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THE RED RIVER COUNTRY.

A series of papers on "The New North
west" by E. v. Smalley, opens graphically,
in the Century with description of the
Dakota wheat region, and facts, like the fol
lowing, of great interest to persons seeking
new homes in the West ts4a sai
Nowhere else in the United States, unless
it be in the distant and little known valleys
of Eastern Oregon and Washington Terri
tory, are such large crops Of wheat raised
with such small expense and such certainty
Of success year after year. The grain is
sown late in the spring, as soon as the hot
suns Of the northern latitude have dried the
soaked lands, and grows with marvellous
rapidly. In August il is fully mature and
ready for reaping. All the farm work Is
done by machinery. The plowman rides
upon suiky pillow the grain Is sown with
q drill or a broad-caster the reaping ma
chimes bind the sheaves as they move over
the ground, and the threshes do their work
in the fields driven by portable steam-engines
that burn the straw for fuel. The grain Is
hauled at once to elevators az the nearest
railway station and then the whole farm
equipment of apparatus is left standing in
the fields until needed the next year. Ex-
cept on the big bonanza farms,n owned
and operated by capitalists, it is rare to find
any sheds for Implements, or, indeed, any
farm-buildings save little bare box of a
dwelling, and a rude stable of boards, sod
and straw, to shelter the horses from the
winter billiards. The red barns of the
bonanza farms make great show upon the
wild, vacant prairie, but they are not much
larger than thrifty Pennsylvania farmers
who till hundred acres, build TO house
their crops and stock
It is within bounds to say that, taking one
year with another, a profit Of ten dollars an
acre is made on the Red River wheat lands,
after paying all expenses ofseed, cultivation,
and marketing. The great merit OF the
magnificent grain-feld does not lie wholly in
its richness, however. Its structure Il
peculiarly favorable for the transportation
Of its product to the seaboard. Two hun.
bred and fifty miles of rail transit brings the
Red River wheat to Duluth at the head of
Lake Superior, from whence there Ia water
carriage all the way to New York harbor.
Dakota seems to have been fitted by nature
for vast, permanent wheat-field. The con-
ditions Of climate and soil exist for pro.
ducing the best grade Of wheat and the
largest average crops harvested for sue
oession of years in the United States, except,
perhaps, Washington Territory.
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TWO WESTERN TOWNS.

The two smart towns of Fargo aud More
head look at each other across the muddy
Red River ditch with jealous eyes. They
will not bridge the stream, because each ia
afraid the other would profit by convenient
crossing. Vehicles ferry over on a rude fiat.
boat, worked by hand-power applied TO q
rope stretched from bank TO bank, and Pc
destrians are beholden TO the railroad CON-
pany for the use of its bridge. Morehead,
the Minnesota town. has three thousand in
habitants: Fargo the Dakota town, boasts
of six thousand, and styles itself the Red
River metropolis. Both welter in n sen of
black mud in the season of thaws and rains;
both are largely devoted to speculation in
lots and lands, and botn are equally unat-
traetiye to the eye. They are in reality a
single town, commercially speaking, and n
remarkably prosperous one, too. The rail.
road system has made them tho busines CEN
ter and distributing point for the entire Red
River Valley, and out of their present jum-
BILE of muddy streets, cheap-pine cottages
and shanties, vacant lots, saloons, stores,
and lumber-piles, will grow up handsome
city of fifty thousand inhabitants within tho
present generation Already there is a
handsome hotel, rejoicing in the architecture
al oddities of the Queen Anne craze, q street
railway, an electric light company, water
works, half dozen banks, n daily newspa-
per, number of oreditablc churches and
school buildings, and q few pretty dwellings,.
Real estate speculation runs wild. Visions
Of second change have turned the heads Of
the inhabitants. The talk is all about lots
and values--how much this or that corner il
worth, what Jones paid for his strip Of mud,
or what Smith holds his at The real-estate
agents have their offices in the hotels, in
order to watch the arrival of guests and seize
upon the supposed capitalist seeking invest
ments, or the immigrant looking for a farm.
No well-dressed stranger need wait long for
the offer of free ride about the future city
and d valuable guide to explain the many
choice openings waiting for him and his
money.--From q The Nen North-,cest," 5y
&. Y. Smalley, IN Me Ctntoy.
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HON PRICES FOR CO RAJ.

