more than 1000 of our people down
through the Sewer Valley to settle in
Arizona, and the movement still pro-
crosses. All this will help to build up
for us political power that the dema-
gogues will be forced to recognize. Our
vote is solid, and will always remain so.
It will beGthrown where the most good
will be accomplished for the Church.
Then, in some great political crisis, the
two great political parties will bid our
support Utah will then be admitted as
a polygamous State, and the other Terri
tories we have peacefully subiugated
Will be admitted also. We will then
hold the balance of power, and will die
tate. In time our principles, which are of
sacred origin, will spread throughout the
United States. We will possess the
ability to turn the political scale in any
particular community we desire. Our
people are obedient You can imagine
the results which wisdom may bring
about with the assistance of church
organization like ours. It is the COM
pletest one the world has ever SEEN"
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Going to School"

Glass in geography, stand up. Now,
who can tell me who was King Of the
Cannibal Islands 400 years ago? What,
can no one answer this gravely important
query? Is it possible that you have
knowingly kept yourselves IN the dark
on point which may one day decide the
fate OF the nation? Very well the
whole class will stay for an hour after
school as punishment.
The "B" class in geography will
please arise and come forward for trial
and sentence Now then, IN what dlrec-
ton from San Francisco are the Man
grove Islands? What can no one an
swer? And you boys expect to grow up
and become business men, and you girls
to become wives, and yet don't know
whether the Mangrove Islands are north,
east or southwest of San Francisco
shall send the boys up to the principal
to be thrashed, and the girls will have
no recess.
The class in history Will now take the
prisoners box, and tell the jury whether
sunhower seeds are among the exports
of Afghanistan. No answer? None of
you posted on this momentuous ques-
ton? Two thirds of you on the point of
leaving school to mingle in the busy
scenes of life, and yet you do not know
whether Afghanistan exports sunflower
seeds or grindstonesi For five years |
have labored here as teacher, and now
/ find that my work has been thrown
away. Gro to your seats and | will think
up some mode of punishment beitting
your crime.
The advanced class in mathematics
will now step forward One of you
please step to the blackboard and illus
trate the angular rectangle northeast
corner of a quadrangle. What! No one
In all this class able to make that simple
illustration? James and John and Joseph
and Henry, you expect to become mer-
chants, and Mary and Kate and Nancy
and Sarah, You are all old enough to be
married, and yet you confess your igno-
rance of angular rectangular quadrangle
lers before the whole school John,
suppose you become a wholesale grocer
Do you expect to buy tea and sugar and
coffee and spices, and sell the same
again without reference to quadrangles?
Mary, suppose you go to the store to
buy four yards of factory at ten cents
yard. How are you going to be certain
that you have not been cheated if you
cannot figure the right angle of TRAN
gle? All, mel 1 might as well resign my
position and go home and die, for the
next generation will be so ignorant that
all educated persons will feel themselves
strangers and outcasts.-Detroit Free
Press.
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INTERESTING PARAGRAPHS.
YouSo men may be too fresh, but eggs

