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The Virtues of watermelon.

a. The gay and festive watermelon. :?
said State street physician, lis a
powerful diuretic, an aperient, and the
pulp has delicious refrigerating taste.
But think people should partake of it
in moderation, and it should be eaten
with condiments sprinkled upon it. 1t
should also be cool when eaten, but not
too cool, so as to produce congestion.
When partaken of in immoderate
quantities it is likely to result in
colo, pains, cramps; and if fer
mentation should set in congestion
and dysentery viii follow. Let q
man drink much beer after german
dining on watermelon, and process OF
fermentation will begin which will fill
HIM with gas and extend his stomach
ike drum. Then cholera morbus is
almost certain to follow. Moreover, a
melon should be perfectly ripe and
sweet when eaten. and if sprinkled with
pepper or nutmeg the stomach viii be
s. mulated and digestion promoted.
When pulled green an acid soon forms
in the pulp which is harmful. A good
watermelon may be preserved for ten
days or two weeks in an ordinary leo
box A good circulation of air shouts
be around it.-Boston Journal,
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had good reason to suspect that the
the remains were on their way to a JUS
tice OF the Peace to bring suit on that
note, and no doubt that would have
been done If had not anticipated him.
No. san, L can't stand having the es-
cutcheon OF our family soiled by law
SUIT. such an occurrence was never
allowed 10 take place in our family, sab.
None OF us were ever sued. We never
allow any man to owe us, and while in
Texas propose to sustain the reputation
fmy family
but youwill have to hire LAWYER,
and pay him at least one hundred dollars
to defend you, or you will be sent to the
penltentlary for year"
Rave to pay lawyer one hundred
dollars! exclaimed Bill. "Why it
would have been cheaper to have paid
the note 1t is only for fifty dollars.
We never had to pay more than ten
dollars for indicating my family
honor"
Yes, but you know you are in Tex
as, now"
That's fact forgot all about it.
thought | was in Arkansaw, among
gentlemen. / almost wish hadn't shot
the man.
We are not perfectly sure that the
foregoing actually occurred, but we have
been reading so much about how bad
the Texans are that we are determined
to shove the odium off on some other
State, and Arkansaw is the most ap-
proprlate one we can think Of TeIaS
SittinQS
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Anecdotes OF Abraham Lincoln.

Mrs. Alice ID. Shipman's Reminis-
cences of Illinois Pioneers, published
in the Rrenologicdl Journal, state of
Colonel w. ii. Davidson, that though
he supported Douglas in the contest of
1850, nevertheless Lincoln, after his
Inauguration, wrote to Colonel David
son Offering him any Office that he might
think INT to name, proposing. himself,
the Secretaryship of the Treasury"
The origin of Lincoln's intimacy with
Joshua +. Speed is thus related: ''Mr.
STeed began his business life as a mer-
chant in Springfield, H., where he was
settled when Mr.. Lincoln came there to
open law Office. One day as he was
sitting in his store in an interval of
leisure, Mr.. Lincoln, whose ingrained
awkwardness was then aggravated by
youth, came up to the counter, and ac-
cOsted him with visible embarrassment.
Il want to know, Speed, he said, the
cost of bedstead and bed adding a
rough description which indicated the
cheapest kind of both. What YOU
want, answered Mr.. Speed, will cost
you about S17.' At this Lincoln's law
dropped and a painful expression of
sadness and perplexity spread over his
countenance. Mr.. Speed, noticing the
look, and rightly interpreting it to sig
Nifty that the price exceeded Lincoln's
means, quickly added: MIR. Lincoln,
have proposition to make you. NV
partner has just married, and his bed in
my room upstairs is vacant. If you
are willing to occupy it, and share my
room with me, you are more than wei
come The painful expression instant
ly vanished from Lincoln's face as.
with few simple words of thanks, he
accepted the offer, and disappeared. In
short time he reappeared, with pair
of old-fashioned saddle-bags on his arm.
and, directed by his new friend.
shambled upstairs to the designated
room. a minute had scarcely passed
before he shambled down again, and as
he reached the shop room cried out, his
face beaming with jocund content:
We'll, Speed, Ire mOred' Hencefor-
ward unto death Lincoln and Speed were
bosom friends"
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Dirt Eaters OF the Amazon.
'sYou saw they are dirt eaterspn

