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The Laudfa,I of CoIumbu..

In an exceedingly Interesting and almost
poetical pamphlet, published by the Coast
Survey, Captain G.. v. Fox undertakes to
solve the mooled question, which is Guiana
hani, or the island first seen by Christopher
Columbus on October II, 1892? This ques-
ton has interested many geographers, and
none more than the great Alexander Hum
boldt, whose profound and calm essays on
American geography command far lees at
tention and admiration than their vast and
lucid scholarship deserve. Unlike all his
predecessors, Captain Fox has based his in
vestigations upon the Journal of Columbus,
together with the log book as reported by
Las Casss and further elucidated by mag
netie calculations. -Four islands have heen
pointed out as the true Gusnahani: Grand
Turk island, in 21o 81 north, and 10 0S/
west of Greenwich is named by Navarrete,
Kettell and Gibbs; Mariguans, in 800 IL
north and 72o 3y west is put forward by
Varnlsgen; WatliDg's, in 230 So north and
740 2S> west is supported by Munoz, Becher,
o. Peschel and Major; Cat or San Salvador
in 24o 0Y north and 750 1S> west is adopted
by Catesby, Knox, Montlezun, w. Irving,
Mackenzie and Humboldt. Captain Fox
quotes extensively from the journal of Co.
lumbus, and also from Las Casas, who was
the only historian using the original docu-
ments OF the discoverer; then he reduces his
data scientifically, and after going artisti-
cslly through the conclusions and reasonings
of his predecessors, he concludes that the
true Guanahani is SANTANA in 23o 05 north
of the equator, and 7S0 So west of Green
witch, to probable anchorage of Columbus on
October II, 1892, being a slight distance to
the southeast OF the point here indicated.
Captain Fox's essay amounts to a mono-
graph, and has no rival, save Humboldt's,
which is based rather largely upon the rea-
soning of Irving and Mackenzie.-Boston Ad-
peTtiscr.
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tons OF beauty, grace and refinement pro-
duces the impression of a sort of monstrosity,
deformity of the whole higher nature,
which fills one with poignant compassion
and regret" Mrs. Grote, the wife OF the
Greek historian, labored hard to make Elssler
social success in London and TO snake
decent woman of her." but without eucour-
sging results, especially so far as the latter
object was concerned. The good and &C GEN.
trio lady's interest in the fair and frail Fanny
was due in part to her profound conviction
that she herself bad been intended by nature
Tor darlseuse. 1t need hardly be said that
Mrs: Grote was a giantess-a "Trelawny in
petticeais." When Fanny came 10 America
Mrs Grote cent her characteristic invitation:
Send that brat TO mel don't ask you whose
child 1t is, and don't care, so long as it isn't
that fool DOrsay's-snd I'll take the best
care OF it l can" The last reference to
Elszler is dated 1s43, when she was in En-
gland, gone off both in looks and dancing.
That rascal W" says Mrs. Kemble,
has robbed her of the larger portion Of her
earnings. What a nice lover to hzvep
W" is still alive, active and garrulous,
and as much of preuE ehsratier as he was
forty years ago.
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For the Sunday Appeal
IMnORTELLES.
On receiving flowers from my mothers gra
Dedicated to N. Z. NJ.

On receiving flowers from my mothers grave
Dedicated to n. z. NJ
Mother, thy hallowed grave is growing green,
And o,er thy head the summer roses bloom;
Adorn thy silent, solitary tomb.
And on the passing breeze their fragrance shed,
And seek no other Joy than thus TO be
Companions Of the lonely, sanity dead.
To tear them rudely from their sacred stem
Were wanton sport, and lol bless the hand
That cen for loves sweet sake has gathered them
For me, who wander in a far-of land
Yes, for thy child, who oft at close OF day,
When twilight shadows deepen on the sea
And winged thoughts go wandering far away
Holds sweet communion all alone with thee
Remembering how in days long since gone by,
His head he pillowed on thy snowy breast,
Secure as birdlings in the tree-tOps high,
When rocked by storm-winds in their parent
nest
remembering t1. how within HI nth the Long Ago"
And felt the fountain OF his JOY overflow
With every word, or smile, or sweet embrace.
But all is passed. The death-dim fills thine eve
And DER thy grave the winds Il requiem sing
The spirit of the Hour glass and Seythe
has chiIieu thee Win the shadow OF its wing
And though thy death has palled upon my heart
These little, short-lved flowers yet remain,
And in the lessons which their looks impart
hear thy voice and heed it-not in vain.
For, more than all the pageantry of earth,
Than the dazzling splendOr of its high renown,
Or matchlesS beauty, radiant with mirth,
Or jeweled scepter, coIonet or crown,
Will be the fragrance of these simple flowers,
Not found on Alpine tops, where tempests rave,
Nor culed, by dainty hands, from trellised bowers
But gathered wild from of my mothers grave.
They'll be to me e voice that speaks of you
Like voice OF sea-wind, signing through the
night,
And, in their petaled chalice. where oft the dew
Has sported with d myriad dyes OF light,
III find flood of golden memories stored,
Upon the crest of whose mysterious tide
Pll travel back TO days ere had scared
Aloft 70 tempt a world unknown-untried..
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wagner and HIS wife.

