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ExTRAvAGANT LYING.

When George Daly wrote ms nm probable report on the Lake Valley, New Mexico, silver mines, it was thought that the very height of hy- perbolism (polite for lying) had been reached. It will be remem- bered that he said their mines were so rich that the weeds growing over them carried large percentage of silver. We find In the New York Times an account of the San Bartola Mountain Mining company, state of Jalisco, Mexico, that for indecent and barefaced exaggeration is parallel to the stories told about the Lake Valley mine. The article referred to says the mines of this company are twenty -nine In number
 Each 500 feet square, being four times the area of ordinary mining claims, equal, therefore, to one hund- red and sixteen mines.
 Instead of one of those claims being four times the size of an ordinary claim, it IS just trifle less than three-quarters as large, therefore the one hundred and sixteen mines would be reduced to less than twenty-five. 'Tms nails lie number one. After giving the names of these mines the Times says:
 All of these mines have been se- cured to the company, and contain an amount of ore Tn sight that is in. calculable.
 This statement is worthy the late lamented Daly in his healthiest days. The writer, when he had scared to the above height of sublimity, found that he had got little too etherial, SO he eases himself down in the fol. lowing gentle fashion:
 The aggregate value of the ore in sight is not so much matter of mo- ment to the investor as the earnings or production of the mines, under proper management and with the necessary machinery in stamp mills and amalgamating processes requisite to treat the ore and reduce the same into bullion. There are now on the dump-piles of these mines, ready for treatment, thousands of tons of ore that assay from $500 to 5000 per ton ready for milling when the stamps shall once be set in motion.
 This is big let.down from an incslculable mass of ore, but he has to come still lower in order to make good his landing on terra 6rma. He says:
 The mines are capable of pro- ducing at the present time about 300 tons of ore day, and that the com. psny have ordered a forty.stamp hiii ttOih 'odu TdHCISCO.
 Only paltry forty stamp mill to reduce incalculable quantities of one thousand dollar ore! With such in fernal rot going the rounds of the metropolitan journals, is it to be wondered at that the better class of
 
 capitalists fight shy of promoters of inning schemes? Itis only won der to us that any respectable man can he found to listen to those who have legitimate mines for sale. It is safe to say that the above corporation is bastard concern and one that should be discountenanced by all respectable journals that have the good of our growing mining industry at heart.
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A Septuagenarian .

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11.-President Arthur sent Alex. H. Stephens a handsome basket of flowers this morn ing with his congratulations on his attaining his seventieth birthday.
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Senator David Davis caught se- we're cold at the presidents New Years reception, and it has resulted in a troublesome sore throat. He remains indoors for the present by advice of his physician.
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by an earthquake, and Livermore telegraphs an earthquake at cores ponding hour, which was evidently due to the explosion. The shock was not noticeable in the city.
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A CnINAMAN thus describes trial in our courts: One man is silent, another talks all the time, and twelve wise men condemn the man who has not said word.--The Evening Wis. consin.
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Indian Outbreak Feared.

SANTA FE, Jan. 10.--Indian trails and signal fires in the Black Range create fears of an Apache outbreak. Cavalry scouts have been ordered out
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The Black burn Burbridge Quarrel.

NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-The Com mercial Advertisers Washington specal says: Representative Black burn has indicated a desire to drop the controversy with Gen. Burpridge, and it is now certain that TO hostile meeting will ensue.
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The Mexican Central Railroad. .

From the El Paso Lihk.
 The progress of this road of late has been marked and rapid. The line now extends to the 3Sth mlle in the midst of the sand hills known as "Los Medanos." At Samalayuca springs they have, by means of more than a mile of pipe and two double pumps, carried water to new tank in course of erection at the station where tke work train is now stop. ping. It is the intention to put $50 more hands at work after passing the sand. This will put the terminus of the track at San Jose early in Febru- ary, and at the same rate the road can be pushed to Chihuahua by July or August.
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Heavy Failure.

PI1TsBURG, Pa., Jan. 10.-Siemons & Anderson have. suspended. As. sets, sl,0OO,oOO; liabilities, $1,60O,. GOO,
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"Too much absorbed in his 6usi- ness" was the comment of a western newspaper on the death of a brewer who was drowned in a tank of his own beer.-Springfeld Sunday News.
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manitomof pilot.
THURSDAY, MAY %, 1882.
ide-Awake Bows.

