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MISCELLANEOUS.

Yellow fever has broken out at Quay
mas, Mexico.
Because of the revenue-stamp tax
1--WE Mexican States have proclaimed war
against President Gonzales.
The Manitoba Legislature has passed
resolutions rejecting the Dominion Govern
ments terms, aud has passed n measure pro-
viding for direct taxation for Government
purposes. Lieut. Gov. Eorquay IN prorogu-
ing the Legislature said that tho action of the
Legislature in reference TO the Dominion
Governments terms was unpleasant but un-
avoidable.
The value Of the produce exported
from New York last week was So, 264, 900.
At the meeting of the General AS
sembly of the United Presbyterian Church, at
st. Louis, It was decided to take no action on
the subject of musical instruments In the
church. The anti-organist section of the
meeting protested against this, and meet
ing has been held at which It has been do
cided to call a convention OF nnt-organ con-
gregations at xenia, Ohio, when the question
Of seeding from the present organization
will be discussed.
At an auction sale in Cincinnati, the
Hcspe-Jowna, was knocked down to Edgar M.
Johnson for $4,000.
During May fires in the United
States destroyed property valued at ss.coO,-
900, and for the Ave months OF 1884 the Ere
lossce have reached $40, Tso, 600.
For the year ended March 81 there
were deposited In Now Hampshire savings
banks s43, 900, 900. Tho tar on the banks this
year amounts to sal5,000.
Bradstreet's Commercial Agency re-
ports general Improvement in business
throughout the country, being the first ga
in trnde noted since the panic among the waii
street speculstors
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An Inquisitive Girl.

Two seats distant on the opposite
side of the car is young woman in a
blush cast of dress. She has been
watching me with dying curiosity,
and few minutes ago she came across,
ostensibly to play with the little girl.
From this ooign of vantage she tried to
look over my shoulder to see what
was writing. but got my back up, and
she couldn't look over that. She went
back to her seat with disappointed
tone of countenance, and is now telling
great many things to fat woman.
She is n loud-voiced young woman,
and her hair isn't combed pretty. Her
face is fat and freckled, and when she
laughs at one of her own remarks,
which she frequently does, her chin
goes back and is utterly lost in the dim
confines of her neck. Every few minutes
she throws one arm up for the purpose
of capturing struggling lock of hair,
and, as this is an operation fraught
with much perplexity, she lends it aid
by nervously contracting her forehead
until its wrinkles look like railroad
map of Illinois. As have intimated,
she is loud-voiced, and her converse
ton is audible. Distinctly so-to the
whele ear. She is the loud talker who
is met with on every train. Oh, how
her tongue does run and run and run !!
Were you ever on the New York
and New England 2" she asks the fat
woman. She knows il all. this young
woman does, and she doesn't care who
knows it. Poor fat woman She be-
longs to some remote crossroads, and
abe doesn't know the New York and
New England Railroad from the two
buttons on the back of President Ar
thurs coat. She feebly murmurs some
negative reply.
Its an elegant read cries the
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1884-06-12
Hints About Letter.Writlng.

As Mrs. Glass said of hare soup,
First catch your hare" in writing
letter first have something to say. Life
is too busy. in these hurried days, for
time to be wasted in the platitudes even
of politeness. A letter should have
real cause-some social or friendly
duty to discharge, some business ques-
ton to ask or answer, some opinions to
interchange, or tidings to communicate.
Then, having good reason for writ
ing, comes the secondary question Of
how to do it.
Most of the transient fashions for
colored or decorated paper are unsafe
Eccentricity is unwise. If person
could afford to give up life to the pur-
suit of fashion, she might succeed in
following its caprices successfully; but,
for people who have something else to
do than to catch every within of mo-
ment, and pursue it just far enough,
and not too far, the safest stationary is
good, white paper, with envelopes to
match. stationery thick enough not to
reveal its secrets to outside readers
and of that good style which is insured
by plainness. Simplicity is the one
thing that cannot be ridiculous.
Then, as to ink-to use good black
ink almost amounts to a social duty.
Who has not felt that he would have
foregone letter rather than weary
over pale pages in some blind hand
writing, no matter how eloquent those
pages might be?
And speaking of eloquence-the
temptation to be eloquent is another
foe to epistolary success. II people
only would write simply, and say that
they have pleasant memories of this or
that, instead of telling us that "beau-
tiful pictures are inscribed on the tab
lets of their memory" or that their
recollection surrounds the past with an
aureole of glory" we should be CRATE
full.
Above all. why should person who
is not Quaker, who has gone TRANQUILITY
through letter speaking of you" and
yours" suddenly, at the end, become
"Thine Truly"9
We remember letter once written
in the veritable crisis of life, which
utterly failed to move the stony heart
to which it was addressed, because, all
through, it was IN amusing mixture of
you and thee-@You know how long
and deeply have loved thee" for in
stance-and for this reason the hard
hearted receiver was able TO put it cru
ely into the waste basket, coolly say
ing, ~No one who really felt could mix
up things in that way
This brings US back to our text that
simplicity in letter-writing is the secret
of success, and that the slightest touch
of affectation or sentimentality is az
fatal to letter as to person. Youths
Companion.
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NEWS CONDENSED.
Concise Record Of the Week


