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A Lot of Books.

II seems that 2, 991 books were pub
lished in this country last year, besides
those privately issued. The Publishers
Weekly estimates the number of copies
sold at 100000. These figures give
an idea of the extent of the book trade,
and show pretty conclusively that a
great many people read American books
in these days. As classified, the report
stands as follows Fiction, 5S7; juvenile,
334; biography, memoirs, correspond
ence, etc., 212; educational, language,
157; descriptive, travel, ETC., 164; med
ical science, hygiene, etc, 100; poetry
and drama, 1863; literary, history and
miscellany, 1919; political and social
science, Sc; history, los; useful art,
commerce, II; law and government, 76;
physical science, mathematics, ETC.. SO;
fine arts, illustrated works, 81; domestic
and rural, 3S; amusements, sports, etc.,
u; humor and satire, 35; music. church
and school, %; mental and moral philos-
ophy, 27; and books of reference, IL.
This is not a bad showing by any
means; indeed the proportion of serious
literature is larger than is generally
supposed.
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A JeweSs Princess.

Mile. Berthe Marie de Rothschild,
daughter of the head of the Frankfort
branch of that family, has been married
to Prince Alexandra de Wagram of
France. As a necessary preliminary to
the ceremony, Mile. Berthe received
Christian baptism. Prior to the cere-
mony she formally signed an abjuration
of the Jewish faith.
The nobility OF imperial creation, says
London Truth, is almost extinct in
France. Those soldiers and functiona-
rles who became dukes and princes by
Napoleon's grace lived fast and died out
rapidly. Berthier was one of the few
among them who bore fortune well.
Alexander Berthier, lis grandson, who
has married Mile Berthe de Rothschild,
was rather wild, but he has tanned
down. The mGjorat, or perpetual an
nuity, which descends in his family
from father to eldest son, amounts to
800, ,0O0f. The Berthiers of Wagram
are connected with the reigning families
of Sweden and Bavaria, and with the
ducal family of Leuchtenberg. Prince
Alexandra is heir to the title and the
annuity
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THE P.ISTTRE-BAR&.

If all the skies. | do believe,
Had all the year withholden
Their gala tints TO guild that eve,
1t would ma been more golden;
The wee-birds would ma sang so fine
II they had been invited
The cows came proudly i'll line,
AS if they were delighted.
We linger'd by the pasture-bars
Till sunset changed to cleaning
Til twilight clustered into stars
And through the clouds went roaming,
And when the moon glowed up the sky
1t found us still belating;
Yet. none but my own Joe and
Knew why the cows were waiting.
JAMES JUDsoS LORD
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AN INTELLIGENT ToAD.-A dog was
frisking about on the sidewalk. A toad
hoped out from a front yard. The dog
Immediately sprang to the toad. The
toad drew himself together, with his
head down to brick, closed his eyes
and lay perfectly still. His plan evil
IDENTIFY was to appear as an inanimate
lump, without a head and without any
legs. The dog smelled him, then smelled
him again, and then smelled him some
more, looked very thoughtful and
smelled again, then turned off and went
down tie street. After awhile the toad
let himself ont and got to safer locality.
Louisville Journal.
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ATLANTIC HOTEL.
(LATE ESGLIsHs,)
CHINCOTEAGUE ISLAND. VA.

