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Article A, section 1, clause 1, of the
Constitution of the United States, de-
clares that mo new State shall be
formed or erected within the jurisdic-
ton of any other State; nor any State
be formed by the junction OF two or
more States, without the consent of the
Legislatures of the States concerned, as
we'll as of the Congress- The erecting
of West Virginia into a State was an
incident of the late war. While the
convention in session at Richmond re-
solved to take Virginia out of the
Union, the Unionists of West Virginia
called convention that assembled at
Wheeling, May ID, 1861, composed Of
delegates from twenty-five western
counties of the State. This convention
passed resolutions denouncing secession
and providing for convention OF all
the counties of Virginia adhering TO the
National Government. Delegates rep
resenting forty counties convened in
Wheeling on June IL, repudiated the
acts of the rebel convention, and on June
20 elected Francis H. Pierpont Govern
or of what they denominated the "reor-
ganized State of Virginia. A Legisla-
ture was elected, which met In Wheel
ing on July 2. This body elected two
United States Senators to take the place
of the Virginia Senators which had gone
over to the Confederacy. 1t also pro-
vided for an election, to be held on. the
oath of the following October, to de-
eide upon the formation of a new State,
the eastern part of the State being in
possession of the rebels The people,
by large majority, declared in favor of
q new State, and, at the same time chose
delegates to convention to meet at
Wheeling Nov. "a, which convention
framed State Constitution, which was
ratified by the people May B, 1862. May
13 the Legislature-which claimed, it
must be remembered, to represent the
whole State of Virginia, as it certainly
did represent the loyal part-approved
the formation of the new State, under
the name of West Virginia, and Dec. 81,
1862, provided for its admission to the
Union. 1t was held by distinguished
jurists that the Government ut Rich
mond having placed itself outside of the
constitution by the reasonable act of
secession, the only legal Legislative body
within the State was the one in session
at Wheeling, which consented to the or
ganization of the new State, and that
the terms of the constitution contained
in the clause above quoted had been
met. When Virginia was reconstructed,
she was admitted on the understanding
that West Virginia was separate State.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
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she had inflicted the wound herself, ard
was hysterical subject. A housemaid
was found lying behind door, bound,
gagged and covered with bruises. She
stated that she had been brutally at
tackled 10y two burglars with blackened
faces, but she was highly-hysterical
woman, and there appears to have been
strong evidence that she contrived to
tie her own hands and to gag and bruise
herself. Perhaps the strangest case of
all occurred in nj. Tardieu's practice.
A young lady living at Courbevole
wished to make herself an object of in
terest by passing as a victim of politi-
Cal conspiracy which she pretended to
have discovered. One night she was
found in state of the greatest mental
perturbation at the door of her apart
ment. She could not talk, but stated
in writing that she had been attacked
outside her house by man, who had at
tempted to garrote her, at the time
striking her twice with dagger. Only
the lady's clothing was injured, and the
body of her dress and her corset were
found to be cut through, but at differ
emit levels. She tried to make out that
the attempt at strangulation had caused
dumbness. M. Tardieu remarked in
her hearing that this infirmity rapidly
disappeared when produced under cir
cumstances of this kind. She soon
managed to regain her speech, and in a
short time admitted that the whole mar
rative had been developed out of her
inner consciousness. Eccentricity in
relatives is ever strong presumption
of self-deception when female makes
any statement or charges of ill-treat-
ment of any kind. The constant fear
of assassination, especially if based on
reasonable grounds, is particularly
liable to predispose nervous or excitable
subjects to extraordinary decisions of
this kind. -British Medical Journal.
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IL Is the Bad, Bad Men Who Gossip.