A correspondent oil the New 1oTk LTIotae
writes of Mime. Wagner: "She is woman
of the Sarah Bsrnhardt type, though in
every way larger, and reminded me much
by a certain magnetism she possesses OF that
actress. She looks a little like Jewess,
and is a woman who pays the greatest at
tention to her toilets, which are OF the most
costly description. She writes very cieverly,
anu 1as : mar sD ' - H.
father, the Able LisZt, was present. He ia
spending the month at Bayreuth, is at the
opera at every representation, and dimes reg
ularly at the theater restaurant in COM
pany with many ladies. List is always sur
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| State is on the high road to wealth, pros
perity and happiness, and all these desirable
results have been secured in less than seven
| years. Well may the Democracy of Missis-
| sippi point with pride to this splendid rec
ord. And now, in the face of these undenia-
BILE facts, comes General Chalmers, man
who did something in the memorable
contest of 1875 TO redeem the State from the
grasp of the robbers, who is trying all of his
little arts to return the control of Missis-
sippi TO ignorance, imbecility and villainy.
Vain to absolute insanity, devoured by an
ambition as boundless as the impalpable air,
he abaudons the best interest of his State
and the people with whom he has lived and
by whom he has been honored, and seeks to
couciliate the men who have continually re-
viled him and everything he has heretofore
professed to hold dear. Because the Demo-
Gratis are in the minority in the House of
Representatives and could not keep him in
his seat, no matter how strong his title, he
deserts The friends who did all they could
for him, deliberately gets down and
Iicks the boots of the party that
kicked him from his seati Chalmers
stands pledged to vote for a Republican
for speaker of the next House Of Represent
atives, in case he ls elected, and doubtless is
pledged to Jay Hubbell and his committee,
from whom he is supposed to be receiving a
liberal share Of the corruption fund, to vote
for all Republican measuresl We have no
desire to say anything harsh or personally
unkind Of General Chalmers. The APPEAL
has been his friend in season and out of
season, and when he most needed friends,
but in the present juncture we have duty
10 perform, both to the party and the coun-
try, and from the performance of that duty
no personal considera tions shall swerve u.s.
General Chalmers knows as well as we do, if
he has not been smitten with worse than
judicial blindness, that his election over
Colonel Manning can only result in
the disruption and destruction of the
Democratic party in his district, to
be followed by the ruin and disintegraion of
the party throughout the State. He may be
willing to destroy the Democratic party to
crafty his hostility TO Colonel Lamar, and |
feed fat the grudge he bears some of his late
Democratic associates in the House of Rep
resentatives, but in such a crusade we cannot
follow him Above and beyond all personal |
we hold the prosperity of our
ielloW-citizens Of Mississippi, and the unity |
of the Democratic party everywhere. We |
regard the election of Chalmers to Congress
over Colonel Manning as an unmixed ca
lsmity, and come what may, we will do
everything in our power TO prevent ii. |
Wherever this journal circulates in the Sec
ond district, its voice shall be for Manning
and Democracy undehled. AS we cannot
understand how any man calling himself a |
Democrat can vote for Chalmers, we conf |
IDENTIFY appeal 10 every true Democrat in the |
H. Manning.
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what the Physician of the Future NJ asst