Mr.. Riddle, who was President OF the
wrecked Penn Bank, OF Pittsburgh, Is In q
critical condition OF health. He states that
tho directors were Interested In the oil pool
which caused the collapse OF tho bank; that
the fictitious accounts were opened two
years ago; and that the directors have re-
comfy appropriated $500, 900 in stock and do
posts which he left for depositors.
The Directors of the Reading Road,
sftcr numerous meetings, announced that
the coupons on the consolida ted bonds will DO
cashcd at par. They then applied TO the Cir
Quit Court for set OF receivers, and II. O.
Kelsey, Stephen N. Caldwell, Edwin NJ Lcwis.
and George Dc b. Koim were appointed in
bonds Of $500. 900 each.
Jesse Garter (colored) was hanged at
Pittsburgh for being accessory 10 a murder
He prayed and sung on the scafroid, and as
serted his Innocence.
Near Miss Nivison's Children's San
ita~ium, at Hammonton, N. j., WINS found
inoased in rude pine boxes Recently the
deatb-rate In the institution, which is n pure
ly charitable one, has been excessive, the
mauagerees asoribine IL TO the uso of Irish
moss % food. The discovery caused much
excitement and the positions OF the bodies
showed that but hasty interment was given
tho little victims Mr.. Austin Corbin, who
acts as Treasurer for the institution, says he
knows little Of it's management.
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The Father OF the Humane Society,

Henry Bergh, the philanthropist, was;
born in New York, in 1898. He re-
ceived his education at Columbia Col
lege, where he manifested considera--
BILE love for literature. He afterward
obtained some notoriety as an author
by writing drama entitled Loves
Attractions poem entitled Married
Off" and several tales and sketches.
In 1863 he was made Secretary of the.
United States Legation to Russia, and
subsequently Vice Consul. Return
ing to this country, he founded the
American Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, which was incor-
porated in 1866. This association has
grown into considerable magnitude, hav--
ing branches in most of the States and.
receiving the support of the best citi--
zens. The society endeavors to pre-
vent cruelty to all kinds of animals by
securing the passage and enforcement
OF laws to accomplish that object. 1t
also takes into consideration things
which pertain to the health of the PEP
pie, such rs purity of meat, milk, etc.
As n minor illustration of its good
work, few years ago sportsmen wero
accustomed TO SHOOT pigeons at shoot
ing matches; but ~ an effort of the Hu.
name Society glass balls have been suly
stituted. Inter Ocean.
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WESTERN.