The head of large business firm in
Boston, who was noted for his keenness
in discerning character, was seated at
bis desk one day, when a young Irish
lad came up and took off his hat. smiling.
"Do you want boy. sir?"
Mr.. j. looked at him.
Il did not minute ago. But do now,
and you are the boy"
He said afterwards that he was COM
pletely captured by the honest, frank.
all-alive face before him. The boy en-
tered his service, rose TO be confidential
clerk, and is now a successful merchant
Here is another story in which our
boy-readers may find hint worth at
tention.
Thirty years ago, Mr.. H.. nursery
man in New York State, left home for
day or two. 1t was rainy weather and
not the season for sales, but customer
arrived from Assistance, tied up his horse
and found his way to the kitchen OF the
farmhouse, where two lads were crack
ing nuts.
''Mr. III. at homer"
mo, SIR said the eldest, Joe, ham
mering at nut
Dunno, sir. Mebbe not for week.
The other boy, Jem, jumped up and
followed the man out. The men are
not here, but can show you the stock,
he said, with such bright. courteous
manner that the stranger. who was q
little irritated, stopped and followed him
through the nursery, examined the trees
and left his order.
You have sold the largest bill that
have had for this season, Jem,n his
father, greatly pleased, said to him on
his return,
I'm sure,n said Joe, srllenly, I'm
as willing to help as Jem, if I'd thought
in time"
A few Years afterwards, those two
boys were left by their fathers failure
and death with but two or three hum
dred dollars each. Joe with them bought
an acre or two near home. The land
was poor, the crops scanty, the market
low. He has worked hard and faithfully,
but is still poor, discontented man.
Jem bought an emigrant' ticket to Col
orado, hired as cattle-driver for a
couple of years, with his wages bought
land at forty cents an acre, built himself
a house and married. His herds of cat
tie are numbered by the thousands, his
land has been cut up for town lots, and
he is ranked as one of the wealthiest
men in the State.
Il might have done like Jem," his
brother said lately, .'if I'd thought in
time, There's as good stuff in me as in
| him."
His wife, hearing him, gave scorn-
ful laugh. There's as good stuff in
that loaf of bread as in any | ever made, y
she said. But nobody can eat it. There
is not enough yeast in it, The retort
| though disagreeable was true.
This quick. wide-awake energy which
| acts as leaYen in character is partly
natural But it can be inculcated by
parents and acquired by a boy. if he
choose to keep his eyes open.
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An Unceremopious Princess.

Here is an anecdote of the princess
roval when she first went to her home
at Berlin: A Prussian princess, for in
stance, is not allowed by her mistress OF
the robes to take up chair, and, after
having carried it through the whole
breadth of the room, to put it down in
another corner. 1t was while commit
ting such an act that Princess Victoria
was lately caught by Countess Per-
poncher. The venerable lady remon-
strated With a considerable degree of
earnestness. 'fil tell you what" re-
piled, nothing daunted, the royal hero
inc of this story, I'm tell you what, my
dear countess, you are probably aware
of the fact of my mother being the
queen of England?" The countess bow
ed in assent.
WELL" resumed the bold princess,
''then | must reveal to you anotherfact:
her majesty The queen of Great Britain
and Ireland has not once, but very often,
so forgotten herself as to take up a
chair. speak from personal observa-
ton, l can assure you. Nay, if am
not greatly deceived, noticed one day
my mother carrying chair in each
hand, in order to set them for her child
rem. Do you really think that my dig
pity forbids anything which is frequent
ly done By the queen of England?'' The
countess bowed sgaiI end retired, per-
haps not without little aston,snInen.
at the biographical information sac bad
heard. However. she knew her Office,
and resolved to prove not less staunch
to her duties than the princess to her
principles, -London Society,
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Married on a Mountain.

