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NEW FINDS At POMPEIL.


I visited Pompeii next day, and went
straight to the diggings. The only
wonder is that anything is ever dug up
at all the process is ridiculously slow,
even for Italy. The directors sit all day
on the rubbish heaps smoking, and doz-
ems of children file up and down with
their baskets of earth, while few idle
peasants shovel up few lazy spadefuls
at time. Still, the first saw was the
side Of dining-room, uncovered only
few days. On one side was bright
picture of cock and hens in great
state of excitement over a large basket
Of grain and cherries, oil upset-Land-
seer could not have done it better. The
fondness of the Pompeiians for birds,
beasts and fishes is very apparent, and
they always seemed to be dining. The
wealth Of cooking apparatus in the mu-
scum is astonishing. You have sauce
pans perforated with countless holes, in
most elaborate patterns-every con-
ceivable kind of boiler and caldron ;
casts for jellies representing the pros
trate hare and the sucking pig; ladies,
spoons, skewers, dishes for roasting six
eggs or dozen eggs at once, toasting-
forks, grid irons and fancy machines for
pastry and delicate confectionery, what
in Elizabeth's day were called "con-
ceits." In Pompeii itself the oil-pots
and wine amhor@ let into slabs, and Of
mosaic work of colored marble, are
among the quaintest features of the
ruined shops. I saw in another new
part fine dining-room, found three
months ago, with some of the loveliest
animal painting imaginable. The first
section of the walls all around repre-.
sented the boldest scenes under the sea
"a conger struggling with ON octopus,
shark pursuing its prey, a shoal offish
flying through the water, all glittering
and fresh. The middle section dealt
with birds and wild fowl boating, flying,
quarreling, diving; and the upper and
largest section gave fierce hunting
scenes-a horse pursued by lion, ali OK
in desert scenery sprung upon by q
tiger and all these were set in scenery
of great force, variety and character
woods, rocks, rivers and green hills.
The corridors and ante-rooms of this
house are equally rich, the walls copi'
ously vignetted with figures-dwarfs OIL
stills, street scenes, animals. In one
room there is q perfectly white sui
of marble steps in stu, belonging to 6
fountain.
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SCRNERY OF UPPER MICHIGAN.

SCENERY OF UPPER MICHIGAN.
In point OF woodland scenery the
Michigan wilderness can not compare
with the White mountains or the Adir-
ondacks. The great effective feature of
height is wanting as the elevation is
rarely more than 600 feet above the lake,
and the general contour is broken and
rolling. The northern shore is much
holder. The forest southwest of Portage
lake is more than 100 miles long, and has
escaped devastation by forest fires. 1t
extends into Wisconsin, and as far as ]
went-about fifty miles-consists prin-
cipally of hard maple. 1t is capable OF
supplying the continent with sugar.
Until some discoveries of copper are
made in it, it will probably remain one
Of the finest bodies of woodland in the
country. There are many lovely little
lakes and streams Astounding with trout
scattered through it. The eastern por-
ton contains many impenetrable swamps
overgrown with tamarack and cedar.
The western portion Of this great forest
has less of the savage and forbidding
aspect peculiar to northern woods, and is
comparatively open. The road to On
tonagon passes through it in one direc-
ton, and is barely practicable for I'M
covered wagons. 1t is worth enduring
a long railroad journey to be able to
drive forty miles Though trees with the
consciousness that you are leaving hui
man habitations farther behind you at
every step. The forest is singularly de-
void of animal life. Mile after mile is
uncheered by solitary bird. Possibly
you may chance on the fresh track of a
bear or deer. If, indeed, you have the
endurance to watch for six hours without
moving, it may be granted you to see
beaver working on his dam.
There is one short period of the June
day when northern forest loses its
wild, stern character. 1t is when the
long twilight Of the summer evenings
passes through the beautiful modifica
tions of the after-glow. The setting o
the sun is followed by the usual grayisl
light, but instead of fading gradually
into darkness the western sky for space
of ninety degrees on the horizon, and Il
height of fifteen degrees or more, be
! comes filled with soft yellow radiance
This lasts till 10 o'clock or later. A
half-past one Gun read easily. TIL
, light is evenly diffused, and there are NJ
I shadows. 1t is as mystic as moonlight
I but warmer, more kindly sympathetic
3 The cheerfulness of day is mingled witt
Y the serenity and solemnity of night
Nature speaks OF the gentle and the Low
ing in way that draws the heart to he
insensibly, and one perceives how
comes that the inhabitants of high lat
: tudes are so strongly attached to thei
, homes. johnson, Jr., in Harper
Magazine.
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roRsER AND THE sP1R1rUAL1sz.

