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WHOLE NO. 1O,460.
The Song of Birds.


With all this strong tendency on the
part of birds to vary their music, how is
it that there is still such degree of uni
formity, 50 that, as we have said, every
species may be recognized by its notes?
Why does every red-ered vireo sing in
one way and every white-eyed vireo in
another? Who teaches the young chip
per 10 trill and the young linnet to war
bic? In short, how do birds come by
their music? Is il all 4 matter of IN
stinct, inherited habit, or do they learn
1t The answer seems TO he that birds
sing As children ;alk-hv simple imita-
tion. Nobody imagires that the infant
is born with language printed upon
Ms brain. The father and mother may
never have known word of any tongue
except the English, but il the child is
brought up to hear only Chinese
he VIII intallibiy speak that and nothing
else. And careful experiments have
shown that the same Is true of birds.
Taken FROM the nest lust after they
leave the she'll, they invariably sing, not
their own so-called natural song but the
song of their foster parents; provided, of
course, that this is not ANYTHING beyond
their physical capacity. The notorious
house sparrow Tour English SPARROW, in
hls wild or seNi-domeStiC state, never
makes musical sound; but if he is taken ,
IN hand early enough he NAV he taught to
sing, So it is said, nearly as well Is the
canary. Berhstein relates that a Paris
clergyman had two az these sparrowS
whom ne had taught 70 speak. and, among
other things, 80 reC!te several of the shorter
commandments, and the narrative goes on
10 say that II was sometimes very comical,
when disputing over their food, to hear
one Cravely admonish the other: Thou
shalt not stealr ltwould he interesting
to know,why creatures thus gifted do not
sing of their own notion. With their
amiability and sweet peaycahlcness they
ought To be caroling the whole year round.
Birds sing by imitation. il Is true, but Is
4 rule they initiate only the notes which
they hear during the first few weeks after
they are Matched. One of Mr. Barring
tons linuets for example, after being eju-
Gated under titlarl, was put into room
with two birds of his own species, where
he heard them sing freely every dav for
three months. He made no attempt to
learn anything from them, however, but
kept on singing what the titlarll had
'duSlit iiIHl, iuitc UNCONSCIOUS OF any thlnB
singular or unpatriotie in such course.
This law, that impressions received during
the immaturity Of the powers become uu-
alterable habits Of the after life, is perh ps
the most momentous of all the laws in
whose power we find ourselves. Sometimes
we are tempted to call it cruel. But if it
were annulled this would be strange
world. What hurly-lurIy we should
have among the birds There would be
no mere telling them by their notes.
Thrushes and jays, wrens and chicl1adees,
fuches and warblers, all would be singing
one grand medley.-[ Bradford Torrey in
the Atlantic.
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\ Washington correspondent of the st.
Louis Post Dispatch writes as follows: The
recent resignation of | nited States Judge
with the frank statement that the salary
of his position would not warrant him in
longer holding ii, calls some attention to
the salaries paid officials of the Govern
ment as compared with those of other
countries Our Minister to France gets
Sl7,000 England pays her Minister to
France S50,000 and gives him palace to.
live in. We pay our Minister to England
$l7,500 England pays her Minister to
Washington $50, GOO year, and gives him
a great mansion fully equipped and fur
nished, and $4,000 year for entertain
ments. England even pays her Minister
TO Persia $25,000 a year and gives him
a palace. She even pays her repre-
sentative TO Greece more than we
pay our highest officers. We pay
our Chief Justice Sl0,500 a year,
and our Associate Justice $4,000.
Chief Justice Coleridge gets $4,000.
The other eight Judges OF his Court get
$4,000 year each. Even the English
Consul at New York receives salary of
over $4,000 4 year. General Sheridan
gets something like $4,000 a year; Cen
eral Wolseley gets about $4,000 The
Clerk of the House of Representatives re-
ceives $4,000 a year The Clerk of the
lower House of Parliament in England
receives about ST., 600 year. The Queen
of England, for herself alone, receives
every year from the English Government
over $3.000,000 for life Our President
receives $50000 year for four years. The
Prince Of Wales draws every year 100000
from the English treasury. The Princess
of Wales, for pin money, gets $4,000
year; Princess Louise (Marchioness of
Lone) gets SS0,000 year, and Prince
Leopold about the same sum. Then comes
the Duchess Of Cambridge, $4,000; the
Princess of Teck, 100000 the Duke of
Cambridge, 100000, and any number of
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The Grace of SeIf-Loye.

