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MISCELLANEOUS.

In the center of an oak tree re-
Gently felled near Goshen, Conn, was
found bottle containinga slip of paper
on which was written in a feminine
hand: "She was young. and she was
fair but an Indian raised her hair. "
She hadn't modern hair.-HGrJord
Post.
-Steel-rail men have no reason to be
alarmed because the building of new
railroad lines is falling off. The increase
of traffic at the same time increases the
wear on rails, and the 10000 miles of
rail in the United States will alone re-
quire over $50, 600 tons of new rails an
nually Y. Herald.
At a recent fashionable luncheon
party tea was served in handsome and
presented with the cup in which his or
tea had been served to take away as a
souvenir. A novelty in china, by the
way, is a set of plates. each painted by
some distinguished foreign artist, and
offered for sale at 81 600 a piece.-N 7.
Letter.
There are at present three members
of the British House of Commons Who
have sat for period of fifty consecu-
tive years and over. They are Mr..
Gladstone, who has sat for fifty-three
years; Mr.. Talbot, who was elected in
1880 for Glamorgan, has represented
the same constituency for fifty-five
years, and c. p. Villiers, who has been
member for Wolverhampton for fifty
years.
Their ar diferensez of opinyun
amung spelling reformrz, az ther ar in
everi organizashun ov men hu hav a
comOn end in view; but theze diferensez
are not vital and tina are constantli
groing les. Upon the GENERAL principle
ov the reform and upon their practical
aplcashun. oil reformn, ecsept few
irreconcilablz such az hang around the
ei ov eyeri great movement, are sub
stanshali ov wun mind. Port Hope Fo-
metic Herald.
The death of fine parrot is quite
feelingly related by the Atlanta Consti-
tuition: He was good singer, capital
talker and loved to entertain callers.
He always designated his owner Mr.
Sprenger, as Papa A few nights
ago he was entertaining q party of
ladies and gentlemen at Mr. Sprenger's
residence, when he suddenly tumbled
over from his perch, calling plaintively,
Papa Papa Papa" Mr.
Sprenger heard him, and ran to his
side and clasped him in his arms. The
bird voice sank lower and lower, I'M
til there could be heard a whispered
Papa and then the breath ceased
and Polly was dead. The bird came
originally from Australia, and was snow
white.
1T happened to be my lot one
day." said friend of mine who lives
in a suburban town, ''to be riding in Il
/ horse car in company with two ladies
who were utter strangers 10 me. l
heard them discussing a lady whose
name did not catch; they described
her house from attic to cellar they told
the hours of her meals and how her
table was spread and served. they even
mentioned the number of towels in
daily use in her household. l did not
listen. for was engrossed in my own
thoughts, but | heard enough of the
conversation to make me pity and SYM
pathize with the lady they were so
eagerly dissecting, when, all at once,
to my establishment and indignation, /
found they were talking about me. y
Boston Letter.
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Gan eight-page, forty column weekly
whole year for only so cents" This is the
offer made by the publishers of the A1aeri-
can Rural Home, of Rochester, N. Y, to all
persons who send in their years subscrip-
tion before April LIST, 1885. This is an ep-,
portunity to secure one OF the best farm
journals in the world at a bargain. The
Rural is the brightest, cheapest and most
popular weekly published for the farmer
and his family. 1t is not paper of mush-
room growth. like many so-called farm
Journals that are at present being extern
sively advertised, but has been published
regularly for fifteen years. Many of the
ablest AgriculturistS and Horticulturists
write fer it. Its eight large Pages are al
ways brimful of practical in1 ormation and
of fresh, original miscellany of the highest
character. 1t is, in short, the model jour-
nal for those who dwell in village and
country homes, and should be the first one
subscribed for after your local paper. We
are acquainted with both paper and pub
fishers and cheerfully recommend it to cur
readers as first class agricultural journal
worth twice the money asked for it. The
regular price is ONE DOLLAR A YEAR, IN
ADVANCE, but the above special offer of
FIFTY CENTS will be accepted if sent in be-
fore April lst, 1885. Remember, this is no
bUDlbuq, but genuine, bona tide PROPOSE
ton to furnish for FIFTY GENTS A YEAR the
only eight-page, forty column agricultural
WEEKLY ever offered at that price. Ad-
dress,
RURAL HOME Co. Rochester N Y,
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The Mountain of Miseries.

