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Horsford's Acid Phosphate.
HealthfuI Tonic,

Used In place of lemons or lime Juice it
will harmonic with such sti mulants as
ure necessary to take.
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w. n. CLARK
Has the largest stock Of car
riages, Sleighs and Road carts
of all styles to be found in
the State of Vermont

Haylng just received two carloads of FINE
CARRIAGES and ROAD CARTS. am pre-
pared to sell cheaper than any other man in
the State at my Boarding, sale and Exchange
Stables,
Cor. College and st. Paul SITS.
! also have II head of good working and driv-
ing HORSES for sale or exchange.
sS Satisfaction guaranteed Horses fed
for ~ cents; Hay and Stabling Is cents
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Every ingredient employed in producing
Hoods Sar-autrila is -tri city pure. aud is the
best OF its kind it is possible To buy. All the
roots and herb, are carefully selected, persun-
ally examined, and only the hest retained. So
that from the time Of purchase until Hoods
Sarsaparilla is prepared, everything is careful
ly watched with View To attaing the best re-
suit. Why don't you try il:
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The strange fashion of mutilating and
adorning the human ear has been prac-
ticed for all ages, and has been in vogue
all over the world. 1t has especially en-
joyed great favor among the Orientals,
and by Persians, Babylonians, Lydians,
Lybians and Carthaginians the earring
was worn as commonly by men as by wo-
men. Figure 1, taken from Thomas
Hopes ''Costume of the Ancients," shows
how the monarchs of Phrygia adorned
themselves, and there are numerous evil
dences in gems, etc., to bear out the as
sertion concerning the vanity of the an
tique male. In the "Iliad" Juno is rep
resented as adorning himself with ear
rings made with three drops representing
mulberries, and most of the jewels so
worn at that time seem to have come
under the head of what some old-fash-
ioned people still call "eardrops." From
this period down to the latest the prac-
tice prevailed in Greece, and one finds
the ears of the Venus d. Medici to be
pierced for the reception of earrings.
Pliny says there was no part of dress on
which greater expense was lavished
among the Romans, and Seneca mentions
an earring of which drawing, the lower
right-hand specimen, copied in Fig. 2
is taken from Smiths Dictionary,
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BARNUM UPSETS STATISTICS.

A small controversy is going on now
among certain English newspapers regard
ing the duration of life of persons using in
toxicating liquors, and recent issue of the
London Erpress says that, according to the
statistics P T. Barnum, who is now In his
eightieth year, should have died twenty-six
years and some months ago, his allotted age
being less than fifty-four years. The same
paper further states that the total abstain
er's average of life, on statistical showing, IS
a little over fifty-three years, while the
moderate drinker has ten years more OF life
than his totally abstemious brother. Bar
mum has been, according to the same author
ity, "a teetotaller for the last twenty years,
and is manifestly defrauding the compilers
of statistics, or else playing it very low down
on the other total abstainers, whose average
life be is cutting down to a frightful extent
by living so much beyond his rightful statis-
tical turn. As matter Of fact Mr.. Bar.
mum has not tasted intoxicants for period
of over forty years mot twenty, as stated,
and has many times knocked the conceit out
of the national statisticians and all their Ia
bles on this subiect.-Ne,o York Times.
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RELEF-MoNEY WASTED.

The Cincinnati TYmes-Star reports a
gentleman from Washington, who as MEM
Der of the Red Gross Order, served on relief
committees during the yellow fever vista
ton in Florida, and at Johnstown, PENN,
after the food, as saying that "a great part
of the funds contributed by the public for
the relief of sufferers at both those places
indirectly found its way into saloon-keepers
Golfers" This gentleman, according to the
Iimes-Star, is also authority for the state
ment that the first carload Of lumber re-
ceived at Johnstown after the disaster was
used in constructing saloon, and the first
dozen new buildings erected were saloons.
The army of laborers spent in these saloons
o great proportion of the wages they re.
ceiyed out Of the relief funds Hestated that
many of the officers on relief duty there were
incapacitated for work great part of the
time from too much indulgence in the flow
ing bowl. The defeat Of prohibition in Penn
syfvania, he stated, was celebrated by
tremendous drunk on the part of large
number of these officials, militia and civil.
Thus does the drink curse supplement and
aggravate other calamities -New York W.T.
oano
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