"Do you, know" said young society
man to a reporter, In the course of a
conversation, "that the gossip in society
does not originate with the ladies?"
mo, 1 did not know that" was the
response. who does originate it then ?"
why, lot of old men, who have
nothing in the world to do but to sit at
their clubs from morning to night.
They get all the stories among them
selves, and then go and tell the women,
and that is how these scandalous stories
get around that you sometimes hear
These reports may not start out full
grown, but these old fellows set some
statement going, which no one else
would think of, and it grows larger and
larger, like a SNOWFALL rolled about in
the damp snow, and sometimes the pro-
portions reached startle and confound
the very persons who originated them. I"
Don't you think that the ladies have
the reputation of being the only and
original gossips?"
Eyes, they have" replied the young
man; "but the ladies would never get
the material they do, if it were not for
the men gossips. They are the cham
pions in this line, and that is true not
only of this city, but of all others. The
old club men are at the bottom of the
mischief" and with this remark the
young man pulled his wide rolled
brimmed beaver down aver his eyes,
and buttoning up his short overcoat
started down the street, twirling his
hunting-crop cane jauntily in his hand.
-Wdshington Star.
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An Interesting Experiment.

Prof. w. j. Beal, in his botanical and
horticultural report for 1882, reports
very interesting experiment. Two
fine punches of clover, apparently
alike in thrift and size were covered
with mosquito netting. When the
plants were in blossom, humble bees
were introduced under one netting and
seen to work, the other being left I'M
visited. July 81, ripe heads were Sc
lected from each plant, and the seeds
carefully counted. The fifty heads of
the plant from which the bees were ex-
cluded yielded twenty-five seeds, forty
yielding none at all. The fifty heads
visited by bees, on which they were
seen to work, yielded ninety-four seeds,
twenty-five yielding none at all.
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Authorizations of Women.

Recent circumstances have directed
attention to certain remarkable de-
lusions to which females of unstable
nervous equilibrium are subject, either
through hysteria or through similar
disorders of the nervous system. Char
cot and Bonneville give instances of
the extraordinary self-deceptions that
are frequent among hysterical patients.
DIR. Legrande de Saulle, physician of
the Salpetriere, Paris, describes in his
standard work, Lies Hysteriques,
some remarkable cases of hallucination,
where females labored under the belief
that they have been struck or stabbed
by others, even after having inflicted
blows or wounds upon themselves, In
one instance a young woman was found
by her husband lying on the floor of
her room in fainting fit, her face COW
cred with blood. On reviving her from
her swoon, she stated that she had been
attacked by armed men; the Paris news
papers related the case, and within
three weeks three similar cases occurred
in the French metropolis. All these
cases proved to be fabricated by the
supposed victims. A young girl
wounded herself slightly with pistol
She gave the police authorities the most
minute details about an imaginary
assassin, who, according to her account,
fred the weapon, but she was found to
be highly hysterical, and it was proved
that she had wilfully wounded her
self In third case in DIR. du
Saulle's experience, a young woman
was found in a railway carriage,
stabbed in the left side. The incident
caused great excitement, but it was
proved, contrary to her assertions. that
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At recent railroad accident in tun-
mel, curious mistake happened. A
couple on their wedding tour were on
the train and the seats were jammed so
tightly together that the bride was
caught as if in a vice, and had rib
broken. She whispered, in gasps reek-
ing with pain: "Oh, Henry! Dido
-don't-sq-ueeze me-so-hard! Some
-one-will-s see you - and-I-I-
can-hardly-ge-get my BREATH" 1t
was mistake that might easily occur
in tunnel The ,JatdQe.
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COrDulence.

