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TAILORING.
BOARDING.

Having located at the Great Mills" / an
prepared to accommodate permanent and
transient boarders at moderate rates.
Mrs. ALEX MILBUI2N.
Aug. IL. 1885.
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For the information Of all persons con-
cernad, the following Act ofthe Legisla
ture, passed March oath, 1866, is published:
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SHERIFF'S ELECTROMAGNETIC.

NOTICES HEREBY GIVEN TO THE
N Qualified voters of st. Mary's county,
that an election will be held on the
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it is fact that the voyagers, with ali
oheir science and skill, have never been
able to speak a passing bark. MyriJ
ads of companion craft can be seen in
all directions, dotting the illimitable
ether; but each pursues alone its own
unchanging course. Not one has ever
drifted near enough for the exchange of
a friendly hail.
s'How long will the mammoth ship
pursue its rounds? Will the delicate
tissue of attractions, the subtle adjust
ment of forces Qor which the scientists
can give us hard names but no real
definitions)-will these be one day dis
turbed ever so slightly, and the ma;es-
tic ship be thrown from the track To
take her place, splendid wreck,
among the ruins of by-gone systems?
"Only in the mysterious workings of
Intinity is the answer to be found.
1--WE know the ships name," said Al
dozen young voices, softly, for they.
were impressed by the greatness of the
theme. I'VE have all guessed it. 1t is
the Earth. :"
But Charlie Page was heardsto say.
an hour later, as he was helping to har-
ness the horses, that he - thought this
part of Aunt Maria's carryall was I'M
comfortably cold, and if it wasn't for
leaving the coasting behind, he'd like
to go off and find some of those places
where the mercury kept above zero all
the year round. Golden Days.
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bring out the ornamental darts and
thrust them into the bulls hide. The
animal jumps and plunges with pain.
and tries to shake them off, but the
barbs cling to the hide, and the more
he struggles the further they penetrate
the flesh. His shoulders are covered
with them, and the crimson blood trick
les down his sides. He stands painting
with distress, his tongue hanging out,
and is thoroughly exhausted.
The Governors trumpet sounds the
bulls death warrant. 1t means that
the cruel sport has lasted long enough.
and the chief matad0r comes forward
with a red blanket and a sword. He
approaches the bull. flaps the blanket
in his eyes, the animal plunges at him,
and with great dextcrity the matador
whirls and thrusts the sword into the
animals heart. The bull plunges with
pain, and throws the sword out of his
body into the air. He staggers and falls
upon the ground, the chief matador
runs up, pierces his brain with pom
lard, and the mules are brought in to
drag the dead animal out. The band
plays, the crowd cheers, and the first
act is over.
The matadors bow to the Governor
bow to the crowd, and rest while a
clown dances in the ring to amuse the
people in the interim. Pretty soon the
trumpet blows again, two more old
crow-baits are ridden in and another
bull is brought from the corral. The
same scenes recur, the horses are
always killed, but the men are seldom
injured. Four bulls are usually dis
posed of each Sunday afternoon before
the appetite for blood is satiated.
This cruel sport in Mexico is in its
decadence. 1t grew out of the lack OF
other entertainment. Until two years
ago there was no horse-racing in Mex
leo, and this class of sport is unknown
outside of the capital. The young men
are not allowed to visit the girls, are
not permitted to walk with them in the
parks, and have, in short, no amuse-
ments but billiards, cock-fghting and
bull-baiting. The exodus of foreigners
into the Republic will break many Of
the barriers down. While the Grin
Cos" as foreigners are called, generally
conform to the customs of the country,
they refuse to accept all of them, and
the Mexican people are gradually tend
ing toward more modern civilization.
Guy Of Merico Cor. Chicago Inter
Ocean
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wEEzv's MOUSE.

