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BITS OF IMPORTATION.

AMONG the Greeks the death punish
nent of certain criminals was aggravat-
ed by the denial of funeral rites.
In early days of printing books the
paper was only printed on one side and
the blank sides pasted together.
TIE turkey got its name from the be-
lief that it originated in Turkey. But
the big bird is, in fact, native of North
America.
In 1854 "cages and stocks, for the
punishment of offenders. were ordered
to be set UP in every ward in the city of
London.
HPPoURATEs, born at Cos, 460 B. c.,
was the first person to apply himself to
the study OF physic as the sole business
of his life.
IT was the Emperor Charles V. who
invented the title of ''your Majesty.
sovereigns having previously been adj
dressed as "your Grace.
BLIND Tom has been an idiot from
childhood. He played as well when
Z years old as at present He play snow
something like 1000 pieces.
EASTER eggs symbolic the resurrec-
ton, and they are colored red IN allu-
sion to the blood of redemption. The
custom dates back to the ancient Hin
docs, Jews, Persians and Egyptians,
and it was symboiical OF the manndane
egg from which, according to an ancient
tradition, the earth was Matched 1t Is
said also to refer to the recreating pow
ers of nature, which begin to be DIS
play ed in the Easter season.
DIR. FRANKLIN invented stove In
1745. Previous to that time there were
stoves in Holland and Germany Frank
Inns stove, however, was a great I'M
proyement on all that had preceded 1t.
In I77I he invented several other stoves,
one for burning bituminous coal, which
would consume its own smoke and had
a downward draught; and another, IN
tended for the same purpose, having
basket CRATE or cage, with movable bars
at the top and bottom, supported by
pivots at the center, and which, after
being filed and kindled at the top,
could be inverted, and so burn from the
base. The next inventor of stoves,
ovens and heating and cooking appar-
atus was Count Rumford, who between
| 1855 and 1895 devised several improve
ments, all intended to economlze fuel
/ and heat. It may be stated that the
box stove now in the State House at
| Richmond. Va, bears date of ITO, is
one of the so-called Holland stoves, and
was probably imported from England,
as the castings, though rude, are super
ior to the American castings of that day.
For cooking purposes Count Rumford's
cooking stoves or ranges, lined with fire
brick or soapstone, and with a ventilat-
ing oven, which had been introduced
into New York as early as 179S, and into
Boston about 1900, were gradually COM
ing into use, and between that tine and
1926 there was, considering the period
and the obstacles, considerable activity
in this branch of manufactures, which
have been increasing annually ever
since.
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The Morality of Failing.

! 1t is better TO be robbed than to be a
/ robber. And sometimes it is better to
fail than to succeed. This thing called
failure Is not such fearful thing as the
/ prosperous world would suggest it to be.
Failure is only lesser success. All men
can not organize triumph. Defeat is
the fate of many. The only successful
failures are the ones that are honestly
Ez--4e- sVyt+feff 1nans Tddgnfent has
miscarried and brought him wrong
issue, he is not to be outlawed for it.
When the mlsfortunes or " cussedness
of others drive him into defeat. there is
no reason why he should be hated. The
world will have charity for the failure
where it has been inevitable and honest
1t hates sham failure even worse than
does a sham success. There is one
feature connected with failures prac-
ticed by nearly all failing concerns.
but that does not make it any less
Objectionable. We refer to the custom.
so universal with all failing firms and in
stitutions, of preferring wealthy credit
ors. The question naturally comes up
Why should they be preferred? When
a mercantile house fails, it usually pre-
fers its banker, and fixes everything up
with him, so that he Is no loser. When
a bank fails, it has been observed, that
This system IS corrupt in morals, and
manifests a contemptuous Difference to
wealth that Is humiliating Why should
any failing concern prefer the wealthy
over the poor? Every settlement should
be promoted as matter ot justice, but
If any leniency or favors are to be shown.
they should be extended to the poor.
The rich can sustain their loss. They
have other resources and larger oppor-
tunltes ; but the poor have the last prop
taken, and know not where to look for
another. Why should large creditors
be satisfied first of all? The world has
got all wrong on this business transac-
ton. If it intends to be honest and lust.
it must turn around. Public opinion
must make 1t unpopular, because it is
wrong for banks and merchents to shield
and favor the rich and powerful, while I
they oppress the poor and the weak /
How much better it wodld appear if the (
bank had treated ali of its customers I
alike. Let the wealthy stand in with T
the poor and take their chances. The I
wealthy man who has divided his money.
placing a parcel il one bank and some
in another. can rsoover the loss of one
division of his ,-ealth far better than the
needy rnan, r the poor widow, who do
not have e,5ugh to parcel ont, but must
trpst all Il one venture, and if they lose
there they lose all. If any class ot
deI-ors are to be preferred. common
lonesty would suggest that it shouId he
ne ones least able to meet losses or
hls class are the poor. any other pay
nent than on q pro rata basis is unjust
md unfair to them. In the matter of
ettling with creditors there is room for
IN Improvement in the morality of fail
res.-I7adidndpoHs Herald.
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How John Potts Was Repaid.

