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Holy Tsrrors.

Prom the Chaii,noos Times
II the Nmhyillc Amssoan can insert an
original idea in the head Of H. alleged art.
isi, the operation should not 10 delayed.
Ills cartoons 90 are very drclry chestnuts
In conception, and holy tcrrors" AZ pict-
urea
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Won DO, Ahe n.,. tn.m,,c,,s,..

ruuAurlrmA, Pa, sept l.-rpSidcnt
Won der Abe, Of the st. Louis baseball
club, announced tonight that hc had
purhhfrd the release ci Pitcher Chamber
lain ium the Louisville club, paying g..
On tb0frfbr
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No Information has been received nj the
State department concerning the rejection
OF the Chinese treaty. cabled last night
from London. In the absence Of an Of
fetal report on the subject from the Amer.
lean minister In China. the Secretary Of
state decline 10 be interviewed In ogard
~ the matter.
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o,Inrd,. Al n,rh,.

special Dispatch io The Aprcai
ououp. Miss, sept -oSiorl today
voted In favor Of the $4,000 subscription
10 the Memphis, Oxford 4 Columbus rail-
road. Only thirty como votes against IL
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History OF the Month.

In the first ages of Rome February was
the last month of the year, and preceded
January till the Decemviri made an order
that February should be made the second
month of the year, and come after January.
The months then consisted of twenty-nine
and thirty days alternately, to correspond
with the synodie revolution of the moon,
so that the year contained 354 days; but a
day was added to make the number odd,
which was considered more fortunate, and
the year therefore consisted of 800. This
differed from the solar year by ten whole
days and Il fraction. To restore the coinci-
dence, Numa ordered an intercalary month,
consisting of twenty-five and twenty-three
days alternately, to be inserted every
second year between the 23d and oath of
February, so that four years con-
tanned 1,465 days, and the mean
length Of the year was consequently,
1861 days. Julius Cesar abolished
the use of the lunar year and the inter-
GALAXY month, and regulated the civil year
entirely by the sun. He fixed the mean
length of the year at 1861 days, and de-
creed that every fourth year should have
500 days, the other years having each 365.
In leap year February has twenty nine
days. Its name is derived from the Fe6rua
or sacrifices offered to the names of the
gods at this season.
This month corresponds with the twelfth
month Mechir, in the old, and the sixth in
the modern Egyptian calendar; with the
sixth civil, and the twelfth ecclesiastical
moon, Adar, of the Hebrews with the
sixth month, Schaharir, of the Persians
with the sixth moons, Jacathit, Anisheir,
and Arats, of the Abyssinians, Copts, and
Armenians; with the sixth moons, Dyst-
rus, Sebastur, and Dius, of the Syro-
Macedonians, Paphians, and Bithynians
with the fifth solar month, Sabat, of
the Syrians; with the ninth moon,
Elaphebolion, of the Athenians; the
sixth, Xanthicus, of the Macedonians and
the second, Peritius, of their solar year
and with the eighth moons, Sahaben, and
Sahaaban, of the Arabic and Turkish cal
endars. The Saxons named it Sol month
(which marks the season J and it is called
Sprokkel month by the Dutch and Ger
mans. The French Republican sixth
month Ventose WINDY MONTH"; began the
18th of February-Rdil,ray Nelrs
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"Good at Review