The steamship Yaquina reached va
suina, Ore, and with full cargo had no diff
ficulty in reaching the wharf. The event
has caused rejoicing throughout Central and
Eastern Oregon.
In Detroit, Mrs. Laura Schulz was
found in her night-dress on the sidewalk with
her throat cut but still living. Her husband
WINS detained for two hours, and released for
lack of evidence against him. She recovered
consciousness and held a long private inter
view with her husband, showing that the
case was one OF attempted suicide on account
OF family troubles.
Lieutenant Rice, an army Quarter
master, walked or car platform near
Mexico Missouri, while In q somnambullstio
condition, and was instantly killed.
The knights of Pythias uniformed
rank) prize drill mt Indianapolis, open 10 the
world, was won by the Lafayette Qnd.) Dr.
vision. Capt. Mitchell. of the same division,
got the special prize for best commander.
Excelsior. Kiralfy Brothers latest
spectacular production, continues 10 draw
crowded houses to Mcvicker's Theater, Chi
cago, nightly. The piece consists entirely of
ballet and pantomime, and is mounted in a
lavish manner. Hundreds of people are en-
pioyed upon the stage, an their clever
manipulation. the bright costumes, and the
quick transformation of scenes, serve 10
make brilliant and dazzling performance.
II win hold the stage at this theater for sew
eral weeks to come.
Mrs. Long, of Princeton, Wis, who
murdered lad named whittemore because
he knew of her guilty intimacy with his
fnther, has entered a plea OF guilty, and
been sentenced 10 State Prison for life.
Gen. II. b. Bearce, n well-known
mining man, was fatally shot by Samuel
Derry, near Lcadville, Col.
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SOUTHERN.

Another rainstorm has swept through
the eastern section of Texas, embracing an
area as large rs Illinois and Indiana. Crops
have been washed out and railway tracks and
bridges wrecked. Thousands of acres of
wheat ready for harvesting have been
Frustrated, and cotton has been completely
ruined. The BRACES, Trinity, and Sabine
Rivers are swollen TO an extent never known
before, the former stream being out Of its
banks for distance Of 800 miles. Tho loss
to agricultural interests will reach hundreds
of thousands Of dollars.
The exposition and fair managers, in
session at st. Louis, considered scheme for
holding worlds exposition In 1892, TO COM
memorate the discovery of America, and
recommended st. Louis as the place in which
tho fair should be held
At st. Louis John Stanton in fit of
jealousy threw gobletful of sulphuric acd
over his wife as she lay in bed, burning out
hor eyes, and causing fatal injuries.
Mrs. Wieseman, the wife OF Water
town wis., merchant, after living happily
with her husband for forty years hanged
herself without any known reason.
Col Tom Buford, Of Kentucky. who
killed. Judge Elliott was returned 30 tho
Central Lunatic Asylum mt Louisville. He
escaped from that plaoe year ago. He
presented a pitiablc spectacle, and probably
will not live long.
II is understood that the Directors
OF the Louisville and Nashville Road have
boon requested 10 resign, In order that lend-
Ing stockholders may be given the work Of
reorganization.
Ed Eli and William Freesrant, both
negroes, were hanged for murder at Clinton,
Ia, and OrangeburG, s. c., respectively.
William Shotwell, of Harrison, Ark.
was caught in the act OF firing q store,
and Is believed 10 have caused several recent
blazes. reward OF 1900 was paid for his
detection, and he lies in jail to avert n lynch
ing.
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A Dissertation on Marriage.