"You say they are dirt eaters?"
''Yes, sir; and mean it in its literal
sense. You know the French traveller,
Nacroix, who explored the sources of
the river Amazon, found a tribe of In
dams so Internally lazy that, having
eaten up all the four-footed animals in
their reach, including parrots and mon
keys, snakes and creeping things, were
reduced to living solely on bugs and in
sects. These Ottomacs are fully as bad.
They live upon mudballs when the
river is high and fishing ceases. 1t is a
sort of unctuous clay of peculiar kind,
which he finds upon banks of streams.
1t is soft to the touch, like putty. In its
natural state it is of yellowish-gray
color, but when hardened before the fire
it assumes tinge of red, owing to the
oxide of iron that it contains"
SIS it nourishing?"
'Not in the least. 1t merely fills up
produces safety AID satisfies the
pangs of hunger. have been told by
chemists and medical men who have
analysed the balls into which they roll
it to store away that it contained moth
ing nourishing, simply slick and alumina,
with three or four per cent. of lime.
He calls these balls poya, and stores
them up into little pyramids, just as
cannon balls are piled in fort. Each
ball is three or four inches in diameter.
When hungry, he takes a ball and
softens it by wetting, and eats about a
pound day. There is something in
the dirt eating habit which produces a
sort of craving for it. l do not think
the habit is confined exclusively to the
Ottomacs, but believe that it is general
ly known among the Indians of the
tropics. l have heard of poor class OF
whites living in North Carolina who
when pressed by hunger. eat the mud
daubings that hide the chinks in theil
cabins. "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
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A PoL1cEMAN,s DUTY.


Policeman Ed. 4. HEATH. % North Street, Port
land. Me-, May II. 1883. writes:
have been troubl d for good many years with
Inflammation OF the bladder dating far back dur
ing the time was in the army. suffered with dull
heavy pains In the back and Kidneys intense for
me to describe. and tried several remedies that were
recommended, and was examined by one Of our best
physicians, who pronounced IL Inflammation OF the
blader and went to the hospital for treatment but
all medicine and treatment had seemed TO fail was
recommended TO try Hunts Remedy. 90 II had been
used in several such here In Portland and yicni
~. purchased bottle at Smiths drug store here,
and found after using the first bottle that ft relieved
me greatly and after using several bottles found that
II did more good than all other medicines and treat
ment have received combined. And to add to my
good opinion of Hunts Remedy, beg state I'm clos
ing that wife has been for long time troubled with
weakness and Inflammation of the bladder. with
complication OF other diseases peculiar to women.
After using only two bottles she has been completely
cured and say that my wife 10 loud IN praise OF
this wonderful medicine. and would highly recon-
mend II TO al who suffering from kidney diseases
or diseases of the bladder"
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Plagiarism as a Fine Art.

III we are to believe contributor TO
the Literary World, there is not a STAN
dard author in the whole range of En-
glish literature who has not been guilty
OF gross and repeated acts of plagiar-
ism. The breadth of the charge is
enough to cause its rejection; one might
as well expect to be believed if he
charged all men with being swindlers.
1t must be acknowledged, however.
that by diligent ransacking of Bart
let's Dictionary Of Quotations the writer
in question has managed to make out
a pretty large list of parallel passages,
in which the correspondence of thought
and expression can not always be con-
sidered accidental, even with the largest
exercise of charity. But on the other
hand, it must also be said that of the two
hundred instances given, a large pro
portion are such verbal condolences as
may well have been accidental, while in
other cases nearly as numerous the Dor
rowing is only of line or a phrase
surely not a very heinous sin at the
worst The really serious cases are
thus reduced to less than score, and
these had been pointed out long ago.
The charge of plagiarism is as fire.
quently brought against an author now
adays as that of dishonesty against a
politician. If one believed all he read
in the newspapers, he would be CON-
PEELED to regard every man in public
life as scoundrel, and every man of
letters a thief. Common sense will
save most men from any such sweeping
conclusions, but because these accusa-
tons are ridiculous it does not follow
that they are not outrageous. Reputa-
ton is the breath of his noStrils to a
man of letters, and in no way can his
reputation be so injured as by an
accusation of plagiarism plausibly sup
ported. Cases OF the offense are I'M
fortunately not rare, yet the accusa-
tiOns are far more numerous than the
offenSes.
A word may be profitably said as TO
what constitutes plagiarism. 1t is not
to be COMPOUNDED with mere parallelism.
The great bulk of literature is COM
posed of commonplace ideas that
might easily have occurred independ-
emily to several minds. The Patent
Office authorities tell us that there is
hardly model of an invention that has
not been duplicated, and that nothing
is more common than for man to find
that his machine, though originally
thought out, has been anticipated by
some other inventor. 1t is a matter of
record that Charles Darwin and Alfred
Russell Wallace simultaneously and in
dependently arrived at the theory of
natural selectiQn and that Adams and
Leverrier by a simultaneous and indie
pendent series of calculations demon
strated the existence and position of the
planet Neptune, till then unknown.
The invention of printing and gunpow-
der in Europe were none the less orig
inal because the Chinese had used them
for several centuries previous Paral-
lelisms of thought and even of express
sion do not necessarily prove plagiar-
ism, nor even constitute prinla fdcie
case of the offense; the accused is en-
titled to the benefit of the doubt till
more conclusive evidence is furnished.
N y Examiner.
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.sFrOgging."