Boys and girls who think their
troubles are greater than those of others
should remember the story of the Mount
ain of Miseries. 1t runs that Jupiter
once permitted all men to bring their
troubles to plain and there exchange
them for others. The mountain of
miseries soon became enormous, but not
one vice was piled into it, Men and
women threw away their bad noses and
teeth, their moles and poverty, but not
their crimes. The choices were similar
A slave chose govt, poverty was
changed for sickness, care for pain,
snub noses for long ones, and so on.
But soon they were all bewailing their
change, Then Jupiter sent Patience
to tell them they might, if they wished
resume their own troubles again. Every
one gladly ava led himself of the per-
mission, and Patience also helped them
to bear their burdens without murmur-
ing. However dissatisfied with his lot
one may be, it is not often that he would
be willing actually to exchange with
another COngregdtiOnatISt.
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SPRING VELVETS.
An Article of Ladies Wear That Is Great
ly in Vogue.

~ III vogue
Spring velvets are as regularly an
nounced by merchants as spring silks
have always been, because velvets are
now used Ut. all seasons of the year,
and velvet figures are seen on the
sheerest fabrics. Frise velvet figures
on satin grounds are the novelties for
the next spring and summer, to be COM
bined with plain satins, which it is con-
fidently asserted will remain in favor.
especially in the new twilled and
tricotine effects. Among these novel
ties small figures prevail either in quaint
Persian designs, in small Greek keys
that form squares, in Turkish crescents,
and more than all else in small blocks
set in stripes, or in prim small sprigs of
flowers placed stiflly in rows across the
fabric. The last are called the iardiniere
patterns. and show seven or eight nat
ural tints in the flower and its leaves,
standing out in curled velvet loops from
q sober ground OF gray satin, beige.
slate, moss green, myrtle, Old blue, and
browns OF most varied shades. An
olive velvet key pattern is on dull blue
satin; cardinal blocks of velvet arc on
beige grounds; black and white checked
grounds have black velvet hali-moons;
narrow stripes of gray satin have small
red velvet blocks upon them, and these
alternate with blue satin stripes, on
which are olive or golden brown stripes
Wider stripes of mouse-colored velvet
are separated by twilled stripes of two
colors, such as gray with rose-color.
For the single breadth now worn in the
front of plain satin, silk, or velvet
skirts there are three curves of velvet
that reach in one line from selvedge to
selyedge, such as brown velvet across
on beige satin, or gray velvet on car
dinal red satin.-HGrper'S Bazar.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

" IsN'T that Mrs. Holmes? I Thought the
doctors gave her up. She looks well now.D
" She is well. After the doctors gave mn
her case she tried DR.. Pierce's 'Favorite
Prescription and began to get better right
away. l heard her say not long ago, that
she hadn't felt so well in twenty years.
she does her own work and says that life
seems worth living, at last. 'Why,' said
she, { / feel as if had been raised from the
dead, almost" Thus do thousands attest
the marvellous efficacy of this God given
remedy for female weakness, prolapsus,
liberation, leucorrhea morning sickness,
weakness of stomach, tendency to cancer
GUS disease, nervous prostraticn, general
debility and kindred affections.
APILLER- sHAN-The quack decter-Bos-
fo,, Pam
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FOR OUR YOUNG FOLKS.
BE A MAN.