That is indeed fanciful and false
idea that because one is fat and corpu
lent, he must be healthy. In the vast
majority of cases, the usually fat
babes or otherwise-are just to that
extent diseased. Like the fat swine.
so clumsy and bloated that he can
scarcely walk, the fat mass is but a
mass of disease. Both extremes are
alike, evidences of disease, the one as
much as the other. The fat, both of
animal and human being is a deposit
of disease, to great extent, of semi
excrementitious matter, the pure fat,
when made faster than the system can
dispose of it, being stored away for
future use, kind of surplus food. 1t
is on this principle that one subsists,
in the absence of food, either from
sickness or otherwise, as may be seen
in "the sunken cheek and hollow eyes"
of the convalescent, or the famishing.
with this arrangement, we need not
fear, though we may be obliged to pass
over several meals) This excessive
fairness results, mainly, from an excess
of food, taking more than the amount
of exercise demands, to supply the
waste caused by such labors, by in
dolence, not using what food is taken,
and taking kinds of food that is cal
culated to produce fat, simply, mo real
strength. Prominent among these
articles or classes, are all of the fats,
butter, lard, etc.. the sweets, well rep
resented by sugar, and the starches,
several varieties of which are found in
the grains, potatoes, peas, beans and
the like. The most prominent of these
are found in the common fine -four,
from which the best and most nutritive
elements, so far AS strength is con-
cerned, the nitrates have been removed
by the boiling process. While sweets
fatten and warm, they are more abun-
dant in the winter, when needed for
warmth, while the acids, as in fruits,
are abundant, and demanded by the
summer appetite, are generally pro-
duced in the warm season. For the
same reason, the grains in the warm
climates are rich in muscle-food, with
but little of the warming carbon, the
reverse being true in the cold coun-
tries.-City and Country.
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Chinese Fortunes.

"The Chinese are quite luxurious ?"
ave have many rich men in China
The richest one is worth five times as
much as Jay Gould. The fortune OF
the Mongolian Cr9sus nearly equals
the amount of your national debt. His
name, Pawn Kim Lung, signifies
Pawn, the golden dragon" Like Jay
Gould, he is fond of flowers. At his
country residence he has hanging gar
dens which cost $3,0O0,O0O.
He mas pawnshops in all the leading
cities in China. That country has 81
900 leading cities. He has therefore
5000 pawnshops. He is the Celestial
Simpson. He is held to be the finan.
cial equal of the whole European
Rothschilds. L thiuk he is o Chinese
Jew. There are Jews in China, and
they pattern after the Mongolians. even
to the wearing Of pigtails.
"How much does it take to make o
man rich in China?"
"Ten thousand dollars. The posses
sion of 100000 corresponds to an
American millionaire. When man has
100000 he becomes friend of the
Emperor. Some of the ignorant Chi
nese coolies have acquired as much.
Plutocratic society in our country is as
base as it is in yours. The Chinese in
Mott street are of the middle class.
They are neither low or high.
do Chinese gentleman dress expen-
sively?"
"Quite so. When was a student
used to wear native costume that cost
5000. Some of the swell dudes in Pekin
wear suits of clothes which cost $4,000
each. They are far more exquisite than
your Fifth avenue swells. "-InterUie,o
Nth Wong Chin Foo.
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slippers and Dressing Gown.

1t has been the custom to talk of a
mans wanting to come home and put
on his slippers and dressing-gown, both
physically and mentally, and needing
no intellectual mate to help him do it,;
but that sort of talk which intimates
that there is but one party to the home,
and that one the man, ceases to have
much value in the light of the now
scarcely -controverted admission that
every woman is an individual, with the
rights of one. Still, any one would
suppose it self-evident that if a woman
is allowed career, she would be all
the more fit, when evening came, for
the dressing-gowned and slppered con-
dition herself, and so all the more a
genial mate for the husband seeking re-
Taxation in his home. But whether she
is not does not hinder her right to make
the most of the talent committed to
her; and, if her husband, fitted by the
habits and precedents of centuries to
have his own way, cannot find his de-
sired relaxation and let her have her
normal development, there must be
something wrong about his relaxation,
and he had best relinquish or modify
his long-descended habit, and take a
little less of his own way and little
less relaxation with it.-Harper's Ba-
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AT Chicago railway station, on the
arrival of train, thirteen kisses were
measured as to duration from the in
slant of contact to that of elimination.
Two of these were so instantaneous that
the observers noted them at a hun
dredth part of second. and four more
were rather guessed than actually timed
at a fiftieth All these were between
women. The next group of five kisses
were recorded at a twentieth. The
couples were divided as to sex, but
were made up of persons whose ties
were presumably those of consan-
guinity. Then came full half-minute
kiss-that of O little girl and man,
who was doubtless her father. The
longest of the thirteen was over a min
ute, according to the time-keeper; but
the record was questioned, on the
ground that there was succession Of
kisses instead of continuous conjunc-
ton of the lips. This couple was COM
posed either of young married folks or
of sweethearts who felt sure that they
were among total strangers. There
was no hurry or reserve about their
greeting.
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AN almost incredible case of popular
superstition has occurred in Prussia.
In the village of Schonbeck, in the
province of West Prussia, the little
daughter of cabinet-maker has been
bedridden for three years. The father
became persuaded that his daughter was
oewitched by woman who had given
her occasionally apples and pears. He
was advised that the patient would be
cured if she drank some of the blood
of the supposed witch. The poor
woman was entrapped into visiting a
place where some of the chief men of
the Commune were assembled to receive
her. She was seized, one of her fingers
pricked with needle, and the blood
given to the sick child The participa-
tors in this outrage were summoned
before a Police Magistrate, who
sentenced them to Imprisonment for
three DAYS
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Gone West.