Why Papa Had Almost Mind to Buy
Her Pair OF spectacles.
Baby Haynes was SO little that he
couldn't drink very well. One morn
ing he spilled his mug of milk all over
his bib.
He must have clean bib," said
Mamma Haynes. xviii you bring me
one, Weezy, from my bureauP'
Eyes m" said Weezy, running away
in high glee. She was always proud to
be sent on errands.
Next moment she came flying back,
mouth and eyes wide open.
20 mamma, mammal cried she;
ssthere's mousie in the drawer!
There's mOusie in the drawer!'
"A mouse?" said mamma, quietly.
"Well, wouldn't he let my little girl
have baby's bib?''
20 mamma, mamma! I'm just as
scared!' cried Weezy, still hopping up
and down.
afraid of a pretty little mouse?
What a silly Weezy!" said mamma.
didn't he scamper away as fast he
could?'
mo. no, mamma! 1 shut him up
tightr'
"You did? Oh! then / think papa
must catch the poor little fellow" said
mamma.
She put the baby in the cradle, and
went to call Papa Haynes.
Papa seized the tongs, and walked
upstairs. Behind him followed man.
ma, with Weezy clinging to her dress.
Behind Weezy tiptoed Phebe, the
nurse-girl. Phebe wanted to do some
thing to help, so she brought the
mouse-trap. Last of all came Bridget,
swinging rolling-pin.
''Open the drawer gently" said papa
to mamma. I'm try to catch the
mouse when he jumps"
Mamma pulled out the drawer lit
tie. Papa stood close by with the
tongs, but the mouse didn't jump.
Then mamma pulled out the drawer
o little farther.
''See! see, papa! There's the mousie!'
cried Weezy, pointing her little finger
towards a corner of the drawer.
Papa thrust in the tongs, and drew
out-well, what do you suppose? Why,
a wee, gray tassel! Mamma must have
dropped it off her sleeve in taking
baby's clean frock from the bureau.
.s'Dear. dear!'' laughed papa.
what poor eyes our Weezy must have!
I've great mind to buy her pair Of
spectacles!''
After that they all went downstairs:
Papa with the tongs, mamma with
Weezy, Bridget with the rolling-pin,
and Phcbe with the mouse-trap. And
this was the end of Weezy's fright about
the mouse. Our Little Ones.
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

What this great country needs at
present is roller skate with an air
brake attaehment.-Ga Galveston fTex.)
.NeWs.
"A contemporary tells of new con-
trivance to make ladies taller. The
ladies have contrivances for making
men short.
1t is said that bleeding a partially
blind horse at the nose will restore him
to sight. So much for the horse. To
open mans eyes you must bleed him
in the pocket. - Chicago Tribune.
-''How is your old friend Jones get
ting along?' HE has been coming
money up to last Wednesday," why
did he stop them" He was arrested
"Wbat for?'' Coming money
Drake's Magazine.
"A Massachusetts woman sold her
washtub to party of rihemen for
target. They paid her $3.50 for it, and
after they had gone home she went out
in the field and brought it home as good
as it ever was.-Burlington Free Press.
"A young man in this city can not
sarcastic or not in her remark to him,
after he had quite proudly declared that
there was .'noble blood" in his veins,
that only the night before her father
had said the same thing about his
Guernsey cow.-Boston Times.
She was book agent She called
in our Office. She was very pretty and
sweet, and we fell in love on the spot.
.'Sir, am engaged" 30, we are
so sorry. When is it to be?" She
blushed and modestly withdrew. She
was new to the business, and would
probably have told us what she was en-
gagged in selling, only we had to act in
self-defense. Louisville Journal.
How much did Mr.. Smith give you
at his wedding?' asked minister's
wife of her husband. Two dollars"
'.Well, that's a very insignificant sum
for rich man like Mr.. Smith to pay
for such a service" at does seem q
small amount" he replied, ..but you
must remember that he has been mar
ried before. IN Y. Sun.
why don't you call me donkey
and be done with it? You have limited
at it long enough" he snarled out. 1T
wouldn't be quite true" she replied.
Il suppose not. suppose l haven't
ears enough for that animal" he re-
torted sarcastically. 20, yes, you
have" she returned sweetly. you
don't need any more ears" "What do
i need, thenP" More legs" --Boston
Transcript.
"A dentist, whose skill at teeth-pull-
ing is only equaled by his quickness at
repartee, was recently waited upon by
wag carrying an old garden rake.
Doctor" said he, II want you to pull
Z couple of teeth for me-" very
well. replied the doctor; take q seat
in that chair and show me the teeth"
''Well, DOCTOR said the .wag, II want
You to pull these two broken teeth out
of this rake" For 3 moment the
doctor was nonplussed by the joke; but.
recovering himself, he soberly pulled
the teeth from the rake and then de-
mauded heavy fee. which the wag
paid still more soberlY.-M y Ledger.
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BILLIARDS..
A Metropolitan Journals Idea of Whatys
Real Blizzard Is.

