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Eaupt,s PLaa,te OF Flfes.

In a letter to the New York World
United States Minister Cox says: If ]
should be called on to name the most
vital animal element of Egypt it would
not be buffalo, donkey, camel, ostrich OF
man. It would be the flies. 1t was
winter, but they were as plentiful as in
the time of summer Or of the plaques.
In the eighth chapter of Exodus it is said
that the Lord s'did according to the
word of Moses, and he removed the
swarms of flies from Pharaoh, from his
servants and from his people; there re-
manned not one." What a relief! "Not
one." That was near four thousand
years ago. They have accumulated since
enormously. Without displaying any
incredulity, I have my doubts of there
being a time when there was not one fly
in all that land. 1t is said that there is
good in everything, and if so, there
must be some utility in the fly. Its
sible power for good may not have been
measured. That it produces ophthalmia
and tends generally to derogate from the
land of Osiris and Rameses, no one will
dispute. The perpetual irritation of the
flies, especially upon the eyes of the
children-like that of the flea, may pro-
woke the lazy 'tfellah" to exertion, and
thus help him to discharge his debt to
nature, if not to the b~ondholder. If
n did not know by certified papyri;
that thes mummifed kings and queens
were ancient, and hada therefore,
shrivelled, their condition might be ae-
counted for by the plague of flies. Much
trouble has been taken to account for
the building Of the grand tombs and
pyramids in the deep sands and rubble.
1t is not difficult to solve when we re-
member that priest and king suffered
from the swarms of flies. The infantile
death rate is due mostly to flies. On the
vessel or in the mud hut, in temple or
town-fies! From Thinite, first dy-
nasty, 2700, B. G., to the time of the
present courteous and unselfish Khedive
-fiesl Theban, Bubastile, Saite, Ethio-
plan, Macedonian, Greek, Roman and
Mahometan dynasties-fies! From the
tiniest buzzer to the biggest blue bottle
flies! Touc ing with dainty foot and
prehensile grip the beauteous eyelash of
Cleopatra; biting with chivalric in
trepidity through the harness OF God
frey de BouilIon, and pursuing with a
chipping air. Persian, Hermann, Syrian
and Room as they fit through history
flies! What a visitation, and only once
a relief Yet mechanism, if harnessed
by Stephenson or Ericsson or Edison,
might have employed these possible
forces. The lifting power of donkey,
camel and buffalo, implied in the tail
force of ten pounds a minute for only
forty centurifneof perpetual fly time
Except when Israel was in question:, and
Egypt might have had organized power
enough to have worked all the shadroofs
ON the Nile, ploughed all her arabic
soil, transported all her produce to
market and tven bored for petroleum on
the shores of the Scriptual Red Sea.
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CGgnfU0L Scenes in BMeH0s Ayres.
A Chicago Meas correspondent, de-
scribing the carnival scenes at Buenos
Ayres, says: Landing at the Boca, we
entered a closed tram-ear and started
toward the hotel. The driver and con-
duetor were protected by rubber coats.
Soon the seige began. All along the
harrow streets from the tops of the one
story houses were thrown pals of water.
Paper bags filed with water were thrown
on to the car. 1t was drenched. The
faithful gossamer did good service again.
| AT last, within a block and a half of the
hotel, we left the car. A close hack
passing that moment, we chartered it
and drove on. We had not gone a block
Until the carriage was nearly submerged
in water thrown from the houses.
This was only a sample of what went
on for three days and nights in every part
of the city. There was no law-no pro-
lection. The chief of police forbade it,
but the first day had not passed before
his superior, upon whom he depended
for his appointment, was out on his
house throwing water upon every
one as they passed by. FIRE.
quent collisions occur. One North
American, for years a resident in South
America, was in the street with his
bride when some one squirted water in
her face from the universal pomo. This
was too much for his fresh affection, SO
he promptly knocked the 'scarnivalite'
down. OF coursehe was arrested and
taken to Jail, 1t is proper to wet
strangers, and spoil their clothes, and
perchancc leave them far away from their
homes with wet clothes in a changeable
climate, but it is not allowable for a man
to protect his wife from assault. This
is carnival. Some friends interceded,
and the slow procession of legal justice
were hurried up, and by paying a lib
eral ssine'' the North American was re-
turned to his bride. Occasionally parties
in the streets went to the nearest gro
Gerry and armed themselves with eggs,
the worse the better, and returned to
the points where they had suffered and
drove their assailants into their houses.
In a few instances the enraged s.vic-
-.
| TINS used their revoIvers. Generally
!, the best people either left the city or
kept within doors during sthe reign Of
| terror
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GALLEY Slaves.

