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WHAT THEY KNEW ABOUT 70 UIe
THO USAND YEARS AGO.

From one Of these books, compiled after
the manner Of our modern cyol6pmdias, and
the compilation Of which is shown to have
been more than 1000 b. c., it has been ascsr-
tanned, what has long been supposed, that
Chaldea was the parent land of astronomy !;
for 1t is found from this compilation and from
other books, that the Babylonians catalogued
the stars, and distinguished and named the
consultations that they arranged the twelve
consultations chat form our present zodiac to
show the course of the suns path in the
heavens divided time into weeks, months
and years that they divided the week, as We
now have it, into seven days, six being days
of labor and the seventh day of rest, to
which they gave name from which we have
derived our word Sabbath and which day,
as day of rest from all labor Of every kind,
they observed as vigorously as the jew or the
Puritan. The motion of the heavenly bodies
and the phenomena Of the weather were noted
down, and connection, as have before
stated, detected, as M. do Pervilre claims to
have discovered, between the weather and the
changes of the moon. They Invented the
sun-dial TO mark the movements of the
heavenly bodies, the water-clock to measure
time, and they speak In this work of the spots
on the sun, fact that could only have been
known by the aid Of telescopes, which it is
supposed they possessed from observations
that they have noted down of the rising OF
Venus, and the fact that Layard found y
crystal lens In the ruins Of Nineyeh. The
"books" contain an account of the Deluge,
substantially the same as the narrative in the
Bible, except that the names ara different.
They disclose that houses and land were then
sold, leased, and mortgaged, that money was
loaned at interest, and that the market gar
densrs, to use an American phrase, worked
on shares y that the farmer, when blowing
with his oxen, beguiied his labor with short
and homely songs; two Of which have been
found; and TO connect this very remote
civilization with the usages of to-day, l may,
In conclusion, refer to one of the books in
this library, in the form Of a notice, which is
to the effect that visitors are requested to give
the librarian the number Of the book they wish
to consult, and that 1t will be brought to
them at the perusal of which one is disposed
to fall back upon the exclamation of Solomon,
that there is nothing now under the sun -
Popular Science Monthly.
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NEW JERSEY MARI.

The great mari belt of New Jersey stretches
from the head of Delaware Bay, northeast
ward to the coast opposite Staten Island, a
distance of about one hundred miles. The
belt varies from five to fifteen miles in width
At some places the mari crops out on the
surface, and is as easily dug as common dirt !;
at others II lies fifteen or twenty feet deep,
and must be taken out by machinery. The
mari belongs to the cretaceous epoch of geol-
ogy-the epoch which Dana describes as the
closing era of the reptilan age, remarkable
for the genera of mollusks and reptiles which
end with it, and also for the appearance dur
ing its progress of the modern types of plants
and fishes.' 1t was an age of finishing and
of beginning. There are four great mari
layers in New Jersey, made up of ~ the clay
marls, s77 feet thick, with dark. colorea clay
as large constituent element ~ the lower
mari bed, 80 feet thick, in which appears a
green sand mari, much used for fertilizing /;
(3) the middle mari bed, 40 feet thick, where
appears mari of chocolate color and also of
olive green and (4) the upper mari bed 81
feet thick, where are found two marls--ash
colored and blue making altogether $50 feet
of mari strata under New Jersey. The mari
was formed by the chemical decomposition of
organic matter, chiefly shells, along with
sand and other earthly substance. The geol-
ogists tell us that during the period of mari
formation, New Jersey must have risen and
sunk in the waves several times, and that
even now she is subsiding, as is shown by the
encroachment of the ocean ON her lower bor-
ders. The changes must have been slow, ex-
tending over measureless geological periods
but they were immense in their total. How
illimitable must have been the ages to form
even the single set of mari strata with their
$3.50 feet of earthly compost.
Exactly what mari is chemically the follow
ing analysis of Woodstown MARIA fair
specimen of other aflalyses--will show
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READ THE EVIDENCE
WAieh ell Remops Al yosF Doubts--A
Good Ievsstnent-0ae thai Yields
Z g An HUNDRED F0LD.n