- wish / could be HERO
a little boy said to me;
And when ! grow up, hero
| really mean to be.
/ mean to be brave" he told me,
While his face was all aglow;
III do something grand and noble
That all the world shall know"
NY little unfedged hero,
, I've something to say TO you:
In the time when you're sorely tempted,
To your own self be true.
! Do right, and let no one lead you
Into the ways of wrong,
And you II be as true Il hero
As ever reused poets song.
Be kind to the poor and needy
You'll meet with in the way;
Your life be light to lead them
TO lOftier heights, pray.
BE steadfast, and work in patience,
In all things do your best;
BE man. my little fellow,
And you will be all the rest.
-Ebcn h. Rerf0rd, in Golden Days.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

-Mahlon Holland, who abandoned
his property near Bangor, Me-, several
years ago; and settled down in the
Northwest as a trapper and hunter,
died three years ago, and recently his
relatives, who had been in charge of his
farm, decided to bring his remains East
for interment. Those who went after
his remains found that Holland had
been buried in box made of old boards,
and that he could not be taken east
ward until he was put in a more sub
stantial coffin. In making the transfer
his missing will was found, giving Hol-
lands property to his relatives, as he
had promised, and also memorandum
stating where he had buried 81, 100 in
gold near the lake. The papers had
been buried with Holland by mistake
Boston Post.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

COMPOSED of genuine French Grape
Brandy, Extract of Smart Weed and ia
maica Ginger, with Camphor Water, DR..
Picrce's Compound Extract of Smart Weed
excels as remedy for collie, cholera NOR
bus, diarrhma, dysentery or bloody hux,
or to break up colds, fevers or inhamma-
tory attacks.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

ton are using Ely's Cream
Balm for catarrh with most
satisfactory results. Alady
is recovering the sense OF
smell which she had not
enjoyed for fifteen years
Mr.. Barber has used it In
his family and commends
it very highly. A Tunk
hammock lawyer testiiieE
that he was cured Of par
tial deafness. - PIktsiOn
Pa, Gazette.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

For THROAT DISEASES AND CoUGHs.-
BROWNS BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs, like all
really good things, are frequently initiated.
The genuine are sold oRlJ IN boreS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

Delicate diseases of either sex,
however induced, speedily and permanent
ly cured. Book of particulars 0 cents, in
stamps. Consultation free. Address,
Worlds Dispensary Medical Association,
Buffalo, N, Y.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

PTKE's TooTHACHE DROPS cure minute, &c.
Glenns Sulpllur Soap heals and beauties. 25c.
GERMAN CORN REMOVER kills Corns Bunions
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

IT is strange that there should be any
marine disasters between New York and
Boston, when all the boats go through
Long Island Sound.-IerdS SiningS.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

NOTHING to speak OLA dude.-N 7.
Journal.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

THE coachman may not be very par
ticular whom lie marries, but he must
draw the line" somewhere-BoStOR
Star.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

A READER asks: "Wbat is a cosun-
drum" A conundrum is man at a swell
dinner in evening dress. You can't tsll
whether he is waiter or guest.-Brook-
Inn Times
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

The self-raising flour of the markets is
a great boon to those who are unable to
raise barrel of -four themselves.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

Snow balls are fashionable. You don't
require to attend them. They will come
to you.-N. Y. Dial.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21
DOCTORS FURIOUS.

WHAT is great deal worse than rain
ing cats and dogs? Hailing stage.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

II is the only preparation of sarsa-
parilla that gives perfect and COM
plete satisfaction, and outsells all 9TH
er remedies wherever its healing
virtues become fully known. 1t is
a quick restorer of healthy and
regular bodily functions, and re-
moves all tendency TO paralysis, apo
pleXy and sudden death by checking
the decay and wasting away of vital
tissues and muscular fibres that con-
troll the workings of life's marvellous
machinery.
OF Demand this remedy of your
druggist. Take no substitute.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

WHAT is the greatest curiosity in the
world? A woman's.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21
Cream Balm

has gained an enviabl,
reputation displaclng al
other preparations. A par
ticle is applied into escl
nostril; no pain; agreeable
to use. Price SOC. by mail
circular. ELY BROTHEl
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

George Sommers, young man re-
siding near Albany, Ind, never closes
his eyes when sleeping.-IndianSPoIiS
Journal
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1885-03-21

a DOOR belle-The pretty maid servant.
N. !. Independent.
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Take Warning in Time.

