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Queer Things in PaMn.

A we'll dressed man entered n Market
street pawn shop last night and quietly
putting his hand to his mouth took out a
full set of teeth. bound together with q
plate of solid gold. After he had rubbed
them on his handkerchief he handed them
shyly to the clerk, and said in a stage
whisper:
"Five dollars"
The clerk handed the man the moncy
and a ticket, and he slipped quietly out
of the door.
"That mans been here three times to,
day." said the clerk. THE first time
he left a watch and chain. The second
time he left his diamond stud and ring.
I've advanced him money on his false
teeth before. He's a poker player. He'll
be back for the teeth and the other
things Monday or Tuesday,"
"Do YOU usually lend money on false
teeth?" was asked.
NO, not often. Some pawnbrokers
do. A couple Of medical students used
to come here who got hard up abou: once
a month. Once they had pawned all
their spare clothing and all their jewelry
and books and instruments. \ couple
of nights after they came here with a
long bundle wrapped in a gossamer coat.
They told me they wanted $40 very
badly. l opened the long bundle and
found a human skeleton. All the bones
were strung on silver wire. Knowing
them we'll | let them have the money and
carried the skeleton upstairs in the
storeroom, where it stood in the corner
for q month before they anne after it.
Several times I've had women try to
pawn babies. It's a common thing for
men to come in here on bitter cold days
and take off their ~ovcrcoats and pawn
them. A handsome young woman
walked in here this morning and, taking
off a scalskin sacque, pawned it for ST."
PHILADELPHIA Times.
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Opium Smuggling in India.

A good deal of ingenuity is displayed
by opium smugglers in the central prov
inces in running their c%ontraband goods.
In one case which cam before the
authorities last year, two and a hall
maunds of foreign opium were discov.
cred slowed away in the saddles Of two
camels, and in another case five and a
half maunds OF the same material were
found packed in vessels supposed to be
full of oil. On examination of these
vessels it was discovered that a tube
running down the center Of each was
filled with oil, the remaining portions
of the vessel being packed with opium.
In both these cases the opium had been
brought from Holkar's territory, and the
smugglcrs were caught at Nimar while
attempting to run it into the Bombay
presidency. Despite the successful de-
lection of the offenders in these in
stances, it is daily becoming a matter
of greater difficulty to detect opium
smuggling. The well-to.do importers
of c%ontraband opium rarely attempts to
run the drug in person. They generally
employ poor agents, such as grass and
wood cutters, who are not often sus-
pected. and to whom a period Of i'm
prisonment does not much matter, their
employer in tho meantime helping their
families. Times of Indin.
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The GreelY Rescue.

In describing the rescue of Lieutenant
Greedy to a reporter, q sailor OF the res
cuing vessel Bear recently gave the fol
lowing version:
at Littleton Island, the entrance o.
Smiths Sound, we were nipped in the
ice three days. The Bear and Thetis
sailed from there to Cape Sabine, on the
extreme point of which records of the
Greedy party we're found by an ensign OF
the Thctis. The Bear started at once
for Cooked Hat Cove, where Greedy was,
as indicated by the message. The steam
launch under Lieutenant Colwell made
the landing. A figure was seen advanc-
ing over the ice.
H'Who are you2' said Chief Engineer
Low.
~ am Sergeant Long, said the ema'
ciatcd wretch.
SIS Greedy alivc2' was the next qucs.
ton.
"sYes, but starving. For Gods sake
give me something to eat
I'VE took the man on board the Bear
at once. Commander Schley and DIR.
Ames landed as soon as possible with
medical supplies. The party was found
in q dilapidatcd tent, lying in their
sleeping bags, unable to stand upon
their feet, which were useless.
They were so weak and cmaciatcd that
they were literally nothing but human
skeletons wrapped in skin. Greedy was
reading from a prayer-book to private
Cornell, who was supposed to be dying.
AS soon as he knew that it was an
American expedition that had rescued
him Greedy said: Il am glad to see you.
DR.. Ames took charge of the party and
allowed nothing to he given them but a
small t~easpoonful of brandy punch at
intervals and at last small quantities of
food. The living and the dead were re-
moved aboard the vessels as soon rs pos
sible. All but six bodies were recovered.
They were wrapped in shecting and
covered with alcohol in tanks. We
stayed at Cape Sabine only eleven hours
and returned through Melville Bay as
fast as the ice would allow.
"Onc of II 1;sguimauX went crazy
here, and, jumping on the ice, ran oil as
fast as his legs could carry him. Two
sailors were detailed to follow and bring
him back. Such rnnningyou never saw.
When they captured him he turned up
his toes like Il turtle, expecting to he
carried. But the tars didn't look mt it
that way. They punched him with their
boarding pixies until he was glad to trot
back to the ship. We arrived at St.
Johns, Newfoundland, July II: where
the irons collins were received and the
bodies placed in them"
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A Chinese Poet.

