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n g vsr.ppooV ". A. WAL-ER
y = FSTABROOK & WALKER,
DIR. G. E. GRIDLEY,

A TToRNEYS AT LAW. Office corner Eighth
n and Franklin streets, IN w ood $ bl0Gh over
Wagner's stove, South Side, Manitowoc, Wis.
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NASH & NASH.

A TTORNEYS AND DCOUNsELORS Al Law v.
n Office over First National BANK, Elgnth o.
Collections promptly attended TO-
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Accounting for Robson.

Certain philosophers have held that
the souls of men after leaving their
bodies pass into the bodies of animals.
and, disclaiming any arbitrary basis for
this belief, thev support il by the fact that
there frequently seems to be a remark
able correspondence of the traits of
character in certain men and certain
animals. But if their theory is correct,
is it not reasonable to suppose that the
current of metamorphoss might, under
certain conditions. flow toward the man
as well as from him, and that he might
acquire qualities resembling strongly
those which distinguish various genera
of animals on a lower plane than that
occupied by man? Assuming that this
NAV be so, we are advanced a stage in
the problem of accounting for Kobe
son. His attributes are essentially croc-
odilean. That he belongs to the repdl-
ian family in politics has long been ey-
ident to the most Indifferent observer.
That he is pachydermatous must also
be acknowledged by any one who has
made study of his nature. But he is
not allied to the elephant, the rhinoce-
ros or the hippopotamus in this respect.
He is far more scaly than any of them.
Smite him anywhere upon his moral GU
ticle, even with the cudgel of most
damaging facts. and he will turn with
as evil, but unmoved a smile as that
which illumines the countenanee OF a
denizen of the Nile when his hide
has been tickled with bullet. Like
him. too, he is sly, treacherous and
greedy, amphibious in his knaverv and
equally de e.tful IN his expression of
emot on, the emotion of selfishness be-
ing the only one he ever eXperien ed
How he ever found lodgment in this
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The RoI.Incss Of 1t.

The Republicans rob and riot in cor
ruptiOn chat begins to attract attention
by IFS audacitv and boldness. Mr.. Jay
Hubbell, the My dear HubbelI' OF
the memorable Garfield purchase OF the
Presidency by the same agencies, bold
ly and bravely goes TO the country with
a formal demand upon every public OF
fcer AMI salaried servant, not less than
100000 in number for two per cent. OF
their earnings with which to buy seas
in Congress to retain the Republican
party in power. Even laborers in the
navy yards are levied upon for the first
time under the tacit threat that their
money is the price of the places they
hold. There is no secret about it. The
demand is made in aEprinted circular
signed by respectable gentlemen and
managers of the partyin power, and so
utterly dead and debauched is the pub
lie sense and conscience to the proceed
inc that George William Curtis is
sneered and laughed at for his pains
when he undertakes to show that these
practices. besides being morally mon
slrous. are criminal offenses under the
laws which they so contemptuously
trample under foot. This is an exam
ple of the brass mounted audacitv of
the thing.
Under the rules of organized corrup-
ton which is intended to retain power
in the government Of this country in
the hands of a Republican Congress,
which voted away the enormous sum of
one hundred millions of dollars few
davs ago under a suspension of rules
and without debate, it is estimated that
the Congressional corruption committee
will realize four hundred thousand dol
lars rs a corruption fund with which
they intend to buy up voters in all
doubtful Congressional Districts 1t is
to this state of open and shameless deg
radiation that the party that was begot-
ten OF a great moral idea has brought
the Government 'of the people. by the
people, for the people" in this country
In which elections are so compounded
of fraud and crime and ignorance that
they have already ceased to command
the respect of anybody in the communi-
~. 1t is only the audacity of the thing
that now surprises. -Onada Herald
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