The world Is fll of charlatans asking public atten-
ton to patent Inventions for the mitigation of suffer-
ing Everything claiming the power TO good should
be from reputable source, otherwise Il is open to
picion. Or. David Kennedy. Of Roundout, N. Y.
afhrms that his medicine. "Kennedys Favorite
Remedy is the best article Of Its kind produced
Hence 1t Is only just to the public that he refer to
record physician and surgeon Among the capital
operations performed by him ares Amputation OF the
thigh-bone In The case of Abraham Ellsworth, Port
Even, Ulster Co. N. y. amputation OF the arm,
of Mrs. Edward Meyers, Of Rondout. N. A., and the
operation of lthotomy lremoYal of stone from the
bladder), In of Simon Tietsell of Kingston and
the removal eye for Oscar Cragg, Of Rosendae
Ulster Co., N. Z. These a few of many. All these
persons fully recovered because Dr. Kennedy prescribed
Fayorite Remedy (which has unequalled powers of
purifying the Bood). Owing to the of Fayorite
Remedyi the advertisement of his surgical cases.
not has died all living to this day in the
bloom 4 health. DR.. Kennedy's" Favorite Remedy"
for sale by all druggists Si00 per bottle Sept T.
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VAN DYKES SULPHUR SOAP

Is superior to all other soaps 1t is combined with Sui
phur in its pure unauthorized state which enters the
pores the skin being absorbed into the blood through
the minute eaparies, aud thus acts upon the skin,
whether il be healthy In diseased condition. both
locally aud constitutionaly, thereby eliminating All
healthy action. 1t products fDeness, purity and
freshness of the complexion which Is unequaled, ana
can be produced by other means No toilet nursery
or bathroom complete without it. 1t makesthe Skin
soft clear pure white and healthy is cleansing. de-
odorzing disinfocfing, soothing, healing and purify
ing remover fahdruf. chatting ulcers sores, eruptons
roughness and redness OF the skin relieves itching
burning ana singing of the skin and irritation OF
biting and singing insects will relieve Itching Piles
when nothing else viii have any effect Ask for VAN
DYKES SULPHUR SOAP ;'insist upon u, and take no
Imitation Sold by druggists Aschenbach Miller
Propretors No 3oi Callowhil street. Philadelphia, Pa
Dec %, lSSo.-1y
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4 Lone BRANCH R0MANC b.


