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an AUTHORS LUCK.

When Auerbach, the German novel
ist, was young man he was persuaded
to try his luck in a lottery. He dreamed
that II, ,586 was the lucky number. He
discovered that this had been in the pos
session of rich family, who had played
with it for sixty years, and who, al
though it had drawn nothing, would not
part with it. The agent offered him IT,
585 and II ,5S7, which, in spite of warn
ing that refusal of tickets under such
circumstances was unlucky, Auerbach
refused, and from package of tickets
drew No. 1. No. 1 won nothing but
1855 came out with the capital prize
of 150, 600 Prussian dollars. Auerbach
never afterward permitted himself to
be tempted.
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BEGGING LETTERS.

There are some things to be urged in
behalf Of poverty, one of the chief of
which is that one is not annoyed by beg
ging letters. A reporter of the New
York Mail, who was sent to make GER
tain inquiries Of a citizen noted for his
iberality, was shown q few specimens of
the opportunities for help almost daily
made by mail. Among those he was al
lowed to copy were such as the follow
ing, the peculiar spelling being retained:
"Thinks you could do kindness if you
could pay off a mortgage of $115 on
piano or find some man in the Baptis
Church that would do it." "Would like
you to send him money to go to college
with" "Wants to be supported" "Her
husband had sore on his head that bust
ed out and she would not ask no man
for nickle if she did not think he had
big Fart. Her husband never drunk no
Intoxicating drinks, never gambled, new
or used no bad language, never used to-
bacco and never had a lawsuit" "Would
like you to go and see all the Captains
of the ocean steamers personal and see if
you cannot raise enough money to sup
port the grandniece Of -" thinks
You would like to give him money to 90
10 England" "Would like you to get
. Car journal box patented for him. &"
"Would you have the kindness to lend
him "a. .000a" "would like You to invest
IN q, 900 head Of cattle"
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A NATIONAL NUISANCE.


A napkin ring-Ring what ?-En-
change.
The above is the style of a joke that
is making our beloved land the corral
for a vast herd of idiots who ought to be
poisoned and thrown into the moaning
sea.
The class of facetious individuals who
do not know enough to die of remorse
is gradually increasing. The country is
cursed at present with the vast epidemic
Of this kind of mirth that make per-
dition yawn.
Most any kind of a criminal can be
Drained with a piano leg and thrown into
the yielding bosom of a cranberry marsh,
but how are you going to brain man
with head like a peanut, and who don't
know a wedgewood joke from a moss
covered sarcophagus
How are you going to brain lah-de-
dah man who never knew what brain
was? How can you knock poor worm
of the dust senseless when he hasn't
been any other way since he was
born?
About the only way we see is to drain
Lake Superior and then collect those
gibbering idiots in the deepest place,
spread about four acres of boiled iron
over them, and then let the water back
into the lake.-BiU Nye.
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rAR MARKEfS.

family 8 ess is 1ass :: .sea ss
No No white Ii Sc No 2 yellow, szSc; No. mixed,
77s4c. oats-No: mixed 565sei No: 2 white,
57e Rye,Mo 2 7sc s;a sasleyNNGl tall q.
Mess pork, $40 25@2o so. Lard-Current-make
11.35@1l soc. Bacon, clear sides 12slc. Sugar
cured hams i4s15Ac Whisky :: tds, ss Tsg.1 UT
per per- Sushel. PotatoesE Early rose, Il 7ssa % per
toes, Bermuda, 25@4oc. per peck crate.
NEW YORK.-Flour-Common to good, extra
Western and State, IS COOS 60 wheat-No.
ed winter, 81 4sI; No. i white 81 il. Corn-No,
2 se4c.; No. white, s2A@s2Nc; oatsaMixed
sesssFsr C 9ssd ssDiG G
i1:sseSfi.725zc i1s3S 81; % p-' Wv ~ ~
Chicago, Wheat No; 2 Chicago spring
mixed Tic Oats-No. 2 mixed, 1910. Rye
No. 2 spring, nc. Barley No. 2 spring, 81 90
ii s5c. whisky, 81 IS
do, 81 %. Corn No. mixed, 74s@@76c. Oats, No
2mi1ed, 5Sc. Rye, 7sc. Barley, medium to fancy
steam, Ii. 11.2o@1l.271c.
Flour Pennsylvania extr.
family, Sc oO@6 25; Ohio do.,. 81 90. Wheat No.
red. 81 45. Corn, sail mixed, nil Sc Qat. No.
dered, 121ac. Whisky, 81 49,
NEW ORLEANS.--Corn-Yellow and mixed
e4@95c; white mixed, s771c; choice I white, 81 90
BALTIMORE Flour = Family, IS 0o@6 =
Wheat No. winter red, 81 NJ Corn-Westeri 4
mixed, soc. Rye, Western, S7@ssc. Mess pork
old, $40 90; new s21 90. Whisky, 81 2o@1 p.
INDIANAPOLIS-Whea steady at 81 81
al 35h. Corn, firm at 75@75Hc Oats, white, 551
@57c.
LIVE STOCK.
CINCINNATI.-CATTLE- Common, s. 00@4 20
good to choice butchers grades, IS 1907 90; goo,
selected butchers and heavy sRippers IS ooas Is
fair to good packers, 81 5o@s 90; stock hogs, IS
| @6 10. SnEkp-Common to fair 3H@4c; good t
choice 4L@5Lc. Lambs, common to fair 81
| SIC, and good TO choice 6@64c.
CHICAGO.-Hogs- Common to good mixed
rs. Cattle, exports, IS 25@s 70.
NEW YORK.-Beef cattle, 11T@1314c. Hog.
| good live, 81 s0@s 25 per 100 lbs. Spring lamb.
| 81 50@9 12%-
EAST LIBERTY, PA.-Hogs = Philadelphia.
| IS 25@s 55 per 100 lbs; Workers, 81 O0@7 80.
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THE GREAT PYRAMID.