The undersigned beg leave to inform theii
friends and the general public that they have
leased and refurnished the above elegant aud
eommodious house, and are now prepared Ia
accommodate permanent and transient guests
In hrst-class style.
Large airy rooms. Home comforts.
Fine Sea and Bay Fishing. Cunning and
Bathing, etc. The table is provided with Wild
Fowl, Terrapin, Fish, Oysters, Grabs, and all
the Injuries of the season.
Pleasure boats of all kinds guides. fishing
lines, decoys, ponies, etc, always ready for
the use Of guests.
First-class Bar attached Choice wines,
liquors, ales, beers and cigars.
Passengers for Chincoteague connect with
steamer for the Island at Franklin City, the
terminus of the Worcester Railroad, morning
and evening. Connection may also be made
daily at Ndshville. ALI who visit the Atlantic
may rest assured that they will receive eour-
teous treatment and excellent fare.
Your patronage is respectfully solicited.
w. J. MATTHEWS d 90.
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DOUGLASS AUTz. of Norwich, fell nm
der a moving train he was attempting
to board. When the train passed
Douglass arose, uninlured, with his
cigar IL his mouth. And yet there are
people who claim smoking to be in
furious. Danbury Ne,Os.
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LosT.-During the mannuvres of the
German ironclad squadron III the Baltic
last June, a torpedo got mislaid. As
soon as the Captain of the ironclad
Kronpriz, to which it belonged, missed
it, he offered reward for its discovery.
1t is fifteen feet long, weighty in pro
portion, and at present terror to navi-
gators.
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Liberal arrangements made with clubs.
CorrespondeFfee solicited from all parts of
ihe county.ss
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An Indian Thanksgiving Procla-
nation,

The following Thanksgiving proclama-
ton was issued by D. w. Bushyhead,
Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation,
Indian Territory:
Z" Last year the census of the popula-
ton and possessions of the Cherokee Ma
ton was first taken within their history.
We have now counted our treasures and
know for what and for how much we
should feel grateful as family of people
having and occupying one home in com
mon. From this authentic source we find
our people blessed with one hundred and
two primary schools for rapidly in
creasing population of twenty thousand
three hundred citizens; two high schools
male and female an orphan asylum
an asylum for the unfortunate, insane,
blind, and helpless; forty-fve churches,
and as many native ministers of the Cos
pei; one hundred and fifty native teach
ers by profession; written constitution
and code of laws government consist
ing Of executive, legislative and judicial
branches, we'll understood and admins
tered; a people peaceful and progressive,
and in all material regards more than
self-supporting, and having but FIVE fish
ermen and fifteen hunters by occupation
left among them as the last vestige of
savage state, from which we have been
rescued within the memory Of men yet
living by the goodness of an overruling
Providence.
Such is the situation of the Cherokee
Nation of to-day, in fair and ample
country secured to them by treaty and
by patent, and of which the honor and
honesty of their great earthly protector,
the United States Government, is pledged
to guard their possession.
"Such are the blessings for which our
thanks are continually due, among which
blessings the first and best of all is say
ing knowledge whence 5hey come and a
sense Of obligation which restraints pride.
Therefore, I, D. w. Bushyhead, Prin-
cipal Chief Of the Cherokee Nation, do
hereby, in pursuance Of an ancient Chris
tan custom, and the recommendation of
the President of the United States, APP
point Thursday, November "a, A. D.
1881, as a day Of public Thanksgiving
throughout this nation, and call upon the
Cherokee people to devote the time
designated to the giving of expressions
and evidences Of their thankfulness to the
Supreme Being for His kindness and love,
in such ways and by such observances as
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The Tears of Affection.

The tears of affection flow in the palace
and the cot. They glisten alike on the
blooming cheek of youth and on the one
wrinkled by age. They are the sacred
offering of mothers love for her child,
and Of a child for her mother. They fall
for vacant chairs by the hearthstone, and
for vacant places in the heart. They
flow at sight of deaths dark doings, and
misfortune's wrecks, and accidents disas-
ters. They bedew the ground stained
with the blood of the slaughtered, or
forming the mound-marked resting place
OF the dead. The very air waves with
their bitter requiem, and the waiting of
the zephyrs bring their sad bedewment.
Dewdrops fall in the night, and so of
tears. In the season of darkness when
shadows and clouds and doubt and sor-
row have brought their dark night, then
they fall. But the rising sun that chases
away the darkness turns the dewdrops to
jewels, and makes brilliant those " tears
of the sky" SO weeping may endure
for mig hit, but JOY cometh in the morn
ing, and that Joy makes the tears Jew
elled tokens of Gods blessed sunlight.
Yes, In the darkness, God is there, and
10 all those tears and sorrows and trials
are not too many for him to count, not
too much for him to bottle; nay won
derful and elaborate as is all their secret
and revealed history, it is not too much
for him to recall. Jesus wept. Well
may that verse be the shortest in the BIZ
BILE. 1t contains enough for volume.
Mother, is your boy dead? In your tears
remember the gate of Main. Brother, is
your brother dead? Remember the visit
to Bethany and the grave of Lazarus
Friend, is thy friend dead? Remember
the rolled away stone from the new sepul-
chre of Joseph, God counts, bottles,
remembers the tears Of sorrow.-Rev. b.
s. EUeritt.
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North Carolina Emeralds.