Frogs have long been considered a
delicacy with gourmands, but it is new
for ladies to think it a sport and ro-
nance to catch them, or better, per-
haps, to spear them. The poverty of
amusements in several villages near ..hhs
city, made resort during the summer,
suggested to some enterprising woman
the idea of going out in the evening
with jack lanterns to the ponds frog
ging" with spears, or pitchforks tied
with ribbons. 1t is said that at first the
ladies could not keep from screaming
when they saw the big frogs on the logs
or in the bullrushes, and would throw
down their implements of torture and
run some distance, but after G
second sober thought 90 back to face
the enemy under the instruction
of native frog-hunter. The popu-
lar style of "frogging, however, has
been to go in boat with jacklights in
the bow. The frogs, attracted by the
lights, come from their hiding-places,
give croak. and al! is over, as a rib
bOned spear dispatches them. Some
times the ladies fish for frogs, using a
hook baited with red flannel. and saw
that well-mannered frog can not re-
sist the temptation of swapping at this
much-esteemed color. 1t is predicted
that another seas of frogging ~
will be immensely popular at the in
land watering-places. The mania for
water turtles with the fair sex is
another novel caprice. The smaller
the turtles the more they are priced,
and are deemed sufficiently pretty to
be carried about in ornamental silk
bags on the arms of the owners. A
young girl returning from Richfield
Springs had dozen or more diminu.
tive turtles in box, which she PLAYED
with. pulling their tails and legs, and
throwing them about as she emptied
them on the table, where they scam
pered industriously to her infinite
amusement and pleasure. Y. Cor.
Su, dcuSe Journal
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Brother Gardner on Pretty Men.

"If Clarence De Melville Bungs am
present wild us tonight. should like to
spoke to him." said Brother Gardner,
IS the meeting opened.
Brother Bungs was on the back row
with a looking glass in his hands and a
new brand of hair-oil on his hair. He
rose up with a scrape and a bow, made
a great spread of blue silk handker-
chief. and finally stood before the Presi-
dents desk.
"Brudder Bungs," resumed the old
man, al reckon you am de purtiest
member of de Lime-Kiln Club. You
puts lie on yer bar, wax on yer mus
tache, an de perfume on yer clothes re-
minds me of de wild roses of Varginny
Yes, you am de purtiest an sweetest
one of de lot"
"Yes, sab, ;" replied the brother. while
his face betrayed the fact that he was
tickled half to death.
"But-by de way, Brudder Bungs,
what am your present bizness?"
"Ize out of a Job list now. sah.''
"When you work how much do YOU
airn?"
LAS high as seben dollars a week,
sah"
"Jist so. Am dat suit o clothes all
paid fur"
mo. sah.''
AN you am how many weeks be-
hind on yer board?"
mot ober six, sah.''
An you owe dis lodge three dollars
dues?''
Eyes, sah.'
An you owe members here as much
as twenty dollars fur borrowed money!"
"PZe borrowed some, sah."
"Brudder Bungs, I'ze had some
'sperience wild purity men, an L nebber
seed one who wasn't a fraud on de
word manhood. When man sots out
to be purity all de holse sense leaves his
head. No man kin labor and be purity,
too. He darfo' lets work alone. He
beats his board, his tailor, his shoe
maker, an all his friends. He looks
KILN, an smells like a cologne fac
tory, but he doan' pay up. Ebery smile
beats somebody outer twenty-five cents,
an cherry giggle costs somebody half a
dollar. Ize had my eye on you fur
some time.'
"Yes, sah."
"Six months ago you had steady
work, good pay, respectable clothes an
was outer debt. You sot out to be pur-
tty, an to day you wouldn't sell fur
nutf to pay yer debts. You smell aw-
ful nice but you owe a twenty-dollar
board bill. Your ha'r curls beautifully,
but de tailor am whistling fur his mon
ey fur dat suit. Your form am e.
egant, but you has borrowed money I'M
I'll no one will lend you anoder cent
You smile like buttercup an raise yer
hat like a Chesterfield, but yer butes
ain t paid fur"
Il re gwine to squar' up, sah."
May be you is, Brudder Bungs, but
1t am too late, so fur as dis club am
consumed. Secretaryr'
"Ges, sab"
"Scratch de namer of Brudder Clar-
ence de Melville Bungs off de rollI''
"She's dun scratched, sah."
"Janitorr'
"Yes, sab"
Escort dis pusson to de alley doah,
lie am too purity TO remain heah wild
us. He am gwine out OWN us fur
dues, an'-wall, nebber mind"
There was no need to post the jan
itor. Every one could picture him as
he cleared space to swing his right
leg, and if anybody doubted that Ciar-
ence de Melville Bungs was lifted
into the alley he had only to listen to
the labored breathing of the ianitor as
he returned to his seat.-DctrOh Free
Press.
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Sustaining His Reputation.