Richard A. Proctor claims that the
structure was both tomb and an as
Economical observatory. When we re-
member, he says, that the astronomy of
the time Of Cleops was essentially as
trology, and astrology a most important
part of religion, we begin to see how the
erection of the mighty mass of masonry
for astronomical purposes may be ex-
plained-or, rather, we see how, being
certainly astronomical, it must be ex-
planned. Inasmuch as it is an astro-
nomical building, erected in time when
astronomy was astrolegy, it was erected
for astrological purposes. 1t was in this
sense a sort of temple, erected, indeed,
for the peculiar benefit of one man or of
q single dynasty; but as he was King
m o time when being a King meant
great deal, what benefited him he doubt
less regarded as benefit also to his
people; in whatever sense the Great
Pyramid had religious significance
with regard to him, it had also national
religious significance.
There is no other theory of the Great
Pyramid which comes near to giving q
common-serse Interpretation of the COM
bined astronomical and sepulchral char
acter of this wonderful structure. If it
is certain on the one hand that the
building was built astronomically, and
was meant for astronomical observation,
it is equally certain that it was meant
for q tomb, that it was closed in very
soon after the King died for whom it was
built, that, in fine, its astronomical value
related to himself alone. As an astro-
logical edihce. q gigantic horoscope for
him and him only, we can understand
its purport, much though we may marvel
at the vast expenditure of care, labor
and treasure at which it was erected.
Granted full faith in astrology (and we
know there was such faith), it was
worth while to build such structure as
the Great Pyramid, just as, granted the
ideas of the Egyptians about burial, we
can understand the erection of so mighty
o mass, and all save its special astronom-
ical character. OF no other theory than
that which combines these two strange
but most marked characteristics of the
Egyptian mind can this be said.
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WOMAN SUFFRAGE.