A0hO w al AAA5 LII AAAA0'
Impure blood, indigestion,
and weak kidneys afflict a
large portion ofthe human FAM
lily. Thousands suffar in silence
from the effects of these dis
orders until death relieves
them from their suffering. Take
warning in time. Rid your
selfof every symptom Of weak
ness and declining health by
beginning at once the use Of
DR.. Guysott's Yellow Dock and
SasapariIla. Its renovating
and strengthening effect is felt
atonce. tits a positive cure for
IMPURE BLooD,
WEAK KIDNEYS,
INDIGESTION,
MALARIA,
RHEUMATISM,
ETC., ETC.
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APLLER- sHAN-The quack decter-Bos-
ton Bulletin.
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RURAL HOME Co.. Rochester, N. Y.
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PAYING OFF,

dow Tony Walters KILLED Johnny
Spratt, and the Good 1t Did Them
National Republican., 1885-06-06
A SILVER SUNRISE.
The Splendid and Peculiar Pageant Of
Morning In Southwestern Georgia.

The Splendid and Peculiar Pageant OF
Morning In Southwestern Georgia.
Poets have sung of rosy dawns, of
orange sunsets waning low, and of that
later hour when large Hespor glitters
through the rosy spaces, while mid silent
spheres rises the deepening night. But
the poet is yet to be who will tell in num-
bers worthy of the theme the story of
that magical drama Of nature, tho silver
sunrise in the south, OF in that part of it
known as the cotton belt of southwestern
Georgia. There the isotherm Is semi-
tropical. The almost fat, slightly un-
dulating landscape is, or was twenty
years ago, under the high cultivation of
the slave system. sheet of verdure
breathing incense in the months of March,
April, and May. The tall cypress, tho
thick-leaved ambrosial live oak. the
heavy-scented magnolia grandifora, form
the upper foliage. betting the clear dark
ponds that dot the low, fiat, lovel tracts.
Around their sedgy borders tho cranes
and curlews call, on their dark bosoms
swim the broods OF mallard and teal
ducks. All the beauty and picturesque
charm of nature do not belong to mount
ain lands alone. To tho lover OF nature
in all her phases and moods, this pond
land is as full of beauty as of bloom. 1t
is lively all seasons of the year, all hours
ofthe day, but especially when seen under
a silver sunrise.
Not every morning of the whole year
round 10 this wonder witnessed. 1t takes
peculiar conditions of the atmosphere TO
produce the phenomenon. To the savant
belongs tho task of telling what tho con-
ditions are that produce silver sunrise.
Tho effect will try to describe. In April
or May the early spring rains that have
soaked the porous soil, and filled the
ponds, aud given the flush and lusty
green hues to the earth, havo ceased to
fall when the atmosphere is rari6ed by q
heat that makes the young cotton plants
grow visibly under your eye; in the dark
ness of morning that is only slightly
cooler than the night in which you have
watched the motions of the consultations
in the oloudless heavens, you may rise, ms
l have risen, morning after morning, to
catch that festinR first scene in tho first
act of the spectacular drama Of q sunny
day in the sunny south.
Do not wait to hear the clock strike, or
look at your watch, but when dawn is
near, the swift passing dawn of that lati-
tude, which you will know by the low
murmur Of insect and bird life around
you, rise and hasten forth. You can see
the white sands under your feet, but
hang like stalactites from the branches
of the trees above your head only family
in tho gloom made visible by starlight
and the swift-mOving dawn. In that lat
itude twilight and dawn are matters of
only few minutes. The stars blaze
out, as II were, in the beams of the rising
sun. In the negro parlance of the old
times: ut is broad day before you know
what You are about" The sedgy rims of
the ponds, the tall Expresses and oaks, the
lheaVystraihng oTeeperS,of the vines, the
National Republican., 1885-06-06
B. II. STINEMETz g. SON,
HATTERs AND PURIFIERS
1887 PENNSYLVANIA AVE.
49, fr,.a .ooot,,oa ,,,, ,,a..,o
HIS ONE FIT OF THE BLUES.
"Got tho blues, friend Gordon2o