The incident occurred at Ripon many
years ago, when spiritualism was first
taking possession of certain people.
The spiritualists used to have "seances"
almost every night, listening to commu-
nications from friends in the spirit land,
through raps and things. One day it
was announced that a noted medium
from the East would visit the town, and
the spiritualists arranged for q seance at
the stone house owned by nurseryman,
which was large enough to fill the bill.
Quitea crowdof believers, withafew unbe-
levers, gathered at the house, and after
some preliminaries the noted medium
turned down the lights and all was still.
He went into trance and was taken
possession of by the spirit of an Indian
chief who had recently died. First he
began to murmur words in the Indian
tongue, then sing, and finally he got up
and began to dance q war-dance, kick
ing the floor with his heels, yelling,
eli, ali, yah, YAH" and whooping it
up. You know how these country dogs
used to hate Indians, and how they would
bark at them when they came to town.
The nurseryman had big brindle dog
that was asleep in the kitchen adjoin-
ing the sitting-room where the seance
was taking place, and the door to the
kitchen had been left open. Towser
woke up and listened, and then got up
He evidently thought the house had
been attacked by hostile tribe, and,
feeling that they would all be scalped,
he thought he owed it to himself to save
the women and children, at least. Tow.
ser looked in the door and could see, BY
the dim light from the fireplace, the
spiritual chief just a-howling and dane.
Ing around, while the audience sitting
around seemed paralyzed with fear
That was enough for Towser, and, with
growl that fairly raised the roof, hi
jumped into the center Of the circle anG
took large mouthful of medium, in
GLIDING considerable pantaloons. III
took hold where a dog almost Away
does take hold of man, and he shool
that medium until all the Indian in hin
returned to the spirit land, and he wa
demoralized citizen. The medium
yelled murder, and the women tainted
and then the owner of the dog callet
him of, and Towser wenS back into tn
kitchen with the pants cloth in hi
teeth, looking over his shoulder as mucl
as to say, If there is any more troubl,
with Indians in there you will find m,
under the kitchen table" The mediumgo
up from the floor lame all over, an(
about as frightened as people get in thi
world, the women "came to-" and tn
seance was turned into sewing society
the sisters sewing up the medium
trousers while he wore pair belonging
to the nurseryman. There are peopl
living to this day who attended that Sc
ance, and, though they be hundre
years old, they would burst out laugh
ing in church if they should happen t
think Of Towser and the medium, an
how Towser seemed to wear his ha
over his left ear when he went out int
the kitchen, and walk like Pat Rooney
while the medium looked like man VIII
had sat down on buzz saw, not know
inc it was loaded. -Peck's Sun.
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NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Believers in metempsychosis have had
their faith refreshed by the recent birth
of a child who, coming into the world,
made searching scrutiny of his sur
roundings, and, sinking back into his
nurses arms, remarked: "Thank
Heaven, at last I have got myself born
into family that is comfortably fixed. u
--RGchanae.
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WORKING THE PRRgA


"kro you the editor ?" said man,
who wore conciliatory smile and dyed
beard, as he took q scat in the Office.
We acknowledged that at present we
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us with pecuniary compensation, not
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"'Our enterprising townsman, Col.
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nounce him as candidate for the honor.
able office OF constable OF this pre-
cinct.
eff that is not strong enough, here is
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your qualities of head and heart will be
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commended for your generous impulses
only $3.50 each insertion. Then we
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which is really intended for Guberna.
torial candidates speaks of your sim.
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ay-as-you-go proclivities but it can be
easily modified to suit a prospective
constable. 1t will cost you So. There
are several others from so to $40 each.
For referring to you as an 'old land.
mark, 81 extra is charged"
81 reckon you can saw me off Sc
worth, but you must throw in something
about my brilliant war record"
eve always do that"
"And just wind up by surprising
Capt. Bill Smike. He is running agains
me. I wouldn't say anything he nigh
take ofense ct. Only say that he is no
6t for the Office, because he has breath
like a buzzard, and the record of a con
vict. You might add that my brother
hasn't got a wife that has fits. Tha
will hit him where he is sore, for hi
brothers wife is subject to fits. I dom
care to lug any personalities into thi
campaign unless I am obliged to-"
"We can't do it, Colonel. Your riva
is our personal friend. He is a sub
scriber."
"Pshawl I thought you were run
ming an Independent paper in the inter
est of the people, but see You are tn
subsidized organ of political clique,
and off he went to see the editor of TIL
other paper.-Ieras SDtings.
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OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED.