Thirty years ago poor girl named
Carrie Roper, In garments tattered and
torn, wandered to the home of John
Potts, a village blacksmith in what is
now known as Brooklyn, Pa, a few miles
from this city Mr.. Potts took the girl in
and suggested to his wife that they adopt
her, they having no children of their
own. Mrs. Potts objected, feeling 1t
her duty to take one of four OF her
sisters daughters, if it was deemed ex-
pedient to adopt daughter. Mr.. Potts
would not listen to his wife's suggestions
and determined to support the girl. de
sent her to school in Bucks County,
where she took up the study OF music
with her academic course, and graduated
with high honors. Two years after she
graduated Potts failed to learn OF her
whereabouts. His inquiries did not
bring any tidings of the girl, and he
gave her up as dead. His wife died IN
the spring of 1877, and he lived alone.
He still continued his business as black
smith, though unable to save anything
from his earnings with which to pay
few mortgages on his property. Recent
ly strange lady appeared at the post
Office in Brooklyn and introduced her
self as Mrs. James Rutledge, OF Pitts
burg, wife of millionaire. one
inquired for John Potts and was escorted
to his home. The ole gentleman recog-
nized her at sight, and was overcome
with Joy at her appearance. The lady
had come to take Potts to her home,
where he was to enjoy the freedom of
her home during his remaining days. She
paid off the mortgages on the Potts
property, purchased handsome monu,
ment for the grave OF Mrs. Potts, and
started with her old friend for her home In
Pittsburg. Soon after their arrival
she made Potts gift of 5000 in
United States onds.-CarbOndale Pa,
Cor. N Y Sun.
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Girls First

The best husbands 1 ever met came
out of family where the mother, a most
heroic and self-denying woman, laid
down the absolute law, "Girls first. 4"
Not In any authority, but first to be
thought of as to protection and tender
G8fg wnfch tlfesen fllds 4ha- ehixalraso
show to their own sisters naturally ex-
tended itself to all women. They grew
up true NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS., gener-
Gus, unexacting, courteous of speech and
kind of heart. In them was the protect
ing strength of manhood, which scorns
to use its strength except for protection;
the proud honesty of manhood, which
infinitely prefers being lovingly and
openly resisted to being " twisted round
ones finger" as mean men are twisted,
and mean women will always be found
ready to do it; but which I think all
honest men and brave women would not
merely dislike, but utterly despise.-
By the author Of John Halifar.
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A Fearful sound.

They were standing on one of the cap.
stones of a culvert that took the refuse
waters of the city into the distant canal.
Suddenly there was a gurgling sound
that smote their ears-it seemed to come
from the ground beneath their feet-and
she excitedly exclaimed:
Z" Hark, Hector What sound was
that? Seems to me it issued from some
awearied soul whose life's last gasp
was being borne into the dark recesses
of the nevermore. ,"
VERY like, Euphermelia, was
Hector's response.
g Strange that thy conceit should
strike i the very visor. 1t to0s the
sewer-sighed l'-Ronae Sentinel.
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EMPEROR WILLIAMS GREAT AGE.
NO e.sn Known Have Sat ON n
Throne at Hts Years

