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LINCOLN IND HITLER.

Lincoln's well-known disposition to be
merciful, which prevented his signing
the death-warrants found by courts-mar-
tial, was aptly illustrated by several
stories, and the fact stated that it was
for this reason Congress so modified the
law toward the close of the war that
death-warrants from the courts-martial
could be executed by the mere order of
a commanding General in the field.
An instance of this trait was found in
the pardon of one Of Buffers command.
When the condemned mans father
called at the White House to beg his
sons life, the President had just re-
ceived telegram from Gen. Butler,
which read:
Mr.. PRESIDENT L implore you not to inter-
fere with the judgments of our courts-martial.
You will utterly ruin all discipline in my COM
mand. B. f. BUTLER.
When this dispatch was read to the
old petitioner he fell at the Presiden. 5
feet heart broken. Lincoln looked down
at him moment, and then, grasping a
pencil and paper, he said: "Ben Butler
or no Ben Butler, here goes" and he
wrote q note and handed it to the old
man, whose face was now beaming with
hope. His countenance again became
sad, however, when he read the words:
GEN. BUTLER: John Blank is not to be put
to death until further orders from me.
A. LINCOLN.
"Ah, Mr. President" said the man :;
al thought you were writing a pardon.
You might order his execution to-mor-
row."
"My man," rejoined the President,
"you are not very well acquainted with
me, see. If you were you would know
that if your son never died until put to
death by my orders, he would live to be
a great deal older than Methusaleh. -
Schuyler COlGr's lecture.
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THE PAY OF OLIVER CROMWELL.

THE FAI OR OLIIEk CROM WE'LL.
When Oliver Cromwell was asked, in
1649, to accept the post of Commander
in-Chief and Lieutenant General of Ire
land, he replied that he would go if he
were sufficiently provided" The fol-
lowing facts from the calendar of state
papers will show the pecuniary value of
the demand, which was granted: "He
required in addition to the ordinary sal
airy of Lieutenant General of Ireland
$4,000 for an outfit, $50 day so long
as he remained in England, and $4O,-
600 year upon his landing in Ireland" :"
Unfortunately the patent does not state
what salary he actually received as Lord
Lieutenant of Ireland, but only
mentions that he should have the
usual fees, stipends and allowances, but.
Judging from other details, it must have
been at least $4,000, and, if so, his
total income was $65. 900 year, which,
in consideration of the relative value of
money then, would have given him
command of an income worth 1926
900.
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NEW MEXICAN WONDERS.

New Mexico is perhaps the greatest
field on this continent for the study OF
the inquiring student. The Cliff houses
in the several parts of the Territory have
scarce been noticed. The remarkable
group of the Cliff inhabitants on the
west range of the Gallinas occupied at
time so remote in the past that the anti
quarian and historian are unable to vent
ure an opinion either to the epoch of its
occupation or of the character of its
occupants, is monument of antiquity.
These cave-dwellers were of Liliputian
stature. A small man of the present
generation would have been a colossus
among these pygmies, and to enter their
dwellings, hevn in the solid rock, are
compelled to crawl on all-fours, and,
once in the chambers which honeycomb
the cliffs, a stopping attitude must be
observed. The floors of these extraor-
dinary apartments are covered with the
impalpable dust Of ages, in the lower
part Of which charred ears of corn, en-
crossed elk horns, implements made
from obsidian and flint, are abundant.
The bones Of numerous animals are
found in amazing quantities. Fragments
of pottery covered with strange devices
are to be seen on all sides. Not lar
away from these abandoned abodes a
spring breaks forth from the rocky
fanks of the mountain, of bluish-green
color, which, upon determination by Mr..
Moore, Superintendent Of the Colorado
Mining Company, proved to be a satu-
rated solution of sulphate of copper by
simple evaporation-the water, which
flows in abundance-a marketable pro-
duce is left, which. at no remote period,
will be bonanza 10 the proprietor and
discoverer, Mr.. Moore. ,SoccsYo Eagle.
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THE CLOUD OTER DANIEL WEB
STEPS F4ME

