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Jerry Greening's Aphorisms.

eth poorest place t look fer tn
milk o. human kindness is within tn
pale o. highest s'ciety."
9TH best definition fer money: a
composition fer takin' tn stains out o.
ch'racter."
"a drunkard's nose is like light
house: it tells how little water passes
beneath"
"Corkscrews has sunk heap more
people than cork jackets has ever
saved"
"Lean dogs fer a long race"
"Him that loves not water covets
whisky"
"A charitable heart an pure mind
alters goes t'gether."
eth absence o. tn one alters ind
Gates tn absence o. t'other.'
9Th future o Ameriky is as bright
as a cats eye in barrel on dark
night"
dad debtors is like muddy water
tn more you stir 'em up tn longer it
takes 'em to SETTLE"
"If all of us had windows. t. our
hearts, what a corner there'd be in tn
shutter and blind market
'Ev'ry body can't hold a winnin'
hand in TIL game O life: somebody's
gott' get tn deuces an treys."
eth best gold is from the roughes
countries an tn best and purest hearts
are often t be found under ugly faces. ."
9Th sleepy bird, makes no diff renee
how soon he's out, don't ketch tn
worm"
Good speech is tn harvest that fol-
lows tn tlowerin' o. thought.
Friends is tn only valuables a man
kin have nowadays 'thout payin' taxes
on"
"a man 'thout ch'racter amt no
safer t hev round than a steam-injun
'thout safetv-valve."
'Duelling is Folly flirtin' with Muir
der: fist fights is more sensibler an less
deadlier.
.Good wages is tn sweet lie that lu-
bricates tn whole machinery o this
country"
poverty is mans best friend: il
sticks to him when all other friends de-
sert him."
"Sleepin' fox gets no chickens"
''Homes nova days seems + be
places where tn children have their
own way an where tn husband goes
when he amt got nowheres else t.
loaf"
eth pious is alters slower t help
Right than tn profane an worthless be
t hinder it"
eth laurels o. fame is cheap t. tn
giver, but centrally mighty dear t. tn
winner. Tile Current
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The March Through the Desert.

Appliances of several kinds for stor-
ing fresh water and carrying it across
the desert in the proposed expedition
from Suakim to Khartoum are in
course of preparation at the royal
arsenal, Woolwich. For use at the
wells and GASES, large reservoirs of
waterproof canvas have been pro-
vided, some of them several yards
square, for dipping pals in to water
horses, Others shaped like ordinary
troughs, and others adapted to the re-
quirements of the troops. For convey
ing the water on camels iron tanks are
being made, about three feet long bv
eight inches broad and fourteen inches
deep; but it is not quite decided wheth-
or ordinary casks of wood shall be
employed for the purpose, and proba-
bly, a supply-of both will be sent out.
Already have gone great number of
cisterns formed o. galvanized zinc plates
riveted, and each having capacity of
about two hundred gallons, and these
it is proposed to place at convenient
points along the line of march for replen-
ishing the camel loads. Each animal will
carry two casks slung pannier-wise
across pack saddle, and each cask will
contain about twenty gallons. Not more
than ten miles of railway has yet been
despatched to the Soudan, but the
steamship engineer, which has just left
Woolwich, has on board some of the
locomotive plant, including engines,
steam cranes, etc. Yesterday some
balks of timber and bales of sandbags,
which the engineer could not take,
were sent on board the Peninsular and
Oriental steamer Rohilla, for immed-
late conveyance to Suez, en- route to
Suakim, being in urgent demand; and
the chartered steam transport Dunlice,
which has been for some time employed
on similar service, will arrive at the
arsenal in few days for more railway
iron aud some of the miscellaneous
stores for Egypt, now accumulated.
among which are quantity of light
planks for hut building and iron pipes
for constructing aqueducts.-London
telegraph
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A Republican Campaign Document.

Mr.. BIaine's letter accepting the Re-
publican nomination for the Presidency
will be disappointment to those of his
Republican admirers who expected an
admixture of dash and brilliancy in the
composition, for there is nothing in 1t
that Is especially or gInal or striking.
1t is evidently designed as Repub-
ican campaign document, and to the
protectionist element who consti-
tute much the larger portion of the
party. will on the whole be satisfactory.