Simple, straightforward truth will usu
ally stand any test, and well did the sol
dier in the following incident prove the
truth of what he said. The instance oc.
Cured in the Revolutionary War. when
the strictest order was enjoined, and each
army was ever on the watch lest the en-.
envy should get an advantage
One night, near the British camp, not far
from the river Hudson, Highland soldier
was caught creeping stealthily back to his
quarters from out of the woods He was
taken before the commanding officer and
charged with holding communication with
the enemy. The case of Major Andre was
then recent, and no Briton was disposed tc
be merciful toward suspected friend Of
the Americans.
The poor Highlander pleaded that he
had only gone into the woods to pray by
himself. This was his only defense.
The commanding officer was himself a
Seotchman and a Presbyterian, bat ne felt
no tenderness for the culprit.
"Have you been in the habit. sir. Of
spending hours in private prayer" he
asked sternly.
Yes, sir"
linen down on your knees and pray
now" Numbered the officer; "you never
before had such need of it."
Expecting, perhaps, immediate death,
the soldier knelt and poured out his soul
In prayer that for aptness and simple,
expressive eloquence could have been in
spired only by the piety of Christian.
" You may go" said the officer, when he
had done. believe your story. II you
had not been often at drill, you couldn',
have got on so well at review"
The poor soldier had saved his life by
proving himself to have practiced habitual
communication with God.
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There is no power of love so hard to get
and keep as a kind voice. A kind hand is
deaf and dumb. 1t may be rough in flesh
and blood, yet do the work of a soft heart,
and do it with a soft touch. But there is
no one thing that love so much needs as a
sweet voice to tell what it means and feels :;
and it is hard to get one and keep it in the
right tone. One must start in youth and,
and be on the watch night and day, at
work and play, to get and keep voice
that shall speak at all times the thoughts
of kind heart. But this is time when
a sharp voice is apt to be got. You often
hear boys and girls say words at play
with a sharp, quick tone, as if it were
the snap of whip. When one of
them gets vexed, you will hear voice
that sounds as If it were made up of
a snarl, whine or a bark. 1t is often in
youth that one gets voice or tone that
is sharp, and sticks to him through life,
and stirs up ill-will and grief, and falls
like a drop of gall on the sweet joys of
home. Watch it day by day as a
pearl of great price, for it will
be worth more to you in the days
to come than the best pearl hidden in
the sea. A kind voice is to the heart
what light is to the eye. 1t is a light that
sings as well as shines. Train it to sweet
tones now, and it will keep its tone through
life.-Elihu Bm7ih.
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1000 PAGES were the established mile
The foot originated in Greece and was
accredited to Hercules, but nearly every
Greek city had its own foot which varied
from that of other cities. The average
length of human foot is fraction less
than ten inches, SO that the foot as unit
of measure can hardly be deemed consist
ent with the name from which it is de-
rived. The yard comes from the measure
ment of the girth of the body, as the palm
from the width of the hand, while the
inch has been introduced with the progress
of society.
The paper called attention to the fact
that the inch, the foot and the yard are re-
jected by engineers in their calculations in
favor of decimal divisions, which are the
most nearly accurate. More than no.
100000 of the 220,000,000 of European
populations have adopted in part or wholly
the decimal system within forty years. It's
advantages make it certain that the sys-
tenn must ultimately be adopted by our
own as well as other civilized nations as a
matter of convenience and accuracy, and
the Government should take steps to meet
| the much-needed reconstructions of our
systems of weights and measures. The
paper recommended as first step that the
pound and the foot or the gallon might be
taken as the unit, and that it be divided
decjmally
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RAILROAD DATEs-The first railroad in
America, built in 1926, and known as the
Quincy Railroad, was only two miles long.
1t was designed for carrying granite from
the quarries of Quincy, Mass, to tide
water. The cars were drawn by horses.
The second railway was the Mauch Chunk,
which with its turnouts and branches, in
all thirteen miles long, was constructed for
the transportation of coal from the mines
of that place to the Lehigh river in
Pennsylvania 1S27). The Baltimore
and Ohio was the first passen-
ger railway in America, fifteen
miles being opened in 1880, the cars
being drawn by horses till the next year,
when a locomotive was put on the track.
During the same year 1880 a small
locomotive, weighing not more that ton
was built in Baltimore by Peter Cooper
(afterward of New York;. 1t was the
first locomotive for railroad purposes ever
built in America, SO great was the enterprise
throughout the United States from 1882 to
1887 in the projection and construction OF
railroads that at the end of that period
the contemplated lines exceeded in num-
Der and aggregate length those of any
other country.-Rdillcay Ntacs
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wonderful combination of tonic,
or Strengthening, Alternative, or
blood cleansing, anti bilious, pee
toral, and nutritive properties, is
unequaled, not only as a remedy
for Consumption, but for all
Chronic Diseases of the Liver,
Blood, and Lungs. For Weak
Lungs, Splitting of Blood, Short
ness of Breath, Bronchitis, Chron-
ic Nasal Catarrh, Severe Coughs,
Asthma, and kindred affections,
it is q sovereign remedy. While
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ICoPYRIGHT. 1871