Wong Chin Foo writes: "Thc New
York Cinnamon have q literary club
called the Iuch Kink Whey Monthly
Improvement Society, meeting once a
month to compare essays and poems, for
mutual improvement, in the Chinese Ian
guage, and prizes are offered for the
best literary predictions on themes given
by the club. The essays arc generally
submitted to a good scholar who is not a
member of the club. Ow Young Ming,
the venerable Chinese consul, has been
filling the office recently On last Mon
day, when the society met, the first prize
was awarded to Wing Sing, a Chinaman
who keeps a laundry in Brooklyn, n. y.
The prize was $40 and q bottle of
Chinese wine. am sorry I cannot do it
justice, :s I am a very poor poet, but in
the Chinese it is really good:
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Predicting the Weather from the
Color of the Stars,

From the fact that the color Of pure
water in great bulk is blue, N. Oh. Mon
tigny explains the pr~edominancc of this
color in the scintillation of the stars just
before and during wet weather. The
luminous rays, he argues, trrvcrsing the
air charged with large quantities of water
are necessarily tinged with the blue color
of this medium. The excess Of blue thus
becomes an almost certain means of pre-
dieting rain. This thcoretic conclusion
corresponds with the results of his obscr-
v%ations, continued for several years past
on the appearance of the steller rays in
connection with the state of the weather.
During the months of fine weather
in the present year blue has been much
less conspicuous than in the correspond.
ing months of previous years since 1876,
when wet weather prevailed. 1t also ap-
pears that green, which had always coin
cided with clear skies during the fine
years before 1875, has recently again be-
como predominant. Hence NJ. Montigny
thinks it probable that we have got over
the cycle of bad seasons, and that dry
weather and more normal summer may
be anticipated, at least, for some time to
roma
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Fighting the South Sea Islanders

Letters have been received from Mel
bourne containing particulars of encoun
tiers which the Miranda, Captain Ack
land, had with the natives during q 81,
months cruise among the South Sc;
Islanders. During her cruise she puI
into Havannah harbor. The schooner
John Hunt was in port, and the crew re
ported that her captain had been muir
dered by the natives at Bushman's Bay,
Hithcr, consequently, the Mirandi went,
where she was joined by the Undine.
and both vessels took up positions favor
able for covering landing parties. The
natives assumed a very hostile attitude,
and when informed that the murderers
of Captain Hunt must be given up they
attempted to spear the Interpreter who
conveyed the intimation to them. Three
or four days were spent in vain attempts
to bring the natives to terms, but they
remained defiant, and assembled in large
numbers on the beach armed with spears,
bows and poisoned arrows.
After receiving due warning and re-
plying that they would rather fight than
give up the murderers, the Miranda
opened fire upon the natives with two
finch guns, two G4.poundcrs and two
Gatlings. Most of the natives speedily
took to the bush, but a number remained
on the beach and sent q volley OF
poisoned arrows after the Miranda's
boat, which, however, did no harm.
The Miranda's fire was kept up for an
hour, and q large party of men were
landed to destroy the village, but it was
found to be so far inland that they gave
up the task.
The Miranda afterward proceeded to
Api and demanded payment of the fine
imposed some months since upon the
natives by Captain Dale. of the Diamond,
for the murder of the government agent
and two OF the crew of the Lavinia.
The surrender of Koro, the chief muir
derer was also demanded, but neither OF
these requests being complied with, a
party of one hundred men was landed
under Lieutenant Fisher. Thercupon
the natives deserted the place, and the
village was at once burned down and
the plantations Observation-Disclosures Nens.
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A DEAD MARCH,.

