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81 regard Mr.. Eddy rs one of the most capable and
successful practitioners with whom have had official
intercourse.
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IA MANI

WHO is UNAcQUAHTED WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OF THIS
COUNTRY Will SEE BY EXAMINING THIS MAP rHAT THE
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No. 10 State Street, opposite Kilby, Boston,
Secures Patents In the United States; also In Great
Britain France and other foreign countries. Copies
of the claims of any Patent furnished by remittinR
one dollar. Assignments recorded at Washington. No
Agency IN the United States possesses superior facilities
for obtaining Patents or ascerdRRg the pdtentadthfp
" R.H EDDY, Solicitor of Patents.
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Is the Air COiOrleSS?

The Challenger has dredged from
the bottom OF the ocean fishes which
live habitually at great depths, and
whose enormous eyes tell of the cor
respondingly faiut light which must
have descended to them through the
seemingly transparent water. 1t will
not be as futile a speculation as it may
at first seem, to put ourselves in mag
ination in the condition of creatures
under the sea, and ask what the sun
may appear to them; for, if the fish
who had never risen above the ocean
floor were an intelligent being, might
he not plausibly reason that the dim
greenish light of his heaven-which is
all he has ever known-was the full
splendor of the sun shining through a
medium which all his experience shows
is transparent?
We ourselves are, in very fact, living
at the floor OF Il great aerial sea, whose
billows roll hundreds of miles above
our heads. Is it not at any rate con-
Ceivable that we may have been led
into like fallacy from judging only
by what we see at the bottom? May
we not, that is, have been led into the
fallacy of assuming that the interven-
ing medium above US is coloriess be-
cause the light which comes through it
is SOP
| freely admit that all men, educat-
ed or ignorant, appear to have the evil
dence OF their senses that the air is
colorless, and that pure sunlight is
white, SO that ii | venture to ask you TO
listen to considerations which have
lately been brought forward to show
that it is the sun. which is blue, and
the air really acts ike an orange veil
or like sieve which picks out the blue
and leaves the white, do so in the
confidence that | may appeal to you
on other grounds than those / could
submit to the primitive man who has
his senses alone to trust to; for the
educated intelligence possesses those
senses equally, and in addition the
ability to interpret them by the light
of reason, and before this audience it
is to that Interpretation that | address
myself. s. z. Langley, IN
Popular Science Monthly for September.
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The First John MURRAY,

The first John Murray, the grand
father OF the present occupant of No.
80 A4bem arle Street, Il Scotchman, we'll
born. and, like Sir Walter Scott, the
son Of SIN Edinburgh writer to the sig
hes was lieutenant in the marines,
whom, at the age of twenty three, he
threw mp his commission, and appar-
emily without any previous training Or
experience to tit him for the change,
became bookseller, and founded what
is now and has long been one of the
most famous and fruitful of English
publishing houses. Not only so, he
narrowly missed having as his partner
at starting in his new enterprise an
other young Scotchmau, at this time
in the naval service of his country, who
is doubly remembered as the author of
almost our solitary nautical epic, and
by the melancholy circumstance OF his
death.
On starting as 2 bookseller and pub
Usher in Fleet Street. ex-Lieutenant
McMurray dropped the Me" and
called himself simply Murray" This
was curtailment of surname signif-
cant of and due to the keenly anti
Scottish feeling then prevalent in Lon
don and in England. One old associ-
alton, however, OF his prc-bibliopolic
days the new John Murray OF Fleet
Street cherished so fondly that as a
memorial of his lieutenancy of marines
and of service ailoat ''a Ship in full
sail'' figured III the bill-heads of his
accounts. This founder of the pub
fishing house of Murray was an able,
energetic, and enterprising man, though
perhaps more Of a bookseller than a
publisher. Traffic in the literature of
medicine formed g large element i'll his
bibliopolic operations, and in old rec
ords OF 1.-THE trade there is frequent
mention OF ''Mr. Murray, the medical
bookseller of Fleet Street" Among
his publishing achievements was the
issue of Lang horne's PIutarch, which
is still marketable, of Mitford's now
almost forgotten, but once and Justly
celebrated, History of Greece, and,
still more noticeable, OF the thin octa-
vo in which Isaac Disraeli gave to the
world, without an authors name, the
first installment OF the Curiosities of
Literature. Isaac Disracli was then a
shy. studious young man, and so little
did he foresee the success OF his anony-
nous venture that he made over to tho
first John Murray the copyright as an
inducement to risk its publication. He
repurchased the copyright, as his still
more famous son, who died Lord Bea-
constield, has recorded, at public sale
some years subsequently,, probably af-
ter the death of the publisher. The
thin octave was the prolific parent OF
a series OF Curiosities of Literature,
which created a new school of literary
AMI other anecdote at time when ev.
erything of the kind was so duh or SC
worthless that Samuel Rogers pro-
nounced the world to be far gone in
its anecdotage. -. ESpiaaSse, IN
Hdrper's NQQazille for Septenhsr.
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kOyeiiSt-hoetS.