To Long Branch, the other day, there came
a very elegant looking girl, accompanied by
an elderly lady, evidently companion. The
young lady was not at all pretty, but perfectly
chic, from the plumes of her Gainesborough
hat to the tips of her French kid boots. She
had long, lazy black eyes, which she used eff
fectively over the top of a Louis Quinze fan /;
dainty little hand, decked with only one or
two well-chosen rings charming manners
aud frequently addressed her companion in
very good French They engaged handsome
rooms at one of the hotels, and the rumor
went quietly about that the new conner was
an orphan heifess from San Francisco. Gould
anything be more interesting9 In week she
was the fashion, and had more friends than
hairs on her head. 4 delightful converse
tionalist, fair musician, always well dressed,
and lavish with her money, she certainly had
! grounds for popularity. She had the manner
of one accustomed to command, and occa-
sionally forgot herself in treating gentle-
mau too much like All upper servant, but with
a certain class this gave her added prestige.
A few nights ago, at a soire dansante, the
young heress appeared in one ofthose tot
let's that bear the unmistakable Partisan
stamp, an exquisite cream satin covered with
lace embroidered in fine gold thread. AS usual
she was the most conspicuous woman In the
room. She at once caught the eye of a
wealthy Brooklyn brewer just come down to
his cottage near the Rowland, He happened
to be standing near New York banker,
when he made a discovery which caused him
to calculate, by George, how did Tom Ty-
sons daughter ever get in here?' The
banker, who had some business transactions
with the brewer, asked what he meant.
"Why," said the latter, with hearty
chuckle, that girl is the daughter of a Ho-
boken saloon keeper, one of my old customers,
grown rich on the unrighteous thirstiness oil
people. She's been in French boarding
school for long time, but knew her In a
minute" 1t happened at that moment the
bankers son was dancing with Miss Tyson
aud his father turned fairly white with rage,
and no sooner was the quadrille ended than he
snatehed the young man from her side as a
brand of the burning. In some mysterious
way before ten minutes.were over, everybody
In the room knew the truth, and Miss Tyson
stood as much alone as a lighthouse in mid
ocean. The virtuous indignation of the
matrons the holy horror Of their daughters,
who always thought there was something
queer about the girl, and the disgust of til,
young men, who had pronounced her "jus
my style, can better be imagined than de
| A
- society tainted, so to speak and til,
next day "tho California heiress quietly do
parted from the hotel. Exchange.
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ENGLAND AND THE YORKTOWN AFFAI R.
Nor did the surrender of CORVALLIS at York
town end the war, it was tho beginning Of
the end. England was weary of the struggle,
though many, like the gentle poet Cowper,
might have sympathized with the conscen-
tious scruples of the King in refusing to cede
any of the dominions he had sworn in his
coronation oath to preserve intact. But
others were of different opinion. Fox re-
joiced at the news, knowing that it presaged
the close of the unhappy war, and his opinion
was SO far shared, by Parliament that on the
10th of April, 17s3-exactly eight years after
it broke out-Wa shington was able to an
nounce to his army that all was over. We
cannot believe that any one nowadays holds
any other opinion than that of Fox. Had
CORVALLIS been able to carry out his plans
the struggle might have been protracted a
little longer. But the colonists could never
have been crushed, and in the coming Napo-
leonic wars would undoubtedly have recover
ed what they had lost. When people arrive
at certain time of life they are apt to be a
little oblivious of birthdays. We are too old
to celebrate Runnymede, Agincourt, Torbay,
the Bill of Rights, or even Waterloo. But
the Americans are still young, and though
their coming centennial is one In which they
may, perhaps, feel some delicacy in asking us
to join, we are not SO thin-skinned, or SO un-
generous, as to be unable to appreciate the
spirit in which they will celebrate it.-From
the London Standard.
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4 vEST1 no PRESIDENT GARFfELDs8
MOTHER.

s. To-day, Ii tho qaies iittla village Of Hiram.
q, had the pleasure Of spending several
hours with Mrs. Garfield, the sead uaol.ssr Of
the President, a jovial. fresh- faced lady 81
over soyears, who still walks a. spry a..
girl. Our gifted President must hare Inherit
ed much Of his marvellous energy from bis
little mother, whose kindly, resoiut6 face ii
only more delicate type Of rugged features
Of her statesman son.
With much vivacity She told us Of earlier
days, when left widow with four little chif-
dren, her pioneer neighbors offered to make q
"bee " and split rails for fencing her land!
But when thesS helpers found that this
staunch, young temperance matron would not
furnish them whiskey, according to the GUS
tom then; they all quit their work, leaving
the logs only quartered. But true to her
principles and nothing daunted, the grand
little woman herself took up the maui and
alone split sixty rails. She says; Every
time lifted the maui 1t was So heavy and
so slender, its weight nearly pulled me back
ward. "Are you not proud to think OF it
iiowp" asked her aged sister, Mrs. Boynton.
"Oh, answered Mrs. Garfield, /" / am ashan-
ed to think that men were ever such slaves to
whiskey."
She says In those days she always walked
three miles to church, taking of her shoes
and stockings to wade the Chagrin River,
which ran between her house and the meeting
house. With tears in her eyes she told us of
every evening reading the Bible with her
youngest son, and said he was always good
boy. .4.---s-
wuen to Id her that Mr.. Taylor was now
visiting the Indian Territory, she spoke Of
the interest she and her sons had always felt
in the poor Indians and that James from d
child was always eager to take the part of the
weak and the oppressed.
How she loves this son--her fsbaby,s' al
she twice called him. With what gratified
pride she refers to Gladstone's sympathetic
letter to the Presidents wife. Mrs. Dr..
Boynton, who is present, speaks OF a letter
from her husband, in Washington, which tells
of tho Presidents extreme weakness after
the last surgical operation !; but this brave
mother of a brave son said in answer: my
son viii live. God will raise him up, for his
work is not yet done. - Letter to Nsso Castle
0oarant.
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1t is constant source of lamentation
among certain class of political economists
In France that her population shows no in
crease and it has como to be generally ac-
cepted that this is calamity to a nation. But
surely there is good deal to be said on the
other side. Tho average French family is
three, the average English five, and the
average Irish seven, and, SO far as average
prosperity goes, we believe the French have
the best of It, 1t is true that the French
might feel grave Inconvenience if they were
involved in war, which in the past was largely
responsible for their small population in the
present, but il this scryeg to keep them at
peace it surely is an advantage rather than
contrary They are able to compete with all
countries, to surpass most IN manufactures
and arts, and, what is moro, they are able TO
find work for all their people at home, where
as the countries with an ever-increasing popu-
lation see tens Of thousands of their bone
and sinew daily seeking a livelihood in othe.
climes.
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Seaside conversation ''grhe hen is a
frugal housekeeper, F" said the old Dominique;
"she finds her nests and then she makes her
own spreads. "And the chicks have to
she'll otlt before she scratches single worm
for them, said the Bantam. " Yes, indeed
said the Dominique 'tthe chick comes down
the first thing ''He has to-" said the
SpangIe feather or no." How can the
hen make him come down ?" asked the April
chicken, who was just too fresh for anything.
"Son," said the Spanish cock, solemnly, 81
cannot tell lie she does it with her little
hatch ft.;"-Burlington Hawkeys.
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A EIn1TD All other liDiIneBts have failed
al Glb TRY DIR. WARES
ELECTRIC RELIEF!