turbed and unrefreshing sleep, con-
slant, indescribable feeling of dread,
or of impending calamity?
If you have all, or any consider
able number of these symptoms. you
are suffering from that most common
of American manifestations Dys-
pepsia, or Torpid Liver, associated
with Dyspepsia, or Indigestion. The
more complicated your disease has
become, the greater the number and
diversity of symptoms. No matter
what stage it has reached. DR..
PIERCR's GOLDEN MEDICAL Dis
CoyRRY will subdue it, if taken ac-
cording to directions for a reasonable
length of time. If not cured, COM
plications multiply and Consumption
of the Lungs, Skin Diseases, Heart
Disease, Rheumatism, Kidney Dis
ease, or other grave maladies are quite
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| INDIGESTION,
| B0lLs,
| BLOTGHES.
IHIP-j0lHT
| DISEASE.
ION. WEAK LUNGS, SPETTENG OF BLOOD

GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY
cures Consumption (Which is Scrof-
ula of the Lungs by its wonder
full blood purifying, invigorating
and nutritive properties. From
its marvellous power over this ter
ribly fatal disease, when first Of
fering this now world famed rem
edy to the public, DR.. Pierce
thought seriously of calling it his
CONSUMPTION CURE,' but aban-
doned that name as too restrict
i've for medicine which, from its
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THE STEAMBoAT-The Clermont was
Fulton's first steamboat. As many as six
steamboats, were afterwards built for
Fulton. The first boat of the kind on the
Mississippi, was the Orleans, in 1911 She
went from Pittsburg to New Orleans in
fourteen days. Eight years later the Sa-
vannah, an American steamer, crossed the
Atlantic from New York, N Y In this
vessel both sail and steam were used. The
arrival of the two first steamers, the Sirius
and the Great Western, at New York from
Liverpool, in 1887, caused a great sensa-
ton throughout the country, and when the
Great Western took her departure from
New York great fleet of vessels decorated
with flags, filed with passengers and each
having band of music on board. accom-
panied her down the bay. The wharyes
were densely crowded with spectators. and
even the house-tops were covered with
thousands of persons. Cheers went up from
the excited people as a parting God-speed.
-Ra,luoy Ne,cs
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DIR. Barnard on the Metric system.

President Barnard presented paper in
Columbia College last week on the Il Sys-
tenn of Metric Weights and Measures
The paper traced the growth of weights
and measures from the early periods of
society, although the beginning of these
systems is involved in obscurity. From a
cubit measure found in a wall of the pyra-
mid it is known that the Egyptians had
careful and accurate system in the calcula-
ton ofdistances. The pace was stated to
be one of the earliest measures known. and
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BILIOUS s@ Of 6 4sa1 @s bsat
ATTACK. sgds3 4 {ss s rest
covery and Pellets and derived very high
est benefit tlerefroIn"
e
ALAR a5sT o5a think X re- MsdSi B
FEVER the cured TSdd her Of ga sSe d e. lay ft te girl and
Observation-Disclosures a. CAss of Sprfngfed Mo- writes.
was troubled with liver complaint dyspepsia
ana sieepessness but Golden Medical Discovery
LIVER boy qST1T af Fl sdi VIII R vef
trouble and other diseases that family physi-
USEhSE elan said he could not live In fact they all
s-.I thought so. him DR.. Perce's Pellets
they saved his life We have also used the Golden
eqlc discovery for throat and bronchial
highly - " 10y
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Are You Sick F.?

