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woman, and one only-and she Is Alice

woman, and one only-and she Is Alice
Staffordr'
"And Miss Montgomery
Didn't you know? She is to marry
my cousin, Col. Kingsdale. who is the
generals aide-de-camp. Miss Mont
gomery, indeed! Why, she is almost old
enough to be my mother.
Il am so glad am so 'gladn' was
all that Alice could say through her
sobs.
Mrs. Stafford was patching some mus
lin curtains, TO make them do for the
second-story bedroom, Emmeline Was
writing out an advertisement, headed
Partial board and residence in gen
teel private family at the West End, ;"
for the next mornings paper and Adela
was preparing frugal bread-pudding
for the economical supper, when Alice
and Frank Kingsdale came in.
Mrs. Stafford dropped her needle,
Adela set down the pudding on the ta-
BILE and Emmeline sat with her pen sus-
pended in mid air
''It's all right, said Frank, shaking
hands all around. "We're engaged. =
We're to be married next week. Lest
Alice here should change her mind, you
know!'
Il shall never change my mind said
Alice, almost Indignantly. Il have al
ways loved Frank - always! Only /
didn't know it, until thought had lost
him.
They were married very quietly; and
old Mrs. Wyndham Jones protested that
she had known it all along.
So the Mrs. Wyndham Jones of the
world never like even the appearance of
being taken unawares.
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Electric Lights in New York,

Murat Halstead writes to The Cincin-
matt Commercial Gazette: One of the
things most remarkable in the outdoor
appearance of New York at this time is
the glowing splendor of the illumination
of the streets and public squares by the
electric light. Gas seems to have no
show anywhere except in the houses and
in the side streets. And, while it is
pretty good gas, it has a pallid and
sickly style when Immediately con-
fronted by its dazzling competitor
There are miles on Broadway and Fifth
avenue where there is not gas-light to
be seen. It is the style to illuminate the
fronts OF the great popular stores with
the electric light. 1t is used in several
of the newspaper offices. The Tribene
type is set by the United States arc light.
The Herald has the Edison system, and
the only testimony that it is an expert
ment is that the gas-fixtures have not
been taken down. There are $50 Edison
lights in The Herald establishment. Our
friends who have investments in gas
stock may rely upon it that electricity,
as an illuminant, is making progress.
Its inroads upon gas are at least as
rapid and certain as those of the tele-
phone upon the telegraph, or the type
writer upon photography. 1t is not
that the electric light is cheap. 1t costs
about as much as gas. Its merits are
Incompatible brilliancy and absence of
heat. The fact that gas-light is so hot
will be the salvation of gas companies
some day.
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No Chance to Shoot.

One Sunday afternoon, at a hotel in
Alabama, we were talking about how
great disappointments sometimes sour
ed man, when chap who had been
chewing plug tobacco all by himself over
by the window turned around and said
Gentlemen, you've hit it plumb CEN
ter! Up to four years ago | was man
who allus wore grin on his face, and
I'd divide my last chaw with a stranger.
Folks now call NE mean and ugly, ana
| kin hardly get man to drink with
me"
Then you have suffered & great dis
appointment?' | queried.
81 have, stranger-I have. Ten years
ago a man in this very town cleaned me
out on mortgage, sold me out on an
execution, and chuckled when | took
the dirt road for Tennessee. / orter
have shot him, but somehow | didn't do
it, and arter | got to Tennessee things
began preying on my mind. Day and
night | could hear voice saving: Go
back and plunk old L own, and l lost
flesh ana come powerful near goingint
decline
:. Yes
"Well, that voice kept talking and l
kept waiting. but in about three years !
shoulGered my rife and turned my steps
this way, my mind fully made up to
shoot old Brown on sight. He had a
patch O land out west o here, and used
to ride out every day. | made for that
spot, celebrating to bif him as he drove
up TO the gate Nobody bad soon n,o.-
and nobody would know who did the
shooting"
Yes" some one answered as he
made long pause.
"Well. got fixed and waited, and l
was feeling real good for the first time
in three years when | heard hoofs and
looked out for the old man. 1t wasn't
him. True as you sot there the old
skinfiint had gone and died only week
before, giving me tramp of 200 miles
to say 'howdy?' to his executor! Gen
tlemen, can't describe my feelings!
Just think of one white man PLAYING
such a trick on another! 1t was wuss
than Arkansaw swamp mud warmed
over for next season. | was took with
shakes and chills and cough, and here
l am, sour, cross, mulish. ugly, and re-
alizing that [ don't stand no more show
of going to Heaven when die than that
thar dog of swallowing a postoffice
without any preliminary chawin' -
Detroit Free Press
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Thora.