I AZ HttA Hearas
kiNew York Evening Post 4
! Long reigns are rare in history. long
J royal hves much rarer still. Princes
occupy one of the lowest levels in the
whole range of longevity. The air of
courts Is destructive of health, nerve
and yigor. Lives which early corrup-
tion, hsSurious and effeminate habits,
uncheeEc passions and unceasing ex-
citemep DO not undermine, are fire.
qnentT shortened by consuming ambi-
ton o. care, warlike toll and peril, or
the mnrderous hand of conspiracy.
Amorg fle remarkably long reigns in
history k|e those of Uzziah of Judah
- e $ zSiSaso RRsSs Eo.9i 3
Portugal l73), Frederick Ill, of Ger
manyf l52), Christian ", of Denmark
(6OI. Louis XIV, of France (72), George
III of England (59), Ferdinand ". of
Naples (659, and Pedro III, of Brazil (5I
till now. But Uzziah was youth when
placed on the throne, Mithridates boy.
Sapoy newborn babe, Alfonso an in
FAINT, Christian II years old, Louis 4,
Ferdinand 8, and Pedro 5, and of ali
the monarchs mentioned only George
III reached the age of four score. Po-
land had one King who reached the age
of 49,, Stanislas Leszczynski; but he
reigned only five years, and survived his
throne ffty-six years, living IN quiet
retirement We must go back to the
DAYS of antiquity to and William /. .
royal peers in age, ano the only ones
we discover are Hero II, of Syracuse
and Massinissa of Numidia, both of
whom ended their reign at the age of
about 80. The reign OF Ramesses II,
Pharaoh of Egypt the Sesotris of the
Greeks-is believed by lome EgyptoIo-
gists to have lasted about 81 years, and |
his life about 100. but others reduce
both his reign and days o normal pro- !
portions. Thus, no Emperor known to |
history, no reigning King in Christen-
dom ever reached the ag of William /. |
Our age boasts of this extraordinary |
royal life. as it does of tie only Pontifi- |
cate, that of Piux TX, which exceeded |
the term Of st. Peter And Berlin, |
which still often sees it Emperor King |
on horseback, also saw IL 1859 Alexan-
der Won Humboldt give he last touches
to his "Kosmos in his 9th year /; Rau-
mer, in 1873, officiated asprofessor in his
92d; Field Marshal Wpngel, III 1877,
walk Its streets in his 9th, and Ranke,
in 1871, issue the first part of a universal
history, intended to embrace eighteen
in his S6th. Moltke, who is
not yet 50, must thus appesr to the
Jerman capital and nation as man still
available for action foI manya year to
come.
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a customer wants an elegant garter
he-I mean, she-is wiling to pay
for il.
A pair that cost s225 had tgo shields
with three big pearls IN each and little
diamonds at the edge. Another pair
was expensive throughits delicate lace,
which was arranged in a fluffy bow-knot'
with two little gold disls cIasping in the
center.
At another establishment the ieweler
said
"The majority af them are made to
order. Your visit is opportune. as I
have Just finislled the most expensive
pair that ever. left ny factory. The
price is 81. 200. In t& the lace and
pearI-eoiored silk f,eez was joined by
an elaborate clasp@ :. bns side was the
i.ssa,s'' 1sl4resr~uSi IN ,,s.a on tho other
the coat-of-arms, with frosted storks'
heads, crest of delicately- carved gold.
and motto set in chip diamonds. II
was a present from mother 10 her
daughter. who is to be married soon.
Has the demand for such garters
increased ?"
at is hundred per cent greater
than last year, and grows constantly.
-Ne10 York Sun.
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WHITE RIYER, COLORADO, I
NfarfS1, 1850

of humorist on an English paper. II
should be in shout the following
language:
- WHIrE RIyEIs, 6ssoLoRADo,
-,s, Marclls1, 1S<s-1 l-
Dear .STrT'It eu,siei ern some hesitation
that I address you on this occasion, rela-
tive to the subject of securing lucrative
position on your great journal as chlef
humorist and pun promoter.
am aware that my experience so far
has been somewhat limited IN this line,
but L hope by patience and proper
course of dieting TO bring myself up to
point where / may establish reputa-
ton both for myself and your paper.
have attempted several times to hold
down ike position on American jour
nails, but so far have not made that
mark which my ungoverceble ambibi-
ton seems to crave. l hope to strike
the popular gait in a few weeks so that
In England / would have no trouble.
Ny Jokes are of a grave and at times
almost sad complexion. They are
stvle of grief tainted humor, which can
not but attract the kindly notice OF your
people
Heretofore 1 have filled the position
of undertakers' foreman with wonderful
success and could still hold the position
if desired it. but it is too cheerful IN its
nature. I want something that viii
chasten andsoften my rebellious nature.
l want something that will give me
constant reminder of my dying condi-
ton. What / want is to mlngle with
woe and suffering. I feel as though life
should not be a holiday and picnic.
1t should be Il groan, shudder, OF
prolonged death rattle. / am fully i'm
pressed with the idea that we can only
be purified through suffering. No man
can fit himself for death II he glldes
evenly through life.
1t is therefore my desire to enter your
Office and be thrown in constant contact
with the corpse-like presence OF your
Jokes. I would love to mingle with the
bony relics of your staff and hear their
grim aud awful puns.
Please do not turn me away, but give
me chance to sit in the ghostly glm-
mer of your smile.
do not care for large salary on the
start. All / would require would be the
wholesome contact / would be brought
into with the ghouls and wreckers of
human hiIarity. My morbid longing for
the dead and decaying humor of forgot
ten years would then be put at rest.
This wild hunger for something acutely
sad and heart-broken would be stilled.
Please write me as soon as possible,
and believe me ever
Dearly yours,
SoMBER o. PAIL
Laramie BOOMERANG.
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GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
The Date In the Rinr