WAese and oss What QHestiosss Women May
In California women over 81 are eli
gible to all educational Offices except
those from which they are excluded by
the constitution; in Colorado women
may vote at school district elections,
and may serve as school district officers;
in Connecticut they hold the position OF
school visitors in Illinois they are elig-
ible to any Office under general or spe-
cial school laws; in Indiana those women
not married nor minors, who pay taxes
and are listed as parents, guardians or
heads of families, may vote at school
meetings; in Iowa no person is ineligi-
BILE by reason of sex to any school office;
in Kansas women are allowed to vote at
school meetings, and are eligible by
election as school officers; in Kentucky
widows having children of school age,
or owning taxable property, may vote at
school meetings; in Louisiana women
over 21 are eligible to school offices /;
Maine limits the eligibility of woman to
certain school offices; Massachusetts al
lows voting at school meetings for MEM
bers of school committees and the hold
ing of school offices; Michigan allows
women to hold school offices, and when
they are taxpayers to vote at school
meetings Minnesota entities women to
vote at school district meetings and to
hold school offices; Nebraska allows
them to vote at school meetings on the
same grounds as men in New Hamp-
shire they may vote at school district
meetings and be elected on school COM
mittees; in New Jersey, when over 81
years of age and residents of the school
district, they may become school trus-
tees therein; New York authorizes ike
voting at school meetings by woman
residents and holding taxable property
in the district i: Oregon limits the voting
at district meetings to widows with tax
able property and children to educate
Pennsylvania gives women over 21 years
of age the privilege of holding school Of
fees Rhode Island places women in the
school committee Vermont allows them
to vote on school matters and tohold the
Office of Town Clerk and Town Super
intendent Wisconsin considers them
eligible to any school Office except State
Superintendent; Dakota women may
vote at school meetings; in Idaho
widows, or unmarried women of 21 years
of age, residents of district and hold.
ing taxable property therein, may vote
as to especial district taxes; in Wash.
ington Territory women over 81, res
idents of the district for three months
preceding district meetings and liable te
taxation, may vote at school meetings
in Wyoming Territory women have g
full right to the elective franchise and te
hold office.
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When our teeth were ont, We thought
the dentist would pay us. BE asked us
whose little boy and girl we were, and
where we lived, and said this was pleas
ant weather for little folks.
After . while he said: cts -"
We thought he had "a for us, and
held out our hands, but he didn't
give us anything. Instead of that, he
said "Haven't you got any money!
Then Johnny explained to him that
we thought he would pay us for our
teeth. SO that we could help our poor
father.
The dentist began to laugh, and said
he didn't pay for teeth but he would
give us a letter that would make it all
right.
So he wrote a letter, and sealed it,
and told Johnny to be sure to give it to
father. He kept laughing all the time
he was writing il, and we thought he
was the pleasantest man in the world.
When we got home, Johnny said we'd
better wait till after dinner to give
father his pleasant surprise. And at
first was glad we'd waited; for the
roast beef was too brown, and father
said: "There never could be O piece
of beef done right in this house, and
Mrs. White, my dear, if you could only
have carving knife that would cut !
believe your son uses the carving knife
for jackknife.
We felt so sorry for poor father that
we thought we'd give him his surprise
then, SO he'd feel better. Johnny took
out the letter and gave it to him. He
sits next to father, and sit next to
Johnny. Father took the letter, and
said:
"What's this, sir ?"
And Johnny said: "Read it, dear pa,
and see."
Then father read it, and wrinkled his
forehead all up, and we thought he was
going to burst into tears, like the sick
man did when the good little girl
brought him the oranges. But he didn't
burst into tears. He threw the paper
across the table, and said
"What's this, Mrs. White? Have you
been running me into debt, after what I
told you this morning?"
And mother said: "Im sure I don't
know what you mean, dear" Then she
read the letter. and called us naughty
children, and Chow dare you go and
have sound teeth out without my con-
sent 2"
And father said that, "What we had
done was catamount to robbery /; going
and getting him into debt Of our own
accord ; aud you may go to your rooms
and think about it till your mother and
I come"
We've beed in our rooms ever since,
and both father and mother said they
were under the necessity Of
Well, Johnny says switch is the
worst, but he doesn't know anything
about q slipper. Anyhow, it's over fol
this time.-KSttu White. in ST. Nicholas.
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BREEDING FOR EXCESSIVE MILK
FLOW,

FLOW.
There are modes of breeding, super
lative In degree, that may be pushed to
extremes without parting with any of
the chances for retaining physical vigor,
power OF endurance or tendency to long
life. These modes occur especially in
the systems pursued in rearing the
race-horse and the trotter. These ami
mails come short of the requirements
unless bred to secure stamina and i'm
munity from disease at the same time.
But in the case of the strictly dairy COW,
we invite disease when we breed and
feed for the maximum flow of milk, as
has often been shown by the excitement
which is forced upon the udder, the
latter taking on high infammatory
action. We cannot breed toughness into
the udder of COW as we can into the
muscles OF the running horse, 80 that
the more severely we exercise them,;i
done legitimately, the harder they be-
come. What we breed for in the case of
the udder is fully as much to secure q
large flow of blood to the gland as to
insure that the latter have increased
size. Mere size alone would not of
itself be factor in causing the tumult
which appears in the cows udder when
under severe strain, but this being
large, and the supply vessels going to
it, and within it. having been cultivated
to excessive caliber, so much blood goes
to the part as to disturb the balance ;
and when the blood is thus affected,
congestion and inflammation is the next
condition. so, while we can cultivate
the moving parts Of the running horse
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CORK.