Last summer Miss Hamilton, aged 16
years, the daughter of Governor Hamil-
ton. of Maryland, was at picnic with
her father, mother and other friends at
pleasure resort in the Blue Ridge, in a
park at the base Of 3 peak reaching up
from the mountains. Upon the topmost
point of this peak is a rock famous for
excursionists, known as High Rock,
from which twenty miles of the Cumber-
land Valley and the States of Pennsyl-
yania and West Virginia can be SEEM
While the picnic was in progress Miss
Clare slipped away from her friends and
fastened up to the rock, where she found
lover, clergyman, license and witnesses
waiting for her. At an elevation Of two
thousand feet above the sea the marriage
was performed, and the young lady
fastened back to her family, whom she
Joined without causing the least suspic-
ion as to the decisive step she had taken.
The marriage was concealed until early
in September, when the license on rec
ord caused some talk and led to discov-
cry As her husband is only dry goods
clerk in Baltimore, her father refused
to acknowledge the marriage, sent her
back to boarding school, and has begun
proceedings for divorce on the ground
of the extreme youth of his daughter
The husband will contest it.
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High and DRY.

The flood in the West had its humor-
Gus as well as its tragic side. A West
ern paper tells this story:
A popular steamer arrived at Cincin-
natl, during the flood. from New Orleans.
During the trip up, the steamer had oc-
casion TO stop at the mouth of Green
River. to put out two ho@sheads OF sugar.
She reached thatpoint at night-no light
to be seen-and the river was at high
food, the town at the mouth being al
most entirely inundated.
HALO cried the captain; ''yho
keeps this town.
Halo. yourself, and be darned TO
you," sang voice from the midst OF
the darkness.
where's your wharf-boat? Show 3
light; we've got freight for you," cried
the captain.
1.-The wharf-boats drifted off. there
amt no lights about, and you can't land
no freight, was the categorical reply.
Strike light" shouted the captain.
land let us see to get i'm
Show light yourself, and letme see
to get out"
.'Where are you?" cried the captain
up treer' answered voice
The boat sent in her yawl, and, sure
enough, found man with q bundle I'M
der his arm. perched in tree. the rising
waters stealing slowly upon his resting
place.
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How She Does Il.

When Friday comes all the neighbors.
sweep their parlors and it is really an
interesting sight, because the methods
are so uniform. First, Bridget appears
with her head tied up in buster. She
carries her broom in her hand. She rests
it against the table where the frailest
bric-a-brac stands and then she opens
the windows. She looks out few min
utes and salutes her friends and notes
the new dress of the lady next door
Then she takes the smaller articles and
piles them on the mantel. She covers
the sofa with sheet and then she be-
gins to sweep. Her strokes are vigor-
Gus and good for the carpet trade, and
a glance at the dust pan reveals the col
or of the carpet. Occasionally she stops
and gezes again from the window, and
SO gets breath of fresh air. She sweeps
her dust into the entry and then she goes
to the third story and begins there. She
keeps constantly growing pile of dust
gay with the filaments of wool, and this
she finally sweeps down stairs. She then
opens operations on the second floor,
and the pile grows larger, and it also
goes down stairs and is united with the
one from the parlor, and ali together it
is finally swept out the back door into a
corner of the yard, and the wind takes
charge of it.
The house is now pretty well out of
order, but in the parlor 1.-THE dust has
settled and Bridget returns to dust
This she does with vigor, and what does
not adhere to the cloth settles on the
carpet and fills the air. Then Bridget
sets the chairs in place, pulls down the
shades and the parlor is cleaned" She
then returns to the bedrooms, repeats
the process of unsettling the dust. hut
the hands of the family take care of the
banisters as they go up and down.
Now who would disturb this uniform
and most cherished method? There are
people who dust before they sweep, but
Bridget laughs at them. They are too
fussy and pokey, and nothing could per-
suade her to do this:
First, to dust off all the little articles,
books etc., carry them out or cover them
tightly. Then to take out all the chairs
and whatever is portable. Next, to
cover all the furniture left in the room.
Finally, to sweep, and if the color of the
carpet allows it, to use crashed tealeaves.
Then to dust and last of all to carry
back all that has been taken out.
Could she be persuaded to take up the
dust on each floor and sweep none of it
down the stairs?
Could she be persuaded to dust the
banisters?
Try her and see how she scorns your
''new-fangled ways"
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Snsnicinns Characters.