The Jewish law made selflove the
standard, and love to ones neightor con-
form to it; and Christ commended the
law. Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thy
self, he said This law may be put converse
ly, andit would be equally true: Thou shalt
love thyseif as thy reighbor. \ proper
regard to ones own interests is Christian
duty it is an unpraised grace Mr.. Jelly
by is as far from the Christian ideal as
Martin Ih!zz!ewit. There are men whose
horizon is too narrow, and there are men
whose horizon is too broad. There are
men who cannct look hoyond the fence that
inclosc- their own little lot and there are
men who cannot see the weeds that crow
in their own little lot because they are
always looking over the fence at what lies
Ley0:id. The provernial shoemah er whose
children 90 barefoot, and the proverbiaI
minister whose sons grow up wild because
he is so busy looking after his parish that
he has no time TO attend to his own chill
dren, lack the grace Of self-love. He that
provides not for his own household, says
the Good Book, hath denied the faith, and
is worse than an infdel. On the same
principle it requires the Bishop to be one
that ruleth well his own house. If ne can
not take care of his own family. what busi-
ness has he with diocese?
Women especially need an education to
the unpraised grace and neglected duty of
self-love. Self-sacri6ce may become per-
nicious to him who practices it, and to him
for whom it is praeticed. The mother
ought not to dress her daughters better
than herself. She ought not to spare them
their share of household duties by taking
them all upon herself When the mother
sweeps, dusts and cooks, while her daugh-
ter plays tennis in the yard or reads novels
on the piazza both mother and daughter
sin; one has too little self-love the other
too much. Many mother drives herself
into premature grave. or, what is worse,
needless invalidism, by her lack of self
love. She neither eats, sleeps, rests, nor
exercises enough. She commits needless
suicide and suicide is no better for being
slow. 1t is certain that if every one took
good care of himself, every one would be
well taken care of and If every man took
good care of his own family, there would
be no pauper families to be dependent on
the charity of others. Live and let
live is good motto; and the first clause
is as important as the second. "The lus-
bandman that laboreth must be first par
taIer of the fruits; consider what say,
and the Lord give thee understanding IN
all things Christian Union.
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A score Of merchants, brokers, publish
ers and reporters stood in circle around q
wooden box fastened to the wall of the
| second story of 81 Green street, and listened
to the performance OF the box, which was
a new acoustic telephone, operated without
the aid Of electricity. 4 large wooden
disk, with q mouthpiece two and a half
inches in diameter, was fastened to the
front of the box, and across the mouthpiece
was stretched a diaphragm of wooden
basketworl1. \ non-insulated wire ran
from nickel-plate key on the exterior of
the basketwork across the street, and four
blocks up town to companion talking
box.
"Halloa, there, let me hear you sing"
said 4 handsome man with brown mus
tache, who stepped out of the group around
the telephone. He said this in a whistler
that was inaudible to other gentlemen
standing less than three feet away.
"All right" bawled the voice at the
other end of the line. "Fll sing" and
half a second later the notes of the
Sailors Sweetheart" foated from the
box SO distinct that it sounded as if some
body in the next room was singing. The
notes of a mouth harmonicon and an or
dinary metal whistle were transmitted
with equal clearness, and when the oper-
tor4blew his breath on the diaphragm the
listener at the other end detected at once
what he had done He blew horn that
produced an echo like fog alarm, called
out fractions and stock figures clearly, and
closed the test with a swelling Hurrah
for Ben Butler"
"The secret lies in the diaphragm" said
inventor A. A. Knudson 1T is made of
an imported wood Four layers of it,
woven together, are screwed to the mouth
piece disk, and then the telephone box is
complete. The wire used to-day is made
of phospher-bronze, but ordinary steel
wire can be used. 1t requires no insula-
ton, because no electricity is used. The
diaphragm is so sensitive that it can repro
duce the vocal vibrations distinctly even
at the distance of two miles. Aspirates
and sounds that it is impossible to trans
nit over any known telephone are easily
reproduced over this diaphragm. u New
York Sun.
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Frlghtfui Tragedy in Philadelphia.