A Metropolitan Journals Idea of WHAT'S
Real Blizzard Is.
We observe a disposition on the part
of some of our contemporaries to call
the recent cold weather a blizzard; and
in the interest of accuracy and truth we
desire to inform them that the resemb-
lance of such weather as we have had
to that which is called a blizzard, il
about as remote as any resemblance
can be-
We have simply had a season of cold
weather, with the thermometer at zero.
A blizzard means greatly more than
that. II means a sudden descent of the
cold of interplanetary space, or some
thing like that. 1t means time when
the mercury freezes; when the very at
mosphere sparkles with spicule of ice:
when blast blows at the rate of hun.
dred miles an hour; when there is posi-
tive and immediate danger to life upon
the briefest exposure; when all going
about out of doors must be stopped,
whatever the occasion may be.
The cold of blizzard is inconceivable
in its intensity He who passes into the
open air at such time is in danger OF
death even at his own doorstep, for the
cold penetrates to the very marrow.
producing stupor and utter bewilder-
ment even in the strongest men. This
loss of faculty is SO quick in its coming
that men who know what a blizzard is
do not venture even to make hurried
journey from their doorsteps to stables
fifty yards away without fastening one
end of rope to the door knob and car
rying the other with them as means OF
retracing their steps when the bewilder-
ment of the cold shall come over them.
Sometimes even this device fails, and
men have died with cold within few
yards of their doors, while holding the
ciew cord in their hands. Sometimes
the cold is too intense and the blast too
searching for any venture out of doors
at all. and men who know what they
are about have permitted their cattle to
starve at a distance of fifty yards, be-
cause they knew that any attempt to
feed them must be fatal to the person,
making it. That is what blizzard is
and our little season of zero weather is
summer afternoon in comparison
N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
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FOB OUR YOUNG FOLKS
IN LAP-LAND.

a sunny cline know full well
Where merry little people dwell
Its funny name, If may tell
Is Lap-land.
A balmy air, an April sky.
Breezes that sing sweet lullaby
To cradles on the tree-tops high
In Lap-land.
IT'S there one learns his Q's and Ps,
How the young moon is made of cheese,
And many wonders such as these,
In Lap-land.
And one may read upon ones toes
How this wee pig to market goes,
And that one squealeth out his woes
In Lap-land.
Fen there the Jolly baker-man
Doth pat his cakes as best he can,
And tosseth them into the pan
And there resides good Dr. Bliss
A very wiseacre, wis
Who cures all ailments with kiss
In Lap-land.
But lived there so long ago,
The little folk / scarce should know
Whom once Imet, for veal or woe.
In Lap-land,
Yet oft l dream, with happy thrill,
A little King reign there still,
And all bow down to my sweet will
In Lap-land.
e. f. Olmstedd, IN Harper's Young People.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