Play me amarchlow-toned and slow, march
for a silent tread,
Fit for the wandering feet Of one who dreams
of the silent dead,
Lonely-betwem the bones below and the
souls that are overhead.
Here for awhile they smiled and sang, alive in
the interspace;
Here with the grass beneath the feet and the
stars above the face.
Now are their feet beneath the grass, and
whittier has flown their grace'
Who shall assure us whence they come ortell
us the way they go?
Verify life with them was joy, and now they
have left us-woe;
Once they vera not and now they are not
and this is the sum we know.
Orderly range the seasons due and orderly
roll the stars
How shall we deem the soldiers brave who
frets of his wounds and scars!
Are we as senseless brutes that we should
dash at the wellseen bars!
No; we are here with feet unfxed, but ever
as if with lead
Down from the orbs which shine above to the
orb on which we tread,
Down to the dust from which we came and
with which we shall mingle, dead.
No, we are here to wait. and work, and strain
our banished eyes,
Weary and sick of soil and toll, and hungry
and fain forskies
Far from the reach of wingless men and not
to be scaled with cries.
No, we are here to bend our neckst to the yoke
of Tyrant Time,
Welcoming all the gifts he gives us-glories
OF youth and prime;
Patiently watching them all depart as our
heads grow white as rhine.
Why do we mourn the days that go-for the
same sun shines each day?
Ever o spring her primrose hath and ever a
May her may;
Sweet as the rose that died last year is the
rose that Is born to-day.
Do we not too return, we men, as ever the
round earth whirls!
Never a head is dimmed with gray but
another is summed with curls.
She was a girIapd he was a boy, but yetthere
are boys and girls.
All, but alas for the smiles Of smiles that
never but ono face wore!
All, for the voice that has flown away like a
bird to an unseen shore!
All, for tho face, the flower Of flowers, tina
blossoms on earth no more!
-Cosmo Monkhouse, in the Magazine OF
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THE WINTER OF THE YEAR.
It is the Winter of the year!

1t is the Winter of the year.
Ger buried flowers the snow riffs lie:
The storms have vailed with ashen gray
The blueness of the Summer sky;
No brooks in babbling ripples run,
No birds are singing in the hedge,
No violets nodding in the sun,
Beside the brooklet's frozen edge,
Yet unto ~leafleSs, broken boughs,
The greenest moses closely cling,
And near stern Winters stormy verge
Float soft, prophetic airs of Spring.
1t is the Winter of our life.
Ger buried hopes the snow riffs lie,
And storms have vailed with ashen gray
The blueneSs of the cloudless sky:
No light steps cross the threshold Stone,
No voice of love our welcomes greet,
No gentle hand enclasps Il own,
With cordial salutation sweet;
Yet unto bruised and broken hearts
Endearing words of promise cling.
And float upon Times stormy voyage,
Bright blossoms of eternal Spring.
Luther G. Riggs
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Advantages OF Wooden Undertaking

The advantages OF WOODEN undcrclolh'
ing, beside its warmth, and the closcncss
of its application, depend upon its bet
ter adoption in respect of temperature te
the requirements of climates and tc
changes of season than any other mate
rial for dress. 1t also has Il special fac
ulty for absorbing anu distributing mois'
turc that makes it particularly saIutary
next to a prcspiring skin: A linen gar
ment will absorb the products of transit
dation till it is wet and becomes sticky
upon a moist and clammy skin, while
flannel will rest upon a skin which it has
nearly dried and be only damp itself.
Hence, the body wearing flannel is in the
best condition to resist the after-chills
that follow great perspiration. The irri'
tation caused by flannel, which is brought
up as IN objection against it, is an &C.
commandment only of new flannels and
coarse ones, and is generally a merely
transient condition. - Popular Science
.MonthlV.
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Rapidity of the Blood Currents

The state OF the blood current gcner
ally increases with the activity Of the
animal, being most rapid in birds. In
insects, however, it is comparatively
slow. But this is because the air is ia
ken to the blood-the whole body being
bathed in air so hat the blood has no
need to hasten to n special organ. How
ever, activity nearly doubles the rate Of
pulsation in a bee. The motion in the
arteries is several times faster than in the
veins, but diminishes as the distance
from the heart increases. In the carotid
of the horse, the blood moves twelve
and one-half inches per second, in that
of man sixteen; in the capillaries of man
one to two inches per minute; in those
of a frog Il inch.
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An Experience Of Publishers.