To young people who contemplate
marrying, We specially address our
selves. Much has been written and
spoken upon this subject; much re-
mains to be said. Advice has been pro-
fuse, ill-timed and contradictory. Some
would have you select as partners for
life persons of opposite temperaments-
the phlegmatic the nervous, and the
respondent the sanguine. Others with,
equal apparent interest in you, have
chosen companions for you with dis
positions similar to your own.
Marriage is a lottery-it is the few
who draw prizes; this not because of
their scarcity, but on account of in
ability TO make the proper selection.
There are many causes operating to de-
ceive in regard to the value of each
prize-chief among which is a natural
depravity that induces every candidate
for matrimony to try to appear better
than he or she really is. For every
person-making proper allowance for
the disparity in number of the sexes
there is some other person of the OPP
posite sex who would make congenial
companion, fitting counterpart, a
elp-meet-if these two could be brought,
together.
Young people "fall in love" without
thinking of the consequences. They
are captivated by pretty face or a.
handsome form, and give way to the
desire for possessing it,until that desire
becomes an over-mastering passion,
which generally eliminates in marriage
They do not consider that this beautiful
face or form may be altogether unsuitable
to them; that while with them it is q.
passion it may be only convenience
for the other.
Marriage is the natural state of man,
but he who is intending to marry should
look before he leaps" He should see.
to it that the woman of his choice is.
adapted to the position which he ex-
poets her to occupy as his wife. If she
moves in a higher station in life than he
can place her, the chances are she will
become dissatisfied with her lot in the
lower level. If, on the other hand, she,
is not suited by birth or education for
high position such as he holds, or ex-
poets to reach, though she possess the
beauty of peri, yet would her igno-
rance be a continual "stumb]ing-stone.
and rock of offense."
In discussing the subject of marriage,
how much better it would be if both,
lovers confessed their faults and their
ignorance of the various duties of house
keeping and business, rather than try
to conceal them and to make the i'm
preston that they are well acquainted
with all the duties of the parts they are
expected to perform. Such course.
might prevent few marriages; but it
would also avert much after trouble
Health and Home.
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knower. "but they're awfully strict
dog in my arms, and the conductor
came along and said I'd have to carry
him into the baggage Car. 1 said no..
but he grabbed him by the collar L
screamed and he bit him-my dog bit.
the conductor-and then he swore-
the conductor did-and my dear Dandy
that was the dogs name-grabbed
hold of his-his cloths-the conduc-
tors clothes-and down they both went
between two seats. Then the brake
man came running in and kicked him in
the side-kicked my dog in the side
and he yelled-the conductor did-and
he grabbed him by the hind leg and
hauled him out mean, of course,
that the brakeman grabbed my dog by
the hind leg. Wasn't it awful?~
could see that the fat woman was.
tired, and pitied her, but presently
saw her slyly take some cotton batting
from her sachel, and, when the know
ing young lady wasn't looking, dexter
ously plug up her ears. Then she bent.
smiling countenance upon her loqua-
cious neighbor, and gave q sigh of re-
llcl Us l. IchiiZcu bhos VIC ioc "Ohioii
was safe.
at is astonishing how the warm
weather holds on" pursued the loud
voice girl, while the fat woman beamed
benevolently and heard never a word,
at is fine weather for poor folks, and Pm
sure nobody is more pleased than 1;
don't you think so? This cool weather
is nice, especially for skating Kinks,
but of course you don't care for those,
do you? l was reading that q very
open winter is predicted. but / don't,
know that 1 care any way" (here she
dropped every vestige of q comma),
"for I've finished my cloak and shall
have fur-lined circular soon as snow
flies Harper's says circular will be
worn as much as ever this winter
mother wants me to have one with
quilted lining but said give me fur or
give me nothing what horrible murder
that was in New Hampshire seems as il
we were getting worse than the Far
West think everybody who kills any
body ought to be hung did you get that
bonnet in Portland 1 have concluded
to wear my feather turban another"
But here, by merciful dispensation
of Providence, we reach Boston, and 1
am going to get out of this car just as
quick as 1 can. --Rockland Courier.
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@None except those in costume can
enter" said masquerader to an old
ballroom.
~Nonsense / am too old to put on
the FOOLS cap and bells" exclaimed the
old man.
isn't that your wife, that young
woman there in the light costume ?"
asked the first speaker.
why, to be sure, it is"
@Then you deedn't be afraid to put
on the cap and bells, for they will fit
you admirably" returned the young
man
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Mrs. Post, the wife of the Delegate
from Wyoming Territory, where, as is
well known. universal suffrage prevails,
was asked by a lady friend if she had
ever voted.
~Oh, yes, many times" Mrs. Post re-
piled.
Then her curious friend asked: did
you ever serve on jury?"
"Two or three times" was the an
swer
This only reused the lady's curiosity
still more. Were you ever on jury
when person was being tried for muir
dor and the person was convicted?"
Mrs. Post looked little confused at
this question, but finally relieved her
friends excit ement by answering this
in the affirmative also.-Washington
letter.
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FOREIGN.