Thin and graceful ike clipper Thora was from
top to toe
Though her dress was very scanty and perhaps
Bre and brown her little feet ~ere, and her
cheeks were sunburnt, too
But her lips were rosy and her eyes were very
blue.
One black skirt with red embroidery and
snowy white chemise
Were her wonted dress on weekdays. when she
felt herself at ease.
Hats She only wore in winter, when with snow
the air was dim,
But her eyes peep forth full brightly meath the
big sou Westers brim.
For who thinks that a sou'wer's en- if e'er and
e'er so wide,
From the boys admiring glances could pretty
maiden hide.
And it's known how such attention every pret-
ty m6id annoys;
And-it was thousand pities!-Thora did not
like the boys:
They were either rude and noisy. or too bash.
full and confused;
AS for loving them! No, thank you; she would
rather be excused
And. besides, there were so many-stout and
slender, short and tall
How should she her choice determine since she
could not love them all.
Dumb. abashed stood little Thora, and her
cheeks were flaming red;
NerVOusly she twiried ner apron, ana sne nung
her pretty head,
Till at length she gathered courage, and she
whispered breathlessly,
Mother. dear, love him truly, and he says
that he loves me-"
"Lord "a mercy on US, daughter!" solemnly the
dame replied;
81 who have the maids invited that they might
thy choice decide;
For of men there are so many-stout and slen-
der, shorI and tall
How's a maid 70 choose among them, since she
cannot love them alp
Now, the moon, who had been hiding in a veil
of misty lace,
Wishing to embarrass no one by the shining of
her face,
Peeped again, in modest wonder ere her cloud
she gently broke
And she saw the good wife smiling, as to Thora
thus she spoke:
"Since thou now hast chosen, daughter, every
bird must try its wings
Tell me. how didSt thou discover that thy heart
to EalyOr clings?"
"Well,'' she said, in sweet confusion, while her
eyes grew big with tears
'aThOu would SCarCeiy-understand it-mOther
dear-I boxed his ears
Prof. II. II. Boyesen, in Our Continent.
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S0urharn Galifnrnia.

A letter to the Chicago Times from
Pomona. Cal, says:
So much has been written of late
about Southern California, especially
Los Angeles and San Bernardino coun-
ties, the greater part of which, from my
ten years residence here, | know to be
lies of the worst kind, and by which
many poor men in the east have been
tempted to sacrifice their homes to come
here and be disappointed, and in many
eases completely ruined, | wish to state
a few facts: l. As to government land,
there has been none with water on open
to presumption for years. and water is
needed here, not land. 2 At present
all land with any water right is held -
eXorbitant prices, unimproved land sell
ing ali the way from $50 to $3.50 per
acre. 3. The class of emigrants wanted
here is men worth from $1,000 to S3,-
900, 600, and not afraid to spend it, be-
cause We live here on climate and stran-
gers, and the more money the latter
have the better the living. 4. The eli
mate Is very peculiar, no two seasons
being alike. The past year was very
cold, and all water-pipes above ground
have been frozen, and many of them
hurst. Since Jan. l nearly all the lime
and lemon trees have been killed, and in
some places the oranges were frozen
solid on the trees. 5. How do the cold
spells affect people after a few years?
With myself, and all | have asked about
it, worse than in the east; and | wear
warmer clothes here now than did in
the east when the thermometer was be-
low zero. 6. Fruit here cannot COM
pare with that in the east in quality or
price. | saw apples last week in Po-
mona offered at l2 cents each that an
eastern man would be ashamed to give
to his dog and look him in the face af-
terward. Z. Poor people are not want
ed here, as we have enough of them al
ready. s. Every place owned by par
ties who have lived here over three
years is for sale. 8. Our prospects for
dry year are very fiattering. 10. II
you are making living where you are,
stay right there and you will never be
sorry for it. II. This country can turn
out more good, reliable liars to the
square inch than any other State can to
the square mile
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american Society.