A Dutchman who married his second
wife soon after the funeral of the first
was visited with two-hours' serenade
in token of disapproval. He expostula-
ted pathetically, thus: ~ say, poys,
you ought to be ashamed of yourself
to be making all dish noise ven dere vas
a funeral here so soon." .
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SIRAH WASN'T THERE.

Charley Shaw, of the Detroit Opera
House, was grinning at the window OF
the box-ofice, when in walked chap
with an agricultural bronze on his face
and asked;
"Does any one perform hereP" .
ooh, yes"
"This afternoon
"No; tonight"
Glow much to see emp"
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Wouldn't anybody laffP"
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other up with swords, and she'd tumble
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and don't you forget it She tainted on
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A CANADIAN cat has adopted some
young black squirrels that were thrown
to her to be eaten.
, 1884-09-17
JxO. y. cARROLL~..EdIr o'

THE greatest journalistic success Of the
country is the New York Morning Jour
aaI a newspaper that has been pub
Eshed less than two years. The basis Of
its great success is the fact that the Jour
aal typi6ed q new idea It's editor, Mr..
Albert Pulitzer, started u with the prop
osition that it was not necessary to startle
the community with so-called sensations
in which truth is used economically IN
order to win success. nor need he stoop to
pander to the lower natures Of the people
to win fame and fortune. The idea which
he carried into effect was to publish a
thoroughly good natured paper, which, at
the same time, was well written and hui
morous. Above all he aimed to print
a family paper which would contain moth
ing to offend the purest mind. He took
a graceful course between n~amby-pamby
journalism on the one hand and filthy
sensationalism on the other and struck n
ich lead. The paper started with a CIR
e~ulation Of %, 500 copies. in six months
it averaged $4,000, in nine months TO-
900, and now; after a year and a half, it
~eirculates 100, 900 copies daily, while on
ward and upward is still the cry. Among
the Journal staff are some Of the most
graceful and piquant writers in America,
and their witty and humorous produc-
lions help to fill the columns of every
other paper on the continent
, 1884-09-17

This year the Atlantic coast Summe
resorts tried to u without the usual Sc,
serpent connections and made a bad fail
ure of IT, Chioago Inter 0ceaa.
And now it transpires that Governor
Cleveland's f~avorite color is red. Tn,
Governor acquired a taste for it while en-
gagged in painting towns in his younger
ays.-Brlih0ton Free Press.
St Johns chances look very bright
lust now, but the campaign isn't over yet
II somebody should happen to be rumag
ing among aged papers and come upoi
an old unpaid bar bill of John Peters
what would become Of his boom2-Loun
vile Courier. Journal
, 1884-09-17
POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

The cucumber is the Ben Butler Of
vegetable life Honheys Statesman.
We fear that St John will find that
politics and water won't mix.-Floridd
Tines Union.
A Boston maiden is reported 10 have
discovered that Ben Butler is the thing
ness Of the never"
Another campaign lie nailed. Cover
nor St. John says his name is not pro-
nounced SIMON Chicago Naos.
Bold Ben Butler has no respect for
Jackson's boots, but has a great regard
for Arhur's shces--RatJurg Times.
Il Is understood that Butler has gone
into Pennsylvania for the purpose Of rails
ing a set Of whiskers-Atlanta Conaihu-
h0n
The scientists at Philadelphia should
attend a few base ball games and tackle
the mysteries of the curve. -BYfalo
Courier.
Colonel Drnkwater is Buffers right
hand man in Massachusetts,. Mr.. ST.
John seems TO be losing his gnp.-De
troit Journal.
Buffers flow Of speech in 30 many
places has upset the accepted theories as
TO the location Of the natural gas belt
Pftsblro ChronicLe- Telegraph.
, 1884-09-17