On the 7th Of March, 1850, Webster
delivered in the Senate of the United
States a speech (on the relations of
slavery to the Union) the effect of which
upon his own chances of fame has been,
up to the present moment, in the high
est degree unfavorable. That speech
turned against the orator nearly the
whole force of the particular literary
mode then rapidly gaining the ascendant
In this country. The time since then has
been an era of sentimentalism in liter
ature, as 1t has been an era Of sentiment
alism in politics and religion. Webster
has been Judged according to the fashion
of such an era. There will succeed
different era, having different canons of
Judgment, ard Webster will be judged
differently. The pendulum already COM
mences its return toward the opposite
extreme of oscillation. This, however,
is anticipation, and we now deal with
retrospect. The tide Of political opin-
ion, held for time from ebbing by the
almost sole contrary attraction of Web
ster's own example and influence while
he yet lived, receded with precipitate
rapidity after his death, and left the
great bulk of his name, it well might
seem, wreck on The strand. The re-
action against Webster in popular re-
gard resulting from this celebrated
speech found powerful and beautiful
expression in one of Mr.. Whittier's
finest poems, piece significantly en-
titled "Ichahod p Since then, in q
published poem on Webster, Mr.. Whit
tier has evinced some disposition to un-
write his earlier branding lyric of dis
praise. W. c. Wilkinson, in the
Century.
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PALSY AMONG THE VETERANS.

We were surprised at the number of
veterans we saw in attendance at the
annual reunion who were more or less
afflicted with paralysis. Upon inquiry
among those present we were still more
astonished to learn that many of the
veterans of the adjacent counties were
confined at home with the same attic
tion-too feeble to be in attendance.
We made diligent inquiry, and have be-
come well satisfied that the mortality
and suffering from paralysis among
Tennessee veterans of the Mexican war
is at this time much greater than among
the men of the same age of any other
pursuit. This presents grave questions
which are in the interest of science and
Of general humanity, and of special i'm
portance to the veterans of that war
perhaps the veterans of all wars.
Among other questions we present
these: First, is the tendency to paraly-
sis among the veterans of the Mexican
war in Tennessee greater than among
other citizens of the State of the same
age and of similar habits? Second,
does such tendency extend to the veter-
ans of that war in any other or in all
other localities? Third, what are the
causes which have produced that tend
ency? and do they still exist? Fourth,
what can the veteran do in the way of
diet, habit, or medicine, to avoid this
tendency or palliate its consequences?
Many other questions will present
themselves to the scientific inquirer
which, we hope, will receive the atten-
tion which the Importance of the sub
iect claims. We raise these questions
in general, but of the veterans of the
Mexican war in particular. We think
they open a wide field of investigation,
which we hope some adventurous man
of sense will explore. -NashUiNe
(Tenn.) WOrld.
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HOW SLATE PENCILS ARE MIDE.

Broken slate from the quarIies is put
into a mortar, run by steam, and pound
ed into small particles. Thence it goes
into the hopper of a mill, which runs it
into bOlting machine, such as is used
in Touring mills, where it is bolted, the
fine almost impalpable -four that re-
suits being taken into a mixing-tJlb,
where a small quantity of steatite -four,
manufactured in q similar manner, is
added, and the whole is then made into
a stiff dough. This dough is thorough
ly k2eaded by passing it several times
between iron rollers. Thence it is car
ried to a table where it is made into
charges-that is, short cylinders, four
or five inches thick, and containing
from eight to ten pounds each. Four
of these are placed in strong iron cham
Der or retort, with a changeable nozzle,
so as to regulate the size of the pencil,
and subjected to tremendous hydraulic
pressure, uUu6E WHICH Gil0 COu1OlldClOu
is pushed through the nozzle, in long
cord, like a slender snake sliding out of
a hole, and passes over a sloping table,
slit at right angles with the cords to
give passage, with a knife that cuts
them into lengths. They are then laid
on boards to dry, and after few hours
are removed to sheets of corrugated
zinc, the corrugations serving to pre-
vent the pencils from warping during
the process of baking, to which they
are next subjected in a kiln, into which
superheated steam is introduced in
pipes, the temperature being regulated
according to the requirements of the
articles exposed to its influence. From
the kiln the articles go to the finishing
and packing-room, where the ends are
+hrnst for & second under rapidly
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TIE AMERICAN LEXICOGRAPHER.
Dr. Webster was q true scion of the
old New England stock. Upon bis moth
er's side he was descendant of William
Bradford, the Plymouth Governor. The
clever boys of New England families
were then sent to college, and Noah
Webster naturally entered Yale College
IN IVA. His studies were somewhat in
terrupted by the Revolution but he
succeeded in graduating. Afterward he
taught school and studied law, being ad-
mitted to the bar in 1871. In 1882 he
kept classical school at Goshen, n. Y.
and there compiled two small ele-
mentary books for teaching the English
language" In 1888 he published his
First Part of Grammatical Institute
OF the English Language" followed in
the course of the next two years by the
second and third parts. The first part
was the basis of the spelllng-books
which he afterward published. He had
an idea that Americans should have
school-books Of their own, and he based
his compilations upon this. He ad-
hered to this when he published his
reader, and many OF the selections are
from American writer's and orators. His
books were popular enough to make him
feel the need of copyright law, and to
secure this by the legislation of the sew
eral States he studied assiduously, Con-
gress under the Confederation having no
power to protect literary property. It
did not enact copyright law until 179O.
The spelling-book, as everybody knows,
Vas enormously successful. In 1847
"a. 100000 copies of the book had been
published, the sale averaging 1000, 900
per annum. Upon this DR.. Webster re-
ceiyed premium of copyright of mills
copy, and it was the profits arising
from this book which, during the twenty
years in which DR.. Webster was en-
gagged upon the american Dictionary"
supported him and his famiIy.-Neao
York Tribune.
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THE EDITORIAL "WE."