Hostetter McGinnis is one of the most
suspicious men il Austin. A few days
ago he took Marshall Thompson aside,
and told him he had discovered the
parties who committed the recent bur-
glaries.
Where are theys"
During the day they stay out in the
suburbs. I've seen them more than a
dozen times. They are quite young
boys, and are always huddied close to-
gether, and have their hats pulled over
their eyes, as if they We're AFRAID 10 look
any body in the face. You never see
any of them alone, but always several
of them together.
Marshall Thompson told Hostetter
McGinnis to jump III his buggy, and
burglars held their meetings. Sure
enough, there were several boys sitting
down by fence. close together, with
their hats pulled oyer their eyes. When
the city marshal saw the burglars he al
most fell out of the buggy. He laughed
so the horse got scared, and tried to run
away, possibly to escape from the burg.
lars. When he came TO. he said to Hos.
letter McGinnis, why, you darned fool,
those young men belong TO the blind
asylum. They are almost entirely blind.
so they pull their hats over their eyes
because the light hurts them, and they
keep close together for fear they will
not be able to find each other"
Hostetter's friends have got wind of
the affair. and wheH any body speaks of
burglars in his presence he hristles up
and says, '.Do you mean TO insult ne,
sir?"-Te.ras Sittings.
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The Traffic in Pub. Docs.

Only day or two ago western con-
gresham, who received an application
from a constituent for a certain docu-
ment, applied to dealer in such publ
cations, who ha nts the capitol and de-
partments, for a copy, and handed him
80 cents. That evening the dealer sent
him ten copies instead of one, and he
learned that the Dealers price for this
particular document was only five cents
per copy. 1t is publication which cost
the government probably 40 cents copy.
The same congressman said that not
long ago he ordered of some dealer 100
copies of another document, which is in
great demand among his constituents.
When the books we're sent to him he
found that they were all neatly wrapped,
al d each bore the frank Of another con-
gresham. Upon inquiry he learned
that the dealer had obtained the books
honestly, Sin regular course of business. J"
Such facts as these, of course have a
bearing not extremely remote against
the proposition TO restore the Thanking
privilege on letters, The congressman
sold his books, and threw in his frank
into the bargain. = Washington Letter.
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Eedsteads with looking-glasse over
head are things of the past Ii man
cannot tell when he wakes up without
looking in glass To be sire OF it, he is
in 4 condition that cannot be helped by
furniture.
Sarah Bernhardt carried a Greek
across the Continent to London. mar
ried him and rushed off to Madrid.
where she is now taking him to the bull
fights. The fragility OF Sara's health
prevented a regular bridal tour.
'.Ara girls worth anythingPn is a re-
cent high class conundrum That de-
perds. Some girls are worth S250,O00
in their own right, and some girls aren' t
worth cent of money, and yet their
value cannot be estimated
4 railroad engineer saying that the
usual life of a locomotive was only thir-
" years. a passenger remarked that
such q tough-looking thing ought to live
longer than that. We'll" responded
the engineer, perhaps it would if il
didn't smoke so much.i
In the sweet. balmy. delicious happi-
ness of loves first young dream youth
viii not only insist CD cracking walnutS
FOR his girl, but in picking out the good
les as well. Two years after marfi-ge
ne will not even let her have the picker
until be is through.
Concerning the strongest, New Eng
land factories an estimate is made iha.
they pay an average of seven per CEN
on the investment
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Wages in Manitoba.

A circular lately issued gives the fol-
lowing as the wages paid in Manitoba
Millwrights (wanted), $3.50 to 81;
millers, So to $3.50; ship carpenters,
1915 to $3; engineers, $50 So; mould
ers, So to $3.50; filters, $3.50 to $3.50;
blacksmiths, 1915 to So; wagon build
ers. $3.50 to $2.75; stone-cutters, $3.50
to $50; quarrymen, $3.50 to "a; build
ers, $3.50 to $3.50; brick-makers, $3.50
to So; brick-layers Gin great demand),
$3.50 to S.; carpenters Tin great de-
mand, $3.50 to So; stair-builders, SIS to
"a; fathers and plasterers (plenty Of
work. 81. so to 81; plumbers, IS to So;
gas-ftters. So to Sc; tinsmiths $3.50 to
$3.50; painters Gin demand) SO so to So;
upholsterers, $3.50 to $50; cabinet
makers, 50 to So; butchers, $50 to S75
per month, with board; bakers and
tailors. So to $2.50per day; shoemakers,
81 to 1915. The following in request:
Gardeners. 50 to So; farm hands, S1S
to S25; laborers, $l.75 to 81. 80, all with
board; and the following much wanted:
cooks, S25 to $50; walters, S1S to $25;
dining-room girls, SO to $50: chamber
maids, SIP to $50 per month. for hotels;
and cooks, SIC to $40; general servants,
$l2 to $l8; nurse girls SO to so, for
private families; and sick nurses and
washerwomen, 81 to $3.50 per day.
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fEROM RRAZIi \