1t has been claimed by many anglers
in this country that the pike or pickerel
is 4 fish worse than useless, and they urge
that its complete determination would be
desirable. The charge against the fish is
that its voracity is out of all proportion to
its value as either game or food. It.
hunger is chronic, It's tastes ichthyophagic
Il disdains worms, snails and such small
deer, and seeks for trout and other choice
fish, which it finds not only toothsome.
but because Of their size ''fllin' as well.
The pixies jaw and stomach is so capacious
that it is not at all unusual to find these
fish slowed away inside of each other like
Il NEST of tubs" each trile larger than
the one which nestles serenely within it.
These well-known qualities of the pike
cause anglers to dread its introduction
into waters which abound with trout
or other game fish. In New York the
law forbids the planting of fish, which.
however, is highly esteemed in Europe
and even in some parts of this country.
In Colorado they have found new use
for pickerel. \ letter recently came to
this Office in which the writer said: 1--WE
are desirous of procuring from one to
three thousand pike or pckerel for the
purpose of placing in small lake This
lake is the principal source of our ice sup
ply, and it is full of water dogs "a sala-
maDder-like form which freeze in the ice
and become very troublesome We think
that if we put the pickerel in the lake
they will soon dispose of the dogs and
keep our water free from them
We trust that the desired pickerel may
he secured and that the maligned fish will
be given an opportunity to show that they
were not made in vain. II surely must be
disagreeable to a Colorado gentleman, when
about to partake of his favorite beverage,
to discover that the ice water which has
been placed before him to temper his
nectar with, contains horrible lizard
form of "water dog" The innocent
stranger may well be filled by a sickening
uncertainty as to whether he really sees a
monster frozen in the ice before his ewes.
or if it be not 4 premonitory symptom that
he will soon behold vet more gruesome
forms and find them in his boots. Of
course the old residents have no annovalsce
OF this sort, they have seen the evil " dog"
and know better than to take water in
theirs but instead bite a cracker to allav
the irritation Of the straight" beverage.
With the Introduction Of the pickerel.
let Us hope the loathsome water dog "
may be eaten up and exterminated. Then
the people of Colorado may rejoice at 4
revival of the fashion of drinking water :;
and so the much-abused pike may prove
powerful agent in the good cause Of tenn
perance.- Forest and Stream.
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Mountaineers in North Carolina and
Tennessee have made a great deal of
money digging the roots of the ivy. Ten
and twelve dollars per ton is paid for them
at the railroad stations. They are shipped
North to be turned into door and bureau
knobs, and for inlaid and veneering work
These roots have been considered nuisance
in clearing land for the plow, but now will
sell for far more than the price for which
the land could have been bought two
wears ago.
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PASSENGERS FROM THE EAST.
[srEcIALl.Y TELhRArHED To WEE RECORD -uNIo,

lSPECIALIY TELNGRAPHkD TO THE KECOKD-UNlUN.
MoJAvE, october 2ith.-The following over
land passengers passed Mojave october 9th, tc
arrive in San Francisco tomorrow II. T.
Newell and wife, j. NJ. Green, Los Angeles; II
Dalton, New York; J. 7. Horne San Francisco
w Bird and wife, New York; J. iolewher, Ari
IONA; Louis Wawrixt, San Francisco; A. W
Boggs and wife, Riverside, Cal; Eugene Thorn
wood and wife San Francisco; A. N. Bowman
Los Angeles; Isaac E. Blake, San Francisco
Mrs Lippincott Cincinnati o.; F. A. Frank
San Francisco; Mrs. E. NJ. Dams, Grand Rapids
Mich; Mrs. NJ. B. Kellogg, D. NJ. Dannenbaum
San Francisco; J. d. Fish, Los Angeles.
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The new Japan NAPLES are now creating
a GOOD deal of interest as hardy plants for
lawns. They are perfectly hardy, and
grow TO hight of from six to nine feet.
They possess not only the extraordinary
merit of having their foliage colored with
the hues of autumn the entire season, but
the delicate formation of their leaves gives
many ef them the appearance of the most
fantastic ferns. Nearly every known shade
of color is found in the leaves.-[C Chicago
Journal
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the railroad millionaire rheumatism in three treatments
A MOTHERS JOY.