A galley slave IS q person condemned
for a crime to work at an oar on board
of a galley; a low hat-built vessel with
one deck and nayigated with sails and
oars. Among the early Greeks and Ro-
mans these slaves were prisoners Of war.
The Carthaginians manned their galleys
with captive Mauritanians. The single
doubtful passage in Valerius Maxiums
has lead to the %supposition that criminals
were sometimes condemned by Romans
to the galleys; but il is probable that
they were first used for that purpose
under the byzantine Empire. In the
middle ages the galley-rowers were con-
yicts and infdel prisoners, who were
chained to the benches on which they
sat. The Turks and Barbary corsairs re-
taliated, and captured Christians were
put to the same labor. In the sixteenth
and seventeenth centuries, France, Spain
and Italian republics used the galleys as
places Of punishment for condemned Grim
inals, who were called by the French
Galerians and by the English galley
slaves.-Phi1ddelphiG Cal.
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PEARLS OF
Set not too high a value on your owr
abilities.

Set not too high a value on your W
abilities.
/ He that will not look before him will
! have to look behind him-and probably
with some regret. q
The appellation of gentleman sho. i'd
never be affixed to aman's circumstances
but to his behavior in them.
Those who sneer habitually at human
| nature. and get to despise it, are among
its worst and least pleasant samples.
! It 6 mans religion is %pretentious on
Sunday and obscure IN week days, you
] would better do business with him on a
! cash basis.
! Happiness does not consist in our
possessions, but what we are in need of
ourselves. The person who has a clean
heart and conscience is far happier than
it he was the owner of untold millions.
Goodness is beauty; and beauty cannot
stay inside; like the sap in a tree, it
must come out in fresh leaves and buds
and blossoms. Good, pure, kind gener-
Gus thoughts light up the plainest face,
and make it beautiful and youthful.
Idlenessi is the hotbed of temptation,
the cradle of disease, the waster of time,
the canker worm of felicity. To him
who as no employment, life in a little
while will have no novelty; and when
novelty is laid in the grave, the funeral
of comfort will o follow.
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LADIES'
nevivIns . GOOD ola Fashion.

The propriety and good taste of doing
away with abbreviated names among
women Is fast growing into favor and
HE good old fashion of giving the full
name is regarded as the correct and dig
aiGed thing. Mollie and Matte, and
gilIie, and Maggie are again Mary,
Martha, Matilda, and Margaret-stately
names, all of them, and full Of signifi-
cance, whereas their diminutiyes arc
silly and meaningless, and women are
gradually awakening to the fact that it
IL far more elegant to reserve these pet
names, if they be used at all, for the
household, and to sign themselves
always in addressing those outside this
little circle with the full name they re-
ceiyed at the baptismal font. In this
respect our ancestors showed a proper
amount of dignity, and it would be well
b If the old form of addressing
women as Mistress Ann Page, Mistress
Catherine Smith, ETC., were revived.
The present custom of retaining the
maiden name as a middle name afte,
marriage and the use Of the husbands
christian name by widows are both SEN
able, as they identify the individual
With a certain family Chicago Herald.
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Forestry aud Cyclones

The only means of which we can con-
ceive within human power for the pre-
vention, OF at best the rendering less fire.
quent, of cyclones, is IN the covering Of
the face Of the country as much as pos
sible with trees and yerdure. Let there
Be ascending moisture instead Of ascend
inc currents Of heated air. In the great
timbered valleys Of the Amazon cyclones
are unknown, vet when we look at the
formation Of the land il il probably one
of tie most mo~notonously level regions
on the face Of the earth. In the vast
area drained by the Amazon in its trib-
utaries might be packed the whole United
states and not one of its boundaries
would anywhere be touched. Seen from
anv Of the eastern spires of the Andes,
this whole region Ii 4 sea Of verdnre.
The boundless and nnbroken forest give
it tho appearance Of an illimitable mead
ow. From the grassy steppes OF venzu-
ella to the ~treeicss panlpas Of Buenoa
Ayres expands this seaof yerdure. ln
ii we might al almost any point draw
circle Of eleven hundred miles II diam
afer. within which all would be an I'M
broken evergreen forest. And 50 matted,
corded and festooned with vines are oil
the trees Of this forest, and such i the
exuberance Of the underground, that 9
xmacheta,v must be used with which g
hew i way into the wall of vegetation
the moment the voyager on one Ct these
nut 8 foot ashore from bis canoe.
Such Is The steaming moisture within
these great forests that salt soon becomes
brine, the best refined sugar becomes
syrup, epson salts and many other kind
Of medicines aeliqlesces and the pes
gunpowder becomes liquid n 9 lev days
even when enclosed il 1 canister.
Take away the forests ana vertllre
and lsars this region j vast desert plain
and Il Would no doubt It once become !
very playground a sysloness-ah Lss'
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n.,,sd.,,t Gee Anuthis.a d. It.