The tariff reformers who still linger in
the Republican camp can not, however,
fail to feel uncomfortable at the promi-
hence given it and stress laid upon the
doctrine of protection. which the Presi-
dental candidate seems to regard as the
great issue of the campaign.
The views of Mr.. Blaine on the tariff
are set forth at great length, but an ex-
animation of his utterances shows that
on this great question he has merely
strung together a lot of cheap protec-
ton platitudes. He states in the
course of his letter many facts. the ex-
istence of which he attributes to the
beneficial influence of the policy of pro-
lection; although there are many better
reasons to account for the condition of
things than that VIII CHI he holds up as
the true one. In this respect, however.
he but adopts the protect;onist line of
argument. He talks of free-trade soph-
istries, yet uses all of the protection
neutrality-suspicious. which there will
be ample time to expose and explode
during the campaign.
Mr.. Blaine speaks of the Republican
method of tariff reduction. and con-
trasts it with the Democratic, after the
manner of the Republican resolution on
the tariff. The party and the candidate
alike forgot the Republican method of
tariff reform dozen years ago. when
the scheme of horizontal reduction of
ten per cent. was adopted as the best
available means of reducing the then
surplus and tightening the burdens of
the people.
There are other features of Mr..
Blaine's letter which will re Give atten-
ton from time to time. For the pres
ent it will be sufficient to say that the
Democracy are quite willing to accept
the gage of battle on the tariff question,
though they will not permit their posi-
ton to be misstated by their adversaries.
They will show that the condition of
labor is not as depicted by Mr.. Blaine;
and that the so-called protective sys-
tenn has led to the starvation wages in
many parts of the country. They will
show not merely one, but scores of tariff
abuses whose effect has been to pamper
and protect monopolists and to crush
labor. They will show how millions
are unne ,essarily wrung from the peo-
pie in taxes-millions which only 90 to
pile up an immense surplus in the
Treasury and are available for no pub
lie purpose, for there are ample re-
sources without them. They viii show
In short that the so-called protective
system is . pretentious fraud. Detroit
Free Press.
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-FOUR NILES AHEAD.

With hopes and With fears we sent him forth,
And they wntered there in the frozen North;
Two winters they spent in the Arctic zone,
Where slowly they perished and one by one;
But surely we ought to be well content,
As toward the pole our explorers went,
And they marked the exploration inc
Four miles abe nd.
o. but the record is wondrous hne,
With nineteen dead.
Row many is that to the mile? Hold onl
The record is made and the work Is done.
Though most of them persisted along the track
We ought to be thankful that six came back
OF course we must count upon toll and pain;
But think of the record and think of the gain!
We have passed beyond the British mark,
Four miles ahead!
And here and yonder are cold and stark
Our nineteen dead.
Where is the man who made the mark?
Turn over the leaf-that page is dark.
He made it-that's glory enough for him.
Though cold is his flesh and his eyes are dim
Some lives must be offered for such gain.
And think on our right to be proud and vain.
He has planted our flag on the northward
track
Four miles aheadi
Well. let us be thankful that six came back,
And God help the dead!
m y. Sun.
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Cholera and Life.Insurance.

"Will the cholera affect life insur-
ance" asked of an agent. sit will
undoubtedly affect policies. The tourist
who goes abroad will have to get per-
NIT from the insuring company if he
wants to preserve his life insurance.
Intercourse with Atlantic ports by pol
icy holders in the interior may be pro-
hibited by some companies. Some
have no clause in their contracts allow
ing such a prohibition. New Orleans
is interdicted generally during the sea-
son in which yellow fever may be cpl
demic. Attendance on the cotton ex-
position during the winter will not come
within this limitation. by the way"
said this agent, ''there are some Curl
Gus kinks in insurance. Some years
ago it was found that a large number
of houses in New Orleans had been I'M
occupied for a year after the epidemic
OF yellow fever. The fire insurance
companies cancelled their policies on
scores of them. Where such cities as
Marseilles and Toulon are deserted by
their population to the number of hun
dreds of thousands, presumption of
doubt is cast at once on an insurance
claimant If his property burns he
must show that it was inhabited at the
time of the fire. These epidemics play
havoc with us in more WAYS than we
are apt to think OF. "-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
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The Independents.