You've men may be too fresh, but eggs
never.
WE have no objection TO n mans bor
rowing trouble; but we want him to keep
it to himself after he has borrowed it
Buffalo Courier.
women are either thinking about
nothing or else thinking about something
else. " This passes for wisdom because il
was said by Dumas.
SINCE 1866 nine thousand divorces
have been granted in Italy, Milan being
set down for no less than three thousand.
Since 1870 Rome has had six hundred.
An exchange remarks that gout, which
Is becoming quite fashionable, viii never
affect the editorial profession, cracker
and beer lunches never produce so high
toned disease.
WHEN Philadelphians see a man with
black eye, bloody nose, and generally
larrupped appearance, they point to him
and whisper: " He's q statesman. -
Boston Post
A CHURCH never splits on account of
its numerical strength. 1t Is only when
two deacons can't decide which one is to
boss the sexton that need is found for
another building and minister Detroit
Free Press.
ACCORDING TO Professor Swing, "the
coming man will be temperate, chaste,
merciful, just, generous, charitable,
large hearted, sweet-tempered, Christian,
a good neighbor and faithful citizen. 8"
What nice time the coming woman will
have.
A WRITER in the London Truth says
that the Fifteen puzzle" was worked out
in Hutton's "Recreations IN Mathemati-
cal Science" more than fifty years ago.
The HindoOs, Chinese, and Egytians
were familiar with the puzzle, the square
of sixteen being consecrated TO Jupiter
A MAN is either fool or physician at
forty, and when he is the latter there Is
no physician-in this country at least
who can teach him anything He
knows somebody's domestic medicine by
heart, and imagines he is suffering from
every disease known to the books In a
medical point of view 1t is occasionally
not a bad thing TO be a fool.
WHEN a Chinaman dies on the home
ward passage from San Francisco to
China, his remains are embalmed by his
companions, in simple but effective
method A cash is cut III his neck, and
of arsenical solution injected into the
veins by means of a hand pump The
artery Is then tied up and the body
placed in box.
The following figures have been pub
hshed, giving, it is said, the exact num-
ber and nationality Of soldiers who were
engaged on the Union side in the "late
unpleasantness:
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The Man in the Moon.

The disk of the moon, as is very ap-
parent. is not of uniform brightness but
is diversified by dark areas here and
there. These dark areas are so arranged
as to represent the ewes. nose and
mouth of n human being, and the whole
disk represents passably we'll a human
face. Not all people, however. can see
this resemblance. Some who can not
see the face can see n man and n woman
carrying between them a bucket of
water The man stands on the left side
of the disk, the woman on the right. To
some the dark spaces appear to have the
same shape as North and South America,
as if the Western Continent was re-
fected in the moon.
The Tartars see none of these. but
their ''man in the moon" is wood
cutter, bearing on his back a huge bun
die of wood and supporting himself with
q staff The Japanese see the. form OF a
rabbit Al q sltting posture-ss- His long
ears stand erect, and asefore him Is
large mortar. In his forepaWs he holds
a pestle, with which he Is grinding rice
after the manner of the japanese.
The Emperor Rodolph, who often OBJ
served the moon with the Astronomer,
Kepler, saw upon it the image OF Italy
The ancients recognized the resemblance
of the moon to the human face, for the
historian Plutarch wrote a treatise con
tradicting the vulgar idea. Great
fools, said he, "are they who think
that they see face on the moon. That
which they think they see is an illusion.
1t is caused by fatigue of the eye, which
makes light and shade where there is
only uniformity"
he
shown afterwards, when the telescope
was invented. Under the powerful eye
of this instrument the surface OF the
moon exhibits anything but uniformity.
1t equals in roughness the toughest por-
ton of the earth's surface Huge noun
tain craters are scattered over the disk,
and within many of these are smaller
mountains. Deep chasms and high
ridges are abundant From some OF the
mountains long rays extend IN every
direction like streams Of lava.
The telescope dispels all those resem- !
blances which are so apparent TO the |
naked eve, but even with this aid not all /
people see alike. One likens the moon
to a green cheese. while another thinks 1
1t resembles a body of water frozen over 4
with the rifles on its surface, and the |
craters are air-holes in the ice. An
other simile. perhaps the most ridiculous
of all, is that of a pot of boiling mush.
the craters being the bubbles of air as
they come up and burst on the surface.
Some see only a cold. desolate, dead
planet, incapable of supporting life Of
any kind. while others see valleys,
streams, canals aud other characteristics
If mother earth. Cincinnati Commer-
lj0y
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HICKMAN FULTON COUNTY, KENTUCKY. FRIDAY MAY 1881.