Poots was invited by the railroad SUI
p~erintendent to make trip through the
new tunnel the railroad company had
been building.
1T is 4 failure, z he said, after emergg-
IND from Tartarean darkness into the full
glareof MONDAY
why ID you LAY soa'' asked The So
~perinfendent.
Il couldn't see anything II T '-a
iiaqs.
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Fashion Notes.

E0SnHOm IA0teSs
Lace dresses are more flowing than for
merly.
Embroidered nuns vei.ing is very at
tractive this season.
Beige and corde-de -la-reine are COM
bined for girls wear.
Yellow and black on high walking hats
is a fayorite combination.
A bouquet of carnations is one of the
most stylish hat garnitures.
Challi, etamine, foulard and India silk
are used for girls nice dresses.
Tucks or folds on an under dress are
very stylish in any heavy goods.
Shot silk in light shades is used in
combination with light summer woolens.
Drapcd ~polonaises and overdresses,
with basque bodices, are in equal favor.
Wells Of colored Grape accompany the
shirred Grape bonnets so stylish this sea-
son.
Plain skirts without cores, some being
made with deep plaits at the side, are
worn.
Watered ribbons are used very effec-
lively in trimming light weight cos
tunes.
A large gray parasol is a very stylish
affair this season. A huge bow ornaments
the top.
Egyptian and oriental lace are used
for ~iounces over colorcd and white
dresses
Wide sashes of surah are very stylish
with street costumes as well as those for
the house.
Embroidered Grape, gauze and muslin
are shown in most elaborate designs and
beautiful coloring.
White canvas cloth combined with
black velvet makes a very stylish COS
tune for the seashore.
Coarse meshcd nets have large or
small polka dots. They are to be found
in all the fashionable eolors. They are
made up over silk.
serges for children are made with
blouse bodices and box-plaited skirts.
These frooks are useful for seaside wear,
and are made with square collar and
cuffs of striped flannel.
"A velvet sunshade is not only senseless
but It Is very heavy, and when it is
adorned by a bouquet of artificial flow
ers on the handle, it is worse.
Some of the new woeIlen laees are of
very fine quality and are quite glossy.
Lace for millinery purposes is often
edged with wire so fine that it cannot be
detected. This wire prevents lace from
becoming limp and clinging, and en-
ables lace bonnets to preserve their pris-
| tine freshness.
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For DYSPEPSIA, E$rtOH, depression OF
spirits, general debility in their various forms,
also as n preventive against fever and agle and
other intermittent fcrcrs,t the "Ferre- PhoSphor-
eted Elixir of Ca!isaya," made by CaswelI, Haz-
nrd IL Co, New York and sold by all Druggists,
Is the best tonic; and for patients recovering
from fever or other sickness it has no equal.
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How TO ~ShOrtensJtEe.

The receipt is simple. You have only to take a
violent cold, and neglect it. Aberncthy, tho great
English surgeon. asked a lady who told him she only
had a cough: What wcnll lou have--tte plagucP.
Gcware of 'only coughs" The worst cases can,
however, be cured by DIR. WIN, HALLS BAI&AM
for the LUNGS. In Whooping Colgi. and Group 1t
Immediately aliays irritation, and is sure 10 prevent
4 fatal termination OF the disease. Sold by drug.
StStS.
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To sUt UuIStIFtS, as IIItTS Ste us 7
Few women want to appear sick, and yet
how many we see with pain written on every
feature, who have been suffering for months
from female weakness, and who could easily
cure themselves by the use of DIR. Pierce's
"HFavorite Prescriptions to be found at any
drug store. This remedy is a specific for weak
backs, nervous or neuralgia pains, and all that
class of diseases known as female com-
plants" Illustrated, large treatise on diseases
of women, with most successful courses of self
treatment, sent for 10 cents in stamps. Adj
dress, Worlds Dispensary Medical Associa-
tion, 663 Main Street, Buffalo, n. Y.
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The farmers, in their swamps, we're sure,
Could find the roots and plants that cure;
If by their knowledge they only knew
For just The disease each one grew.
Take courage now and "fSwamp-Root" try
0or kidney, liver and bladder complaints),
AS on this remedy you can rely.
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A EIirtss Confession.