For the first time in twelve years
the school committee of Boston will
meet with no women in its membership.
boston Journal.
Philadelphia school-teachers COM
plain of their small salaries, which, they
claim, average only about sixty per cent.
Of those paid in Boston and New York.
Mr.. Moody, according to Cincin-
NATHAN, is the acid which, touching the
dormant alkali of the Christian spirit,
causes it to effervesce into q revival OF
religion.
Tennessee stands next to the head
in the column of illiterate States, fact
which suggests to the people the neces-
sity of improving its present defective
school system Chicago journal.
"A student at Wesleyan College re-
Gently described pillar of their audi
forum which had been wound with an
American flag, as BARRIERS pole
..emblematic, y he said, ''of the close
shave some of the graduates had to get
through"
The Board of Trustees of Column
bian University, of Washington, at a
recent special meeting, upon the unani-
nous recommendation Of the faculty of
its medical department, decided to ad-
nit women to study medicine in the in
stitution, with all the privileges OF
instruction accorded to the male stu
1ents.- Washington Post.
Rev. DR.. Howard Henderson, of the
Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church,
of Jersey City, commits himself to Gre
nation. In a paper read before New
York Cremation Society, he said he had
made a study of the best means of dis
posing of the dead, and had come to
the conclusion that the day was not far
distant when the retort will take the
place of the grave. He spoke of the
large amount of money expended in
monuments, flowers and funerals. and
characterized it as mockery.-M ".
Tribune.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, the
primate of all England, has an annual
income of $4,000, in addition to LAM
beth Palace, his London or city resi-
dence. The Archbishop of York, the
primate of England, receives $4,000 a
year, besides two residences and a
large household of officials, The tithes
of some of the other Bishops are: Lon
don, $4,000; Durham, $50, 900; Win
chester, 1856, 800; Ely, 1921, 800, and Bath,
Lincoln, Oxford. Salisbury and Worces-
ter, $4,000 each. The Bishop of Sodor
and Man, who has neither cathedral
nor dean, gets $4,000 year for doing
nothing.
Quite fiutter has been caused in
Protestant Episcopal Church circles in
New York, by sermon delivered re-
Gently by Rev. X. Heber Newton, IN
which the preacher questioned the sanity
of Christ, and made other equally
bold and radical assertions of similar
character. In his sermon, Mr.. Newton,
in abiding to Christ as the prince of
idealists, said: "The last. worst doubt
that could come to me would be the
suspicion that this greatest of idealists
was carried of his feet by the tide OF
heavenly life that flooded his soul with
divine enthusiasts; that he lost his head
in the greatest mission ever trusted to
the child of MANN Y. Sun.
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SMART OREGON LAWYERS.

Postponing tho Hearing of Cause Set
for December ~, Because 1t Was As
sumed to He Washinyfon's Birthday,
Dies Non.
Judge Bellinger is telling good joke
on himself and j. w. Whalley, which
goes to show that even the clearest legal
minds sometimes get things mixed, and
that not every one knows when the
father of our country came into it. 1t
seems that Mr.. Whalley and Mr.. Bell
niger were opposing counsel in case
that was to come up in the United
States Court, and were in attendance
there to have day set for the trial.
Mr.. Whalley in his usual dignified man.
ner, rose. and addressing Judge Deadly,
moved that the case be set down for the
22d inst. This was about to be done,
when Mr.. Bellinger rose and stated that
as the 22d was WashiDgton's birthday,
and non-judicial day, he would sug-
gest that the case be set for the 23d.
Mr.. Whallcy at once assented, apollo
giving for his forgetfulness and remark
ing that of course the case could not be
tried on the day first mentioned. Judge
Deadly, who with pencil poised bad been
looking blandly at the two brethren
over his glasses and listening to their
remarks. said: swell, then, we viii set
it down for the 23d." A few days aft
er, Mr.. Bellinger. while looking up data
for historical lecture which be Is now
engaged to deliver, came across page
of history which threw a great flood Of
light across that benighted part of his
intellect in which was stored his infor-
nation in regard to Washington's
birthday, and he became aware that it
was on the ed of February instead of
December. And when he recalled how
his brother had apologized for forget
fulness he rejoiced exceedingly and
straightway told the story to all he met;
whereby the hilarity of the members Of
the legal profession was greatly in
creased. Portland Oregonian.
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A COLLISION.

Only youth-but he stood out there
In spite of the wind and the biting air
That stung like bee and cut like a knife
And he really appeared a thing OF ate.
= Only a whistie-ioud and shriii-
which was executed with a Will
And seemed to exhaust the oxygen
Which that gentle youth had stored within
Only a UNDERGRADUATE
Which opened fast and exposed head
That was banged i'm front and curled behind
As II to confine its owners mind.
Only girl--but she slipped below
To pass with the youth AN hour or so,
And list to the words of a love intense
And some gush, II 1t so pleased Providence.
Only a boot-of dimensions fair,
But It made that sweet youth soar in air;
And youth, and cane, and pomade scent
Laid there in one sad ruin blent.
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PUBLIC HOSPITALITY.
The Lesson Taught by the People Of BE.
nighted India.