The Oil City Derrick gives the above
subject hist as follows: Some people
are unreasonably inquisitive and curious,
especially about matters that do not
concern them in the least. For ex-
ample, here is correspondent who
makes the startling revelation that he is
a constant reader of our valuable and
influential paper" and would like to be
informed why it is an editor or news
paper writer, when speaking of himself
in his writings, invariably uses the
plural pronoun "we" instead of the
singular "I"
There are several reasons. Self-pres-
ervation is the first law of nature. It
begins at home, like old Mother Charity.
There is some human nature about an
editor, public opinion to the contrary
notwithstanding. An editor thinks too
much of his "I's" to wear them in
mourning, and therefore, when speaking
of some slab sided six-footer as miser-
able red-nosed, pusillanimous, wife
beating snoozer, he considers it the
better part OF valor to drop in an occas-
ional "we." This creates in the MUD
of the six-footer the impression that the
editorial force consists of a standing
army, armed with deadly "we" "-apons.
Furthermore, in cases where the vic
tim comes around to the Office to kill
the writer of any particular item, it is
so pleasant to have the guilty mans
identity buried in the obscuritv of the
plural "we." The editor n-chief, the
commercial editor, the city editor, the
local editor, the reporters, the book
keepers, compositors, book-binders, job
bers, 'pressmen, devil and all the de-
livery boys are thus placed on COM
mon footing by the little pronoun "we,"
and when the enraged person looks
about him and finds how many homes
he would make desolate, how many
wives he would make widows and how
many children orphans, by killing off
all included in the little "we" at one
fell swoop, he sickens of the sanglinary
undertaking, turns sadly away, goes to
some bar-room, takes drink, condemns
the paper, prophesies that it is being
run into the ground, and declares that
he will henceforth use his political infu-
ence to squelch the sheet.
There are other reasons. When no.
ticing marriage or birth "we" implies
that at least box of cigars will be re-
quired to go around.
An editor says "we" when advising
the President how to conduct his admin
istration, because the President might
not act on his suggestion if it was writ
ten plain 'fI."
When telling the minister no. TO
preach the editor uses "we" t"i
the belief that he has just had
ence with all the ex-ministers ain
establishment.
The editor who tells the teacher llu~
to teach says "we," because he has con-
suited with his wife about the matter,
and she, having been a teacher a few
years before, of course knows all about it.
"We" is sometimes used because of
the writer's modesty. Most writers are
troubled in this respect.
In short, we use eve" because no one
man could survive the trials, tribulations
and taffy found about print shop.
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Eds ON AND THE GOOsE'S EGGS.