The New Compound. its wor-
deI1UI affinity to the Digestive
Apparatus and the Liver; increaS-
ing the 6isso1Vi1g Juices, reIiev.
ing almost Instantly the dreadful
results ofDTsDepsIa, IndigeS tiou.
and the TORPID LIVER, makes
Zopesa an every day necessity in
every house.
It acts gently and speedily in
BiLouS1eSS, CoStiVeOess, Head
ache, Sick Headache, Distress az
ter Eating; Wind on the Stomach.
Heartburn, Pains in the Side and
Bach, Want ofAppetite. Want of
Energy; Low Spirits, Foul Stom-
acl. It invigorates the Liver, car
RES off all surplus bile, regulates
the Bowels, and gives tone to the
whole system.
Cut this out and take IL to your
Druggist and get 10 cent Sample.
or a Large bottle for rs cents, and
tell your neighbor about it.
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Bounced.

"Will Brudder bred Scott Hastings
step dis way?" inquired the President
after the votes were counted.
Brother Scott stepped up with grin
on his face as if he expected to draw a
chrome. and the President continued:
''Brudder Hastings, TO weeks ago you
was tooken sick.'
''Yes, sab"
"You called in de doctor, put hot
brick to yer feet an sent word to our re-
lief committee to file your claim for So
per week"
Yes, sah."
''Dat committee reported favorably on
your case, an de money was sent you
So per week fur two weeks. Your illness
was said to be chills an fever"
dat was it, sah."
':Just so: but what brung 'em ono--
Brudder Hastings, / diskivered yester-
day dat you got into a dispute wild a
nabur about de aige of Moses when he
died, had fight an was knocked into a
ditch full of water. Dat was what start
ed your chills an fever
'1-I-yes, sab"
AN you lied to de relief committee
when you claimed to have got wet comm
home frum a funeraln'
IL didn't mean to, sab"
"An' you also wilfully an maliciously
put up job to rob dis club of SCI"
'Tll pay it back. sah.''
"No, you won't! You haven't seen de
time in de last fifteen y'ars dat you had
Sc to spar. Dat money am gone, an
YOU am gwine to foller arter it, You kin
take down your hat an walk out of Par
adise Hall fur de las time! We want
no men in dis club who cares wheder
Moses was 70 or 700 y'ars old when he
died, an we will not keep de name of a
liar an deceiver on our books. Walk
out. Misser Hastings right out"
Mr.. Hastings walked and it was noticed
that several parties sitting near the water
pail looked as if they expected another
bomb-shell to fall somewhere.
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An Historic Picture.

One of the veteran photographers of
Chicago "a Hesler), some thirty years
ago, while in business at Galena, ILL.,,
had occasion TO go one day to black
smith shop. At the moment he entered
wretchedly ragged little negro boy
was holding out an old horseshoe to the
blacksmith. endeavoring to induce him
to buy it. The artist was quick to sec
that the scene before him would make
a remarkably effective picture. He en-
tered into negotiations which resulted
in the transfer of the brawny-armed
blacksmith, the ragged pickaninny, the
anvil and block and other implements
lying about the shop, to the artists gall
lery. An excellent picture of the group
was taken. A few days afterwards a
very angry negro woman burst into
the gallery and took the artist to task.
After her wrath had cooled. somewhat
she SAID. Il wouldn't had no lection
to yer takin' my boys picture, eff yer
had only let me know, so as | could hev
dressed him up" The artist was not
mistaken in his judgment. The picture
attracted wide attention. and was seen
in one of the European galleries recent
ly. copied in oil and greatly enlarged
Chicago Cor. Boston Herald.