study.
Prof. G.. H. Perkins in Popular Science Monthly.
Physiology especially has developed dur
ing the last fifty years so that it has almost
become science by itself, but it still remains
a part of the wider science of biology. Here,
again, we see difference between the studies
of the ancient and modern physician. To-
day, and still more in the near fufure. the
pnyslclan must extend his studies beyond
man, and the reason is plain. Man, with
whom alone the physician formerly supposed
himself concerned, is but an isolated being,
disconnected from the rest of nature. Nature
tolerates no such isolation. No living being
even the simp lest-exists, or can exist, indie
pendently OF other beings. 1t affects them
and is affected by them, and what is true of
the simplest is yet true OF the more complex,
and most of all of man. Nature is one,
and all of her creatures are parts of the
whole. For this reason man cannot be fully
known as part of the animal kingdom. No
one can well understand human ar atomy or
physiology who knows nothing Of that OF the
lower animals. Comparative anatomy or
physiology have thrown very much light
upon many obscure problems to which the
study of man gave rise. Therefore, would
urged upon all medical men to study BIZ
olegy. 1t may be replied that the courses OF
study are now crowded, but it is certain that
the successful physician of the future must
know something of nature as a whole. AL
ready many Of our most important theories
as to diseases-the structure of organs, cell
growth, cell-life, and m any more-have come
10 medicine from biology. In an address
before the International Medical Con-
gress, held in London in August, 1881,
Prof. Huxley remarks that "Ihe search
for the explanation of diseased states
in modified cell-life, the discovery of
the important part played by parasitic or
calculation OF the action of medicaments by
appear TO me to be the greatest steps which
ment of medicine on a scientific basis. need
hardly say they could not have been made
except for the advance of normal biology.
There can be no question, then, as TO the
connection between medicines and biological
science. There can be no doubt that the fu-
ture of pathology, OF therapeutics, and there
fore of practical medicine, depends upon the
extent TO which those who occupy themselves
with these subjects are trained in the meth
DDS and impregnated with the fundamental
truths OF biology. And / venture 10 sug-
gest that the collective ssgacity OF this
congress could occupy itself with no more
important question than with this: show is
medical education to be arranged 30 that,
without entangling the student in those de-
tails of the systsmatist, which are valueless
10 him, he may be enabled to obtain firm
grasp Of the great truths respecting animal
and vegetable life, without which, notwith-
standing all the progress OF scientific medi-
cine, he will still find himself an empiric~
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Rg,I.rfxhtInEf In France.

Marssilles Dispatch 10 the London Daily news.
The buII-6ghling scenes at Mines have
reached q climax. Last Sunday a Spanish
uuadrilie gave a representation which did
not appear 10 please the spectators. who had
been treated on the preceding Sunday 10 the
pleasing spectacle OF toreador with bic
breath knocked Oct Of his body by bull
and his Jaw subsequently, shattered by
clumsy Jump over the barricsde. The
audience occupying the best seats set about
fi.neing their chairs into the arena at the
performers ard denounciDg the bulls as be-
ing COVE and very sleepy COWS, too. The
signal uss-at once taken up. More than 1000
chairs we're broken and all the barriers
were knocked down. The police were help
les, and the spectators set ire TO all the
conbustible material in the place 90 effect
ually that the town FIRE brigade could
scarcely put it out. Toe project, mayor and
adjoinls were on the spot looking on, and
looking biankly at each other. The loss Is
estimated At upward OF 5000f.
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The campaign is progressing smoothly in
Arkansas, and big majority for the State
ticket is assured. A few local offices may be
captured by the Republicans.
Judge Berry, Democratic candidate for
governor, and Msjor Breckinridge have
about driven all the Greenbackers and Re-
publicans from the canvass. When a Re-
publican speaker tackles them, Berry gives
him few knock-downs and turns him over
to Breckenridge, who polishes him off ready
for burial.--ForeSt City Times.
The Republicans took charge of the State
in 1868 with several hundred thousand dol
lars in the State treasury, in cash. In six
years they went out, leaving not cent, in
cash, in the treasury and floating debt of
$3,000,000 in State scrip; during the six
years raised by taxation and squandered ever
100000 in cash. They are asking the
people to again intrust them with the State
government. They say never! -Prairis Cosstg
Appeal. = =
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empire, all of which lowered along the edge
of the improper, are now disappearing, and
are replaced BY sentimental ballads or he
roic pieces. The ParisIaa will always be
light. He will, so long as his type exists,
talk freely about certain things which are
tabooed in other places; but it is pleasing 10
note that he ia to be trihe more puritan 10
art. The struggle against the conventional,
too, has become more sharply defined of late.
Other nations" said Hugo more than fifty
years ago, "look up to Shakespeare, Homer,
Dante. We look up to Boileau." -Thi. cyui-
cal comment is no longer applicable TO poems
printed in the newspapers; and the reviews
are fresh, original, full of energy and noble
feeling. The muse has broken her letters.
Popular editions of the great poets are very
extensively circulated among the common
people. The schoolhouse is beginning 10 do
its beneficent work.
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CIergymen for Egxpt.