I have spoken about Edison's patience
and perseverance. A funny story, the
truth of which several of his friends at
test, has been told me by one of his en-
thusiastic admirers to throw into relief
these qualities. Gamblers, as rural folk
well know, fog with their wings chill
dren who show themselves disposed to
interfere with Matching eggs. When
Edison was boy of or 8 years, and
still wearing petticoats, boys clothing
being thought by his people too dear, it
was observed by them at the farm in
Michigan, where he was brought up,
that his bare legs were often badly
beaten by the gander. He was told to
keep out of that birds way, and let the
geese alone. The next spring hostilities
were again declared between him and
the gander. One fine morning Edison
disappeared. 1t was ascertained that he
took with him a store of food. As he
was still missing at night, great uneasi-
ness was felt. A search was begun next
day. The child was found in a wood,
sitting down and holding out his skirts
over a sort of straw nest that he had
made and filed with eggs which he had
taken from under an incubati q goose.
He wanted to see whether he could not
hatch just as well as that bird. The idea
had set MIN in a fever twelve months
previously, and he had not abandoned
it. Unphilosophical parents whipped
and scolded him.
An acquaintance, to whom Michigan
farmer had told this curious anecdote,
went to Edison and asked whether it
was not fabulous. "No, it is quite true"
he replied. "I was terribly disappoint-
ed when they pulled me off my nest,
and had not the courage to try again.
But if went now to hatch those goose's
eggs I should succeed. I have more
perseverance. Indiana Daily News.
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FOUNDED HEARTS.

A writer in the London Lancet states
that the popular impression concerning
the quick fatality of wounds of the heart
is not supported by fact. "We know
of no case" he says, "of absolutely in
stantaneous death from wound of the
heart, in any part, or however extensive.
Wounds in the apex kill in an hour and
upward, and a case is cited in which a
man lived twelve hours after the heart
had been severed in twain by sword
cut. Out of twenty-nine collected cases
of heart injury, only two were fatal
within forty-eight hours, and in the
others death resulted in from four to
twenty-eight days. Recovery may take
place when the wound is extensive, for
a bullet has been found imbedded in the
substance of the heart after lapse of
six years from the date of the injury,
the patient having died from disease
of another organ"
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A RARE BIT OF LACE.

A piece of lace belonging to Mrs.
Cooke, of Georgetown, is said by con-
noisseurs to be actually worth its
weight in diamonds. It is like a
spiders film, and is woven in a "lost"
pattern. The loss of patterns was a
severe check to lace-making in France
and Brussels, and came about in curl
ous way. Before the French Revolu-
ton whole villages supported them
selves by lace-making, and patterns
were handed down from one generation
to another. They were valuable heir
looms, for the most-celebrated weavers
had as many orders as they could fill in
a lifetime, for it was tedious work. But
they were bound by an oath. taken on
the four gospels, to work only for cer-
tain dealers. When the reign of terror
began all business of the sort was inter-
rupted for a time, for the "aristocrats"
filled the tumbrils and crowded the gull
lotine, and the revolutionists were too
busy driving them there to think of
purple and fine linen" When the
storm subsidized the dealers and workers
were far apart; some dead, some lost,
some escaped to other lands, and such
of the women as remained were bound
by the oath to work for but one. And
this oath, in spite Of Robespierre's doc
trines, was held by the poorest of
them to be binding, and there are in
stances where they suffered actual want
rather than forfeit their word. Some,
however, taught their children and
grandchildren, and many patterns were
in this way preserved; but some Of the
daintiest and finest were never recov-
cred, and-to make long story short
Mrs. Cookies was woven in one of these
last named. Washington Capital.
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LESANIrT IN THE UNITED srATEs

