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WHAT ELECTED INN.

Dick Townshend, OF this State. who Is decent
Democrat and an able man, the only Demo-
cratic candidate for Congress in this State who
held his own in the recent election. He goes back
by an increased majority. Mr.. Townshend recog-
nizes the fact that it pays to be decent in politics.
Chicago Mail
Hon. Il. w. Townshend is one of the very
best friends the soldiers have in either House
of Congress. He is one of the men who acts
and votes in Washington in accordance with
what he says on the stump. The soldiers
know this, and they supported him at the
recent election without regard to party. That
is the reason for his increased majority.
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=" ANTIETAM DAYs,D which occup

ANTIETAM DAYS" which occupies o
place on the second page, is from the pen of
the gifted war correspondent of the rebellion
period-George Alfred Townsend. President
Lincoln once said that "to read one of
Georges accounts of battle was better than
seeing the battle itself" Certainly none
wrote description of the battle of Antietam
that approached the brilliancy and viyidness
of Mr.. Townsend's, and this made him a
permanent reputation among the newspaper
men of the country. His new book, Katy
Of Catoctin," from which the selection is
taken, is q story of thrilling fascination, and
besides is historically true.
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PARTICULAR REQUEST.

We urgently desire that every comrade
shall lose no time in sending IN at least one
new subscriber 10 the NATIONAL TRIBUNE
We want 20 open the oanpaign for the SOL
dier before this session Of Congress with all
She moral power that can be bestowed by a
quarter-of-a-million subscribers on our list.
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Mr.. MORRISON and number of other
gentlemen, Republican and Democratic, who
were either defeated or were elected by q
skin-tight majority, understand now that
there are at least 100000 survivors of the
Union army scattered through the country,
and that they are forminga party of their
own of better cohesiveness and discipline
than either of the old parties.
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REV. SAM SMALL is not meeting with
much success in Canada. If he wants to
really wake up ths sinners over there he
should 20 around with arequisition.
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The number of pension certificates issued
during the week ending Nov. Is, 1886, was
as follows: Original, 653; increase, AL re-
issue, 195; restoration, 90; duplicate, A;
accrued, 81; Act of March 3, 1883, 9; Order
of April 3, 1884, II; Act of Aug. 4, 1856, Z;
supplemental certificates, Act of Aug. A,
1856, 232; total, 1888.
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THE weird silence with which the press
of the country received JEFF Dayiss last
screed was a cruel blow to the blatant old
Yirago. Nothing hurts him so much as pay
ing no attention to his clatter
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By Lic,a.-coE 4. G. Bennett, 2lst Us. CT,
S0n Jose, CAL
CHAPZN'S FARM graphic and cHtor-
flaming sketch By RoU. 4. J.. Morey, Vest
Derby, w.
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IT is ABSURD

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ments on the stump and in convention.
Their nerveless fingers cannot then lift a
penny of the Nations tardy payments; COM
pliment and fiowery rhetoric viii fall upon
their dull cold ears as unheeded as the clOds
Of the valley that roll upon their collins.
We adjure the soldiers to draw still closer
together-to elevate cOmradeship above
party lines and present firm front to the
country and its politicians. Let it be clearly
understood that justice to one is the interest
Of all, and that every man who honorably
wore the blue is determined that the Gov
eminent shall not be permitted TO allow any
veteran who helped rescue it from destruc-
ton TO starve and die while its Golfers are
overlooking.
This combination Of the soldiers is con-
sistent with the highest patriotism. Since
the war they have sacrificed themselves po-
litically in order to vote for the principles
that they deemed necessary for the Nations
good. They have never made their just
claims an issue in any campaign, but have
ignored these to labor unselfishly for the
success of principles which they have con-
sidered of paramount importance. Now all
the issues arising out of the war are firmly
settled and there are really no great ques-
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dates men of the highest ability and charac-
ter, who are genuine friends of the soldier,
and these should be voted for without regard
to party lines, until we gain for our comrades
all that is right.
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Puck says it requires long practice before
a lawyer can smile kindly on the jury with
one eye and glare at witness with the
other.
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any recent effort. IN nuns:

Inever shall forget the day.
Happy as a whale, (Repeated)
When Jesus washed my sins away,
Happy as a whale.
know my sins are AL forgiven,
Happy asa whale, Repeated)
And | am on my way to Heaven,
Happy as n whaleI
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Is Corn King?" asi.s Western paper.
As we raised 5,OOo,OOOO 600 bushels this year
we maize well accept the cor'nation.
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THE Salvation Army's methods are not
always such as commend themselves to fas-
tidious Christians, but their favorite song in
Chicago, and which is accompanied by a
breakdown dance, rather leads in absurdity
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e" Who showed him I'M
der2"
81. says the farmer,
He's the country's
harmer,
SO I showed him I'M
der"
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AZ -a ~AsrnorOs rOsr orros ~ ssooup ost
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The Birth Throes of the Moon.