The Independents have gone to work
like a very earnest. sincere and prac-
teal body of men, and show a DISPOSE
ton not to pursue one candidate with
any venom born of disappointment or
bestow upon tho other superlative
pra Sc to justify their own course. but
simply 10 treat both sides and their pre-
tcntions strictly upon their merits. The
Independents arc in q position to en-
phasize, even more than the Demo-
Gratis, the giaring unfitness of the Re-
publican candidate on the point of
character alone for the high position to
which he aspires. The objections that
these men present to the qualification OF
Blaine 8 ambition, can not be whisked
aside as democratic lies. They are
not manufactured as campaign capital,
but have existed SO long and SO
definitely that these men are for the
time being. at least, driven from the
party with which they have almost al
ways acted. There is one issue, that
Blaine, his organs and defenders try to
avoid, and that is the very issue which
the Independents will press home.
Moreover, it is the issue that must be
settled before the self-respecting citi-
zens OF this country can consider any
thing else. He may be smart; he may
brilliant; he may be magnetic; but is
he honest? The overwhelming testi-
mony Of what has already been made
public concerning his transactions is to
the contrary. He has used high official
trust for private gain. He has sole ted
the recognition that attaches to valua-
BILE consideration for certain official acts
in the interests of corporations or indi-
vlduals. He has carried his country to
the verge OF broil with friendly re-
public in order to advance. private
claims. As in the case of the Northern
Pacific, he has '.kept his eye skinned
for opportunities that he could make
special use Of as a high official with
large authority. All this is not only
popularity bel eyed of Blaine, but it *
believed by men of the keenest intelli-
gence and the most careful methods in
both political parties, and upon the
strength of extensive evidence. This
belief is strengthened by the pains that
he and his supporters are taking, not to
demolish it with stronger counter
evidence, but to laugh it down or ignore
it--at all events to dodge it. That is
the condition of things that is at the
bottom of the independent movement,
and 80. ii becomes more particularly the
Independent issue. 1t Is large enough
of itself to conduct the campaign to
Blaine's defeat. If he is q pure and
honest man. then he is one of the most
unfortunate. But, in that event, he
should not run away from the issue,
for it viii pursue and have it out with
him before the campaign ie ended
Boston Post.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Vermont now has 1920 school dis.
tricts and $3.50 schools, decrease OF
three schools since 1888. -Ruttana Her.
aid.
Thirty thousand dollars is to be
raised by the women of Denver to en-
dow a professorship in the university
there to be held by women for all time.
Denver Tribune.
The schooLpopulation of San Fran
cisco has become so large that there are
not buildings enough for the reception
and instruction OF the children. -Saa
Francisco Call.
AT the recent session OF the Luz
theran Ministerium a committee was
appointed to revise the catechism. A
resolution was adopted permitting Luz
theran pastors to preach in churches OF
other denominations.
The girls school started by the
Presbyterian mission, in the capital OF
Guatemala, has more applicants than It
can accommodate, and will probably
be self-supporting. Five daughters of
President Barrios are in the school. 1t
is but short time since there was no
Protestant service in the whole Repub-
lic.--N. Y. Times.
-Berea College is on the border line
between the blue grass and the noun
tains of Kentucky. The pupils are di-
vided in about equal numbers between
males and females and between whites
and blacks. Boys and girls, whites
and blacks, sit side by side together at
a common table and recite in the same
classes. On commencement day the
colors and the sexes alternate on tho
platform. 49, Chicago Herald.
The people of Terra del Fuego,
who had an unenviable repute at one
time of being lower in the scale OF CIV
ilization than any other people on the
face of the earth, have now been
SO far brought under the influence OF
Christianity that there is in that region
a church aud regularly organized dis
trict, with schools, orphanage. Bible
and mothers meetings, and indeed the
whole machinery ola parish to be found
in any town.-Rhiiadelf'hia Press.
-"Since was in England ten years
ago." remarks Mr.. Moody. ''there has
been the greatest imaginable change in
the way of wiping out class distinctions
in religious matters. 1t seems as though
the people of rank and wealth are
straining every nerve to elevate the
poor. In various localities, if there is
no life in the established church, some
man puts up chapel of his own. 1t is
a common thing for one mau to build
q dozen chapels."