q do not think that I ever firted with
she hope or intention of seriously win
ming mems hearts. It was fun to receive
their attentions and to be able to lure
sheln away from other girls, and especi-
alIY was this the case when the men
we're married or engaged. In most in
dances I think they went back to their
oWn and their own received them. Why
did / do it, Well, / think the reason
was this: / really liked all agreeable
men, and anything that looked like lack
of appreciation on their part was SO ex-
ceedingly distastefulto me that Istraight-
way strove to overcome it. The young
fellows just coming out came into nv
net as a matter of course for several
PEARS, but older men heard Of
he before being presented, and
fought shy. ] did not understand
this then. ] thought they disIiked
me, whereas it was probably
caution Or disapproval, and ! set myself
forthwith to disarm the caution and
change the disapproval to liking. It was
simply unpleasant to me to have anyone
Indifferent. ! have cried time and again
my way home in the carriage, simply
because some one whom | wanted to
please seemed Indifferent. Several times
wa actually caught with tears on my
checks by those Of whom | was thinking,
and ! always managed to LET them guess
the reason of my tears. That was always
eifectual. It never failed to bring about
the desired end, but 4 declare solemnly
that T never did it on purpose-cried, ]
aean-and ! never intended to be caught
= tcars. suppose that most men will
refuse To believe this, but it is true.
was simply at my wits end with wretch
edness, because I thought some n had
taken a dislike to me.-The Hour.
A
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sssbuat Nossssn Amertcan vvomsn.


some years ago, says the New York
i young woman rather coveted an
appearance Of delicate health, as an evi-
aenee Of refinement, and associated fresh
lila blooming checks and d vigorous APP
sfits with i dairymaid style Of beauty
khat seemed to her coarse OF inelegant.
saa WAS also taught 10 look on little hy-
fieal fears and trerlors q prettily fem
ne. and, of aI things, VIC most
Saaea 10 BE regarded ass tonaboy Or .
nsaen. She might dance ali night in .
aud long gown, but she ranst avoid
M outdoor sppr9s enjoyed by har broth
lila stsn / II mortal terror of cows
sd nice. Therefore II Happened that
typical American gin q those days
4 thin add nervous creature, beside
asa har Enalish sistaf seemed full and
&sa. sic W. ! pretty but ! fragile
llnen III Is So, whose good looks
likely Il 50 soon replaced by Zig
III Vlsfonfc Id heaIth, If destroyed
Ebe calss IL zsothafhocd.
ill thst has changed since lifetime
bis Lewa began r pEsaeh hls
uA ~ wIi|a i'd SaIlaa sieAl NIT
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their brothers in outdoor exercise. They
wear stout boots, easy clothing, and gar
ments appropriate to the weather, ard
which are made with careful regard to
the protection of their health. First.
croquet took them out upon the lawns.
and then tennis: and meantime thew
learned to row, to ride, to drive, to prac-
tice archery, to take long -tramps, and to
endure exposure, so that it has come to
pass, that girls, like boys, are ashamed
to be unequal to vigorous physical ex-
ercise. They want to be healthy and
strong and mice and COWS do not terrify
them as of old.
The result is that the well trained
American girls who are now approaching
maturity; or who are already in the first
Hush Of %womanhood are distinguished
Tor the symmetry and beauty of their
physical development. Their lungs are
stronger and their voices better than
those Of the women who preceded them.
The race has grown taller and far hand
somer, SO that now we can say without
beasting that the handsomest types of
their sex anywhere to be found are the
young American girls of to-day.
OF course Dio Lewis only helped to
bring about this happy result, for many
causes contributed to it, but we accord
him great praise for the part he took in
inspiring our young women and their
parents with enthusiasm for health and
physical exercise.
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Tnolnas CarFyae,

the great Scotch author, suffered all his life.
with dyspepsia, which made his own life mis-
cradle and caused his best friends not q little
generally arises from disease of the liver. and
as Or. PIerce's Golden Medical Discovery
cures all diseases of this great gland, it follows
that while all cannot be Carlyles, even with
dyspepsia, all can be free from the malady,
while emulating his virtues.
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A compliment is usually accompanied with
q bow, as if to beg pardon for saying it.
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Falling of the hair is arrested, and badness
averted, by using Halls Hair Remover.
Obstinate cases of fever and ague car %
cured by taking Ayers Ague Cure.
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"oh, wad some power the giftie gle us,