American society, as now carried on,
is maintained solely for the benefit of
young girls, and is generally little bet
ter than marriage mart The parents
launch their offspring as well as pos
sible, and display their wares to the
greatest advantage, but the business of
the market is carried on chiefly by the
young girls themselves, instead of by
their mothers as in England and Eu-
rope There is no special objection to
this method of transacting the business,
but 1t Is prepoSterous that young girls
and their affairs should overshadow and
shut out everything and everybody else.
The result of this absorption in one class
and one pursuit is that American society
is often insufferably dull and fat. tits
made up too exclusively of ignorant
girls and their attendant boys. Half the
education of n cultivated and attractive
woman is of course that which is de-
rived from society and from the world;
and yet American society is almost
wholly given up to the business of en-
tertaining and marrying those who are
necessarily wholly destitute of such an
education. Another effect of the prev
aience of social principles of this de-
Ai'NACAA 10 tAAS t'ltiii3tNN VI Niictl IiloNt
rustic and unattractive of habits, the
pairing system, which converts society
into a vast congregation of tete-d-teteS.
This prevails all over the world to a
greater or less extent, but it should
never reign supreme. The upshot of the
whole thing with us is to drive out of
society nearly all married people,-for
marriage under such a system is de-
structive of social value; nearly all
unmarried women over twenty-five. who
are thought to have overstayed their
market; and, finally, considerable pro-
portion of the unmarried men of thirty
and upwards. In other words, except
at few large balls and receptions, all
the best and most intelligent part of
society is usually lacking, It has been
pushed aside, and is obliged to find all
its social amusement in small cOteries
of its own This retirement is of course
voluntary, because the pairing system
ruins general society, and makes it, in
fact, impossible in the best and truest
sense. A clever young Englishman not
long ago expressed his surprise at the
fact that, whenever he asked who lady
of certain age, as the French say,
might be, he was invariably told, not
that she was Mrs Blank, but that she
was the mother of Miss Blank. The
girl. like boy, is properly the most in
significant member of society. When a
young man goes forth in the world, he
starts at the bottom of the ladder, aud
works his way up. The same rule
should apply to young women in society
They have their place and it is an i'm
portant one; but they should not start
in social life at the top, and then slowly
descend. Such a system is against every
law of nature or of art, and with its in
evitaole concomitant of universal tete-a-
tetes makes really attractive general
society impossible. We place the social
pyramid upon its apex instead OF upon
its base, and then wonder that it is
poor, tottering, and unlovely object
.dYyIE x4LTtIySriT.
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The Romance Of the Argouauts.

As the winter of 49, waned the com
panies, one after another, set sail for tbs
land of gold. The Sunday preceding
they listened 10 farewell sermons at the
church. | recollect seeing a score or
two OF young .Argonauts thus preached
to. They were admonished from the
pulpit to behave temperately, virtuously,
wisely and piously. How seriously they
listened. How soberly were their mar
row-brimmed. straight up-and-down lit
tie plug hats Of that period piled one Oh
top of the other in front of them. How
glistened their hair with the village bar
ber's hair oil How pronounced the
creak of their tight boots as they
marched up the aisle. How brilliant
the hue of their neckties. How patient
ly and resignedly they listened to the
sad discourse of the minister, knowing
it would be the last they would hear for
many months. How eager the glances
they east up to the church choir, where
sat the girls they were to marry on their
return. How few returned. How few
married the girl of that periods choice.
How little weighed the words of the
minister, year afterward, in the
hurry-scurry of San Francisco life of '49
and 80.
What an innocent, unsophisticated,
inexperienced lot were those forty odd
young Argonauts who sat in those pews.
Not one of them then could bake his
bread, turn fapjack, reseat his trou-
serS or wash his shirt Not one of them
had dug even post hole. All had a
vague sort Of impression that California
was nutshell of a country, and that
they could see each other there frequent
ly and eventually all return home at or
about the same time. How little did
they realize that one was to 90 to the
Northern and one to the Southern mines
and one to remain in San Francisco,
and the three never to meet again!
What glittering gold mines existed i'll
their brains, even during the preaching
of that sermon. Holes where the gold
was thrown out by the shovelful, from
which an occasional bowlder or pebble
was picked out and flung away.
The young ArgOnaut-church being
dismissed-took his little stiff, shiny
plug and went home to the last Sundays
tea. And that Sunday night, on seeing
her home from church, for the last time,
iIt Ns.S eiiION tNi ~ SCI up WIFI IicL DIS
long as he pleased. The light glim-
mered long from the old homestead
front parlor window. The cold north
wind without roared among the leatiess
sycamores, and clashed the branches
together. 1t was a sad, sad picture.
The old sofa they sat upon would be sat
upon By them no more for years. For
years? Forever in many cases. To-day,
old and gray, gaunt and bent, some
where in the gulches, ''up North,
somewhere hidden away in an obscure
mining camp of the Tuolumne, Stanis-
laus, or Mokalumne. up in Cariboo, or
down IN Arizona, still he recOliects that
night as dream. And she? Oh, she
dried her eyes and married the stay-at-
home five years afterwards. A girl
can wait for ever. And, besides, bad
reports after a time. reached home
about him. lie drank; lie gamD1ed; ne
found fair friends among the senoritas,
and, worse than all, he made no for
tune.-Pre,stice Muyord IN the San
Francisco ChrOnjc{e
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Wagner and Alsxandre Dumas,