The editor of a country paper says
with much reason: 1t is an experience OIL
publishers that too many people are apt
to think it matters but little whether the
newspaper bill is paid promptly or not,
that it is a small sum, and of but little
consequence. This is not because sub.
scribers are unwilling to pay, but be-
cause they are negligent. Each one
imagincs, because his years Indebtedness
amounts to so small a sum, the publisher
cannot be much in want of it, without
for a moment thinking that the income
of q newspaper is made of just such
small amounts, and that the aggregate OF
all subscriptions is by no means III in
considerable sum of money.
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SELECT SIFTINGS.
It was in olden times customary to

It was in olden times customary to
ratify an agreement with a bent coin.
There are evidences that copper mines
were worked in this country by the
mound builders. The first copper mines
worked in the United States were chiefly
in New Jersey and Connecticut.
The earthworm, some beetles and GER
tain savage tribes of men swallow earth,
but this is for the organic matter which
the earth contains; as no animal is pro-
duced Immediately from inorganic mat
er, so no animal can be sustained by 1t.
Extremes sometimes meet. In China
a dog thief is beheadcd, but the man
who steals a million can be but slightly
punished. and usually runs away to
Corca. In the United States q horse
thief is lynched, and an %absconding bank
cashier goes to Canada.
As a rule muscles are white in cold
blooded animals, and red in the warm
bloodcd. They are white in all the in
vcrtcbrates, fishes and reptiles, except
salmon, sturgeon and shark, and red IN
UlTuS anu ullultuhlS, CNCClI Ia thS ptS>S
of the common fowl and the like.
There are 80, 900 widows in India from
three to five years of age who will never
again be married. In that country as
soon as a child is born q match is made
by the parents. If the boy dies the girl
becomes a widow, and must wear mourn.
ing for her intended as long az she lives.
The sacred cattle of India are repre-
sented in Texas, two lots having been
imported into that State six or eight
years ago. There Brahma COWS, as they
are called, are in great demand. They
are of a rich cream color, while the males
have q prominent hump on the shoulder.
During the 800 years between A. D.
IA and 3l3 the Roman empire had fifty
seven rulers. OF these t~wenty-three were
assassinated, one was poisoned by his
wife, three were killed by their own SOL
diers, five killed themselves, n was
strangled, one was captured by the enc
my and flayed alive, n died of plague,
and two or three were formally executed.
In Queen Elizabeth's time, in England,
red, yellow and black hair dyes were IN
common use, the first, perhaps, in com,
pliment to the queen, whose natural hair,
seldom. seen, was reddish in hue. She
herself possessed eighty wigs of various
colors. The demand for hair at this
time was so large that children were Of
ten allured into corners and shearcd
even the sancity of the grave was not re.
spectcd, and the dead were robbed OF
their hair. The fashion of dycing the
hair was by no means confined to women
men commonly died their boards.
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HUMOR OF THE DAY.

A tie in the house-when a wedding
takes place.
A silent partner is one who makes no
noise and leaves nothing.
The best chest protector-a quarter to
the baggage master.-Boston Bulletin.
The peal of a breakfast bell often fails
to wake q man up. The peel of a
banana will do it every time. -BreaIJast
Table.
An exchange says: 1--WE spend nearly
800, 900, 900, per annum on Jul schools."
Well, it is money we'll spent. We have
the best base ball players in the world.
-Norristoun Herald.
The craze on electrical study is begin
ming to bear fruit. care you the con-
ductor2" asked q lad on an excursion
train. II am," Replied the courteous
official, "and my name is Wood" "Oh,
that can'I be-" said the boy, ''for wood
is a non-conductor. "-Boston Bulletin.
Hard times have even reached the
Rothschilds. 81 don't suppose you
know what hard times are" said q man
to one of the house servants OF the bar
oness Rothsch lid in Paris. "Oh, yes, we
do, for it is only this morning that l saw
the baroness and her daughter playing
on one piano"
Actress to washerwoman, who has
brought her bill)-"How can you be go
impairment as to dun me in this way?"
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS What
do you mean2 Who are you, l should
like to know9 If I choose to pay for q
gallery ticket you have got to faint on
the stage for my amusement"
THE INEVITABLE THORN.
She had such pretty bright blue eyes,
And waving hair Of golden sheen;
A saucy nose and cherry lips,
And stately manners of a queen.
But oh, there was one little fault,
One blemish all these charms among;
This lovely rosebud had one thorn,
She had-alas! she had a tongue.
In Aroostook county, Me-, it is COM
planned that people have to go q hun
dred miles to court. Now while it
would seem q little difficult for the old
Aroostookers to 60 to law with n an
other, the young A~roostookers can prob
ably 60 to court at their next door
neighbors; but it is human nature to
grumble.
THE HLEAsURE OF COAsrING.
See the boy
Full of joy
With his painted sled
Gayly go
Through the snow,
Always at the head.
Bells jingle,
Ears tingle,
But what matters that:
RuEs 'em warm,
Doesn't harm,
Though he tumbles fiat.
Up again,
With a grin,
He's bound to have his frolic;
Slipping down,
Cracking crown-
'Sno worse than having collie.
-Chicd0o Sun.
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"Maryland, my Maryland"
$50 Pretty Wives,
Lovely daughters and noble men.