have written once before to the Register
in regard to the immense prices paid for
precious coral, and have stated in your col.
umns that the best coral is worth five times
its weight in gold now find that under
stated the price, for Mr.. Casalta informs me
that the finest pink coral (known in the
trade as "extra rose y has often command
ed from $4o0 to 5000 per ounce, and that
he once paid for the very finest piece of
extra rose" that he ever saw at the rate OF
5000 francs each ounce. g., in round
numbers 81, POO per ounce. Now, as each
ounce of gold is worth about $16, we can
see that this unsurpassed piece of fine coral
was worth seventy-hve times its weight in
gold. But Mr.. Casalta added another con-
sideration, / O., that in cutting up and filing
away, and washing this fine coral, enough
was lost to mako It's price really mora than
one hundred times that Of gold. He further
informed me that coral Of this prcciousnesu
was, when worked up into ornaments, really
valued by the carat, and was treated as
precious stone, and was set with pearls and
diamonds. asked what such highly priced
and high priced coral was used for, and the
reply was that tho English nobility and
millionaires greatly esteemed it when set in
rings, and few of the crowned heads Of
Europe had it among their choicest jewelry
as breastpins, earrings, &c. During the
time of the First Napoleon, red--a deep red
coral was tho style, and that color com.
manded the highest price; but the English
of late years, following the style of the ex-
Empress Eugene, have taken to the "extra
rose," as it better suits the blonde complex
ion Of les Angiaises Besides it is the rarest
of coral. In Spain, on the contrary, the ex
ira rose is at discount, as the brunetteS
fEspagne want the deep red of the first
Empire to set off their darker complexion.
In India, Persia, China and Japan the dark
commands very high price, being, in the
first two countries used to adorn their tur.
bans, and the handles of their swords and
poignards, and also as rosaries by their
priests, and as charms placed on the bodies
of the dead to drive away evil spirits. In
China II has great value as buttons of Office
for mandarins' caps. In Japan coral is also
used as badge Of distinction.
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NO. 523


Bright as the morn that heraIded thy birth,
SO bright may all thy life be, little FaiIyi s
And thou shalt bear the prettiest name on earth
All hail sweet, infant Maryi
Come, tell me, is there truth in wordsworth,s
story
tof faith In Poets, am somewhat chary1,
That babies trail behind them "clouds o,
glorys'--
Dost thou, oh, tiny Mary?
Clouds have sometimes seen on baby faces,
Mostly when teething made them feel contrary,
But of the glory could ind no traces
Don't be offended, Maryi
Sage Darwin more than hints the race OF men
Deseends from ancestors all tailed and hairy
lowly origin, tits true; but then,
Our star Is rising, Mary!
Is It not nobler to be bravery striving
Onward and upward, with slow steps and wary
Than, from the Gods our origin deriving,
BE slowly sinking, Nary
4 glorious wonanhood. true, strong and tender;
A sparkling wit, with fancy bright and airy;
4 grace 70 which al hearts VIII homage RENDER
May these be thine, sweet Maryl
Fanny Piarson
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A BLIND NEoRo,s WORK.
Daily Task. That are Performed BY Sight
less Man.


The Messrs. Breslin have in their employ
az hostler gardener and general workman, q
negro man named Dick, twenty-four years
old, who since his fifth birthday has been as
blind as the proverbial bat. The amount Of
work he does and the neatness, accuracy
and despatch with which all his chores and
odd Jobs are done are simply marvellous
He attends to several horses, feeds them,
washes their harness. and when occasion
demands, can hitch up n team as well as any
one. His stable yard Is a model of cleanli-
ness and the garden is well worked He
washes the carriages, horses and wagons,
oils vehicles and sees that they are all right
before allowing them to be taken out of the
lot. He Is as light hearted as most Africans,
and can enjoy joke and laugh at 1t, though
he wastes but few moments in idleness Of
any variety, his whole mind seemingly being
bent upon careful discharge of his various
duties He Is as stout as an OK, and is bad
man 10 tease, as bantering loafer found
out to his sorrow not long since. He had
been tormenting Dick until the latter's stock
of patience gave out, when he turned fu-
riously on bis tormentor, and the first thing
that individual knew he was landed, oil
bruised, up In heap some yards away.
Perhaps the most remarkable gift the man
has is the ability to tell within a few mo-
ments the time of day Day or night, when
asked what time II is, he replies without hes
itation, and is rarely further off from the
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POETRY
A SONG roa WOMEN.