The tidal wave. set up on the earth by
Inc moon, reacts to certain extent also
upon the moons orbital period The moon
Is dragged forward in its path by the ter
RESTRAIN tldal wave, as certainly as the tidal
wave Is drawn backward on the rotating
earth by the moon, and this implies an en-
largeinent OF the orbit of the moon and a
recession OF the moon from the earth.
Inns process must go on until the day and
the month both meet in common period
OF about 400 hours. But if this be the
case, the moon must have been once much
nearer TO the earth than il is now. Profess
scr Darwin carries back his investigation in
this direction to time when the moon
reyolved ABOUT the earth in somewhere
between two and four hours and in
a position where it was nearly i'm
contact with the earth, and in which
1t was rotating III the same psriod-a state
which may be looked upon as having been
antecedent to the time when friction began
Its work OF grinding down aXial velocity
and expanding orbital range The moon
then started on its long spiral Journey ont
from the earth. Prof Darwin calculates
that this start occurred not less than 81.
100000 OF years ago But the most rapid
rate OF rotation in fluid mass that would
be consistent with spheroidal equilibrium
is two hours and twenty minutes. One
second OF augmentation more than This in
the rate of rotation would inevitably cause
the rotating mass TO fly asunder. The pre-
sumption is that the earth did hv
asunder from overfast spinning, and
that such disruption was coincident
with what Miss Clefke speaks of as
the . birth throes of the moon" Prof.
Darwin, however, conceives that, in all
probability the lunar-terrestrial system is
an exception among the bodies swayed by
the sun, due to the circumstance that the
moon is proportionally by far the most
massive satellite known, and that the in
tiuence of tidal drag has been eoncomi-
family great. No other satellite ever
possessed tide-raising capabilities at all
comparable with the influence which is
exerted by the moon. The separation of
satellites from their primaries essentially
depends upon the attainment of dis
ruptive rate of rotation-an effect which
may be prevented by the secondary effect
of the additional tidal drag set up bv the
sun keeping down the velocity of the rota-
ton of the primary below the velocity that
would correspond with the actual point of
disruption. The earth just escaped this
degree of retardation, and hence the ex-
istence of its solitary satellite.-[The Edin-
burgh Review.
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Elephants at PLAY.

There would be the fine old patriarch
with his harem, and the young ones per-
forming the most fantastic aquatic gambols.
The clumsy disportings of baby elephant,
at loss to know how to give full vent to
the eXuberance of his spirits, is one of the
most grotesque sights imaginable and one
only to be witnessed under such exceptional
conditions as l have described. Looking
through peephole in the brushwuod
screen, one could watch them at ones
leisure. On one occasion, on their return
from the water in which they had been
padding and splashing themselves, to the
jungle, the whole herd would have walked
straight into the hole in which | was
squatting had | not shown myself. l
had already marked the father of
the flock as the one | intended to XII
and he was not ten PAGES from me
when fired. lie stopped while the herd
scattered, and, fearing he would charge. |
gave him the second barrel, and he sank
ponderously To the earth. In my excite
ment did not stop to reload, but making
sure he was dead rushed out to secure my
trophy. | had just got out my knife, and
was stretching out my hand to lay hold of
his tail to cut it off, when, to my disgust.
he slOwly rose and walked off aftet the la
dies, leaving me amazed and confuunded,
ana the subject OF good deal of chaif on
the part of my companions. | was more
lucky with wild boar an hour or two af-
terWard. lie, TOO, was approaching me in
direct line, coming from the jungle, when
Tired AT him, upon which he made rush
straight at me. The impetus was so great
that, though he received the second barrel
full in the forehead, he actually rolled dead
into the hole Blackwoods Magazine.
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WHAT screamed Mr.. Buttersbaw

What screamed Mr. Buttershaw.
turning perfectly livid do you mean to
say that he has bolted ?'
Sir Hector started in amazement and a
mystic siler fell upon the company.
didn't say so, bur he's certainly gone
TO Paris"
MIR. Buttershaw gave vent to a sort of
yell.
The internal, swindling old thief" he
raved. He's robbed me! He's robbed
all the lot of US He owes me fifteen thou
sand pounds I'm a ruined man !"
And he seized heavy decanter from the
table, and smashed it to pieces in his impo-
tent fury.
But Mr.. Punter was equal to the occasion.
Gentlemen" he said, this is a bare
faced swindle These two scoundrels are
confederates. Possibly the one has robbed
the other of his share of the plumber; but
| believe that they will divide it abroad.
Meanwhile we had better leave our worthy
host to his own reflections. Personally 1
shall have much pleasure in horseyhip-
ping him on the first occasion that | find
him outside his own rooms. - London
Truth
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MY LOVERS BARoUE.