IESANITY IN THE UNITED STATES.
After all the recent talk about the in
crease of insanity in this country, it is
encouraging to learn that we are not so
crazy as some other nations. At the
late meeting of the National Association
for the Protection of the Insane and the
Prevention of Insanity it was shown our
insane number about 63, 900, or to TT
of the population. The ratio in En-
gland is to $50, part due, perhaps, to
the more thorough separation of the in
sane from the general population. By
sections the ratio is in this country In
New England, to 5S9; Middle States,
l to 600; Western States, 1 to S5I:
'uthern States, to l, 100. The ratio
which we may look forward in the
uture is, in the opinion of DR. c. T.
Dana In New England, to !, N.>t,
to 600; South, l to 800. III 1855. = re
were seventy-four State and thirty -four
private asylums. The cost of MAIN
tanning them was $12,OOO,QOO a year.
The needs of the insane are want of
room in asylums, separation Of acute
and chronic patients and epile .,tics, i'm
provements in the laws of commitment.
more amusement and work for patients,
and separation of State asylums from
political influence, Scientific A9oeyi-
can.
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"PooR man." exclaimed the uooo
Samaritan, feeling for his loose change
and depositing quarter in the tramp's
extended palm; show my heart bleeds
for you. You will go and get something
to eat now?" "Not immediately" an
swered the grateful wanderer; "I stole
bottle of whisky this morning, and
I've been begging all day to try and get
money enough to buy corkscrew. y
Brooklyn Eagle.
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revolving emery wheels, and withdrawn
neatly and smoothly pointed, ready for
use. They are then packed in paste
board boxes, each containing 100 pen
cils, and these boxes in turn are packed
for shipment in wooden boxes contain
ing 100 each, OF 10000 pencils in a ship
pingbox. Nearly all the work is done
by boys, and the cost therefore is light.
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In that part of the United States
ceded by Mexico at the close of
the Mexican war, gold and silver
to the value of 100000 have
been received. The customs from
ports thus ceded have been $780,
100000 in excess of the cost of
collection. In twelve years California
has produced 34O,OOO,000 bushels of
wheat, large portion of which has
been shipped from the State.
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Prof. Martel, a foreign savant, tells how
the French peasants escape conscription.
They refrain from going to bed for two
or three nights, walk much with bags of
sand on their shoulders, and diminish
their height so as to be under the regu-
lation limit. The effect, of course, is
bad for their health, but better that
than be butchered.
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YAR1ATIoNs OF THE HUMAN BODY

VARIATIONS OF THE HUMAN BODY.
The human body is longer on rising
in the morning than at any other time
during the day. The reason is that the
muscles are relaxed, and the pressure,
incident to sleeping posture, helps to
spread them out. There Is considera-
BILE decrease in height from long stand
ing. Our shop girls are thus stunted
and partially deformed from being on
their feet all day-a cruel and savage
outrage. The squat forms of many for
eigners come from being learned, while
too young, to stand on chairs, and thus
walk while the muscles are tender. The
mothers do tLis that they may work in
the fields or at home without hindrance.
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NAPLES has about as many people as
Chicago, and Milan rather more than
Baltimore; Turin and Palermo would
rank With Cincinnati, and the Eternal
City has population of 800, ,467.
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PET NAMES-

He" May I call you Revenge
She" Why?"
He" Because Revenge is Sweet. -"
She" Certainly you may; provided,
though, you will let me call you Venge-
ance."
He" And why would you call me
Vengeance?"
She-"Because Vengeance is mine. >"
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IT is now the style to paint your man.
BILE mantels in imitation of wood,

A GOOD way to remove dust from a
carpet is to fasten damp cloth over the
broom; with this the dust may be liter
ally taken up. This will be found use
full in the sick-room, and also in any
room where there are many small arti-
cles to catch dust. 1t brightens carpet
to wipe it off in thisway, even after the
usual sweeping has been done.
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WHEN the firm of Calvert g. Co.,
London brewers, temporarily suspend.
ed in 1858, with an Indebtedness of over
100000, but yet larger assets, they
returned among these latter $50 public
houses bound to take no other beer than
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A PAR1s1AN genius has invented

4 PARIsIAN genius has invented q
method of making horse step high.
He fastens pair of magnifying srecta-
cles to their brides. The sticks and
pebbles appear enormously magnifed,
and the horses throw their feet up tre-
mendously to avoid these imaginary OBJ
stacles.
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THE NEWSPAPER rs IN EDUCATOR.
The newspaper-the universal itera-
ture of our peoples itself becoming
library of knowledge and art. No man
could read habitually even one of our
chief new spapers without an immense
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1T is said that Lord Harrington was
once reproached for yawning visibly in
the middle of one of his own speeches,
as Under-Sseretary of War, and replied
that he could not help it, because it was
SO dull.
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THERE are now only thirty-six estab-
ishments in Cologne each selling the
true and only genuine eau. In 1929
there were sixty.
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IT takes seven years for an alligator to
grow to that point where his hide is
worth So. 1t is more profitable to be
calf.