Mr.. w. E. Hidden has recently an
nounced the discovery by him OF emeralds
sixteen miles northwest of Statesville in
Alexander county, North Carolina. The
occurrence of beryls of unusual beauty
and crystallographic interest was me4e
known some years since by Mr.. j. Adlai
Stephenson.
Mr. Hidden was led by this fact to
make thorough and systematic search in
the hope of finding them in place, and he
has succeeded in finding not only the or
binary beryls but also true emeralds.
The prevailing rock of the region is a
feldspathic gneiss with strike N. N. w,
and nearly vertical dip. The surface soil
often contains crystals of quartz, rutile,
tourmaline, spodumene, beryl, ETC., and
in cross fractures in the rock beneath, the
minerals have been found by Mr.. Hidden
In place; of these minerals the emerald
green spodumene (hidden5te), and the
true emeralds have been the special OBJ
Jects of search because of their value as
gems. The first pocket found has been
worked to depth Of thirty three feet and
has yielded largely of spodumene, but
sparingly of the emeralds twelve similar
cavities have been found within an area
of forty feet square, yielding emeralds,
while still others have afforded quartz.
rutile, monazite, mica, and other species.
80 far as the explorations have been car
rled, the pockets have been in crumb-
ling condition and the crystals have been
found detached, lying in the bottom of
the cavities. AS the work is carried
down deeper it is to be expected that the
rock will increase In frmness. The largest
cavity yet discovered had depth of six
teen feet, and was three feet wide and
seven in length. The surface walls were
thickly studded with large crystals of
quartz, some of twenty-five pounds in
weight, and with them nine fine emeralds
Their form was that of a twelve-sided
prism Il and i-2), with basel planes, all
well polished. The largest crystal had
length of eight and 'one-half inches
and all average diameter of one inch.
The others varied in length from two to
six inches. Most of the crystals found are
vertically deeply striated or ribbed, and
are transparent, though not free from
flaws In some of the crystals the color
near the surface is the deepest and the
core is nearly colorless. The North Car
DINA emeralds do not quite equal in color
those from Muse, New Granada, but are
nevertheless very beautiful and will bear
comparison with those from other known
localltles.--ADeer5can Journal of Science
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Important Discoveries

M. Pasteur, the distinguished French
chemist and naturalist, is pushing his re-
searches in direction and with a thor
oughness which not only will secure him
lasting prominence in the world of science,
but which bid fair to serve the double
purpose of benefting his fellow men in
the alienation and prevention Of disease,
and In also showing other scientists that
their right road runs through the field of
physical investigation rather than that of
speculative religion, on which some are
squandering time that might be devoted
to better purpose. DIR. VIM. B. Car
penter, the distinguished physician and
writer, shows us some results of the in
vestigations of M. Pasteur, to whom he
deservedly awards the highest praise.
1t was Cagniard de la Tour who discov-
cred that yeast is really plant of the
lowest type of fungi, and which grows
and reproduces itself in the fermentable
fluid Taking up his investigations at
this point, Pasteur has discovered that
there is no spontaneous" fermentation
or decomposition whatever, as some have
asserted that all fermentation is pro
duced by germs Of fungi floating in the
air that these fungi differ as the three
phases of fermentation diher,-whether
acetous as in bread, alcoholic as in cider,
wine, etc., or putrefactive as in decay,
and that none Of these lamentations is
possible without the presence of such fun
Colds Not only SO, but M. Pasteur has
discovered that diphtheria, typhus and
typhoid and splenic fevers in man and in
brutes, are due to the presence of these
organic germs. He went further, and
found that it was possible to prevent
these diseases by vaccination. In the case
Of splenic fever-a deadly disease com
munioable to man-in France. thousands
upon thousands Of sheep have been car
ried off by it, and the farmers ruined
One Of Pasteurs experiments was verv
striking. Twenty-Five sheep having been
vaccinated, they and twenty-five Others
were inoculated with the strongest yi,7ls
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Take Warming.