Bill Flusham is gentleman who
came from Arkansas to Texas a wear
ago, and rented farm from Colonel
Peterson, who lives seven miles from
Austin. on the Waco road. One day
last week Bill Flusham lay in wait for
his landlord, and planted his unfortu-
nate anatomy with buckshot. Bill was
greatly surprised to find himself ar
rested and brought before a Justice OF
the Peace.
Are you guilty of shooting Colonel
Petersonp inquired the Justice.
"Of course shot him." replied Bill,
Indignantly. HAS any Internal scoun-
drel been trying to deprive me of the
credit oft? Do you. sab, mean to insin-
uate that any one has been lying about
me?'
20, no. hastily replied the Justice.
Everybody knows You did it, and !
trust you will overlook my having asked
the question. 1t is a mere formality,
and in the line of my official duty, you
know"
"I expect I'll have to overlook IL this
time" said Bill, "but don't let il oc-
cur again-"
AACAO I'LL lC pidCCu uAo revolver, which
be had quietly drawn in an unostenta-
tious manner.
lit is, of course, none of nv bust
ness" pursued the Justice, ..and
have no right to ask you the question,
but merely as q matter of curiosity,
would like to know if you had any pre-
vious misunderstanding or trouble with
the-the-the remains here?"
None IN the world My sole OBJ
ject. sab. was to protect myself from
being disgraced- Rather than have any
stigma attach to my name I'd waylsy
my best friend and shoot him."
II don't quite comprehend how he
was bringing disgrace on your name. :"
said the Justice.
You are not aware of the facts. If
you will examine the pockets of these
-these-remains. you viii find my
nots, sab, ard that it is past due ]
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I CHEERFULLY ADD my testimony to tho
value of Ely's Cream Balm as a specific in
the case of one in our family, who has been
seriously debiltated with Catarrh for the
past eight years, having tried inc ffectually
other medicines and several speciality doc
tors in Boston. She improved at once under
this discovery, and has gained her health
and hearing, which had been considered
incurable. ROBERT w. MERRILL, Secre-
tary of the Phoenix Manufacturing Co.,
Grand Haven, Mich.
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"GoLDEN Medical Discovery" is war;
antei to cleanse the blood from all Inn
purities, from whatever cause arising. For
scrofula, sores of all kinds, skin and blood
diseases, its effects are marvellous. Thou
sands of Testimonials from all parts. Send
stamp for pamphlet on skin d seases. Ad-
dress WORLDS DIsPENsARY MEDICAL AS
ISOLATION, Buffalo, n. Y.
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A CONGRESSMAN speaking one day,
Got lame in his jaw, they do say,
With the ache he was toiling,
But st. Jacobs Oiling,
He said was worth all his pay.
The champion driver Dan Mace,
Who never was left" in q race
Says for GUS and sprains,
Ard all bodily pains,
st. Jacobs Oil holds the first place.
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The livestock indicators Newest An
mOuncemeue.