The mountains breed learned men, and cot.
tages of Shepherds contain philosophers.
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That virtue that needs ancioring, makes its
pos6essor like q ship moored among breakers,
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r,,s pro,vr s,otton Gin lis" "a No. 1.u

ut is simply perfect Has all the latest i'm
proyements and is delivered free of all charges
1T any accessible point. Send to Company at
New London, CT, for catalogue or ask your
merchant to order one for you.
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Grand temples are built Of small stones and
great lives are made up of trifiing events.
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TIL e earnest desire of succeeding is almost
always q prognostic of success.
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"A Persian Princess.

Indy ShieI, IN her .sGlimpses at Life
and manner in Persia" says. 81 went to
see the Ehah's half-sister, a beautiful girl
of ID, who lived with her mother in an
obscure part Of the ante-room, neglected
By lie Shah, and consequently by every
one else. She was really lovely, fair and
with indescredible eyes and q figure only
cqualled BY some Of the chefs d'mrtvre Of
Italian art. This is SO very rare among
FoFsian women that she was one Of the
few persons / saw in the country with an
approach to d good figure.
ssshe was dressed iii the usual fashion
of trousers on trousers, the last pair being
Of such stiff brocade that If put standing
upright III the middle Of the room there
they would remain. Her hair wascurled,
hot plated, and she was literally covered
with diamonds. She was quiet in her
manners, and seemed detected. She
was most anxious TO hear about European
aastoms
And what seemed 70 surprise ner
most was that we took the trouble to un-
dress every night going to bed-and she
skea me was it true that We pnt on q
leae white dress til pass the night III.
All Persian women are astonished at
Ills custom, and are quite unable to ac-
count for it. They never undress at
hight they unite their thin mattress
tom IFS siIken cover, draw it out from its
place against the wall, and roll them-
slves up in tho wadded guilt which
forms their blanket. The only time they
change their clothes Il when they 60 to
battle. II they go out to visit they Of
eeaEse put on their best garments, and
IKE them off 1t night but generally
theg lie down just All they ere, and even
Ii cold weather they wear their schadeor,
ii out-of door veil, at night.
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Uneauallea-Dr sags's catarrh Remedy.
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Bronchitis is cured by frequent small doses
of Piso's Cure for Consumption.
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GHNn NAME QUICK for Prof. Maody.s New Illustrated
SLN Book on Dress Making. New Doiman, and Mantle
1cutdng, ete.Agents sell 10 aday. Prof 0ODy, Cineinaati,0s
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mn and Morphine Habit cured IN 10
6MH to30d day. Refert to 1000 patients cured
- w in all parts. Dr. MARsH,Quin y, Mich.
Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-01-07
COLOMBIA.
Hish Water-ReIi.ious-TobaCcO.


Correspondence OF the Richmond Dispatchl
COLUMBIA. VA, Jan. 6, 1856.
James river is on a rampage again.
At this point its perpendicular rise
is about nineteen feet, which is two
and half or three feet below the high
water mark Of November. The rise has
inflicted no material damage to property
as far as heard from.
The Baptist church, situated in the
eastern suberbs Of this town. is now
rapidly approaching completion, and
will cost over $4,000. Columbia and
her immediate suburbs can now boast
Of five churches.
English sparrows made their appear
ance ~ this section about three years
ago, and now seem to be more abundant
than any other species Of bird. Our ma
tive sparrow, which is a smaller and
much prettier bird, seems to shun all
association with the newcomers, and is
really disappearing from our forests.
Whilst popular sentiment in this Sec
ton is decidedly in sympathy with all
propositions atfording aid to our public
schools, the one 70 which both parties
are committeeman Of furnishing free
books-is regarded as impracticable.
Sales Of tobacco here yesterday were
comparatively small, but prices ruled
somewhat higher. ZIP.