From Edmund G. Stedman's literary
critique, entitled The Twilight of the
Poets" in the September Century, we
quote the following:
''It must be borne in mind that not q
few OF our idealists are directing their
main efforts to prose composition.
Among our novelists, however,
Aldrich always seems the poet,
author with whom song has the prece-
dence. His tales are the prose of q
poetic artist, and owe TO this fact their
airy charm. Howells furnishes an in
stance of the apt recognition of exist
ing tendencies. The wisdom he has
displayed in his generation goes far
10 Justify the diversion we are observ-
ing. His early verse. issued conformity
with that OF his friend Piatt, bore un-
usual marks of promise, nor has he
quite broken with the muse or ceased
to hold her image in his heart. Other
wise his heart, like Mr.. James's, was
that of q critic, scholar, analyst; and
the determined evolution OF a mastery
novei-Writer, from youth OF the quail
iiications involved, might serve as a
text for homilies on the power. of the
human viii. His pen being his fortune,
his chosen profession that of a man of
letters, he manfuliY trained himself to
the production of literature that he
fOresaw would be welcome and rcmun-
eradve; this, il 4 series of works,-at
first descriptive, then inventive, con
stantly advancing in perception, in
management of incident and character,
until he now stands where we find
him, in the front rank of those who i'm
press observers with a sense of our lit
eraIy progress. His poetic gift serves
him well in translation, dramatic adap-
tatian, and with respect to the feeling
and artistic effect of his tenderest cpl
sodeS Waving discussion of Mr..
can question that he has judged wisely,
and has done far better tor the public
than if he had pursued the art that
was ais early choice?
by such examples more light is cast
upon the reduced Importance of our
song makers, and ground discovered
for a belief that this is transitory and
that fresh departure will anon be
made. Fancy and Imagination are
still fife, but their energy finds vent in
new directions. Accomplished crafts
men, some OF whom thirty years ago
might have been numbered among the
poets now supply the public with its
imaginative rationS in the guise of
prose fiction and romance. Through
instinct or Judgment. they have occu-
pied tue gap in our literature, The
time has been opportune; famous in
nings were made by the elder min
strels; our school of fiction had been
represented only by few rare and ex-
cepti0nal names. SO keen has been
the new impulse, that the young neo-
phyte of to-day, instead of shaping his
vague conceptions into rhythm and
initiating the poets within his knowl-
edge, longs TO emulate the foremost
novelists.
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WHOLE NO. 14l2.
Beleaguered NicksburS.