The Livestock indicators Newest An.
nOuncement.
The best livestock paper that reaches
this Office is the Kansas City LIvE-SrocK
INDICATOR, and tits continually improving.
The publishers make a special announce-
ment that all new subscribers can have The
INDICATOR sent to their address for So cents,
for the balance of this wear. or from nov,
until Jan. 1st, 1885, for the regular yearly
subscription price $3.50. Sample copies are
mailed free, and our readers who want to
be thoroughly posted on the Kansas CITY
markets as well as on all matters pertain.
ingto livestock and agriculture in this great
new West ought to subscribe for TIE fNDI-
GATOR.
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"A gentleman in Portland. Ne. had
prescription filed at an apothecary's S.
AT late hour in the night his house.
hold was awakened by the clerk of The
druggist, who said that poison had been
given by mistake. The gentleman had
taken one small dose, and was 10 !
stuPor. Another dose would have killed
him.-Bost0n Herald.
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FACE TO FACE.

Face ~ facet There's nothing like Il
In this world 81 JOY and woe!
NCNCr shrinking uovur hultiuR.
Nhatsoo' or may come or no.
should n monster seem 90 threaten
Life ani limb. or y nee Of mind.
Face him with the cyc % courage.
And lamb.llke Toe you'll and.
Thus n u. when. Ike u panther.
Creeping SANDER comes npuCc:
Hail his tales vii mrIt ana vanish
when we meet him face 90 facet
taco % face With cares AMI trials.
Face 90 fac with wIntrY blasts
INIT may surp " wound uut pain ug
While the angry tempest lasts
Faco 20 face with truth and Justice.
Never turning from the rirht
while We have a h AM o. work With,
All an eye o. ln The lirht
Pace 10 face with frculs thtt love We.
Way we over GROVE wu-I t-uc.
fuC1 o. fnrc with JOYS above us
Whom ufe's Journey a.n'l hc through.
-.nrs. w. a. Nj if, iH v. Y. Lsiycr.
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The sale by auction of carpets dis
carded by hotels is q regular event OF
the summer in New York. About 80.
OOO yards have come under the hammer
this season. Three years is the average
LIE OF hotel carpet.-N y Times.
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HUNTSVILLE, ALA.-Dr. j. G. Spotswood
says: 81 highly recommend Browns Iron
Bitters for dyspepsia, rheumatism and
general debility"
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NO MATERIAL CHANGE.

the kidney complaint. and derived much benent from
its use.
have been AFFLICTED about one year. and received
treatment from the local physicians and used mum.
Der of called specifics without any materialhelp
happy to say. after using three bottles OF Hunts
Remedy, was completely cured.
Inever fall to recommend and you are at liberty
to use my name in any manner you may desire.
JOHN W. JOHNSTON.
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Look Out for Frauds /,

The genuine " Rough on Corns" is made
only by Z. S. Wells proprietor of I" Rough
on Ra's"), and has laughing face of a man
Gil labels. 15c and 25c bottles.
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with Grat.sn, E..,,nr. :,

DR.. PIERCE, Buffalo, N. Y: Dear Sir
Your "Golden Medical Discovery" and
~Purgative Pellets" have cured my daugh-
ter of scrorulous swellings and open sores
about the neck; and your "Favorite Pre-
scription" has accomplished wonders in
restoring TO health my wife who had been
bed-fast for eight months from Female
yours truly, T. H. LONG, Galveston, Texas.
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A PIANO accompaniment-Th stool.-N
J. World.
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+" Fair Girl Graduates

Whose sedentary lives increase those trou
bles peculiar TO women, should use DIR.
Pierce's " Favorite Prescription" which is
al unfailing remedy. Sold by druggists.
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Singing, irritation, all Kidney and Blad-
der Complaints, cured by "Buchu-Paiba "$1.
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THE English Lord Chief-J Justice has been
cordially received, but what will he saw tc
our coal-ridge, the Alleghenies.-Pitt
burGh Post
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If your dining-room is made cool aud
sirv. how is your P Chicago
Tl.jT,unp-
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ABSENCE makes the heart grow
fonder" of some other fellow.-DetrOit
Post
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WE should think there would be a con-
tinued row in book-bindery, there are so
many rulers.-B0Ston Post.
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Colden's Liquid Beef Tonic
Promotes digestion in females of delicate
health. Colden's, no other, of druggists.