Oscar Wilde, the Anglo-Irish aesthetic
and patron Of the sunnowcr, was married to
Miss Lloyd. the daughter OF Dublin lawyer.
The evangelical Christians of India
and the Irish Protestants have earnestly pc
titioned Moody AMI sankey 10 conduct evan-
gciical services In those countries.
The dynamiters residing in Paris as
cert that the authors of tho recent explosions
in London have escaped from England and
are now safe.
Moody, the evangelist, announced at
his revivs' services IN London. that the health
of his colleague, Mr.. sankey, had again col
lapscd and that he would sail for the United
States shortly.
The Marx Lane Express, in its
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weekly review OF me british grade trade
says the outlook for tho wheat Drop b more
than usually PROMISING. Tho sales of I'm
Glish wheat last week amounted to 5o,35l
quarters 1t 37s I'd, against $500 quarters at
AIS I'd for the corresponding woek last year.
Prince Bismarck, while stopping ut
q hotel in Friedrichsruhe. was tesred and
hooted by the crowd until he grew Wild with
rage and sent for the police.
A fire in Liverpool destroyed 5000
bales of cotton In Zerega's warehouse. The
aquarium In Bishops Gate, London, with
several lions and bears, was also burned
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woman's Work Among the Sick.

Little things mean q great deal in
the sick room. will you have an or
ange or fg?' said DIR. James Jackson
to fine little boy now grown up to
goodly stature, and whom may be for
tunate enough to recognize among my
audience of to-day. A fig answered
Master Theodore, with alacrity. No
fever therep said the good doctor. 'or
he would certainly have said an or
ange.'"
Now, it is in just these little, unim-
portant, all-important matters that a
good nurse is of incalculable aid to the
physician. And the growing conviction
of the Importance of thorough training
of young women as nurses is one of the
most hopeful signs of medical advance
ment. So much has been done and is
doing that the days of the Sairy Camps
and Betsy Priggs are numbered. What
is there, in the hour of anguish, like the
gentle presence, the quiet voice, the
thoroughly trained and skillful hand of
the woman who was meant by nature
and has been taught by careful disci-
pline to render those services which
money tries to reward, but only graft
tude can repay? l have always felt
that this was rather the vocation Of
women than general medical, and es-
pecially surgical, practice.
/ have often wished that disease could
be hunted by its professional antagon-
lists in couples-a doctor and doctors
quick-witted wife making Joint visit
and attacking the PATIENT mean the
patients malady, of course-with their
united capacities. For l am quite sure
that there is natural clairvoyance in
q woman which would make her as
much the superior of man in some
particulars of diagnosis as she certainly
is in distinguishing shades of color
Many q suicide would have been pre-
vented if the doctors wife had visited
the victim the day before it happened
She would have seen in the merchants
face his impending bankruptcy while
her stupid husband was prescribing for
dyspepsia and indorsing his note; she
would recognize the lovelorn maiden
by an ill-adjusted ribbon-a line in the
features-a droop in the attitude, a
tone in the voice which means nothing
to him, and so the brook must be
dragged tomorrow. Oliver Wendell
Holiness
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Out in the dark, out IN the night,
Lost In the chill and gloom.
know that the moon IL shining now
Into my dariing's room.
Over her hair. the long dark hair.
Shedding a calm, sweet light
Over her eyes, her soft brown eyesi
Goodnight, little love-good- night
I wished the wish of my heart to- Might
As saw falling star
passionate prayer-ah. love. my love-
SO near and yet, q, 80 farl
cloud passed over the stormy skies.
Hiding the moon from sight;
cloud II over my lonely life
Good might, little love-good- night
moaning among the trees tonight.
A step that can never come
But, better far, she's safe, know
Safe Ina her happy home.
Only love that she threw away,
A track on the waters white,
breaking heart on the outward bound
Goodnight, love OF mine-good- night
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WASHINGTON.

The colored people of Washington
indulgcd in run on the National Savings
Bank. Payment was promptly made to de-
posftors, and the bank officers stated that
they would not take advantage of the thirty
day clause.
The House Committee on Elections
recommend that the various contestants aud
The members whose seats were contested. no
matter what the result, be allowed sums
varying from q, 800 to $1,000 each.
Gen. o. +. Babcock, who was Gen.
Grants Private Secretary. Col. Levi p.
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AN old minister in Ohio seemed rath-

or opposed TO an educated ministry.
Said he: why, my brethering. every
young man who is going TO preach
thinks he must be off to some college
and study lot OF Greek and Latin.
All nonsense! All wrongl What did
Peter and Paul know about Greek ?
Why, not q word, my brethering. Mol
Peter and preached in the plain old
English, and soil L"-Christias at
Work.
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NEW YORK has newly formed Sunday
Society to promote observance Of the day.