No fewer than eleven clergymen-seveno OF
them regular military chaplsins, the rest en-
gagged, so 10 speak, for the expedition-will
embark with the troops under orders for
Egypt. OF these, four belong to the Church
OF England, three are Roman Catholics, two
are Presbyterians and two Weseyans. Dur
ing the campaign in the Crimea there were
but two chaplains for all the troops engaged,
and these were both OF the English chuTch
One Catholic priest, Father Wm. Strickland,
went out with the troops to Sebastapool and
remained there to the end. But he was a
volunteer for the work, and was paid by the
Order of Jesuits, to which he belonged. He
is said to have at one time visited between
200 and 800 men in the hospital every day.
But of either Presbyterian or Wesleyan min
listers there was no one, and the Anglican
clergymen had to read prayers to seven or
eight different congregations every Sunday
London World.
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NEGRO BABY INSURANCE.
Tn. x.,s., u,nhs in the Mutual Aid
Bu,ipes. in the Ne" England
states

The Hartford Comm Ii-areleg's Record,
under the heading Of ''1nsqran:es Cranks and
Crank assurances" says tp a.. Il II, mere Is
aesd-oea5 IN me O1 ~ sit still, he straight.
way organize. b ss5iGg high
9u. aid n%et company on 6e
ssass.p psUten nIar and he is we'll fixed for one
or two years r at least. The CAPITAL required
is secondhand arm-chair a and good sup
Ply 0n yerno~,coT bis n getting the indorse
ment OF an ex-senator or congressman, two
or three e1governors the Pr ts s9t Of few
ts su ' tN cnlet ~ cjsrpymen, and his out
it is complete DaTiaEE the B 5i, gsa5 b:
rakes in the money wiihou. mIcn, trouble;
year ar steward, and they continue to send
in their ducats. When the supply Is hnally
gels a new SET Of highly respectable indOrssrs,
and goes at il again"
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GeOr2iR.

1t is a singular fact that the men who are
still dissatisfied with Mr. Stephens, and who
are willing to act in the capacity of assistant
Republicans in order to secure his defeat,
are the very men who seeking to perpet-
uate a tariff devised in the interest OF the
monopolies and to destroy the; Railroad Com
mission.-AHdntd Constitution.
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A Disappointing Prince.

A Russian prince died in St. Petersburg
lately who contradicted all the popular no.
lions of Russian princes. This was Orloff
Davidoff, the son and nephew of the i've
famous brothers Orloff of the days of Cath
crime This Davidof was the friend of Sir
Walter Scott and Goethe, a pamphleteer and
essayist himself of no mean pretension, but
above all humanitarian. Being one of the
largest landowners in Russia, he devoted
himself to the elevation of his former serfs,
founded industrial and other schools for
them, with system and appliances far in adj
vance of those in England. Newspaper
readers will doubtless remember the exhibit
msde by these sefs, at the exhibition in
Philadelphia, of designs, mathematical and
ri her UnrE
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Cbappe<t. Rnv,;xh snh.o,s

circular from the education department
has been sent to the school inspectors of En-
gland and Wales which gives practical coun-
sci. Ordinary textbooks or manuals should
not be accepted as readers" for "a single play
of Shakespeare, or single book of one Of
Millions longer poems. is better than any
compilation" The inspectors are TO approve
only "bold and legible handy writing" This
injunction reminds a London journal OF the
late Lord Lyttleton's experience. When he
handed in an amendment 10 the reform act
disfranchising all who could not write legi-
bic hand, the clerk was forced to ask his
lordship to decipher the writing on the paper
he submitted. II the inspectors carry out
the sensible directions. English schools will
be powerful insirumentalities.
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Comm emoraiing Loyalty.