May 2Sth.-Since that day the segU-
lar siege has continued. We are utter
ly cut off from the world, surrounded
by a circle of fire. Would it be wise
like the scorpion to sting ourselves to
death9 The fiery shower of shells goes
on day and night. HIS occupation,
Of course, is gone, his office closed.
Every man has TO carry pass in his
pocket. People do nothing but eat
what they can GET, sleep when they can.
intervals when the Smelling stops, eth
er for the guns TO cool or for tue gun
ners' meals, ! suppose, shout eight in
the morning, the same in the evening,
and at noon. In that time we have
both to prepare and eat ours. Cloth
ing cannot be washed or anything else
done. On the 10Th and Z2l, when the
assaults were made on the lines. |
watched the soldiers cooking on the
green opposite. The half-spont balls
coming all the way from those lines
were flying SO thick that they were
obliged to dodge at every turn. At all
she caves | could see from my high
perch, people were sitting, eating their
poor suppers at the cave doors, ready
to plunge in again. AS the first shell
again flew they diyed. and not hui
man being was visible. The sharp
crackle of the musketry-firng was
strong contrast 20 the scream of the
bombs. think all the dogs and cats
must be killed or starved, We don't see
any more pitiful animals prowling
around. The cellar Is so damp
and musty the bedding has to be car
ried out and laid in the sun every day,
with the forecast that it may be demol-
ished at any moment The confinement
is dreadful. To sit and listen as if wait
ing for death in a horrible manner
would drive me insane. | don't know
what others do. but we read when lam
not scribbling III this. H borrowed
somewhere lot OF Dickens novels,
and we reread them by the dim light
in the cellar. When the sheiling abates
X goes to walk sbout 4 little or get
the Daily Citizen, which is still is
suing a tiny sheet at twenty-five and
fifty cents copy. 1t is, Of course, but
reEash of speculations, which amuses
a half hour. To-day he heard while
out that expert swimmers are crossing
tHS hISsioSlppl Ou loSS III NJ III W oliHS
and carry news to Johnston. | am so
tired of corn bread. which lnever liked,
that | eat it with tears in my eyes. We
are lucky to get a quart of milk daily
from a family near vino have a COW
they hourly expect to be killed. | send
five dollars to the market each morn
ing, and it buys small piece of mule
meat. Rice and milk is my main food;
! can't eat the mulo-mcat. We boil the
rice and eat it cold with milk for sup
per. Martha runs the gauntlet to buy
the meat and milk once a day in a per-
feet terror The shells seem to have
many different names; hear the SOL
diers say, That's mortar-shell.
There goes Parrott. That's a rifle
shell" They are all equally terrible.
4 pair OF chimney-swallows have built
III the parlor chimney. The conclusion
u tne nUusU VrUvl- .-----l----t~-'.- r--.-
Of their nest, which they patiently pick
up and reascend with from "A No
mans Diary ofha Siege" IN The Cen
t'4Ty for September.
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General i. P. Blair, who command
ed division of the campaign, joined
me at Milliken's Bend, a full-fiedged
general. without having served III
lower grade. | had known Blair in
Missouri where | had voted against
him for Congress in 1858. ! knew him
as frank. rositiye and generous man,
true to his friends even to a fault, but
always a leader. | dreaded his COM
ing; l knew from experience that it is
more difficult 10 command two gener-
ais desiring to be leaders than to COM
mand an army ofiicered intelligently
and with subordination. 1t affords me
the greatest pleasure to record now my
agreeable disappointment. in his char
acter. There was no man brayer than
he, nor was there any who obeyed all
6"ders Of his superior IN rank with
with more unquestioning alacrity. lie
was one mai as a soldier, another as q
politician.
The ravy, under Porter, was all it
could be during the entire campaign.
Without its assistance the campaign
could not have been successfully made
with twice the number Of men engag-
ed. Ii could not have been made at
all, in the way it was, with any num-
Der of men, without such assistance.
The most perfect harmony reigned be-
tween the two arms of the service.
There never was request made, that
| am aware of, either OF the iiag-otflcer
or any of his subordinates, that was
not promptly complied with.-frons
Gen. Grants Paper IN September Cen
t1trg.
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Popular Medicine.