That is a capital story told about
Wagner and Alexandra Dumas The
former. as is well known, used to dress
in very elaborate and medieval style,
changing his dress according to the
composition he was engaged on or the
visitors he had to receive. The foible
became generally known amongst 9TH
ers to Dumas, who, when many years
since Wagner went to Paris, called up
on the maestro. The latter managed
by his cold manner, however, to offend
the French dramatist, who determined
to nave his revenge. So, when in due
courseWagner returned his call, Dumas,
after keeping him about half an hour,
entered the room dressed in plumed
helmet cork swimming belt, and a
gorgeous flounced dressing-gown. His
visitor naturally stared, on which Du-
mas explained with grave face that he
never attempted dramatic composition
save in that particular costume-adding
that when he came to love scene he
Invariably put on jack-boots. whilst ne
usually wrote his epigrams in white kid
gloves. Wagner, most sensitive man.
of course felt this clumsy satire most
keenly, and it helped him largely to
form those very uncomplimentary views
OF the French he always kept till the
end.
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EXCITED THOUSANDS

All over the land are going intoNecstacy
over DR.. Kings New Discovery for
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The recent sale of some Of the late
Edwin Forests effects in Philadelphia
recalls singular circumstance concern
ing his estate. Pending the divorce pro-
ceedings between him and his wife he
decided his property in equal shares to
his three sisters. Soon one OF the sis
ters died, and her share reverted to the
other two and to Edwin. Then the Sec
ond sister died, and her share, with
what had been left by the first sister,
came to the third sister and to Edwin
Finally the remaining sister died, and
Edwin Forrest being the sole heir, again
became possessed of all the estate he
had decided away.
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Tho Stor-ov Sundops

A former citizen of Pawtucket, R. l.,
who has now returned to his ''frsi
love" Cape Cod. writes as follows con
cerning the stormy Sundays: Il com
menced keeping diary Jan. 1, 1854
and have continued the same ever since
some twenty-nine years. | have ex-
amined every years diary since that
date to ascertain if eight stormy Sun.
days occurred in succe ssion during that
time. and [ find that the nearest ap-
proach was in 1878, five Sundays in sue.
cession, in which part of each day was
stormy, three out of five having only
small showers during some part OF the
day. In the year 1854 there were only
eleven stormy Sundays. Eight stormy
Sundays in succession IS an event we
have not experienced before in the las
twenty-nine years" He concludes as
follows. Rather hard on the numerou;
young brides who wish to make theil
first appearance. '-Bosto9a RerG'G. =
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WILLIAMS MOUSE.

d. sM4rH, PROPRIETOR, CORNER OF
"A. EIguIa and Franklin streets, ManlsOH uc.
A nrst-ciass 1aIncriCa z Hotel centrally located
offers every lnuucement 70 the travelling puoiic.
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MRS f.. X ERN

er in Dry Goods, Groceries, Crockery, Fancy
Goods, Glass ware, Boots a-d Shoes, Ready made
Clothing, Paper hangings, Hats, Caps, Toys, Chill
dren Carriages, Live Geese Feathers, Biru Cages,
Kerosene OH and Lam =, &C, &C. y share OF pub
C nntronage il solicited.
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CHARLES HOVER.