w,tb,n n arao,.r nar,x,... -,
That ioors ,,,,,,,, ! $500, -s,as
ua1r sasnt,,,r, ,.,t,, ~ .sss,. $500
sfarvno- or,3 yvoy ~ IN s,s,. ,
YET mt tta ,ess q, f,rss $50. -.
The LITTLE hrfs sine fras Z, core s,s 80
Anu ha"thorhs blossom everyWhere-
Swift cesse,eua t,, ..,.s ,yt,, ,,st,, ,,,..a,,
From early vvn t,,l t,v,i,o,,t Fans
shut in nv four AMI, ,'g,v sra,,s
the ho,,rs cra wi ro,,Ta ,Sish ,,
Ana ali the yrhiIa ~ anne eth, 49,
Where ,ntertys.,,n,, n,,,,rr,,s s,,t hr's'
1pha h,actr n,r,,s NINA t,,,a t,,as 49,
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PERSIAN CARPETS.
fnterestIna Facts nbout mn Importan,
Brn"ch Of Eastern Industry.

In the general havoc which the spread Of
Islam brought about in Oriental art It Is
fortunate that no bau WAS laid upon the
manufacture of carpets, but that, contrari-
wise, the new religion gave q fresh stimulus
to this famous branch of Eastern Industry.
Carpets nre even more essential to the Mos.
lem than pews to the Christian. The many
prayers Of the Mohammedan ritual must be
said toward the point OF the compass where
Mecca stands, and no better indication Of
that point can be devised than that which
tho pattern Of the prayer carpet supplies.
Moreover, the pious Moslem delights In
decorating his sacred temples with hangings
Of fine tapestry, and the most exquisite
products of the loom were frequently des-
lined for the adornment of the holy Kaaba,
or some scarcely less venerated shrine
Sometimes the whole interior of mosque,
such as that at Meshhed Ali, was hung with
beautiful carpets; and the Mihrab, or niche
toward Mecca, was always q favorite sub
ject for such ornamentation, which In this
case corresponds 70 the altar hangings Of
Europe. Mats Of . less costly nature were
spread on the floor, and II Is recorded that
in 1912 A. d., the Mosque Of El-Hakim, at
Cairo, was strewr with 36, 600 ellis Of car
peting alta cost Of 5000 dinars, while the
Azhar required $4,000 ellis Of striped mats a
year. The ,Kaaba at Mecca was covered
with hangings in the "Days of Ignorance
before Islam was preached, and clothes from
the Yemen, or q white Chinese, silk car.
pet" covered the shrine and later on the
famous white and gold fabric of the Copts,
or heavy velvet or plush carpets, from all
parts of the East, were employed in the
decoration Of the Mecca temple. The rulers
of the Mohammedan world We'd with each
other in representing the richest covers to
the Kaaba the very Mopgol Khans Of Fer
STA sent gorgeous hangings, and we read of q
cover studded with gold and pearls and
precious stones to the value Of 25O, 900 gold
pieces. London Saturday Revie0.
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MISCELLANY.
TRANSATLANTIC TEETH
Two Lovers Who Exchanged Hfolars-fIo,
the Operation Is Performed. s}s