inc Ohte IN the A&lnKs
The women dressed her for farewell
In snowy silk and lace;
crown Of braided hair they set
Above her quiet face,
And on her placid breast they laid
White roses as became maid.
Her mother bent and kissed her lips,
And kissed her braided hair,
And folded down the peaceful hands
Upon the bosom fair.
Aad, weeping, saw on one a ring,
A lttie golden, time-worn thing.
She took it from the icy hand
Ana look for rhyme or name,
Something 70 say why II was there,
From whose fond thought IL came.
She only saw through many a tear.
date long pakt-day, month and year.
was some schoolfellow's gift. ? she sighed
The child forget 20 show
And Dt1t II. .ha alniz. zzas<.srra s.tre<,
With tender touch and slow;
And saw its tiny glitter rest
Like sunshine on that quiet breast
Ah, little ring, you kept IL well,
The secret Of your date!
Whate'er its meaning, it goes untold
Beyond the earth and fate;
Pain or blessing-who can say
How much Of either in ii lay?
We watch the light in our darling's eyes,
The lines that the slow years bring
Yet know as little of what they mean
As the secret OF the ring.
Joy or sorrow--Cicd only knows
How much of both lies under the rose.
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Sun Dogs.

A parhelion is an attendant image,
more or less distinct, of the suns disk,
which may appear with any halo at one,
two, or more points near the sun, but
which is more frequently formed in the
course of the horizonal or vertical white
bands, or in both, at or slightly without
the intersection of these with the ordi-
nary halos. They seldom appear at
once at more than three or four of the
intersection, and sometimes present a
sort of tail in the direction opposite the
luminary. They are poFularly known
as sun dogs or mock suns.
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How to Entertain the Girls.

What shall we do to entertain or
girls ?" says a religious exchange. A
man who needs advice as to how TO
entertain his girls is not fit to edit a
religious paper. We suggest that he
take one of them out buggy riding in
the afternoon, tell her what daisy she
Is, and how insipid and fixed up ssthat
other girl is. Then he should take
" that other girl out for ice-c1eam after
supper and tell her confidentially how
very uninteresting and awkward the
buggy-riding girl is. When the two
girls meet the religious editor can de-
pend on them entertaining each other
without his personal assistance. Teras
SVtings
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Old Maids Make the hest BOARDING
House KeeDerS.

House Keepers.
Prof. A. E. Willis delivered a lecture
In st. Louis on the subject of Glove
and Marriage" According to the Re
publican, before commencing his re-
marks he exhibited a skull and pointed
out phrenologicallY all the peculiar
characteristics of the person who carried
1t around. He cndeavored to show where
the love part of the brain was. and then.
commencing his lecture proper, he said
he wanted to speak of the power of love.
No such man as Brigham Young. in his
opinion, had any love in him. He had
too many wives.
10 fall In love peoplemust feel as if they
could caress and embrace each other.
Some girls like to hug and kiss. and 9TH
ers didn't care cent about it. 1t all
depends upon the organ of coniugality.
Some married people never kissed each
other, while others were very fond of
kissing. Couples often got along well
enough, but there was not that congen-
1allty between them that should exist
between man and wife. Love, he con-
tended, was in its very nature attraction
or magnetism.
Love, what Is love?
'Iis the striving Of two spirie to be one
Many people, he added, we're apt to be
mistaken in their affections. There
were lots of it In the United States,
which he attributed to novel reading,
the latter producing too much senti-
mentalism. He then described the
average young couple going through a
siege of cOurting, and said there was
just as much differance as between
black and white. Love blinded most
folks. II girl was in love to man she
became blind to his faults. A second
test Of love was that lovers were always
unhappy if not in each others e-49ArnS1Se rnSSea
The third test VI y9s Sll,,,39 q yea die for him
IVA y. ,.s5ssts s1--sts Were good evide1zse s1.ssA
an old maid faif fi boon 1t,io OF her eyes
would sparkle and she would look ten
years younger. She would become
changed being. He was just alittle Sc
we're on old maids, for he saidthe most
of them were sour. They made the
best boarding house keepers. hough, in
the world.
The great object of modrn court
ship, he continued, was to geiacquaint-
ed, marry and fool each sther. He
pointed out the deception practiced
in order TO win 9 wife or a
husband, and spoke of commercial mar
riage.
He claimed that in all questions Of
marriage the facial expressions should
be studied. Men and women ought to
know about human nature.
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HICKMAN FULTON COUNTY KENTUCKY FRIDAY NAY - 1882.