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TO another household Respectfully, MRS OTIS BIABoN,
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He seldom Ives frugally who lives by
chance Hope is always liberal, and they
that trust her promises make little scruple
of reveling to-day on the promises of to-
morrow.-[ johnson.
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strychnine, then shot his victim twice, both
balls taking effect in the head. The timely
arrival of physician saved Sutherland 5
life, and he was brought here to-day for
safe-keeping.
Frightfui Tragedy in Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA, October 24th.-James L..
Clayton AGED Is. this evening visited his
friend. James S. Baker, aged Il, at the lat
tcF's home, near Seventeenth and Brown
streets, in this city Bakers parents left
them alone III the dining-room, the father
going 70 his store and the mother starting
up stairs. She had gone but a moment
when three pistol shots startled her, and
running back she found both boys on the
floor, both weltering in blood, and bull
dog revolver an ClaYtonS hands. Baker
had two wounds in the head and was dead
Clayton had one bullet in his head, and
died very shortly afterwards The boys
were fast friends
Weather in New York.
New YORK, October 2ith.-The weather
continues cold. The highest and lowest
temperature to-day, 49' and So. No rain
has fallen, though promised
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BUFFALO. October 24th.-The arrival of
Ex-Governor 81. John in the city to-day
was an event Il more than ordinary inter
est to the temperance people of Buffalo. At
. o'clock Governor St. John appeared on
the balcony of the Mansion House here,
where he was introduced rs the future
President of the United States" He was
received with cheers, and simply made a
bow to the large number ofpeople in front
of the hotel. Later procession was formed
and he was escorted to Music Hall Here
he made only short speech calling atten-
ton to the concern with which the Repub-
ican party viewed the Prohibition canvass,
and denied that they were being sustained
by Democratic money.
The meeting at Music Hall tonight was
very large every part of the auditorium,
seating nearly 5000 persons, being packed
Governor St. John was received with tu-
multuous cheers and the futtering of white
handserchiefs. He appeared much ia
tgued. His speech was devoted in part to
a reply to the attack made upon him by
the Buffalo Express. He concurred in the
objection raised by the Republicans that
there Is no need of a third party. He
could not understand why there is
any need for pro-icense parties
He charged the dominant party with
being responsible for all the misery
engendered by $4,000 saloons. In regard
to the tariff, and the 500 1000, 900 raised an
nually thereby for Government expenses.
he said that if the $1,000, 100000 which
passed over the bars of the country re-
mained in the pockets of the people, we
could afford 10 throw open our ports to the
ships of the world. He claimed to be the
only one of the Presidential candidates
now before the people who has ever bis
tered his hands with manual labor, and
therefore the only one who could address
the workingmen from their own stand
point. In closing, he told pathetic story
of Kansas woman who applied to him for
the pardon of her husband, who had killed
a man in drunken brawl, and had been
sentenced to ten years in the penitentiarv.
A large portion of the audience was moved
to tears. Three hundred dollars was col
lected during the day.
National Convention of Soldiers and Sail
INDIANAPOLIS, October 2ith.-The Ma
tional Convention of soldiers and sailors
assembled here this afternoon, in response
to call issued by General F. w. Haskell
and General Merrill. Delegates We're pres
ent representing about /, 100 organizations.
The object of the Convention is TO take
action looking TO securing pensions FOR all
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AT o AFoRNIA
Sco March Is IS
I o DR. Mac
singular service to me
II WORKED wonie within
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DANvILLE tnl.), October 24th-At II
O'Clock this morning, when Blaine left
Lafayette for Springfield, H., he was accom-
panied by q large reception committee,
who had come from Springfield to meet
him, and by several friends from Chicago.
Among them We're Joseph Medill and C. B.
Farwell. The first stop this morning, the
last in Indiana, was at Attica, where about
5000 people were around the depot. Mr.
Blaine spoke very briefly, saying it was too
late for argument, and that the time for
action was at hand No other stop was
made until the train reached Danville, H.
AT DANyILLE.
ToLoNo Ill.l, October 24th At Dan
vile there was wonderful gathering-cer-
tainly not less than 10000. There was a
stand erected near the depot, but the crowd
was 50 dense that it would have been diff
cult to reach it, so Mr.. Blaine spoke from
the rear platform of his car He said ::
After addressing audiences in what are
called doubtful States, it is both a relief
and pleasure to stand before this vast null
titude. [Great cheers. 1t was under an
Illinois man, now enshrined in history
that the Republican party won its first
great victory prolonged cheeringl, and
from that day to this Illinois has never
failed to be true to the Republican party"
[Cheers, and cries She never will Mr.
Blaine then spoke of the importance Of
looking after the Congressional districts.
IMMENSE DEMONSTRATION AT SPRINGFIELD.
SPRINGFIELD, October 24th-The Repub-
lican demonstration in this city to-day and
tonight is considered on all sides to have
been the largest political affair ever held in
any city of the State outside of Chicago
Excursion trains were run on all the roads
centering here, bringing in thousands of
people from the central and southern por-
tons of the State. A moderate estimate
places the number of strangers in the city
at not less than G0,000, including scores of
uniformed clubs, brass bands, etc The
principal stand was located on the grounds
in front of the Executive Mansion, with
another in front of the State House The
proceedings were opened by parade, in
which the various organizations present
took part, being an hour passing
a given point A feature Of
the demonstration was the presence
of thirty-eight young ladies, mounted on
white horses, and an equal number of
gentlemen on black horses. During the
afternoon speeches were made from several
stands by Gen. John A. Logan and Secre-
,tary Robert Lincoln
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New YORK, October 24tb.-A Commercinj
Washington special says: The campaign in
Virginia is now lively. Ex-Governor Hart,
of Ohio, who has been speaking in the Old
Dominion, says he never visited State
that seemed more ready or ripe for COM
plete conversion to the Republican party
than Virginia. General Malone, who he
says is standing up manfully for free bal
lot and an honest count, is socially ostra-
cized by the Bourbon aristocracy. Not
withstanding this he boldly continues the
battle
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HOME HAPPENINGS.
AN ENTHUSIASTIC WELCOME OF
BLAINE IN ILLINOIS.
Hendricks in Indiana-AR Editor
Jailed for Libel = Frost in
Tennessee-Kelly' Denial.


ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE RrcoRD-uSIos. /
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Heavy, killing Frost.

MENPHIs October 24th.-There was a
heavy, killing frost last night, the first of
the season. 1t was general throughout this
section. The damage to crops, if any. will
be very slight. Cottons in the bottom lands
only may possibly be affected by cutting
short the top growth, but the latencss of the
season debars serious injury 10 the majority
of planters.
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ANOTHER.

This is 10 certify that have nv left since child
ton of hearing sound
Dr. MaeIennGn in his Office in Block
hearing To me and my friends miracle - -
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The New York Rernblican NInddle.

New YORK, October 24th.-A conference
of the Republican leaders of the local can
vass was held tonight, and it was agreed
to determine the slate tomorrow to be
presented to the convened Republican
County Convention. John McClave and
Senator Gibbs are now spoken of as the
possible successors of Mr.. Phillips in the
nomination for Mayor. Mr. Speak also
lutely refuses TO accept the nomination for
Comptroller. and Edward Low was spoken
of as candidate for Comptroller
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NEW YORK. October 2lth.-A Mail and
E,pre2s Washington special says: John
Sherman is here Ell routc TO New England,
where he will take an active part until the
election He feels no anxiety about the
final result He thinks Ohio good for 20,
600 majority on November 4th. No
doubt strong etfolts are being made by the
Ohio Democrats TO reOrganiZe. They have
their hopes in the Prohibition and the
Butler vote to break the solid Blaine
phalanx Wilkins. a Democratic Ohio
Congressman. is also in town. He says
neither side has relaxed its efforts since the
October election.