lIsll5atlye and self-confident girls; and
,''1u iateiy been to Boston and called on
Hea az her suburban home.
peiore he went, he had bought the
hingen ring, but had neither courage to
asA MS mothers blessing on his pur-
Dose nor to offer the lady his hand.
lie had but one thought waking and
sleeping: aud all hopes were lost in the
one hope of bringing this merry and jov-
ii'i grl TO their quiet home.
but now n barrier impenetrable as n
mountain of rock had been thrown be-
tween them, by the innocent chatter of
his friend
Tell me, my son, how far this matter
mas gone between you and Billy But
ton. asked the mother sarcasticallY.
Not far at all, mother; and probably
brilliant girl like Miss Leeds would not
look jt n quiet-a-stupid fellow like
ne bke your son. was the reply.
- tsJnsbi you are toSy- good for n girl
s'ltjm anyone would rtare to ridicule. II
you have taken no step You cannot re.
trace, thank heaven for it! If you have,
yet another home of which Billy Button
can he mistress. | never can consent to
have her come herl"
Tie young fellow made no reply,
though he inwardly resolved not TO let
his mother say who he should or should
not marry.
But this lady knew how TO WELD sar-
casm as n mighty weapon. She never
ceased to play on the name of Billy
Button, and to remind him that dozen
Young men were carrying about as tro-
Dbies of boyish victory, the buttons, the
hair. -possibly-other favors from
this Yankee divinity.
Perhaps Stanton himself began to fear
that there might be an offensive element
in the character Of Sarah Leeds.
Perhaps he was overpowered by his
mothers strong Will.
At any rate ne soon ceased to scowl
when she laughed about d" Billy Button,
and the diamond ring was reserved for
some other finger than the one for which
he had bought it.
Remember, girls, that the follies of
to-day viii not al ways be forgotten in
the years to come. - Youths COnlPdn-
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An Old Japanese Coin.

A. E. Outerbridge, of this city, has
japanese coin 400 years old, that pos
sesses an interesting history. 1t is said
to be the only one of the kind that has
ever come into the possession of a
foreigner. A few years ago the Japanese
Ambassador at Washington asked the adj
vice of Colonel Thomas A. Scott, OF this
CITY, in relation to the selection OF an
engineer competent to superintend the
construction of certain important public
works in Japan. Colonel Scott suggested
Joseph W. Crawford, of Pennsylvania,
then engaged on the Texas and Pacific
Railroad. Mr. Crawford sailed for Japan
and began the construction of an artil-
lery road in the northern part of the
Japanese possessions. The enterprise
was regarded as very difficult one, but
was finished SO much to the satisfaction
of the japanese Government that Mr..
Crawford was Immediately engaged to
construct the Polonai Railroad. When
the latter road was opened, Mr.. Craw-
ford was decorated with the Order of the
Rising Sun and presented with the coin
in question, which is of gold, 32-1O0 foot
in diameter and weighs A 9-10 ounces
Philadelphia Times.
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Not So Green After All.

A chap from the rural districts stepped
INTO music store in the city of Provi-
dence, and, after taking a fifteen min
utes' survey of the contents, he stepped
up to the counter and asked the clerk if
he had any new music" bran new, just
outP"
The clerk measured him with his eye
for moment, and, thinking he was ig-
norant as to music, and that anything
would be fresh to his customer that had
Deen issued since the days of "Rosin
the Bow, decided to palm off some old
pieces which had become a drug on the
counter. So he took up 1.-The Last
hose of Summer, and said:
Yes, here is a piece that goes with a
perfect rush, and here is The Old Arm
CHAIR, another favorite. There is
When this Cruel War is Over, which is
all the rage all over the city"
That will dew" replied Jonathan.
How much do you ask for the lot? ?"
One dollar, returned the clerk.
Waal, you may dew 'em up in a
piece OF paper and lay 'em on the
The clerk obeyed, but Jonathan did
not pay for the music.
Pm going down town a piece" he
sald, and if l come back I will pay for
that music and take it; but if don't
come on back you may light your pipe with
;,i Ihe Last Rose of Summer sit down in
ne Old Arm Chair and wait till This
cruel War is Over.
Jonathan slid out of the door, and the
cleEk looked as though he had been
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stonewan Jackson ana the Wagon