The mills at Augusta, Ga, are ship.
ping cotton cloth to Africa TIE heatheu
now takes his '.biled shirt rs regularly
as white man.--Detrolt Free Press.
Friend Hello, jim, you amt out
of work again. are youe' Unlaithfnl
emplove- We'll, yes; fact is, l III not
able to work; been injured by prcma-
ture discharge
-..Your meal is ready, sir" said tho
waiter to Hayseed, just from the rural
districts Meal y exclaimed Hayseed
contcmptuously; edo yer think I'm a
boss? Get me some corned beef and
cabbage, young man"
An artful iuryman, addressing the
clerk of the court while the latter was
administering the oath, said: Speak
up: | cannot hear what you say"
stop, said Baron Anderson from the
bench. Are you deaf?n ''Yes, my
lord, of one ear Then you may
leave the box; for it is necessary that
iurymen should hear both sides. Lon
don Society.
-Argonaut Soup: Take pail OF
water and wash it clean. Then boil il
until tits brown on both sides. Pour in
one bean. When the bean begins to
worry, prepare it to simmer. If the
soup will not simmer, it is too rich, and
YOU must pour in more water. Dry the
water with a towel before you put it in.
The dryer the water the sooner it will
brown. Serve hot. "-Three ia Norway.
-" All! saw YOU take a pull out of
that bottle said Galveston gentlemaD
to the little son of a Prohibitionist,
which boy was staggering under the
weight of a large bottle of whisky. 81
don't care if you did" responded the
boy,'' The less there is in the bottle,
the longer it takes dad TO get tight He
licks me as soon as ne gets tight, so /
want to put my trial off as long as pos
and he took another hearty pull at the
bottle.-Teras Siftings.
Music at home-with vengeance;
Lady Midas-'How charmingly you
play, Hare Leebartl Dear Mrs. Ponsonby
de Tomkvns must really bring you down
to play to us at Midas Towers, our place
in Surrey, you know, and-I will show
you my roses, the finest rose in all Eng
landl VIII Thursday suit youe" Herr
Liebhardt-"You are ferry frently,
madame; pot haf wife and six jiltern,
and icy do not lif upon roscsn'-P",1ch.
"A servant girl in Allentown used
the butt end of loaded revolver to drive
a nail in the wall. The weapon exploded
and the ball passed through the sleeve
of her dress and imbedded itself in q
door. Inasmuch as it did not kill her, il
is not likely the butt of aloaded revolver
will be utilized rs a hammer by the
average servant girl, who kindles fire
with coal oil. She wants something a
little more fatal in its results, and a
dynamite bomb should always be placed
within her easy reach when she wants tc
drive nail.-Norrtstou0n Herald.
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SCHOOL ANp CHURCH.

I'D. ID. is growing so common ana SO
meaningless, SAYS the Christian Union,
that il has almost ceased to be an honor-
airy degree.
st. Paurs Episcopal Church, Roches-
.er, n Y, in accepting the resignation
Of DIR. Foote, after twenty-tFIree years
service, voted him a house and $1,000
per annum for life.
The General Assembly of the Pres
byterian Church of Ireland has decided
against the use of instrumental music in
religious worship by a majority vote OF
$50 to 345- The United Pfesbyterians
follow suit
The Board of EducationNof Perry
Academy, Wyoming County, New York,
fitlinJS4 vacancy for the prjncipalship OF
the school, resolved that no applicatiaas.
will be considered save from UAarriec
men.
The old plan of the American Bible
,., @ xs I,, sksg3 family y
well generation ago. that the managers
of the Society are about to do their work
over again and on a larger scale.
The Case School of Applied Science,
in Cleveland, expects soon to have az
annual income of $75, 900. 1t has now
q full corps of instructors, and new
buildings will probably be begun another
season. The school will, when it gets
fairly into working order, be real adj
dition to the educational facilities of the
country. - Chicago Standard.
DR. Adler, known for many year<
as the the leader of a party of advanced
free e-thinkers among the Israelites OF
New York, is reported TO have aban-
doned his former course and become
believer in conservative religion. He
said recently: "Our religion must he =
religion of life, not of death. What liv-
ing thing for the good of mankind has
emanated from the free-religious ranks"
Chicago Tribune.
According to the Central Baptist,
there is colony or settlement in Barton
County. Missouri, to which Christians
are not admitted. The name Of the place
is - LIBERAL Theological tests are APP
piled to all applicants for admission
and if he acknowledges he believes in
Jesus Christ he is informed that be can
purchase no lot there. The colony, how
/ ever, processes to cultivate the morali-
ties.
The Rev. DR. Henry J. Morgan,
| who for lifty-two years has been rector
of St James Episcopal Church. Phila-
| delphia, is, with the exception of the
4 Rev. DIR. Shelton, of st. Paul ; Churc'i,
/ Buffalo, the only clergyman OF that
/ church in this country who has had 80
/ long a continuous service in one parish.
He succeeded Bishop White upon the
| election of the latter to the episcopatc.
and the church has had only the two
rectors in eighty-two years.-N- I. Post.
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Tae BeautifuI Ruins Of Tanis.