The trouble with Peter was his self
confidence That is the trouble with a
good many of us. We have more self
confidence than we are warranted in hav-
ing. Peter said if all the others deserted
Christ he wouldn't. Many men to-day
are trying to reform themselves. They
depend on their own strength and faith
The strongest men in the Bible failed in
their strongest point Abraham was the
man of faith; yet in Egypt he denied
his wife because he didn't trust God.
Moses was noted for his humility; vet
he lost Canaan by losing his temper.
Elijah was brave man yet failed
through cowardice. The beloved disci-
pie proposed to call down Ere to destroy
certain person. And Peter, the most ar
dent of the disciples, cursed and denied
Christ. {" Let him that thinketh he
standeth take heed lest he fall" Satan
aims high. When he wanted man to
betray Christ he took Judas, the treasu-
rer of the Disciples and when he wanted
man to deny Christ he took Peter, the
leader of the disciples, and the hi CHEST
ecclesiastical authority of the day. Let
us take warning-Moody.
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The twenty-five that had not been vacci-
mated all died on the day after, whilst
the protected sheep were in perfectly
good condition. This terrible disease he
discovered had been communicated to
sheep that Craze over the places where
diseased animals had been long buried
earth-worms bringing up the poison
germs. Of course in the inquiry as to
how far it is possible to prevent by vacci-
nation diseases in man, which have here
tofore been considered deadly, and to
prevent other diseases as WELL vast and
illimitable field opens before the investi-
gator-one whose results for lasting good
upon the human race bid fair to be in
calculable. M. Pasteur is continuing in
the line of his Investigations from which
the most important results are antici-
pated. And if other physical scientists,
who have devoted themselves so closely
to huge guesses as to mans origin or
future possibilities as to quite forget the
claims of the present, will be induced, by
the example of M. Pasteur, to devote
themselves to the consideration of other
and weightier matters bearing upon the
living present, such result will not be
the least among those for good, which
will be accomplished by the labors of this
distinguished son of science and practical
humanitarian.-ChrtStia1a at Work.
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shall become Christian, orderly, and
conscientious people. Let us thank Him
for all His dispensations, as gifts of His
goodness for our good-never forgetting
that blessings are such indeed only when
used in the cause of the Great Giver,
which is the happiness of all alike; and
that the results of our shortcomings are
but benevolent cautions against evil-no
less blessings, if we so regard them, than
the happy consequences of virtuous life. +"
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Spiritual Wealth.

AS certain persons were returning from
the burial of their dead the remark was
made, " What a sad life our friend lived
How unfortunate he was. Poverty seemed
to accompany him. He died poor
" Had he not some little success?" one
inquired.
" No" the answer was; every thing
was against him; his life was failure"
" l do not understand you, said a voice
which had thus far been silent; 81 was
with him in his last moments, and I
thought he died rich"
" You are mistaken his estate amounts
to nothing at all"
" But surely he left a good name, and
a legacy of noble deeds, and holy exam
pie, and lessons Of patience in suffering,
Of hope in adversely, Of heavenly conf
dence, when no sunbeams fell upon his
path"
Then he died rich, was the emphatic
declaration, rather than the millionaire
who went to his long home the same day.
miserable in all but his gold"
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POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY for January