The citizsns OF ST. John, n. B., are consid-
erins the proposed celebration of the loyalist
centenary next year. 1t was in June, 1888,
that the loyalists landed at ST. John, then
called Parrtown. As ia we'll known, these
refugees were chiefly from Massachusetts,,
alist families are widely scattered, and many
of them are extinct in st. John. The origi-
nal plan was to build memorial hall, to
cost SI50,000, in which there should be
library, museum and picture gallery. Ii
was hoped that the Legislature would con-
tribu e $4,000 of the amount desired, but
that body failed to meet the expedition. A
monument is to be placed in Kings Square,
at the head OF King street. The material is
to be native granite. The monument will
be 100 feet high, and the estimated cost is
$1,000. The Common Council has given the
site, and will probably assist in defrayiDg
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The work of a Uterine Endangered.

DIR. Schweinfurth writes from Alexandria,
where he remained throughout the lombard
ment, in imminent peril, that he has sue
ceeded 10 preserving the diaries OF his travels
since 1872, having Them with him. "But l
have left, " he says, everything elsa at Cairo
an entire Lifetime TO me, for they are the
results of twenty years fatigue and inces-
SAINT labor; my herbarium, my manuscripts,
my drawings, my maps of the deserts Of
Egypt, the labor of the last eight years.
There is, besides, al Cairo the famous Boulak
Museum, exposed TO the Unsuitable cupidity
of the Arabs on account OF the golden arti-
cies 1t contains. What an irreparsble loss to
science if it were lost" DR.. Schweinfurth,
it will be remembered, lost by fire some years
ago all the data of mis- famous tour in the
interior OF Africa, and it would indeed be a
hard fate were the collection he leftat Cairo
tnha daafrnred
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SOUTHERN POLITICS.
Louisiana.

A. J. Damont, president of the Republican
State Central Committee, writes letter in
dorsng the candidacy OF w. P. Kellogg for
Congress, and predicts his triumphant cleo
ton. 1t is generally believed that Kellogg
will get solid Republican vote, recent de-
velopme uts tending to that end.
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A National slrikc in Reserye..

Mr.. Alexander NJ. Kenaday, president oil
the Federation of Labor Unions at Wash
ington, d. c., has addressed a letter to the
presidents Of the principal labor orgsniza-
tions in the country, giving the substance of
recent conversation with Senator Blair,
chairman of the Senate Commute on Labor
and Education, in which that gentleman ex-
pressed the opinion that the proposed Cen
trail Committee of Representative Working
men, to reside at Washington, would be a
most valuable adjuuct to the Senate c lmmit-
tee In ascertainIng the true condition of the
laboriDg classes, and in suggesting proper
legislation for their relief. Mr.. Blair said
that it would be the aim of the
committee ITO fairly adjust the rela-
tions between capitalists and laborers, not
hurriedly, but with due deliberation." In
view of the sentiments expressed by Mr..
Blair, the president of the Federation of
Labor Unions, recommends that working
men now on strike should resume work at
an early day, Eat least before winter, with
Its increased expenses, sets in, upon the best
terms obtainable from their late employers,
and continue to work with as much patience
as they can command until they see what
Congress will do next winner" Mr.. Kenaday
says that if it should trsnspire in this legis-
lative inquiry chat the industrial classes
are being juggled with BY knavisn tools of
power" a national strike
could be inaugurated within thirty days
after the adjournment of Congress by the
unified labor organic Itions
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F,r,nIas fro-,, CouaeeIieuf, Massaehn-
se.fs and PenrsyiEan1a-

Connecticut boasts Of the Lille and Annu-
itv- indorssd by lis ~eninsnt setuary," and
the Hon. n P. Duclos, lessee Il mas also a
Mutual BENEFIT Lie, whose points of support
consist Of an ex-comptroiler, AN e1-hentenSnt-
quite instructive to see how quick our great
statesmen go into the ind s.l business,
when they get the title Of Hex hltehed to
their front names when going OUT OF once
But alas for Massachusetts,, the 6Irthplac
of State snperyision. the land of Bunker
Hill and aeminent sctuaries," whose chief
glory is Boston, the hub OF ereatiOnl for