NJ. Edouard Nayille has lately returned
Frofn n short tour of exploration in the
Eastern Delta, where he visited the ruins
p Ianis.
The ruins lie high above the marsiy
plain, upon 4 kind of plateau surrounded
6y ain amphitheatre of low hills. These
hills are the rubbish mounds of the old
crude brick city. surrounding the great
wall within which lay the temples and
palaces of Tanis Al. Naville found
himself sanding in the midst of vast
Wskte strewn and piled with columns.
auhitraves, obelisks, statues and enorn-
ls1,locks of hewn stone, all shattered,
sSerturnel, and showing marks Of will
fiji distinction. Traces of the tools
VtA which the ruin was done are visible
oI aimostreyery stone In one superb
chdsslls, which has resisted the hand of
tle destroyer. M. Naville found wedge
bflns Into which wood blocks had been
stssfhSzt Iof-rti1o purpose Of si5llffing he
Eanite. He inclines to think that this
Fas the result of war aud not of icono-
aasm. The temple was probably occu-
ped as fortress in Roman times or
during the Middle Ages. and both be-
seged and besiegers may have used its
materials for offensive and defensive
purposes.
The principal temple was built entire
ly OF red granite brought from the quar-
res OF AsSouan, on the Nubian frontier.
The difficulty of transporting these enor-
nous blocks is quite incaleulable. Four
ten obelisks. described by NJ. Naville as
the largest in Egypt strew the mounds
With their gigantic fragments. Allthese
and nearly ali the statues and sphynxes.
which appear to have lined the avenues
70 the pfsAeipal temple, were erected by
RameseS H. Not only do their inscrip-
IONS celebrate the glory of this great
Pharaoh, but even the bases OF these
oyerturned monuments which rested on
the ground, and were Intended never to
be seen b. human eyes. were engraved
gith his well-known cartouches, Many
dthe colosSi still retain their traces of
color.
Nj. Nwille is of opinion that there is a
great work TO be done at ranis in the
way Of excavation. The little. conpar-
laNely speaking, which has yet been ac-
emphasized there was by Mariette Pash,l;s
bnt his discoveries were limited by want
oftime, health, and funds, and much
that he uncovered Is again buried.
: In severe grandeau and soiemnity
these ruins, says NJ. Naville, s'surpass
eFen those os Karnak Herodotus, lvho
bad never seen Tanis. expatiated at much
length on the beauty Of Bubastis. To
indge by what is left of the one end of
the other. Tanis must have greatly sur
passed its rival. SuItpos ing that some
part at least, was left standing-that all
was not, rs il now is, ovcrthrown and
shattered Illave no hesitation in saying
thar Tanis would have been the most
beautiful ruin in Egypt
Though exempt, by reason Of its mae
sessibility. from the hedepredations Of tour
ists, Tanis is suffering from the fatal ef-
fects Of an atmosphere laden with saline
NJ. Nayille reports that the
surface of these granite monuments are
-apidy decaying. ~ Cor. London Athel1-
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A Bear Panic in Vermont

The village of POwnal was thrown in
to state Of excitement on Wednesday
by the appearance of a hugh black bear
on the street. At first it was sought To
drive the animal away with dogs, bat
for considerable time the bear was
monarch OF all he surveyed. Finally
after. smelling about tue village to his
hearts content, he moved on up the rail
road track in the direetioa of North
Pownal. At this iuncturc one Brown
appeared upon The scene, armed and
equipped TO DO battle. The first intima-
tion that the bear had of the appearance
Of this new enemy was 4 bullet whist
linz aboutahis ears The bear turned
upon Brown but the latter sought cover.
When the bear reached the railroad
bridge halfway between Pownal and
North Pownai he faced about and stood
upon his h3Hnches Bat Brown had no
inclination TO tackle the bear ut close
quarters. Bracing himself alongside 4
telegraph pole he took aim and pulled
the trigger The bah took effect in q
vital portion of the bears anatomy
Brown had killed the bear, and the news
of his victory soon spread to both villa
ges. The body OF the dead bear was
carried in triumph through the streets
of the village, but IN the midst of the
general rejoicing two Italians arrived
upon the scene and. after discov-
ering the cause of the commotion broke
oHt in the most terrible TRADE of
blaSphemy ever heard in the valley Of
the Hoosac. Explanations followed,
whenit was learned chat the bear was
then. property, and thar they were travel
'iffy about the country exhibiting him.
Rllaand Herald.
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Sun Spots and Floating Ice.