The operation Of transplanting is per-
formed by drawing the teeth of both persons
simultaneously dentists at work, OF
cornse-and Immediately inserting the pur-
chased tooth in the place of the decayed one
The roof fits in the socket and the fleshsoon
clings to it, and it remains as firmly In the
head of the new possessor as though ii had
grown there. How nasty, you say.
Humphi don't know True, teeth are
porous, and some of the flavor of the origi-
NIL owner may cling to it still like the rose
perfume to the shattered vase stin you
know what Dryden says about men and
women:
And with large sums they stick not to procure
Hair from the dead, yea, and the most un lear
To help their pride they nothing viii disdain."
performed an operation of transplant
ing under romantic circumstances ON a GER
tain occasion young lady. as pretty as a
leach, and fine looking young fellow came
70 see me one morning. After no little hes
itation they told me they were betrothed,
and that he was in the army and was going
away to the Plains for at least year, hunt
ing Indians. And we are very unhappy at
parting whimpered She Yes, we are
almost blubbered he. We heard of trans
planting teeth and we want you to take one
out of each Of our mouths and transfer them ,
For moment was transiixed with laugh.
ter and establishment, and then attempted
to reason them out of their foolish PROPOSE
tion-both had excellent teeth by the by
but they insisted, so I extracted one of her
largest back teeth and one of his smallest
and changed them about Hers fitted in his
Jaw all right, and he went off a few days
afterward to his post with his lady loves
molar. His tooth, however, would not stick
IN /; for within a week the young Indy came
back with her face dreadfully swollen. 1
reduced the inflammation and eased the
pain, but could not replant her lovers fang.
and she went away with it wrapped up in
paper. Oh the Inconsistency of woman
Six months after she married a man old
enough to be her father When the young
lieutenant subsequently returned he intiig-
nantly told me of the manner he had been
i J'fh~Nft ASiucotth bt W iiuliltulAtely Hx-
tract his false loves tooth, which did, and
he threw it in the cuspadore" "Well. we
manage things differently now, my dear sir.
Teeth can be extracted by entirely painless
methods. A surgeon dentist of this city
possesses the secret of making nitrous OK
de gas which cannot possibly canse any
evil effects On the contrary, its applica.
ton is very beneficial Teeth drawn while
under the influence of such gas in no way
shocks the system-- This nnHt tall yAs, , as
bring my long talk to a close, improvements
in dentistry are still far from perfect We
shall soon learn to fill teeth without using
any description of hammer and with time
the plates will grow smaller and smaller un.
til they gradually disappear. ~ PHILADELPHIA
Press.
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CALIFORNIA JACK.
An incident of Travel on n Colorado Ruii.
road.

General D. j. Cook, VIM. f. Cody, Major
Cakes and select party of old-timers in this
section of the country went up to Manitou
Springs last week, accompanied by their
families for pleasant excursion. On Sat
urday, while returning to Denver via the
Denver and New Orleans road, they met
with an exciting episode. On the train was
a long haired, brawny- listed, roughly dressed
man, evidently mountaineer or man from
the mines. He had beaten his way from
Colorado Springs TO Manitou junction on the
!ally-ho coaches by claiming that he had
| friends in the latter place, Of whom he would
obtain money immediately upon his arrival.
He and . his partner thus managed TO
force themselves in for free ride and
wishing to further exert their check bonrd-
Denver. General Cook and party were on
the same train, Hearing that Buffalo ELL
/ was in the next car, the man became bois-
ferrous, and Immediately declared himself,
He was wild and woolly and full of lIi,s.
md never ourried below the knees. = You
{
On the train" cried the woolly man. :" He
knows me-rm Californy Jack" 1.-The
gentleman from Californy" then proceeded
to phil out a lsix-shooter and fonii4hed it
around in the cur, 70 the infinite terror OF
the ladies and some of the men. One or
two of the gentlemen we're going for I" BUFF
falo Bill in good earnest, when the conduc-
tor came along, and, finding that "Califor-
ny" and "his pardner had no tickets,
! promptly bounced them from the train.
Tho passengers gathered on the platforms
and at the windows to witness the operation,
Calforny Jack was attired in buckskin
brooches, and had an enormous six-shooter
strapped to his waist. This he pulled from
7 his belt as the train started TO move, aud
taking deliberate aim began 30 fire full at
! ihe car which General Cook and Mr. Cody,
with their families, occupied. Three shots
were fired in all, the bullets striking the cas-
ing of the door to the ear. The wonder is
that somebody was not killed. The condnc.
tor Immediately went through the train to
Sc, if anybody was hurt, and found that all
had escaped. BY some strange combination
Of circumstances neither General Cook, Mr.
Cody or Major Cakes had weapon with
them. The conductor did not want to lose
any more time, and the party came on to
Denver. "Californy,' as he called himself,
hung on TO the saddle which he carried with
him when he was fired off the train. By
this time ho has, perhaps, stolen horse to
fitit. His advent in Denver may be speed
lily expected.
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!. After an Dibl,,. . ha 60 !. ~ ..a.,.,

After ALL libby" he said to his young
wife, If Hannah Ann hadn't taken me for
boarder, never should have read your
character in its true light And il 1 had
missed You out of my life, dearest" bending
to kiss her brow, G should have missed q
jewel indeed ~ Helen Forrest Graves.
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Satisfaction for Ten.

In our family of ten for over two years
Parker's Ginger Tonic has cured head
ache, malaria and other complaints 50
satisfactorily that we are in excellent
health and no expense for doctors or other
medicines. -.- Chronicle.
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Loss of hair and grayness, which often
mar the prettiest face, are prevented by
Parker's Hair Balsam.
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See reading matter on fourth page.
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SAVED.
LAMBERTVILLE SEMINARY.