"My farm lies in a rather low and mias'
matte situation, and
my wife!"
"WhoT
."Was e very pretty blonde"
Twenty years ago became
"Sallow!"
"Holloweyedr .
"Withered and aged"
Before her time, from
"Malarial vapors, though she made no
particular complaint, not being Of tbs
grumpy kind, yet causing me great unea
ness.
"a short time ago I purchased your rem
edy for one Of the children, who had a very
severe attack Of biliousness, and it occurred
to me that the remedy might help my wife
as I found that our little girl upon recovery
had
"Lost!'
Her sallowness, and looked as fresh as a
new blown daisy. Well, the story is soon
told. My wife, to-day. has gained her old.
timed beauty with compound interest, and
is now as handsome q matron If I do say IL
myself as can be found in this county, which
is noted for pretty women. And I have only
Hop Bitters to thank for it.
"The dear creature just looked over my
shoulder, and says, 4 can latter equal to
the days Of our courtship,' and that reminds
me there might be more pretty ,pipes. i my
brother farmers would do as 1 have done
Hoping you may long be sparedto do good
Thankfully remain,
G. L. JAMES,
B~ELTsy1LLE, Prince George Co., Nd,
May 26, 1883. +
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The signal officer on the summit of
Pixies Peak says the highest velocity of
the wind ever recorded there was 10
miles per hour, when the instrument
broke and cordwood began flying down
the mountain. The guide adds that
seventy-five miles per hour would it a
mule out of the trail.
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THE CUP.

The heroes drank in royal mood:
The bubbles sparkle clear and good:
And mirth dissolved each ancient feud,
Fair cheeks as red rs cherry's blood
shone brighter than the winter moon,
Their voices rose in sad. sweet tune:
TOO late we come and part too soon,
In life's s~wift-ending afternoon"
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One dry goods firm in New York esti
mates that it is put to an annual expense
of from $40 to $50, 900 for samples
of fabrics, with the postage, sent all
over the country in answer to requests.
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HROunh a.. Ifch,S

THE proportion of newspapers in China to
the population is in the ratio of about one
publication to 1000. 00) inhabitants.
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When son visit or leave New York city. save baggage;
e1pressage and So carriage h'rc. an SOP AZ tho "raa
Union Hotel, opposite Grand Central d,l,ot.
uUpiegin rooms, Tilted IN AZ II COS; OF o1' mlnt,a
dollars. 81 and upward per day. European plan. .El.
water. Restaurant SUPPLIED with the b. st. Hors , irs.
stages and elevated railroad to all dspIts tAm.llsi
can live better for less money ut the. Grand Union
Hotel than at any other irst-class hotel In the city.
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Il IL * & Cancer of the lower bowel some.
times results from neglected or badly treated
piles. BY our improved methods, without
knife, iaustic or salvc, wespeelily and perlna.
nently cure the worst pile tumorS. Pamphlet,
references and terms. two letter stamps.
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association, GG3
Main street. Buffalo. \. y,
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ImOOrfOnt,

For a splendid Magazine and chance for EN-
ployment, address ". H. Thompson, Phila. Pa
MAST, the artist, is going to lecture and ex
1Snrfs IN 1rnyy