SCOT tho blues friend Gordon?n
Mr.. James A. Gordon, teacher Of Gymnastics
In the Charlier Institute in Fifty.ninth street,
New Sork-a school which deserves Its national
reputation-was reclining on u lounge at his
home In 10th street, when the writer thus ad-
dressed him few days ago, His right foot and
ankle were much swollen and swathed In band
ages. while on the other he wore the appropriate
stocking and house slipper. He was unable TO
stand, and could not move the affected part with
out pain.
"Wel." he said, IT have served Her Majesty
Queen Victoria in the famous regiment called
the Blues, and In the army in India and Aus
tralai also had taste of life In putting down
the Sopoy rebellion; but this Is Que of the bluest
times / ever experienced"
"Whats the matter now? ?"
"rhe matter" answered the skillfll swords,
man, with u slight contOrtion Of the muscles OF
his face, rs he placed the sensitive foot In moro
comfortable position, the matter now is u pun
gent attack OF acute inilammatOry rheumatism,
In met II amounts 70 rheumatic gOuL Never mad
anything like IL before In my llieh
'l ou,re inckY'" said, "in having II confined
Don't you make that mistake" said Gordon.
"a week or ten days ago the other foot was In
legs OF an elephant My physcian treated me
internally, but tho remedy that cured tho foot
that h now well was Bensons CapCine Pasters.
trlsd e ihe bIssters as an eXpeTimept' on on one me
ten minutes before l telt relief We kept II up,
my wife and !, , until the swelling went away
anl the pain With IT, They are Just miracles.
spread on rubher-those plaiters are And now
we're operating on the other foot It's better
already I've got my foot and part Of my leg
covered with Bensoms plaster under tho5ye,
YOU ever have the rheumatism OF the gout tr
/ my medicine"
National Republican., 1885-06-06
UTho Gallant old War Horse,v

The Democrats at Washington are be-
ginning to discover that Hon. Bill Nor
rison is very presumptuous and very
disagreeable person. His ability weighs
about two ounces, but his pretensions
weigh ton. He Is trying TO obtain
patronage on the grounds that he is the
leader Of tho Democratic party Of Illinois.
This claim is simply prepOsterous. Mr..
Morrison is in no sense leader of the
Illinois Democracy; when he retired
from tho senatorial contest at Springfield
he abandoned every right and title to
leadership. The sword no threw down,
the standard he deserted, and The white
plume he cast aside were picked up aud
carried to the battles front by that gal
liant old Democratic war-horse, Lambert
Tree. The air was sulphurous. the cam
uons belchod ball and flame, and slaugh-
ter was on every hand. But naught cared
Tree; tho sole interest he had at stake was
principle. Proudly he bore himself in the
encounter, and when he came from the
awful struggle, Scared though he was and
robbed Of his green foliage, he still was
the proud, imperious monarch of tho
Democratic forest. Judge Tree has been
baptized in the fire, so to speak, and he
alone is the leader Of Illinois Democracy.
II there is any patronage to be doled ou t
he should have the doing of 1t. Ii
would bea proper thing for him to scuttle
away to Washington and battle the me-
JArious schemes Of the preposterously
pretensiOus MIR. Bill Morrison.--C Chicago
NeiDs.
National Republican., 1885-06-06

and little quantity, tho most powerful
machine giving less quantity than sim
pie galvanio cell.
The electricity generated is identical in
its peculiarities with that found in the
nature of lightning, being of high tension
and small quality, and it is very inter
esting scientific fact that during tho use
of large friction generator we detect
ozone, a gas often detected in the atmos-
phere by its peculiar odor directly aftor u
violent thunderstorm.
There hos been almost no improvement
in friction generators within twenty
years; indeed, thero is little or no room
for 1t, for the possibilities In this direc-
tion are few, and it is lost time to make
the attempt.
There have been granted to date upon
friction generators less than twenty
patents, and the Office does not receive
upon an average one application per year
upon this class of inventions.
Our next article will be devoted to mag
neto and dynamo generators, aud will
appear two weeks from to-day.