Contents
Earth Worms and their Wonderful Works :;
Astronomy in High Schools Time keeping in
Paris Jurassic Birds and their Allies; What is
Transcendentaf Physics New Guinea and its
People, Sanitary Relations of the Soil Progress
of Copyright Law; Volcanic Products; The
Chemistry of Coffee and Tea; The Anatomy of
an Old Anecdote The Bunsen Lamp; The Col
orado Desert; Sketch of Professor John w Pow
ell, ETC., etc.
D. Appleton & Co., publishers, New York.
WIDE AWAKE for January has the following
contents
Frontispiece-W Birds; Asaph Sheafes
Christmas; A Christmas Carol Christmas Cards;
Their Club and Ours Poems of Christmas Tide
From the Hudson to the Neva The Capture of
the Christmas Turkey Short Stories from the
Dictionary; Roasting the Turkey in Old Times
A Father Lost; Their Christmas Dinner Ba-
bouscka; Queer Company Home; Kttyleen-a
Christmas Story; Telephoning Santa; Magma
Charta Stories Door Yard Folks, etc., etc.
D. Lothrop & Co., publishers Boston.
SOUTHERN HISTORICAL SOCIETY PAPERS for
September. Rev. J. William Jones, D. D., Sc
cretary, Richmond, Va Subscription, $3 per
year Contents:
Annual Reunion of the Virginia Division A.
N. Va. ssociation-Address of Col Archer An
derson on the Campaign and Battle of Chicka
manga Election of cers-Announcement of
the death of Lieut. General ]. c. Pemberton;
The Artillery of the A. n. V. IN the last Cam
Paign and at the Surrender; An Anecdote of
Stonewall Jackson; Opening of Seven Days
Battles, by j. William Jones, ETC., ETC.
ST. NICHOLAS for January Contents:
Frontispiece-Ill illustration to Max and the
Wonder-h flower" Tommy's Resolve; when
Work in the House," Sir William Napier and
Little j oan The Poor Counts Christmas; About
Others The Porter's Iron Collar The Clowns
Baby; The Hoosier School boy; Future Doge;
The Man with the Pea DR.. Hollands Books ;
How to make Puppets and Puppet-shows; Bones
and Bow vows; Susie Seedelmeyer and the
Dog; Love in Noahs Ark; The Land of Nod ;
The Cow that Considered, ETC., etc.
Published by The Century Co., 743 Broad
way, New York.
CIRCULARS OF INFORMATION of the Bureau of
Education, Washington, D. C. No 4.-1881
Education In France.
ANNUAL REPORT of the Eastern Lunatic Asy-
lum for the fiscal year ending September Both,
1881.
ANNUAL REPoRT of the Western Lunatic Asy-
lum for 1880 81.
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A PICTORIAL COMMENTARY on THE GospEr, 40
CoRD1NG TO MARX With the Text of the
Authorized and Revised Versions Edited bv
the Rev Edwin W Rice. Philadelphia
American Sunday School Union. No 1122
Chestnut street. limo, PIP 2l8. Price 81.
This little commentary aims to present for
Permanent use the important interpretations
and timely applications Of the sacred text as
slggested or accepted by the most learned and
devout Of European and American scholars"
but is also designed specially to aid teachersand
scholars in the study Of the international Sun.
day School Lessons for 1882.
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The work has the Authorised and the Revised
Versions in parallel columns, learned and in
structive Introduction, an index, four maps,
blank pages at the end for notes, and contains
great number of pictorial illustrations So
far as we have examined it, we have been great
ly pleased with it. 1t seems to be compact,
learned instructive, full of helps.
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THE PICTURE WORLD FOR LITTLE PEOPLE.
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a philosopher, who went to church
where the people came in late, said it is
" the fashion there for nobody to 20 till
everybody has got there"
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Attention, Railroad Menl-I suffered
for more than a year with indigestion. was
very bilious, occasionally having dumb chill
followed by fevers, which Frustrated me- / took
Simmons Liver Regulator, and am a we'll man
A. II. HrGHTowEB, Conductor G. r. r.. Ga.
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We may expect that God will speak to
us, when we stand ready to do what he
us.