Mr. Howell, one of the proprietors of
the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution, says of
Stonewall Jackson:
"His genius lay in two things-the
thoroughness of discipline and his devo-
ton. do not think he was a man of
great natural ability. He could not talk
at ALL He was not an entertaining per
son. lie was rigid military man: edu-
Gated at West Point. he had learned his
lesson well, and applied it unhinchingly.
L remember a single order which he
always enforced, which. in my mind. ac-
counted for a good deal of his success.
1t was that, whenever we stopped on a
march the wagons must go to the side of
the road, and be unhitched with their
tongues pointing to the road. so they
could be driven either up the road or
down. Now that would seem To be n
simple thing, but it accounts for the re-
markable celebrity of Jackson's marches.
Suppose a man would stop and his
wagon tongue would point the wrong
way, and at a certain hour in the morn
ing he would begin the march. and that
the wagon would block up the road9 If
there were many such wagons the march
would be delayed certain time 10 LET
them get ship-shape. Jackson rode mn
and down his lines every day. morning
and evening, to see if such orders as
these were strictly carried out"
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Mrs. DoDDY-" Why, Mrs. Make
sure, you're not looking well of late"
Mrs. NJ" No (sighing deeply, Inever
look well after I've been buying butter"
Mrs. D.-'sAfter buying butter? How
does that happen?" Mrs. M.-"Well,
you see have to taste all the butter
before buying, and as L have to taste
fifteen or twenty kinds before getting
suited, and swallow good-sized lump
every time for fear the grocery keeper
will be mad if spit it out, and as two
thirds of it is mixed with lard, and the
other third with tallow, you can just i'm
agine the state of my stomach. Louis
vilie Courfer-Jou7lal.
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2-01s2nn


A YOUNG Italian painter, Signor Carlo,
in Paris, has been astonishing a select
circle of spectators with some wonderful
performances in the way of rapid execu-
ton A member of the company
chooses n subject, and without a mo-
ment's reflection, the painter proceeds to
depict it on q large canvas, six feet by
three. In four or five minutes the pic
ture is finished and replete with details.
OF course, being produced at such a
rate, the work leaves much to be desired;
but as an instance of lightning speed,
combined with a harmonious ensemble.
it is simply marvellous
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In the harbor of Wisenar, in the Baltic.
animalcules increase and multiply at a
great rate, for 1900 cubic feet of mud
are formed there every year, and every
grain of this mud contains 100. 600. 600
of the beautiful siiceous remains of the
infusoria.
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OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
WINTER AND SUMMER.
BY II. o. KNoyLroS.

Oh, wish the winter would 90,
And wish the summer would come
Then the hg brown farmer will hoe,
The little brown bee viii hum.
HO, hunt
Then he robin his fife will trill,
And the woodpcCkcr beat his drum,
And out Of their tents in the hill
The little green troops viii come
Ho, hum,
Now the blossoms are sick in bed
A~d the dear little birds dumb,
The brook has r cold in her head,
o. summer takes long 20 come.
lie huml
" hen in homie blue fields of sky
And iu bonnie green fields below.
The cOud-d0cks n y and the lamb-hocks lie,
Then summer will come, | know.
H0, no!
Iheu around and over the trees,
With huter and dirt will 90
a Tollicking frOhcking breeze,
And away with whisk, no, ho.
HO, hoi
Oh, the blossoms take long 10 come
Aud the ic Giles long 90 go;
But the summer will come and the bees VII
bum.
And the bright little brook will dow,
st. Nicholas.
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Late Genius.

A poet says: "When the sun imprints
a goodnight kiss upon the western horl-
son the sky bushes: How pretty Is the
thought The sky blushes when the sun
rises in the morning; but, then, the poets
are always asleep, for genius Is generally
late.-Nea0 Orleans PicayttTae.