luui8s
The people of India shame us by some
of their customs. There is not, SO far
as we are aware, single place on any
American road where respectable trav-
elers, much less tramps, are provided
with food free of cost. We draw a line
at watering-troughs. The Indian goes
much further. A writer says: 1.-The
wayside hospitality is a peculiar feature
noticeable in Indian travelling in the
summer months, which. as an act of
love and charity, deserves commenda-
ton.
This institution is no respector OF
persons or castles, and beasts of burden,
and even the despised dogs. are included
in it with genuine fraternity. On the
high roads of travel, all through the
country, there are cottages built at in
tervals by the hospitality of individual
persons and rich men of the localities.
where tired passengers are rested and
refreshed.
Each cottage has hired host, who
is Brahmin or other high-caste per.
son, and it is his duty to ask THE passer.
by to walk in and be rested. Any onemay
come in and be entertained with soaked
peas, molasses and cold water free of
charge.
''Often an old couple, retired from
the world, spend their evening days and
whole savings in such acts Of charity.
Large tubs full of water are placed out
side the cottage for cattle and other
beasts. - Youths Companion.
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MN with great force against the side Of
the arena. a..
The rider, expecting the attack, was
prepared for it. and leaped with great
agility from the saddle Just as the two
animals came in contact. There was
very little left of the horse There was
not much OF him when he was dragged
into the arena, but the long horns Of the
bull penetrated his bowels and tore
them out The bull jams the horse
against the planks, two, three, four
times and then withdraws. The horse
lies a bleeding, disembowled mass, and
the crowd cheers the dreadful spectacle
The bull having given up all idea of
escape turns upon everything he sees,
and the second horse is ridden up before
him. No attempt is made to get the
animal out of the way; he was brought
there to be slaughtered, and took his
turn. Both horses being disposed of,
and the bull being completely ex-
hausted, the matadors enter the strug-
gle, and tease him with their scarlet
cloaks. At frequent intervals around
the arena are placed heavy planks, be-
hind which the matadors would run for
protection when they were pursued.
The bull had no chance at all. He
was there simply to be teased, and
then killed by slow degrees. One
matador. more agile than the rest,
bats the animal with his lance, and,
when the bull turns upon him, vaults
over the down-turned horas by resting
his lance upon the ground. Then they
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Outside Of two or three thousand
German and Frenchmen who brought
communistic theories with them from
Europe, the New York San does not be-
lieve that there are five hundred Com
munists in New York, and in the Union
As whole the number is insignificantly
small in comparison with the total bodp
If workers.
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One hundred years ago, Wednesday,
December "a, 1874, the Methodist Epis-
copal Church in the United States was
organized in Lovely Lane Chapel. Bal
timore.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-08-05

congestion Of bran. j !; collie, i cob
sumption, q; cDuvuiBIons--'iiiairtiie'
J. dinrrhoA, j +; dipiItilariA, /; dysen-
tsry, j. feveI--tvphpid, J.; gastTo-
entsritik, J.; heart-GiseuEe, 3; miami
cide, j. kidney disease, 4; liver d's-
ease, l.; did age, 81 paralysis, 7;
s0ftsnine Of bran. ] /; Spinal Affection,
] (; sun-stynke, ] {; tseihine, /; whDop-
mg-rouEh, !.
ApE,---0ns dpy to thirty, 2 orr
mnnth 10 SIX, ] sIz mOutir 20 twelve
8; une year TO thrse, 3; three
wears 10 five, ] 4; ten years 10
twenty, 2: twenty years tn thirty,
2; thirty wears 10 forty, 3; torty
years To fifty, ]; fifty yeRrE 10
sixfy, g.; SIXTY wears 10 seventy, B;
seventy years ~ elgHty . eighty years
10 ninety. J..
gsHweratrx.-hiean teuIperature fnr
the week ending July 25tk, Hs-l4 Tor
the week ending August lst- s5-l4.
Raujal,-Amomf Of rainfall tur
tine week ending July 10Th, 2.l0
inches fDr week sndne August LIST.
O 40 inches.
Rae.-Rats Of murtaiity Of whole
population was 24.g6 per LOGO per
Hnnum; rate Of mortality of white
population was 25-2s per 1000 per an
nun rate Of mortality Of eoiored pop
ulafiOn was Ss.66 per l.00D per ALI
mum.