Popular medicine and hygiene arc
becoming everywhere the fashion. Pub
lie sentiment aud action are aroused i'll
regard to all manner of sanitary and
curative measures. When men of dis
tinction are i'll, The conditions of their
pulse, temperature, and Inspirations
are telcgraphed all over the civilized
world, to be read at the brcakfast-tasle
in the morning newspaper. Their
medicines and their doses are minutoly
described; diagrams of the course of Il
bullet. or startling pictures of micro
Scopic sections of tumorS, or views of
cholera-germs, appear in our daily pa
pers; and IN the most popular family
magazines we read articles upon the
anatomy of the brain. or chow TO
trap soil-pipe." We have mothers
magazine devoted TO improvements in
baby-feeding anu the scientific develop
ment of the infant miud. The b ook-
stores abound in popular works upon
every medical topic, from the subject
of singers sore throats TO the treat
ment of sea-sichness, consumption. or
the opium-habit. A great deal of all
this, especially the newspaper medicine,
is fostered by maudlin craving for
every detail of that which is exciting
or horrible. 1t is to cater to the same
kind of feeling that newspapers de-
scribe how many Jumps of sugar con-
demned murderer took in his coffee on
the morning of his hanging. The germ
theory, too, has given a great impetus
to popular medicine.
The germ appeals to the average
mind: it is something tangible; it may
be hunted down, captured, collared, and
looked AT through q microscope, and
then, in al its varieties, it can be held
directly responsible for so much dam
age. There Is scarcely 4 farmer i'll the
country who has not read the germ
theory. A COWBOY in Arizona was shot
dead in the saddle recently by COM
rade for the insult implied by calling
him "d---d microbe"i
Still, a great deal of this popular
medical talk and instruction is the out
come of an earnest desire to learn to
alleviate the growing evils of heredity
and environment, especially in over
crowded cities. The Importance of a
universal knowledge of, and attention
to, the laws OF physiology and hygiene
is becoming more and more apprecia
ted, and the elements of these subjects
are taught i'll .he public and private
schools.-Dr, ". q. Thompson, la Pop
atlar Science Aonthly Jor September.
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Short Snaps.

Do do think that the best way to
teach your baby to walk would be to
give it in charge of stepmotherP
Does it necessarily follow that all
biacksmiths must be wicked men be-
cause they are much given TO vice?
Is it a fact that those people who on
ly sing 10 please themselves" are not
often difficult to please?
When photographer, in the exer-
else OF his business, uses black cloth.
does he do SO in order to make his
camera obscura?
z'I utsu you1 i.irviIv4. 1is,.,-
pated disposition because it goes out
every nightP
Can 1t be really true that q too quiet
sermon often proves to be a moving dis
course?
Does it necessarily follow that aero
bats are unprincipled men because they
poise an each other?
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The COnceit OF New York.

To men who were born here and
have lived here long New York is
miles and away SO superior to any 9TH
er city in America that he never thinks
of uttering them or mentioning them
in the same breath. This may be the
sublimity of conceit-perhaps it is
but the fact remains that Newly orkers
consider that there is but one city in
America. They may travel all over
the world, but when they return to
America they live in New York. In
the same way we observe that if q man
makes n great fortune in Chicago,
Milwaukee, Cleveland, Cincinnati, or
Pittsburg he comes here, for many of
the magnificent palaces have been pur-
chased by men of other cities who
made haste to come here as soon as
they had made vast fortunes. / don't
know whether they like New York or
not, but they seem 10 stay. 1t is true
that man does not amount to much
here unless he is a good deal of 4 man,
but still the advantages of life in the
most popular city in the Union are too
numerous to be overlooked. A man
with $4,000, 900 is of importance, if
cinnati But SO, 900, coo, unless 1t is
backed by social graces and other ad-
vantagcs, will do little or nothing for
a man in New York. L know that
this statement will not be accepted,
because it is the general impression
that wealth opens the doors to society
in New York; still such is not the fact.
There are hundreds of miiIionaires
along the avenues who live magniti-
Gently and spend enormous incomes,
yet whom nobody knows or cares to
know. Not long ago list of the
number of men who were worth more
than So, 000,00 was published in one
Of the papers here. There were hun
dre,,ss Of names OCCUPYING considerable
more thu 3 column and a half, and it
is no exaoer.,, tion TO say that fully five
sixths of them w,"re entirely strange to
the ears of New-Yorke Bse6ety HaIE
IL. San Francisco Irg05Gaatt.
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An exchange says: "a silver dollar
weighs nearl y an ounce. Hence any
letter not heavier than dollar can 90
for single 2cent stamp. This is cas-
lily remembered. If you want to be
5-cent piece, and you have an ounce
almost to feather S weight. Provid-
ed you haven't the silver dollar, han
dy. use two halves, or, if you have
nickles only, five OF them and small
copper cent will give you an ounce.
AS ninety-nine letters out of 100 win
fall within the ounce weight, this SIM
pie system will serve for general use."
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s.Who did it?' is the title OF new
book by Lillian Spencer. We don't
know positively who did it, but we al
ways thought that it was that little
dirty-faced cuss on the next seat back
OF us. for we saw him with a pin in his
hand not two minutes before we sat
down, and when we extracted that
bent one from the seat OF our pants he
didn't have any pin, but he had hard
work to keep from bursting with lauSh-
ter at the way we jumpe
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A piece OF evidence in q Quebec
oreach-of-promiso case was cuff witt,
an OTTER OF marriage written on il. One
night, while the defcndant was boiII
ing the plaintiffs hand and whispering
!ervid words, he popped the question
ID manuscript on the smooth linen ot
her wrist. She was sentimental or
shreWd enough to keep that article ont
ol inc wash, and now it is of practical
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Buoklin's Arnica Salye.