The cornerstone of the Hatfield
Memorial Home, adjoining the Seventh
Presbyterian Church, in Broome Street,
was laid few days ago. The build
ing. the pastor of the church explained,
is not to be a lodging house nor an Az
enue Hotel, but will combine the mer-
its of each. 1t is built by the Seventh
Church, as memorial to its former
pastor, the Rev. DIR. Edwin +. Hatfield,
and is intended not as charity, but as
a source of revenue to the church. The
Home will accommodate about four
hundred young men, for whom es-
pecially it is designed, and will be well
provided with everything needful for
the comfort and entertainment of the
. dodgers. Y. Examiner.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

"A bachelor, upon reading that stwo
lovers will sit up all night with one
chair in the room," said it could not
be done unless one of them sat on the
floor. Such ignorance is painful bar
lissgton Havkeyc.
Yes baby is the most dependent
of the animal creation. He is unable
to help himself; but he soon gets over
that, and helps himself to everything
he can lay hands to. Sometimes he
wants the earth, and tries very hard to
get it. - Boston Transcript
Every dog has his day. the cats
take the nights, the icemen and the
milkmen the early morning hours. and
the scissors-grinder with his bell and
the fruitman with his yawp take the
rest of a lifetime that is worth living
Detroit Free Press.
Some one claims to have discovered
that chloroform will cure cholera. We
should think it might. 1t has been
known to cure poverty and disappoirt-
ment in love. and these are more stub
born maladies than cholera. Norris
tos0n Herald.
"A shrewd old lady cautioned her
married daughter against worrying her
husband too much and concluded by
saying: my child, man is like an
egg. Kept in hot water little while,
he may boil soft; but keep him there
too long, and he hardens."
An Eastern family received tele-
gram from the West, announcing the
sudden demise of relative, and they
replied: "Send on the remains at
once" No telegram was received in
answer, but in few days letter came,
saying simply: There amt no remanes.
He war kicd by . mul. Burlington
Free Press.
"A very popular young lady, visiting
friends in q not very distant city, re-
ceived telegram few days since
without showing the least signs of ex-
element or fright usually manifested
by ladies at the receipt of such. After
opening and reading it she merely re-
marked: II thought recognized the
handwriting" This explained her
composure to surrounding friends
Macon Goa. Telegraph.
-"How glorious it is to be engaged
in . purely intellectual occupation"
murmured Boston maiden gazing
rapturously into the admiring eyes of a
country editor; ''your own mental fac
ulties for tools, and the whole universe
for a workshop. Now tell me-" she
added. "what do you find the most
difficult thing connected with your mo-
BILE profession?'' Paying the hands,
said the editor. Philadelphia Cal.
Robert, bashful young student of
Cupid. recently summoned up enough
courage to escort young lady home. At
the breakfast table next morning his
father said: "Well, my son. did you go
home with any of the girls last night?"
YES" said Bob. 'sWho was she?"
Robert hesitated. but finally blurted
out: Il thought it was Annie Warren.
but when we got to the turn of the road
she went into Ella Hams house." But
1 should think you might have told by
the sound Of her voice." said his father.
"Neither Of US said word" said Bob,
blushing and stammering. Albany
journal,
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tcf's wife. nc said: "Never disdain a
poor mans child; nobody knows what
it may become, for children are of the
same stuff as men, and wit comes with
growth" - Minnie Ward Patterson,
ia Detroit Free Press.
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Electric flashlights win soon be in
use on the passenger locomotives of
most railways CNcaao HeralI
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Nous lisons dams lie Herald de
Chicago:
"Une circulaire publi6e par Raw
son sous les signatures de Kali ct
Woodruff offrira de pintkr6t a ceux
qui Sc souviennent dies preparatifs
divers fats par certaines sectes DIES
Adrentists pour la venue du sci
gneur, c'est-a-dire, Ia fin du monde.
La circulaire prouve que ce jour
terrible sera lie 4 janvier 1885. NJ.
Rawson raisOnne ainsi "Quand
rEglise de pAdrent attend. ellie Pap
partition du Seigneur lie dixieme
jour du septieme mois.-Quel estce
jour lie % octobre. Or, Haggai
dit que lie tremblement de terre Sc
RI pour lie vingt-quatrieme jour du
neuvieme mois. AjOutez deux mois
ct quatorze jours au % octobre, ct
YOU aurez lie 4janvier 1885, qui est
lie jour du Seigneur dams la nou.
velle annee."