At the London health exhibition they call
SKINNED milk @s~eparated" milk. To DO sure
this is anything but stale milk. Tho cream
begins to separate before the new milk grows
cold 1t Is put into a revolving machine that
is said to go round 1000 times a minute, and
by the application of centrifugal force the
cream being lighter flies to the top, collects
in a kind Of cup, which is poured of into a
separate pail. New milk, freed from its
cream while yet perfectly fresh, is a very DIFF
ferent article from tho Thin and rapidly sour
ing fluid that has stood" In pans for the
cream to rise.
The weight Of milk is another point that
offers some neat tests for scrutiny. The
average weight Of milk Is set down as from
1,026 to ,035, compared with the same bulk
Of water at 1000. Watered milk is thore
fore lighter, but milk that is rich in cream Is
also light in comparison, because cream is
lighter than milk. 1.-THE specific gravity acd
the cream" says a correspondent ct the
health exhibition, shave to be taken into ac-
count together. The proportion Of cream
again is measured by very fine tests. The
cream hould DO from 6-100 to 11-lOO: IL is
generally about s-l0O; in the milk OF Alder
ney COWS it will reach 30-l00 to 40-100.
, 1884-09-17

Nix. JosKPH MEDILL's denial of an in
terview with Steve Elkins, as reported in
the Chicago Inter Ocean, in which the
National Republican Committee was rep
resented to be badly crippled in its can
vass for lack of funds, is certainly the
most lame and impotent on record up to
the present moment. The Inter Ocean,
while a thorough Republican newspaper,
which gracefully guEzled its dose Of crow
in accepting Blaine instead Of Arthur,
nevertheless cannot fail to see the hope
less entanglements in which the Republi-
can party is heing involved and seeing
them, eondescends to point them out.
The breakup in the Central West has al
ready become Of momentous consequence
to the Republicans, while the Democrats
are marching in unbroken columns to-
ward a victory which now seems inevita-
hla
, 1884-09-17
srAMpINe ouT &c cHoLERA.
RI. WORK 70 no In the Worid,,
Psst-Houae..

featrhAouaea
Philadelphia CALI
All the precautions known 10 medical
science are now actively employed to prevent
the spread and TO hinder the approach OF the
cholera Hence it is not likely to make a
new Judgment unararea. II Is also noticeable
that On this continent, thus far, we nave had
= mid summer us regards heat, and cleans
ing rains have frequently fallen. Thus our
natural conditions are favorable TO relief.
II. then, 1t shall be found that medical skin
is equal to the stamping out Of the disease
IL will b a great relief. But tho danger
will not end with this year. 1t now seems
likely that the disease will not reach our
shores the present summer, but 1t viii be
necessary that great alertness be displayed
next year In order TINT It find no lodgment
hhre- Meantime the attention Of the great
powers OF civilized Europe should be attracted
u the source OF all such epidemics.
Tho real stamping-out place is whore the
spidemics originate. This is not at Toulon or
MHrseilles, but in Arabia, or among the filthy
hordes Of Asia. These are the worlds pest
houses. England modified tho danger in
lndin, and 50 lessened tho number OF gaunt
opidemics which have gone stalking over the
earth But there remain Mecca and Medina,
and the several points in Asia
where Moslem fanaticism assemblies its
nlasseS The pilgrimages, made by vast
numbers under circumstances of almost in
10 icribabls filth and w~retchedness, aro the
breeding points Of epidemics. There has
been a natural h~esitancy or the part Of
Christendom To interfere with the religious
p~rejudices Of these Moslem or other popu-
lations. But the sanitary consideration
becomes very important TIL location Of a
smallpox hospital is opposed il it Is likely
to injure the public health. We nave the
same right to object that any part OF the
world should be made the breeding place
Of epidemics- Therefore, while just now
Toulon and Marseilles are the places where
the stamping-out process must DO applied,
the area must soon be broadened IL we would
make the process entirely effective.
And his chimes In with the complications
that now exist in Europe. Tho question Is
being very earnestly debated az to which
among them all is the best to secure the sani-
tary result desired. England has lone good
work in India, but is slow, and makes com
merce her ruling idea She has her hand on
Egypt, and can readily control the source
OF the disease. Russia directly animates
central Asia. Germany, however,, is 10
lieved to have the strongest grip on the power
that most directly controls tho source of the
eyil-Turkey. 1t Is evidently a question that
has gained hold on the mind Of Europe, and
will soon assert its real influence. Cholera
can DO stamped out, but the stamping must
be done at the right place.