The Yankee boy is said to be dying
out. In New Hampshire the district
schools are not as they were genera
ton ago. Benches which were crowded
then are nearly empty now, and in the
place of merry groups of childrn scat
tered along the roadway, here and there
a solitary scholar takes up his lonely
walk to school. The towns very gener-
ally make liberal provision for their
schools, but they have not the children
to send.
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GOSSIP FOR THE LADIES.
A Love Song.

All! swan OF slenderness. dove of tenderness.
Jewel of JOYS. arise
The little red lark. like a, rosy spark
OF song to his sun-burst flies;
But till you are risen, earth IL prison.
Full OF my captive signs
Then wake and discover to your fond lover
The morn of yopr matchless eyes.
The dawn Is dark to me: bark. oh! bark to me
Pulse of my heart, pray,
And gently gliding out of thy hiding
Dazzle me with thy dayl
And OH I'd fly to thee, singing and sigh to thee
Passion 40 sweet and gay.
The larks shall listen, and dewdrops glisten,
Laughing on every spray.
Alfred PeTcepdl Ly1res
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A Pacific Island Smile.

A woman's smile is thus described in
Hawaiian romance: Her rich red
lips parted and there flashed upon the
landscape two rows of beautiful white
teeth. Slowly her mouth opened
wider and wider. Deeper grew the
dimples in her bronze cheeks. Brighter
danced the sunbeams in her eyes, until
a stray ray, darting through the foliage
of an overhanging Dough, illuminated
the deep cavern of her mouth,
bringing into view the back of her
head. Then, seeing us gaze intently
upon her, she shut her jaw and dark
ness fell upon the scene"
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DIR. PAsTEUR says that the only safe
ty for large cities from the great and
constantly increasing danger of typhoid
and malarial fevers consists in having
the sewers air-tight and terminating in
an inclosed space far beyond the city
limits, where extensive chemical facto-
ries should receive and convert the re-
fuse without delay into useful products.
All other systems have proved to be
failures more or less glaring.
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AT recent medical meeting in New
York DIR. Spitzka said that the modern
modes of travel caused injuries to the
:spinal-column to be more numerous
than formerly. In many cases verdicts
had been given against railway compa-
MES where the parties had without
doubt been shamming. George P.
Aury, a lawyer, said that he defended
a man once who walked twenty miles
between dark and daylight to commit a
robbery, and yet the doctors swore that
it was impossible for that man to rise
from his bed. Spinal disease was this
mans capital he did not rob railroads,
but he did rob banks and rich men, and
became wealthy.
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For the week ending June %. 1893, the reports
Indicated that diarrhea considerably increased,
chitis, and cholera morbus increased, and that
measles decreased in area of prevalence.
At the State Capital. the prevailing winds, dur
ing the week ending June 80, were southwest:
and, compared with the preceding week, the
temperature was higher, the absolute humidity
and the day ozone more, and the relative humid
ity and the night ozone less
Including reports by regular observers and by
others, diptheria was reported present during
the week ending June % and since, at thirteen
places, scarlet fever Mt twenty places, and
measles at twenty-five places. Smallpox In
kalamazoo township June q.
HENRY d. BAKER. Secretary.
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Mrs. MARY CLEMSfER, formerly
ClemmerAmes, the gushing Washing
ton correspondent, has just been mar
ried to Mr.. Hudson, correspondent of
the Boston Herald, and will sail to
England on her bridal tour. She was
divorced from Ames in 1875. Neither
of them at the time or afterwards bore
any malice and neither had then picked
out any other to marry. 1t was man
aged purely as a business transaction
and by mutual consent He obtained
the divorce at Harper's Ferry, w. Va,
where he then resided, making certain
letters he had received from her the
grounds for procuring it. In speaking
of it year later to friend of both, he
said: Il thought it would make Mary
happier to be free, and as L have al
ways studied her happiness, I gave her
her freedom" AS there were no chill
Jren the matter was the more easily
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The Southern Mutual Insurance
Conn any, of Athens, Ga, is at sea as
to the disposition to make of the in
terest upon her reserve. fund, now
something over 81, 100000. The an
nual interest, amounting to about $780,
900, has heretofore been divided among
stockholders, the dividends being as
high as So per cent. per annum for
three years. Doubts have asisen as to
the legality of this.
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Health In Michigan.