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Bruises, Sores, Ulcers. Salt Rheum,
Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands,
Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piless, or no pay
required. 1t is guaranteed to give per.
feet satisfaction of money refunded.
Price 25 cents per box. For sale by II.
Hinrichs.
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think it would break down much OF
the most sacred family intercourse?
Don't you think it would be keen
blow struck at the very root OF true
family affection and trustfulness?
=. DO you think that there are any
grounds afforded in the Bible for
man being permitted to marry his de-
ceased wife's sisters?
Marrying his wife's deceased sis
teri repeatedly Lucy, vaguely. But
-er-isn't it a vewry nasty idea-er"
.Nasty?' she cried.
"'I-er-s shouldn't like to er-
mnrwry u dead woman myself, he ex-
planned. .rd wrather have one alive
i must say.
"'But it would be the poor wife who
would be deadn cried Miss Jones, ex-
asperated almost beyond endurance.
- The poor husband, L think, cor
rected Lucy, very softly.
"'But you would marry the sister.
".pl give it up, please, he said
again.
Your wife, she began, would
But haven't wife!' he inter-
rupted. i ney-ah mar wired any
body in all my life. l give you my
word OF honor.
:" But do you think man ought to
marry two sisters? Not you, in par
ticular, but any man?' Miss Jones
cried, determined, at any cost of time
and patience, to make him understand
her.
Why notP' inquired Lucy inno-
Gently.
''Do you think there is any permis-
;ion given for it in the Old TESTAMENT
Lucy looked awfully wise.
There was Jacob?' he ventured
mildly.
{" 'Jacob?' said Miss Jones, Grossly;
Jacob, Mr.. Lucy?'
Yes, Jacob. Didn't he-er-mar-
wry two sisters? Didn't even wait till
the first one was dead, either. Now,
don't you think, Miss Jones, it must
have been a great deal rougher
on the first wife, who was veWry plain
and-er-tender-e 30 have her
comely sister set over her head, in the
place OF favoritism, if Eot Of honor,
than it would have been if Leah had
died first and had known nothing
at all about it?'
Oh, Jacob?' shifted Miss Jones,
with unutterable scorn; Il don't think
we can quite take Jacob for pattern,
Mr.. Lucy
Mop Old Lucy was sugar and
honey III human disguise. 'But-er-
wasn't he one OF the-ah-fathers of
lswrael? l always thought So
Miss Jones suddenly veered round
and changed her tactics.
1--er-think. bir. Lucy she re-
marked, severely. that it is more a
question affecting the family life OF to-
day even than the authority given by
the Mosaic law. Now, if your wife
But | haven't oneineYer had
such thing, Lucy eXpIaincd; then
suddenly resumed his most confidential
air Of utter foolishuess. The fact is,
Miss JONES' he said, 1 nev-ah-
wanted to marwry but one lady in all
my life, and she jilt-ed me. Her name
was Naomi
MOP cried three or four incredu-
lous voices from different parts of the
room; you don't mean TO say that he
dragged all that in again?"
Every word OF it; the Wrevewrend
Solomon-er-FIigg, and all the little
Fliggs. Yes, he let Miss Jones have
it all to the bitter end. And you call
that fellow fool?" the soldier wound
Hp reproachfully.-Bo0tLes' Baby.