! lean from my window, looking down
On stony arches and turbid tide
Inc lights that stream in the drowsy town
=. And the wake of oars where boatmen glide
fsr, rar beyond TO the harbors mouth;
TO the beacon light like lurid star
Nnere the winds blow hot from the purple
South,
And the foam caps leap at the sandy bar
Oh the ship at anchor oh bargeman bold
On ! river rolling to meet the sea-
My heart within me is faint and cold
pray you, pray you give ear to me.
Oh, tell me where il nv lovers barQue2
Is it riVen or wrecked by Indian gales?
On some far sea in the nameless dark
Does white moon rise DER its tattered sails >
Some morn she viii come to the harbor' mouth
With the musk of the East in her dusxy hold .
shall see her masts in the purple South,
shall hear the songs Of her sailors bold,
! shall hear her cordage rattle and strain
shall lean me forth. and with Joyous tears
Look on the bErque of my love again
The first OF ali at the crowded piers.
And what win she bring me from that far land .
What Indian jewel, or pearl of price?
What diamond, sifted through burning sand
What bloom from jungle or field of rice
All me All me shall I find once more,
In the priceless treasures that crowd that shin
The old lost gold that my hair once wore,
Or the old lost red Of my faded lip?
Oh sit and wait at the dreary piers.
And the ships return and the ships depart
And my hopes die slow with the dying Years
And drop their ashes upon my heart.
The waves may mock, the winds may shout.
The white moons wax and the white moons
wane;
The tide rolls in and the tide rolls out,
But the barque OF my lover comes never again.
Il Laura Dom last poem
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OR YOUNG FOLKS.
BOYS RIGHTS.


l wonder now if any one
In this broad land has heard
In favor of down-trodden boys
One solitary word?
We hear enough of woman's rights :"
And rights of workingmen,
OF equal rights and nations rights;
But pray just tell me when
BOYS rights were ever spoken of?
Why, we've become so used
To being snubbed by every one,
And sighted and abused,
That when one is polite TO US
We open wide om eyes.
And stretch them, In establishment,
To nearly twice their size,
Boys seldom dare TO ask their friends
To venture in the house;
Ii don't come natural at all
To creep round like a mouse;
And if we should forget ourselves
And make little noise,
Then ma or auntie sure would say.
"Oh my those dreadful boys
The girls bang on the piano
In peace; but if the boys
Attempt tune with fife and drum,
It's Stop that horrid noise p
THAT horrid noise - Just think of il:
When sister never fails
To make noise three times as bad
With everlasting scales"
Insulted thus we lose no time
In beating a retreat;
So off we go, to romp and tear,
And scamper in the street.
No wonder that so many boys
Such wicked men become;
'Twere better far to let them have
Their games and plays at home.
Perhaps the text the preacher quotes
Sometimes" Train up a child -
Means only train the little girls
And let the boys run wild
But patience, and the time will come
When we shall all be men,
And when it does. | rather think
Wrongs will be righted then.
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Legends of ArrowI,eaa peak.