The layer develops itself under tho
epidermis of the cork-oak. This tree,
which belongs to the region of the Med
iterranean, is very abundant in Spain,
Italy, the South of France and Algeria.
where it alone forms considerable for
ests,
Up to the age of 10 years, the tree
produces hard, irregular, tough kind
of cork, which can only be used for floats
or buoys but, after this is carefully re-
moved, a new layer forms itself, which,
being no longer compressed by the epid-
ermis, is regularly developed, and grows
the true cork for bottles.
In about ten years it gains the neces-
sary thickness, when it is cut round the
trunk at the top and bottom, and, by
vertical incisions, stripped off in planks,
which are sent to market. The game
operation is repeated every ten years |;
30 that a single tree gives in $50 years
twelve or fourteen harvests, producing q
revenue better than any land can afford
to the owner.
In China adulterators Of food are
The Somerset press. [volume] (Somerset, Ohio) 1873-1977, 1882-06-01
DUMAS CAUGHT.

A youth to fortune and to fame un-
known sends Dumas the manuscript of
a new play, asking the great dramatist
to become his collaborateur. Dumas is
for moment petrifed, then seizes his
pen and replies
Chow dare you, sir, propose to yoke
together horse and an ass ?"
The author, by retdrn of post: "How
dare you, sir, call me horse p
Dumas, by nezt mail "Send me
your play, my young friend"
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WORK FOE RAINY DAYS AND SPARE
MOMENTS.
1. Clean, polish and oil tools.
2. Repair any broken tools.
8. Clean and oil harness.
4. Shell corn.
8. Put all tools neatly in place.
6. Sweep floors of barns and out
houses.
Z. Grind hoes and spades.
8. Sprout and assort potatoes.
9. Keep cellars sweet and clean.
There are many other matters which
should be timely attended to, such as
examining kitchen drains to see that no
unwholesome air comes from them: re-
pairing Ieaky roofs; providing perfect
cellar drains; making dry surroundings
of the house, using gravel for walks;
preventing slop puddles at the kitchen
door, and keeping clean surrounding
of the barn.
The farmer should know the contents
of every field on his farm, which he may
easily ascertain accurately enough for
all common purposes by the use of a
tape line and the multiplication table.
Measuring poles of different lengths,
from six to twelve feet, viii be useful
for various similar purposes, such as the
measurement of portions of fences, gates,
bitches, buildings, timber and in garden
ing and planting trees. A graduated
pole of eleven feet is convenient for
measuring small portions of land, as
three lengths are two rods, length and
q half one rod, etc. 1t would be too
short if only eight and quarter, or toe
cumbersome if sixteen and a half feet
long.-Albany CultiUator.
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THE Prince of Wales. in writing hi

THE Prince of Wales, in writing his
own mental photograph at the house of
friend he was visiting, said his favorite
name for woman was "Louise," his
favorite dish Trufaes Perigord, 2" and
his aim in life not to do anything to
hurt the feelings of another. The
Princess of Wales wrote that her favor
ite name of woman was "Dagmar, J" her
favorite dish yorkshire pudding" and
her aim in life to mind her own bust :
ness.
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RuhhlUR It Ont.

The editor of the Courier, Mr.. W. F.
Cook, was seized few months ago by a
terrible pain in the left shoulder and
neck. Having been favorably impressed
for some time with the virtue of an article
recommended for all sudden pains, and
especially rheumatism, we rubbed the
offending part, and in less time than we
write it, relief came. That article is
st. Jacobs Ol.-Ca'sajoharie (M. ~
IO,1rier
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A FIFTH AVENUE PICTURE.

Trained pugs now sit at milady's win
dow with a bow of bright-colored rib
bon at their necks, and it is easy to see
that they regard themselves as a very
superior kind of dog. While you gaze
at the petted beast you have also a
chance to admire the fine design of
milady's lace curtains, which, as a mat
ter of course, originally belonged to the
Empress Eugene, and "were picked up
while we were in Europe last summer. +"
-NeaD York Mail.
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HOLLOWAY, the English manufacturer
of cathartic pills, has accumulated great
wealth and is devoting it to noble pur-
poses. He has already erected two mag
nificent institutions-onef for the insane
of the "middle classes" and the other
for the higher education of women. His
gifts amount to nearly IS. 600. 900.
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IT always makes boy crazy with dis
appointment when he sees . three-oor-
nered yellow dog running along the
road to go for . stone about the size of
an egg and discover it to be frozen in
the ground so hard that it can't be
raised by q pickax.
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OUR JUVEHILEs.