Prof. Fritz, of Zurich, who has studied
the years when floating ice was most
abundant in the lower ATTITUDES of the
Atlantic. declares that sun spots and an
abundance of detached iccbergs are syn
chronous. From 1888 to 1870, epochs OF
maximum sun spots and there have
been ten such periods have been pretty
nearly the years of the greatest frequency
of floating ice. The masters of the North
German line of steamers, who having
kept detailed accounts of the ice met with
every month in the Atlantic, show that
from 1860 to 1869, very similar weather,
with pretty nearly the same tempera-
lures, were found, and that during these
years the greatest amount of floating ice
was found. Now, going back to the
cause, the present temperature is not
caused by cold Arctic winter, but rather
by warmer one, which has prevailed
pretty uniformly over the North Atlantic
and Northwestern Europe, and which
has detached larger proportion than
usual of Arctic ice fields. Sun spots may
be made to explain innumerable things
other than meteorological ones, for a
great many periods of human strife show
some coincidence with these solar out
bursts. commencing with 1888 and end
ing with 1882
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T.,e IN n,,o Cir lei.

4 young Ha3a Of. tweaty-three, built
like "a OK ja3 fall os an}itioa, came IN
on one of the popular excursions to De
troit. and while idling around The Cen
trad Market caught sight Of Il policeman
about half as biz rs himself. He was
Instantly taken With an itching to try
conclusions, but having a grain of pru-
dence in his head he inquired OF n stall
Keeper:
suppose / should walk up to that
officer am, tell him | could lay him on
his back-what would he de?'
TELL youto move on"
ssI'hen suppose | circled around and
came down on him and offered TO bel tllat
| could stand him on his head?"
He'd pso5aAly give you another
chance to clear ONT.
s.iYell, I'm aching TO try him on, and
IN begin now
He dAdn' iase a minute in wal1Ing ur
TO tlaeosiio4' s,sf- .tssasaiHe. his bcficft that
he conld dnst the floor with his back.
You move onm plaeidly replied the
officer.
The young man took circle around
and came back with the information that
he could pick the blue coat and make
his heels kick the air.
AttA ltlii ~ - NV ctN Aibiii iii1. ~
claimed the officer. rs he walked on
The young man sailed OF again, and
at the end of ten minutes row was
heard at the further end of the market
People rushed down to see the officer
voHopng the blufer over the empty
benches aud rubbing his back on the
floor, and the handouts had just been
snapped on when the ssaH-keep n cam
up and asked:
= Well, have you got through circline
around?'
.. Sayl what a fool | wasr' replied the
young man, =. You told me how the
firstslnd second bluffs would work, and
darn my buttons if | didn't forget tc
ask about the third, Why, 1 hadn't
finished telling him that | didn't want
over fifteen seconds TO. turn him wrong
side out and sell him for pnlp when he
Knocked = barrel 70 pieces with my
heels! ID D5tr0it Free Press.
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UIena.

Ulema is a word that frequently oc-
ours in the dispatches from Egypt. The
New York Mall and Express says that it
is the plural of the Arabic word ..alim,
a learned man. Ultima is the col
lectiye name of the body of learned
men in Turkey. In q general sense,
.'ulema' are persons who are learned in
both law and divinity. They constitute
a distinct body in Constantinople, whose
function is to watch over the correct in
.terpretatioD of the Koran and the right
application of its teachings TO law and
poIity. The head of the ulema is the
grand mutt or observation-disclosures; next to
him come the Kaziaskiers, of whom
there isone for Egypt and one for Asia;
the third class are the Mollahs, the Sd
perior Judges of the province, and after
them are the Cadif and the common
Muftis. The Caziaskiers have voice
and vote in the Divan, aud all Cadis are
appointed by and subject TO them
in boring well at Cloverdale, Cal,
the auger. at depth of thirty feet,
passed through a white pine log, and
six inches further struck a tree standins
on end and had to cease operations.
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Initiating the Magnet.