sus' neck. Stalwart arms swung him
up. to the yard. As he drew up his
writhing limbs in his death agony, the
Snowman turned away his face.
Well, 1t was his own fault, he NUT
tered; but L am half sorry for him.
few moments passed, and the two
men were again together-but not In
this world
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IrHAs been proven by direct compar-
ison that objects when are white by
sunlight appear yellowlsh under the
electric light, and red when seen by gas
light. ''The illusion, says Dr. Werner
Siemens, "arises from our Delng accus-
ofter sunset and on this basis forming a
d;fferent scale of colors for ourselves.
Davlight would accordingly by night
arneaT still bluer than the electric light.
His false idea would disappear if cleo
trio ;Ilnmination became general"
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Getting Rid Of Them.

"Do you really write out in the woods,
Mr. Dactyl?" "Indeed I do, miss. -
"And what do you do when one of those
horrid ten-footed bugs drops on your
face and begins to tickle?" "Oh l just
wait until he gets through tickling, and
then I shout Bug onp and at once
there bug of.
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LITTLE boy has been swearing, and
mamma, to punish him, washed thor
oughly the inside OF his mouth with soap
suds, ''to, as she explains 10 nun, clean
away the naughty words a lew days
later, while passing the patnroom, she
sees the youngster with ms isc9 one mass
barely understands his spluttering ex-
cIamstions: "Getting then all out,
mammal Swore five times yesterday p
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A PROMINENT writer of eulogy on
connubial bliss says it is often the
case when you see great man, like
ship, sailing proudly along the current
of renown, that there is little tug-his
wife-whom you can not see, but who is
directing his movements and supplying
the motive power. just imagine Brig
ham Young in this connection. There
were enough tugs around him to have
yanked him along at the rate of sixty
miles an hour.
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THE PENNY We MEANT TO Gs.E.

There's funny tale OF a stingy man,
VINO was none too good, though be might ha,
been worse;
Who went to his church a Sunday night,
And carried along his we'll hned purse
When the sexton came with HIS begging plate.
The church was but dim With the candies light;
The sttngy man fumbled all through bis purse,
And chose 4 coin by touch, and not sight
Its an odd thing now that guineas shoul4 b.
SO like unto pennies, in shape and size-
"I'n give penny" the stingy man said
The poor must not gifts Of pennies despise."
The penny fen down with clatter and ring;
And back IN his seat leaned tho stingy man.
The world is 80 fun OF the poor" he thought,
II can't help them ALL give what cam"
Hs, hal how the sexton smiled, 10 be sure,
To the gold guinea fall In his plate;
Ha, ha how the stingy mans heart wrung,
Perceiving his b.under, but just too late!
NO matter. he said. ain the Lords account
~ lend 6 Him Who Who give q ~ he poor; p or
twin not 80 bad an Investment be-" s-lS
I" Ma, na. mon,- the chuckling sexton cries out:
The Lord Is na cheated-He kens thee well:
Re knew it was only BY accident
That out Of thy fingers the guinea fen-
"He keeps an account na doubt for the puir;
But in that account He'll set down to thee
Ma msir o. that go den guinea, my mon,
Inan the one bare penny ye meant to gieT'
There's n comfort, TOO, in the nttle tale
serious side as well n Joke;
comfort for all the generous poor
In the comical words the SEXTON spoke.
A comfort to think that the good Lord knows
How generous really desire to be,
And viii give credit in his account
Tor all the pennies we long to "gi'er
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