Do you feel dull, languid, low
spirited, lifeless, and indescribably
miserable, both physically and
mentally experience a sense of
fullness or bloating after eating,
or of "goneness," or emptiness of
stomach in the morning, tongue
coated, bitter or bad taste in mouth,
irregular appetite, dizziness. fire.
quent headaches, blurred eyesight,
g Floating specks" before the eyes,
nervous prostratiOn or exhaustion,
irritability of temper, hot flushes,
alternating with chilly sensations,
sharp, biting, transient pains here
and there, cold feet, drowsiness
after meals, wakefulness, or dis
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INDIGESTION, 5sis 4ffs ssis7s on :
Bs @ aSs sS nS
OG Medical bff bso5 the use &c 9 Dr. M S
e-1-a@- for such complaints, and in weeks time L
began to feel like man, and sound and well The
Pleasant Purgatve Pellets the best remedy bilious
sick headache ghtness about the chest and bad the
that used My wife could walk
when take Golden Medical Discovery
Now she walk quite little and do light work.
NJ. STRONG of AinS1Uorth, Ind, writes:
QNT MY little boy had been troubled with hip5jont
1 EeEaeC use of your Golden Medical Discovery and
BSLHSE. Pellets, he confined his bed and could
be moved without suffering
now thanks Discovery, he is able to be all the
walk with the help of cruches He
pain. and sleep well any 1t has only
months
with which express
the benefit he has received through YOU
Fever-sOres-ALICE Ii. CRAWFORD, of SoGc Rapids
County, writes Six years ago cured
DR.. Pierces Golden Medical Discovery
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Blotch, or Eruption, to the worst
Scrofula. Salt rheum, Fever
Sores" Scaly or Rough Skin, in
short, all diseases caused by bad
blood, are conquered by this
powerful, purifying, and invigor-
ating medicine. Great Eating
Ulcers rapidly heal under its be-
nign influence. Virulent blood
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liable to set in and, sooner or later,
induce fatal termination.
DR.. PIERcR's GOLDEN MEDICAL.
DISCOVERY acts powerfully upon
the Liver, and through that great
blood-purifying organ, cleanses the
system of all blood-taints and i'm
purities, from whatever cause aris-
ing. 1t is equally eGieacious in
acting upon the Kidneys, and other
eXcretory organs. cleansing, strength
ening, and healing their diseases.
As an appetizing restorative tonic,
it promotes digestion and nutri-
ton, thereby building up both
flesh and strength. In malarial
districts, this wonderful medicine
has gained great celebrity in
curing Fever and Ague, Chills
and Fever, Dumb Ague, and kin
bred diseases.
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(2,07L)
MAIL LETTINGS.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS,
PosToFFIcE DEPARTMENT,

PosToFrcE DEPARTMENT, J
WASHINGTON ID. c., February /, 1858.
DRoPosALs WILL BE RECEIVED AT THE
Contract Office of this Department until P NJ
of APRIL 10, 1858. for carrying the mails of
the United States upon the routes, and accord
ing to the schedule of arrivals and departures
specified by the Department, in the State Of
California, from JULY l. 1888, to JUNE 90,
1890. Lists of routes, with schedules of arrivals
and departures, instructions TO bidders. with
forms fer contracts and bends, and all other
necessary information, win be furnished upon
application to the Second Assistant Postmaster
General DON NJ. DICKINSON.
tea-ess Postmaster-General.
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fancy and seeing that essentially i'm
to the old lady who had
sufferer from satrheum She commenced taking ct and
continue She then
these had all
notice improvement After taking about bottles
perfectly well smooth
and healthy chids Her general health also greatly
left her, and the
almost cured that ceased to be much annoyance She has
enjoyed excellent health that to this and has had
return of either salt-rhem rheumasm Tho Discovery
to have entirely eradctcd the rheum from her system
extreme
have written this you make you
fit hoping that sufferer from srhem might chance to
read obtain relief Golden Medical Discovery
for Golden its curative properties, and much above
the multitude socied patent medcnes
zeaousy aunted before the public gold above the ba
metals Respectfully yours,
F. w. WHETHER 1872 2lst Sto
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A Trial by Jury.

That great American jury, the people,
have rendered unanimous verdict in
favor OF DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative
Pellets, the standard remedy for bowel and
stomach disorders, biliousness, sick head
ache, dizziness, constipation and sluggish
liver
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| MhLARIAl
| FEVER.
FOR TIL BLOOD IS THE LIFE"

Thoroughly cleanse the blood,
which is the fountain of health, by
using DR.. PIERCE's GOLDEN MED
ICAL DISCOVERY, and good diges-
ton, fair skin, buoyant spirits, and
bodily health and vigor will be
established.
GOLDEN MEDICAL DISCOVERY
cures all humors, from @ common
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ALL arrangements of the kidneys and
liver, pains in the back, tired feelings, and
weakness are cured by Hoods Sarsaparilla
This medicine is purely vegetable. 1t is
sold by al druggists.
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o cure than
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poisons are, by it's use, robbed of
their terrors. Especially has it
manifested its potency in curing
letter, Eczema, Erysipelas, Boils,
Carbuncles, Sore Eyes, ScrofuloUs
Sores and Swellings, Hip-ioint Dis
ease, " White SWellings,n Goitre,
or Thick Neck, and Enlarged
Glands.
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it promptly cures the severest
Coughs it strengthens the system
and purifies the blood.
The nutritive properties of ex-
tract of malt and cod liver oil
are trifling when compared with
those possessed by the "Dis-
covery."
1t rapidly builds up the system,
and increases the flesh and weight
of those reduced below the usual
standard of health by wasting
Diseases
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/ SALT-RREUM
1 and
| RHEUMATISM.