BY taking internally II will cure cholera, cholera
mofbus, diarrhna, dysentery. cramp collie. asthrra,
phthisc. influenza, spasns, sick headache. morning
sickness heartburn sour stomach, pain In the back
aud sunstroke Applied externally, 1t will relieve you
Of rheumatism. neuralgia, sore throat, lumbago ear
ache nfamed breasts mumps govt, peurisy,
pneumonia frost bites bruises sprans burns scalds,
wounds, contracted tendons eucorrhoa swollen joints
stings and bites Sold by druggists and store
keepers generally Wholesale depot N. w. corner Sd
and Callowhill Sts., Philadelphia, Pa.
June 2S.-ly.
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is for all ordinary diseases of Horses Cattle
Sheep and Swine. Il and prevents CHICKEN
CHOLERA Your COW is certain to yield 20 PER CENT.
MORE AND BETTER MILK AND BUTTER. Stock Fattens
0ss One-Fomrtls less Feed!
Being in possession of a large number of excellent
testimonials, subj0in a few
have been using your Cattle Powder for horses,
cows, chickens and pigs, aud find it PHYSICIANS
thi0g.-George Bond, Germantown Pa.
Please send me half gross of Cattle Powder have
used two packs my and chickens The COW
gave nearly twice the quantity of milk that she did be-
fore, and gave twice the amount Of butter My chick
dying, but cured immediately after had
used the powder. Yours trny Jonas Pasour, Dallas,
NC.
have used and compared your Cattle Powder with
all Others and must SAY II Ia the for horses cattle
sheep, hogs &c. have tried ii poultry for fuany
complaints, with success in every ease.-Jonathan
Weaver, Berryburg, Pa
Last summer you sent me package of yonr powder
which gave to my poultry, and have not had one
droopy turkey or chicken since.-Mrs' VIM. Knapp,
Orange, N. Y.
Send me a pack OF two of your Cattle Powder. The
pack got from you last winter cured the chicken
cholera. gave of II to neighbor and IL cured
his chick ens--John Williams Spruce Vale Ohio.
Address for pamphlet full of useful information
for the farmer. horseman or dairyinan.
f. A. MILLER,
33i Arch St.. PHILA., Pa.
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A new step, called the glide" is beir <
taught by Boston dancing masters. Chicago
young mon have long practised ton evenings
when the girls sire is at home. On smooth
gravel path the glide is all right, but where
there is high gate aud dog in tho yard il
won't work.-Chicago Tribune.
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A stcrnwhsel boat going up the rs,cr in
sight of Pittsburg, kicks up such a DUST that
she looks like frame house on fire. Tho
river is so low that even turtles, terrapins and
tadpoles can't get drunk at the bars --Pitts1
burg Commercial Gazette.
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RocEas SELL AscHEsBAcH q M1LLER's
FAMILY CHOCOLATE,