Seventh Year Begtns Sept. 20.
For further information apply to
MISS NJ. c. CARPEN1 Err,
Aug23tf Principal.
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JOHN LILLY,
Attorney and Solicitor,
MASTER md EXAMINER IN CHANcERf.
SUPREME COURT COMMISSIONER,
md NOTARY PUBLIC.
ofaee-No. SO Bridge street first door, opposite
the Lambertyille House. Lambertville, n. J.
Aug. %. 1877.
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W. f. HERR,
COunsell0r-at-LaW.
SOLICITOR AND MASTER IN OHANcERY,
AND NOTARY PUBLIC.
Legal business attended to in all parts OF the
state Special attention given TO collections;
So Once Cor. Union and Coryell streets, Lam
bertrille, NJ. Entrance on Union street.
April 81 1890
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c.. A. Dc c.. III. SkILLM4N,

C.. 4. Dc G. III. SKILLM4N,
AttOrneys-at-Law,
SOUTHEAST COR. BRIDGE AND UNION SIN,
LAMBERTvILIE, N. J.
Collections and all legal business intrasted 10
our care will receive prompt and faithful stten-
tion.
C, A. SKrLLMAN, G. IL. SKILLMAN,
Cbuaselior-at-L Lac -ino'ney-af-Ld~.
July 2, 1879.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-11
Crops.

CHICAGO, July liza Lincoln
Nebraska, special says: The crop indi.
cations continue favorable, and the
weather is fine for corn. Reports re
ceived from various sections of the
State confirm the opinion that all the
crops in Nebraska this year will go fal
ahead Of any previous year.
A Cedar Rapids, Iowa, special says:
Goodman, who has been travelling
through the State the past sixty days
seeking information about the crops
says the prospect for corn at present
is poor, especially in the southeast
where thousands of acres are ruined
completely. It's better in the north
ern half than in the southern. There
was an increased acreage over las
year of about 10 per cent, but the croI
is fully 30 per cent poorer; and if tn,
rain cOntinues,the damage will amour
to fifty per cent. Other grain look
fairly we'll. Rye is now being har
vested.
A Rochester, MINI, special says
S. H. Daniels steam -four mill a
Kasson, was burned; loss, $4,000
partly insured. The FIRE was caused
by an incendiary.
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Wall Street.

NEW YORK, July 1.-THE stock
market opened irregular but in the
main ! to II higher, the latter fol
Pacific Mail. In the early trade a
decline Of ! to &c per cent took
place, after which the mar
ket sold up t to II per cent,
Kansas & Texas, Peoria, Decatur 4
Evansville, louisville &iNashviville
and Indiana, Bloomington & Western
being most conspicuous.
Money Government bonds and
half prime mercantile paper 4 to 5 per
cent; bar silver, 1874: exchange steady,
at 848 long, SSl sight; governments,
irregular; States, irregular; railroads,
active and strong.
After IL o'clock the stock market
continued active, and, after a slight
decline, recorded an advance Of ! and
l per cent, Louisville 4 Nashville,
Texas Pacific and Missouri Pacific
being prominent.
Government Bonds.-Extended 6s,
1909; 6s, zoos; 49s, ia; as, 1l8i; Pa
cifc Is Of '95, 100.
Cotton quiet. Sales, sos bales. Up
lands, l3c; Orleans, 13tc.
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FIOOd TrOuhIen.

LEBANON, o., July 1l.-Nearly all
of the household furniture Of the farm
houses was swept away by the food in
Turtle Greek yesterday evening, and
is ruined. One Colored woman who
had been sick for some time, died
upon being told that the reservoir had
broken. People are searching along
the banks Of the stream to-day for lost
property.
MARIETTA, o., July ia storm
passed over this region last night,
There was heavy rain and wind
and much lightning. Two barns
were struck and destroyed, and one
farmer lest four COWS by lightning,
The rainfall was an inch and a half.
Corn is all broken down.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-11

The much talked OF bombardment
Of Alexandria began this morning al
seven o'clock, or about eight hour;
sooner than that by our time. Eight
ships are engaged, and it seems that
the British guns made havoc among
the Egyptian forts without receiving
much damage in return. The Other
powers are holding of. Admiral Sey
mour, with his powerful feet and
backing, will make short work of the
forces that attempt to defend Alexan,
andria.