Many Indian legends cluster around this
singular mark, and one of the most grace
full has been told in verse, after the fashion
OF Hiawatha. Ii commences with de-
scription of the good gifts OF Manitou, the
Mighty. to his children, who, as they be-
came prosperous,
" Boastingly forgot His presence.
Then Gr, at Manitou, the Mighty
Sent spirit from the sun-land
VINO drank all the streams of water,
Drank and dried them with his hot lips
Leaving only the salt ocean"
Then all the tribes gathered in council,
and mighty prayer for relief went up to
the Great Spirit.
"0ne there came in answer to them,
But it was lOathsome monster
Bringing pesJilence and famine
\ huge serpent winding, winding
I'LL the coils were all around them
Fiery breath con sumed the valley
Fiery folds enwrapped the mountains!
In utter despair, the remnant of the
tribes again met in council and implored
the Great Spirit TO name an offering that
would rid them of this terrible monster.
At last their answer came, borne on the
pinion of White Eagle:
Ne-wah- nah, the fairest maiden
Give an offering unto heaven"
Ne-wah-nah was the chieftains only
daughter, beloved by all and tenderly
guarded
Lest the famine should come to her.
lest he plague should blight her beauty
Lest the fever aud the terror
Should envelop her and Stay her
But to save his people and land from
destruction, the chieftain took his lovely
daughter,
Wrapped her choicest robes around her,
Wrapped her in them as an infant
fastened quickly from the wicwam.
Gave her to the writhing monster
When the sacrifice was finished
swift arrow out of heaven
Pierced the monster; then another
Lightning arrow and another
The last arrow struck the mountain,
Broke, and rested there forever.
When the monster died a fountain
Clear and warm came ever flowing
Many crystal streams came pouring
And the chieftain called the people
All that were not dead or dying
Pointed to the broken arrow
Pointed to the healing waters
Made dance and joyous council
For the healing of the nations.
Now, the people, torn and scattered
Wander wander Yer the mountains
But for many moons their dwellings
Were anear the crystal waters,
Ne'er beyond sight of the broken
ATrowi cad above the wat rs
Il Nick's Magazine for May
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How ITALIANS CURE THE EARAcHE.-A
remedy, one unequaled indeed for earache,
is that in use among the sailors and bathers
at Viareggio and Leghorn, and indeed all
along the coast of that part of Italy. A
piece of old linen is spread with melted
beeswax-the purer the better-and then
rolled tightly into a cornucopa shape, the
small end of which is introduced into the
patients ear as he lies down. The cornu-
eopia should not be less than three, four,
or even five inches long. Flannel cloths
are then laid over the head and face, the
cornucopia is set alight, and burns slowly
as long as the patient can bear it, until
burned quite near the face, when it is re-
moved from the ear. This proceeding
gives almost instant relief, and if the pain
happens to have been caused by the pres
ence of any foreign substance in the ear, it
will come away with the cornucopia.
London Society.
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A CURIOUS CLocK.-A new French clock
contains novel application of the magnet
The clock appears like a tamborine with a
circle of flowers painted on its parchment
head. Around the circle crawl two bees,
the larger requiring twelve hours to COM
plete the circuit, while the smaller makes
ii every hour The flowers represent hour
divisions, and the bees, which are of iron,
are moved by two magnets carried just un-
der the membrane, by the clock work in
side the tamborine.
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1t seems that one of the principal real
sons why Longfellow is so endeared to our
hearts, is that his lines contain so much of
strength and helpfulness. His deep sor-
rows brought him near to The great heart
of humanity. In the struggle with grief,
he is the crowned victor; more he found
strength in sorrow; yes, even more, there
is left behind no trace OF the bitterness
which we find fiavOring the lines of many
other poets Ella G. Drabble
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A PERTINENT INoUIRY.-Isn't it about
time to have little renaissance of Yankee
Doodle in this country? What with social
ism, nihllism, anarchism, boycottism,
stTikeism, etc, it seems as if the great
original idea of " life, liberty and the pur-
suit of happiness was getting showed I'M
der. Mind your own business" was one
of the maxims for which this Yankee ma
ton fought and bled a century ago. and
the wisdom of it is not worn out vet by
any means.-[S Springfield Union.
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LIGHT'S SPEED.-From two determine
tons by Nicholson and one by himself,
Professor Simon Newcomb concludes that
the velocity of light is 1Sj,7l2 miles per
second, with probable error of about
twenty miles. Neither Nicholson nor
Newcomb have found any evidence in sup
port of the hypothesis Of Forbes and
Young that difference exists in the rate
travelled by rays of different colors.
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There has been dynamite explosion in
Siberia. OF coIse, details are not fur
nished. and they probably never will be. 1t
is estimated that from 400 to 1000 lives
were lost. 1t is not likely that there will
be coroner's inquest, but if there should
be, and the jury should do its duty, the
Gar of Russia should be found guilty of
murder in the first degree. This is the true
inwardness OF Galveston News.
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ARTIFIcIALLY NODDED HEADs.--In a pa
per read before the Anthropological Society
of Havana, Signor Juan de Armas has de-
MED that races of tropical America have
artifcially changed the shape of their heads
by long-continued compression, and has
demonstrated to his satisfaction that the
affirmation has neither historic, scientific
nor rational foundation. Nature has been
quite equal 10 the task of producing the
forms of heads supposed to nave. resulted
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A Pittsburg girl who had refused a tele-
graph repair man three times within six
months. gave as a reason that he was too
much of a wanderer that he roamed from
pole TO pole, and from one climb TO another,
and If he did come home, he'd be insulate
that the neighbors would be sure to talk.
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Student-"I have been thinking upon
the subject of the alarming prevalence of
divorces, and | almost believe | have dis
covered the cause" Professor delight
edly)-" Yes, yes what is it?' Student
Marriage"