xIERCHANr TAILORING ESTABLISH
NA ment, on Sth street, near south end of Bridge.
The tailoring department is complete, ana CON
tains large assortment of fashionable cloths and
GerGs furnishing goods constantly on band
Please call aud examine before purchasing else
whefe.
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FRED. SEEGER,

OFFERS TO HIS FRIENDS AND THE PUB
" lie generally, a choice selection OF Fresh
Meats, Salt Pork and Beef, Smoked Beef and
Hams, Shoulders, Sausages, Taliow and Lard al
she lowest rates. Market on Commercial Street.
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rOMtEUPATnIC PHYSICIAN, SURGEON
III ana AcCUuCueur, late resident Physician al
.ue uauaGuaRu dos pltdi, CnicagU, las pc. AIGu-
emily located at .aauItOWUc. once, on u l1ia4U
streUf b, west Ol nanus store.
--.- i, ....,, . Z . 10 3 4 Nj,
offlOE ii0o'' ~ : and 10 : Z. NJ.
Diseases OF t4c eve ana car treated.
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BARBER SHOP.

TARL PANGBURN'S Barbershop. in Ba.ncs'
Obi OK on North Eighth street. " ork done III
good taste. Particular attention pald 10 Ladies
and Children nair cutting and snampooing. By
ali means call ana Carl.
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WINDIATE HOUSE.

T WINDIATE, PROPRIETOR, YORK ST.
<. This frst-class House is in excellent condi-
eion, and the Proprietor is confident that he can
give perfect satisfaction TO the travelling public
Bus will always be ready to take travellers TO and
from the boats. A GOOD LIVERY sTABLB is kept
1 n connection with the House.
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A correspondent, who has evidently
been reading some of the weird and
startling stories in the Congressional
Record, wants to know the name of the
managing editor of that paper. and
wonders if he couldn't get a job con-
ducting puzzle department in its col
umIs. We think not The entire paper
is puzzle department to the tax
PAYERS.
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WM. NJ. SEEGER,

DENTIsr. OFFICE UPoTAIho ~ ANDER-
~ sou : DiCCk, corner ooutn EIghtn ahd quay
Streets, hauIJuwOc, Mis- Prompt attention VIZ
be gwen 10 ali WorA entrusted " me. apr
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%. Q. b. GhlDLEY.

nENTAL PARLUKs, AUDULPu'S ) BLOCH
~ Corner EI-4tu ANA rIaAhIIu Streets, SO1th
Side, MauILoWoc, y is. once AoaFs irOAi A n.
20 L. ~ ICo-I
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s. SANDERSON,
AJANUFA

ATANUFACTURERA DEALERIN BOOTS
WI SHOES, Leather, &C, &C. shop Buffalo
Street, near tue corner OF Eighth. Repmrlns
neatly ami promptly executed.
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NJ. kETEENuOFFEN,

NORTHWESTERN UsE,FRAN Kiln AMI
~ NinUn streets, ManItUwUc. Travellers vii
ere and the best accommodations, Sample rooms
attached.
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A Boston paper calls Jos. Cook .'the
apostle of the gospel of wind
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Business notices 10 cents per line. Wher e
tinued more than one week, half of the shove
rates for each subsequent week.
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A. G. FRASER, NJ. D., C. NJ,
Il. X. PAINE, NJ. D.,

physician and Surgeon, successor 10 Doctor II.
CoAkIey. OIAUe On Ork street, near Eighth,
MauItoSuC, Wisconsin. sep 10
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p r. NAGLE. NJ. D..

DHYSICiAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE ON
4 South EIghtn slr., one door South ol " az
ner, kanu u Go. UIicc AOurs, To l. a. NJ, 10 .
p. NJ. Night calls promptly attended to. Jul -L-oi
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i. >. III I+i-A-N-N, M %,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE AT
4 Residence OF Or. +. simon, Hancock street,
near the court house, Mauitowoc, WIS. deI0
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O. a FORREST
G.. q. SEDGWICK,

. TToRSEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
~ ONCE in Torisons brick block north end
SIN street bridge, Manitowoc, wisconsin. Collec-
tions promptly attended 10.
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f. S. LUHMANN, NJ. D.

DHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. OFFICE WITH
DR. j. r. PRTcBABD. Hours TO 10 A M,
IL TO and TO Z. NJ. mars