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CHRISTMAs.-Les Christmas sc
suivent mails ne Sc resselnblent pas.
Hannee derniere, Ia veille ct lie jour
de Noel ont etc des plus animes,
les magasins etaient foules d'ache-
teurs ct les rues pleines d'anima
ton. Mails cctte annec-ci, on ma pas
vn la moindre animation ; les maya
sins sont restes vides de clients ct
4 peine 81 on voyait quelques pas.
SAINTS dams les rues. Dependant,
NM. Rousseau freres ont, a pocca.
sion de inauguration de leur eta.
basement, tire de nombreuses fu-
sees, des chandelles romaines, dies
bombes ct autres feux d'artifices
tous aussi brillants les uns que les
autres, ct les gamins, scion la cou.
tune, ont fait une grande consom.
nation de petards. Sans celia, on
ne Sc serait jamais dout6 qu'On etait
d Ia veille de Noel.
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CONCURRENCE.-La concurrence
est une tres bonnie chose don't lie
public qui cOnnait son intertt dot
tirer un b6nefce reel, en- patroni-
SAINT les marchands qui vendent DIES
articles de bonnie qualite aussi bon
marche quill est possible de les ven-
Dire. La maison Curtis & Badeaux,
Sc propose, CONNIE on peut lie voir
par une annOnce que nous publ
ons a Ia premiere page de &c hume
70, de r6duire lie prix de tous ses
articles. Or, done, les personnes
qui desirent faire DIES emplettes de
comestibles on de marchandises
seches, mont qua aller dams Get
Gtablissement OH lis trOuverOnt tout
&c qu'ils peuvent avoir besoin a DIES
prix exceSsivement reduits ct don't
Ia superiorite lie Ia qualite ne peut
ttre mise en- uOute.
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PRoJET.-Les pompiers apparte.
nant a Ia compagnie Thbodnnr No.
l ct . Ia compagnie Home Hook and
Ladder No. l SO proposent de don
ner, apres le Careme, sur leur vas
te terrain ct dams leur grande sale.
une foire qui surpassera en- attrac-
tons tout &c qu'on a VII jusqu'a CO
Jour. Avant cette 6poque, aux Ell.
vlrons du mardi-gras, il est proba-
Die qu'un grand bal sera dome ct
que Ia jeunesse de nOtre vile ct des
envir"ns sc fera un vrai plaisir d'y
assister.
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INCENDIE.-Samedi dernier mons
etions deja sous presse, lorsqn'on
nous a appris que lie maga>in de
NM. Morvant ct N.squin, situ6 sur
la rive gauche du Bayou Lafourche,
a hut miles environs en- haut de
Thibodaux, await etc enforcement
detruit par lie fen dams la mutt de
vendredi 3 samedi. REIMBURSEMENT
qu'un des proprietaires de Get eta
basement a en- lie soin d'emporter
chez lui, CONNIE il await rhabitude
de lie faire tous les soirs apres Ia
cloture des affaires, le grand livre.
he peut pas dire comment lie feu
a pris, mails on suppose que c'est
r9uvre dun incendiaire.
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ministratiOn du revenu ~interieur,
des taxes qui ne s'elevent pas a
moins de $145,OOO, 900. Maintenant
les prohibitionnistes nous feraicnt
plaisir de nous dire OH lie gcuverne.
ment pourrait pGcher cette sommc
de S14j,OOO, 900 81 leur dada f;svori
devenait L. loi du pays" Eft voici
Ia conclusion qui est I'm chant DIAL.
legresse: "Les prohibitiOnnistes,
on, Ell d'autres termes, les ap6tres
de Ia temperance, nous dissent que
lie seul moyen lie nous debarasser
du 1eau de rivrognerie est d'ecar.
ter de nos mains, de nos yeux, ct
lie tout lie pays, tout ce qui content
de l'alcool !; allons donc!.. Mails il
est inutile d'argulnenter contre la
prohibition. Laissee i elle.mtme,
ellie mourra de sa belle mort, ouelle
sera noyee dams lie fot montant dc
notre vim AMERICAN fortifiant, civil
lisateur, inspirateur, ct Pun des
plus precieux dons que Dieu ait
fats a notre pays"
Amen.