1"e Doo~S ~ - Ds~e@
o~
,-,...-,
In Numbers are the tribes enrolled
In Deuteronomy again
We're urged 10 keep Gods law alone;
And these ave books Of Moses make
The Oldest writings that arc Known
Yo.An. ,> c.r..r t..a..
Tn Juaee. on The laws r.b.l:
w. - :, n.v,a,. ,.. In Rnth
And First and Second Samuel
in First and Second Kings We read
How bad the Hebrew state became;
In First and Second Chronicles
Another history of the Same.
In Ezra captive Jews return,
And Nehemiah builds The wan;
Queen Esther saves her race from death
These books historical" We call
a. s..ss.
p-.,- n.-,s,. -,
.---,I
Eccicsi.stes next portrsys
How nseting earthly pleasures are;
The Song Of Solomon h al
About The love of Christ: and thsss
Five books "devotionsp ws call
c-..
u,-u. -. 80 -
-
r.. IT, go ---~.s-~
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THRoDoRE PARKER once said he re-
parded it as far more favorable to the
prosperity of country, the erection Of
q saw-mill than the arrival of painter
and poet.
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TEA, which costs in this country any
where from 80 cents to 81 pound, can
be bought in China for from 3 cents to
10 cents pound. This may seem like
pretty big profit, but just think how
expensive the chromos are.
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or the draught horse, and draw upon them
to the limit of their resources, We cannot
do this In the case of the dairy COW
without great risk of damage to the
udder, or the cow that carries this un-
duly-developed organ.-National Live
Stock Journal.
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DIR. r. v. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y: Dear Str
wrote you sometime ago that thought had
a cancer. There was a large lump in my breast
as large as a walnut, and had been there four
months. commenced taking your Golden
Medical Discovery" "Favorite Prescription" :"
and "Pellets" in June, and the lump is gone.
Yours gratefully, MRS. r. r. CLARK,
IryiuetOp, Mich.
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TIE craze for antiquities pervades
everything. The millionaires build their
houses in the style Of one age, decorate
them in the style Of another and fur
nish them in the style Of Q third.
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MENsMAN's peptonized beef tonic, the only
preparation of beef containing its entire n,.trs-
tious properties. 1t contains blood-making,
force generating and life-sustaining properties i;
invaluable for indigestion, dyspepsia, nervous
prostration, and all forms Of general debility !;
also, in all enfeebled conditions, whether the
result of exhaustion, nervous prostration, over
work or acute disease, particularly if resulting
from pulmonary complaints. Caswell, Hazard
Il Co., proprietors, New York. Sold by druggists.
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The voltaic Belt Co., Marshall. Mich, will
send DR.. Dyes celebrated Electro-voltaic Belts
and Appliances, on trial for thirty days, to men
(young or old) who are afflicted with nervous
debility, lost vitality and kindred troubles,
guaranteeing complete restoration Of vitality
and manhood. Address as above.
N. B.-No risk is incurred, as thirty days
trial is allowed.
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THAT true friend to all suffering with Colds
and Coughs, DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup will
always help and never disappoint you, as do
other cough remedies.
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WILMINGTON, N. O., Feb. 4. 1881.
regard your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure
a. sort Of special dispensation Of Providence
to those "hopelessly Ill Of kidney and liver
disesses, REV. On. BIRNHEiM.
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r. Y. PIERCE, M. D.: Dear Sir-My wife,
who had been i'll for over two years, and had
tried many other medicines, became sound and
well by using your " "Favorite Prescription" ;"
Ny neice was also cured by its use, after several
physicians had failed to do her any good.
Yours truly, THOMAS J. METHvIN,
Hatchers Station, Ga.
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No Trouble to swallow
DR.. Pierce's "Pellets" Cthe original "little
liver pills y and no pain or gripping. Cure sick
or bilious headache, sour stomach, and cleanse
the system and bowels. 25 Cents vial.
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KIDNEY-WoRr effectively acts at the same
time on kidneys, liver and bowels.
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"I BELIEVE st. Jacobs Oil to be the
very best remedy known to mankind, "
says Mr.. Roberts, business manager OF
this spaper.-Mils0aukce WIS. Sentinel.
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The thief is safest who lives under
the walls of the Kings palace.-Per-
rim