Reports to the State Board of Health, Lansfas,
by observers Of diseases in the different PARTS Of
the State. show the principal diseases which
caused most sickness in Michigan, during the
week ending June o. 1888, as follows:
Names of observers heard from, 3d..
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Chr Jrnr Aurtherner.
PAW PAW, MICHIGAN.

NEXT to Texas Wyoming is probably
the greatest stock.growing region in
the United States. 1t is said that
about 100000 cattle are now feeding
on IT'S plains, the estimated value of
which is about $50. OOO. 900.
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Americans Called Horses and Asses.

A Bostonian recently returned from
Europe relates an incident which is not
without its point. He was standing
one evening in hotel at Amsterdam
when lively colloquy took place be-
tween valet de place and a courier.
The former, while wiping the perspira-
ton from his face, burst out: "These
Americans beat everything A family
came yesterday and said they must see
Amsterdam in one day. put them
through, and have just started them off
in the cars. Why, these Americans
when sightseeing work like horses. I"
"Yes," added the courier, sententiously,
@and they spend their money like
asses" =,
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arranged. He used regularly to call
upon her when he visited Washington
after the divorce and often consulted
her. He even discussed with her his
proposed marriage to another lady be-
fore proposing to the lady in question
He has now been married several
vaars
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J. i. JOHNSTON and Beauregard are
the survivors of the five field Generals
of the rebel service. Johnston is the
general agent of an insurance company,
and Beauregard is the Adjutant Gen
eral of Louisiana There were twenty
one Lieutenant Generals, of whom the
following are living: Hampton, Cor
don, d. H. Hill, Stephen Lee, Early,
Buckner, Wheeler and A. p. Stewart.
Gen. Stewart is President of the Uni
versity of Mississippi, and Gen. S. d.
Lee is at the head of another Missis-
sippi educational institution. The sur
viving Major Generals include ex-Govs.
Churchill, of Arkansas, and Colquitt, of
Georgia, while the ranking officer of
this grade now living is Gen. Gustavus
w. Smith, Insurance Commissioner of
Kentucky. Two of these exGenerals,
G.. w. Field and l.. l.. Lomax, are en-
ployed by the United Corps of Engi-
neers of Florida. Gen. MCGOWAN is
on the Supreme bench of South Caro-
lima. OF the three Lees who were Gen
erals, Gusts, who was Mr.. Davis chief
of staff, is the President of the Wash
ington and Lee College in Virginia.
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, gener-
ally called "Runey," is planter.
Robert Lee, the Generals youngest
son, who served in the ranks, lives on
the james river.
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LARGER elephant than Jumbo has
arrived in England. This is said to be
the largest captive elephant in the
world. He is not quite so high as
Jumbo, but bulkier, weighing five tons.
His trunk measures in its thickest part
three and one-half feet in circumfer-
ence
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The man who cannot blush, and has
no feelings of fear, has reached the
acme of impudence. -Mendnde
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No HOPE so bright but is the begin
ming of its own fulfllment.-