relative of had been
upwards of forty The distressing in her
hands, causing the skin to
at the joints and between the obliged to protect
he raw places by of adhesive plaster
6andage and during the winter months
dressed dy The pain quite at times
nean was badly affected paving the for other diseases
creep m Caarrh and rheumatism caused
IN a1a9on to the satrheum She had used faithfully with
oSC commemorate all the
by her but without obtaining relief She afterwards
began treating herself by drinking teas made
ing herbs continued
rived no benefit Finally about
one OF DE- Perces small pamphlets setting
Golden Medical Discovery medicines The name struck
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The French Vintage.

Adolph Houssaye writes from Paris to a
| Chicago paper that :" the wine interests of
France are in bad way. The vintage of
1856 was the poorest in thirty years, both
in quantity and quality, but the vintage of
1887 proves to be poorer still. Those
| whose vineyards have not been devastated
| by phylloXera, and who, therefore, have
good wine, viii get very high prices; but
most wine-growers will have to face serious
losses. The districts that are worse off are
| the Gironde, the Charente and the Cha
| rante Inferieure.
As result of this the balance of the
| foreign wine trade is heavily against
France. Instead of selling wine to others
she has now to buy it for her own use.
Ten years ago more than S0000,000 gal
Ions were annually exported, while the
imports scarcely exceeded 100000 gal
| Ions. What Is the case now? Last wear
France sold only 100000 gallons OF
wine, while her purchases amounted to the
enormous total of 260,000,000 gallons.
She actually imported half as much as she
| made.
The worst feature of the case, however,
pertains not to quantity but to the quality
of the wine Some 81 900 tons of sugar
were used last year to fortify the product
of the wine presses. There were during
the year imported into or manufactured in
| France no less than 120,000,000 gallons OF
mixture compounded from raisins, cider
| and the refuse of the wine presses. This
has been doctored and sold as wine. There
have also been imported some millions OF
gallons of crude spirits manufactured in
| Germany from potatoes and beet-root
This is treated with drugs and put upon
the market as pure grape brandy, when it
really contains not drop of grape-juice y
THE LINGUIsT-" And so Tom has got
home from college, Mr.. Bigbee? l under
stand he is quite linguist?' Hes the
boss linguist." remarked old Bigbee, but
not proudly; she fingers down town till 2
o'clock in the morning, and he fingers in
bed till noon, and he fingers at the table
long after everybody has gone away found
cred, and there's going to be reform in
this linguist business, or you'll hear of a
case of felo de sc in this family by wearin'
of young man out with hickory CAD y
and the old man looked resolute, then
melted into thoughtfulness, and said that
was the first Greek he had used in thirty
years, since he clerked in a drug store and
studied the old masters on the bottles and
jars.-Burdette.
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/ 4 TERRIBLE
1 AFFLICTION.

aIILlUIlUN of bad of Eczema using Pierces
-sa-ss 9. - Golden Medical Discovery The disease
whole of the limbs from feet then attacked
elbows and became to her. After
physicians
the the medicine named She
and well hearty Mrs Poole thinks the medicine
saved her life and prolonged her
Mr. T. A AYREs of East NeID Market Dorchester Nd
vouches for the above facts
Eyes.-Mrs. TURNER Ogden Cttl, Utah Ter
TtOr my eldest child
eyes, being nearly
ica Discovery, and following the directions
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A Bad ULCER.
it up perfectly.

GOitre, Thick Neck.-JUIIA P. BECKw1TH A07 West
Gray Street EliTd NJ writes After your
Medical Discovery Favore Prescription together
good advice neck has become perfectly we'll"
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ISAAC E. DOWNS, Esq. of Spring Vdliet
ROckl0,id Co., ". Y, writes: 1.-The Golden
Medical Discovery has cured my daughter
of very bad ulcer. Three bottles healed