While modern inventors have been ac.
lively competing with each other in de.
vising new and useful applications of the
magnetic force, being stimulated thereto
by the prospeet of large peeuniary re
wards, the modest physicist of the Uni
versity of Christiana, Norway
Bjerkness has been quietly delving into
its mysteries, and endeavoring to reveal
its hidden character. The results of his
investigations are certainly very sugges-
tive, and his curious experiments have
elected much favorable comment, besides
giving great deal of delight to those
fortunate enough TO witness them.
Professor Bjerkness has been able to
closely initiate many of the wcll-known
phenomena of magnets by simple me
chanical means. His apparatus consists
essentially of an air-pump, few little
metal drams provided with elastic mem
branes, some india-rubber tubing. and a
small tank of water. The drums are inn
mersed in the water and connected with
the air-pump by means of the tubing
Pulsations of air are sent into the drums,
causing the membranes to expand and
contract rapidly, and u very curious re-
suit exhibits Itself. Let us imagine one
of the little drums supported in the water
in such way that it IS free to swing in
a circle, ike compass-needle, and
another precisely similar drum held near
10 it. II synchronous (simultaneous)
Hpulsations of air are now sent into the
two drums, so that the outward and in
ward pulsations ofthe membranes of both
Coincide, the two drums will Immediately
ssttraet each other. If the pulsations are
so adjusted that the outward push of the
membrane of one drum comedies with
the inward pub of the other, the two
drums will repel each other. BY ingen-
ious notifications OF the arrangements,
Yarious effects are produced, intimately
resembling those of magnetic action, and,
indeed, strongly suggesting q similarity
of cause as we'll as of effect Even the
lines of magnetic force, as revealed by
the iron filings have been counterfeited
by this mechanism. Philadelphia Ledg-
er.
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Life in Morocco.

No sooner does one land in Africa than
he passes into a sphere of tranquility
and enjoys state of rest and calm to
which all parts of Europe are strangers.
The haste and furry of life fall off, like
an irksorne garment shed on hot day,
time is OF no more account; and worry is
impossible amidst a population which
moves with dignified slowness, and de-
fers all unnecessary eXertion till to-
morrow Whatever may be the hustle
of arrival, the clamor of boatmen, the
indescribable noise and tumuIt and vo-
ciferation OF the swarm that assails the
stranger, seizes his property with hun
dred hands. and threatens to scatter it
all over Morocco; whatever may be the
tumult of the market-place, with its
camels, and donkeys, and dervishes, and
conjurers, and beggars in clouds, sellers
of lentils and greens, and bundles of
stick for iirewood, grain, sugar-candy,
dates, oranges, pottery and sstruck'' of
all sorts powdered with dust; whatever
may be the importantly of sellers, and
the eagerness to act as guides of bright
eyed boys, who have a smatterino of
half dozen languages, and often the
courtly manner of young princes, there
is, nevertheless, in all this noise and rout
sense OF underlying calm, of absence
OF hurry very grateful to Europeans,
whose nerves, in the development of civ
lltzatlon' nave all worked out upon the
surface. There is even something sooth-
ing IN the ceaseless and monotonous tom
tom OF the drums. and the skirmishing
and plalntlve attempts of the flutes to
suggest the minor air they are too lazy
to play, and in the spasmodic and die
away CALCULATIONS of the musicians, who
sit upon the ground, worrying away at
the tunes that are thousand years old,
and will be played with the same indus
trious idleness a thousand years hence. It
requires less energy for the performers to
90 on with this sort of music than to stop.
= Charles Dudley Wag1aer, ia Aka'ltic
Monthly.
"A daughter, aged fifteen months, oil
Edward I.ODeroau of PlaIfSb1rph n
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rasl syuSnQ.bs Ha9
wrru afNrs OK rREAr,lEvr

WITH n fNTS OK TISEATMESr.-
Fipst notice il he sits. alone, -
And mriitatcs or writes lot,
Or talks in an sttnsfrtctodfone.
Or walks nisD.lt af night a lot
Observe II he delights to wade
Through ~ ultltudsss Of ..spooa sy~ verse.
And il henfIitsa q slftin rfi:sid
Is lspeerless la che hnivcrse. @
And also note il he awaits
The Posunan sas,,tsin-y eagerly,
ANA " nc 9ffcu VOWS the fatos
Are sflftltns. on him ncagcriy.
Observe " he appeisrs - pite,
As though sffairs were xrieyinq him,
And II hc sdsincliRcl to dine,
And appetite seems leaving him.
II ever and anon he gpoans
with sobs and signs mysterious,
And rnuttcrS in .ahstraeted tones,
Be sure his state IL serious.
And IL he raves OF some sweet doyc,~
And g:lkcs piisEcatfs. Al tfnfes,
foII ks>ow b as iIffcr ring from love.
Which much Affects the heart at times.
Don't raShiF mar his .-floODinnSs.-
"A lHt4><s ~ tef&,itsss As a .fitflt - =
- W hef, sstffe IN Z fr<stn stet,<,suiness-''
Loves paticnts n.,'cr like beng chancd,
Although they show in1nty;
just give him wedlock. thsts $ the draught
To bring Inn back to sanity.