au article superior ID quality and lower In price than
any other In the market prominent and experienced
New York physician gives II his opinion that choco-
LATE preferable coffee because II adds strength
10 the body life to the exhausted brain qdles the
nerfos system harmo nzes the workings OF the digest
I've organs ana gives purity TO the blood.
For superfne nfectoh ask your eonfeetioner for
our Sweet Spiced Vanilla Chocolate. Aschenbach &
Miller Sd and CsllOwhiif Sts Phila., Pa. Sept. d.
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The Buffalo Commercial Adoertissr men
tions what may be safely set down as the
worst case Of spelling Of recent record. 1t
occurred in notis'' Of a sellybrashun I"
to be held on the shores Of I" Lake Eary, and
mentioned tho occasion as "guble." This
word troubled tho editor a good deal, but
With rare perspicacity he at length resolved it
into "jubilee."
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Or. JONES TARAXAcUM TONI

" virtues have stood test Of forty years. is naliible
in the chre of Dyspepsia, General Debility Chronic
Heartburn St. vitus Dance, Pain in the stomach Back
and Chest Particularly adapted to all Female Disea-
ses no matter what the age of the patient may be.
Price rs cedts. Sold by druggists.
ASA JONES, Propf, $40 N. Sd st., Phila- Pa.
June 23.-1vs
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There is an awful state of affairs In a little
Michigan town where a type setter substituted
tho word widows for windows" "The
windows of the church need washing badly.
They are too dirty for any use, and are dis,
grace to our village. "-Pittsburg Comm erciaf
Gazette.
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So far from being the 9 harmless y beverage
which the brewers claim, beer Is most pro-
life source Of crime. The strong liquors
more quickly overpcwer and PROSTATE those
who use them, rendering them relatively
harmless to others.-A. M. Powell.
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DR., WARMERS PUMONAIS.

is household word with those who have used it, be-
cause it does its work quickly and eectuay In OF
Coughs, Colds, Hoarseness Influenza, asthma, Bron-
Consumption and Bleeding Of the Lungs. Only 10 cents
bottle. Ask your druggist for IL. Wholesale Def5t
N w. Cor. Sd and Callowhill Sts, Phila, Pa Sep r.
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There is no reason why total abstinence
from alcoholics should not be taught as a
science in our schools or colleges as well as
is the science of proper ventilation and other
phases of hygiene.--M. II. Hunt
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POETRY.
GARFIELD.

So at to die. With courage calm
Armed to con front the threatening dart,
Better than SIX Is such high heart
And helpfuller than healing balm,
So ft to livei With power cool
Equipped TO fill his functions great
To crush the kuaves who shame the State,
Place seeking pests Of honest rule.
Equal to either fate he'll prove,
May Heavens high wiitinclne the scale
The sway our prayers would fain avail
To weigh Tito long life and love
London Punch
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TEMPERANCE NOTES.

Is not every step from the natural state Of
the system towards the state of stupid intoxi-
cation an advance in sin, yielding to the un
wearied tempter of the soulp
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You may build church in every street,
but as long as you allow the dram-shops to be
open you will make criminals faster than you
can reclaim them From Prison Warden.
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What delightful thing rest is. The bed
has become palace Of luxury to me.
would not exchange it for all the thrones in
the world. Napoleon.
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Strong drink makes direct attack not only
upon souls but the institution of the church,
tho Sabbath, the home, the school, the Bible,
Christ Himself. Mrs. S. NJ. /. Henry.
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/ speak deliberately when I express my
conviction that IL our American Christians
were united, ministers and people, ecclesias-
tcaly and politically, to man, in deter
mined, unrelenting effort to abolish the liquor
traffic, it would be put downs-A. j. Gordon,
ID. d.