1t is estimated that there are now IS, OO0
total abstainers in Denmark.
Woe unto those who would protect the
drink shop rather than the home!
The King of Bavaria receives an income of
S1,00OOOO year from the Hofbrauhaus
brewery.
Zone woman's footstep," says Mrs. o. W.
Scott, may cross the saloon threshold noise
lcssly, but when two hundred thousand cross
it, there is q trembling behind the bar"
The National W. C. T. u, through its
President, has received a bequest of $1,000
from Mrs Dinah Mendenhall, Of Pennsyl-
vania, whose death occurred in November.
The six-year-old daughter of hotel keeper
at Hickville Long Island took draught of
whisky to cure a cold, which caused her
death, as was shown 10y the post mortem
examination.
The Chicago daily papers say that 500 600
barrels of beer were sold in that city during
the Year 1859. The output for the year was
larger by from IS, 900 to 100, 900 barrels than
the year before.
Three new total abstinence Catholic bishops
STANLEY, McGoldrich and Cotter-have
been added to Archbishop Ircland's force.
Two of them will work in Minnesota and one
in North Dakota.
A novel result Of the temperance meetings
at Nobissville, Ind, is reported. So many
have signed the pledge and received badges
that the supply Of blue ribbon in the stores
of the town has becn exhausted.
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EFFECTS oFALcoHoL ON THE MIND.

T. D. Crothers, in the Scientific american,
says Of the effects of alcohol on the mind:
It is one of the curious errors that alcohol
stimulates the imagination, and gives q
clearer, more practical insight into the rela-
ton of events Of life. The whirl Of thought
reused up by the increased circulation OF the
blood in the brain is not imagination; 1t is
not superior insight or conception Of the
relation of events, but is rapid reproduc-
tion of previous thoughts, soon merging into
confusion. The inebriate never creates any
new ideas or new views; all his fanGles are
tumultuous, blurred and barren. The ap-
parent brilliancy is only the flash Of mania.
quickly followed by dementia. Alcohol al
ways lowers the brain capacity, and lowers
the power of discriminating the relation OF
ideas and events. After few periods of in
to1ication, the mind under the influence OF
spirits is a blank, blurred page. The
poets and orators who are popu-
iarly supposed to make great efforts
under the influence of alcohol only repeated
what had been said before in q tangled
delirium of expression. The physicians ', 40
are supposed to have greater skill wien using
spirits, have paralyzed ter ....esF higher bsais
centres and h.Y i've lost ali sense q fear And
e'-.avlon Of the consequences OF their
acts aud hence act more automatically,
simply doing what they have done before
without any clear appreciation Of discrlmina-
tion Of the results The inebriate is the best
Of all imaginative persons, and the one in
whom the higher brain forces Of judgment,
reason and conception are the first to give
way. The man who uses spirits to give
mental force and clearness is doing the very
worst thing possible to destroy this effect.
Alcohol is ever and always paralyzant. 1t
never creates anything; it never gives
strength or force that did not exist before;
it never gives clearer conception and power
of execution, but always lowers, destroys and
breaks down.
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which he says was worth a patri-
mcny. 1t has four pearls, two above
and two below the precious stone in the
center. In the more valuable of the
antique earrings pearls were almost al
ways used; and they were valued for the
completeness of their form, as we'll as
for their whiteness. In place of a ring
the ornament was often attached to the
ear with hook, a custom which still
prevails in Italy. Many Egyptian ear
rings of very beautiful design have been
preserved, of which the one to the left
in Fig. 2 is an example.
These antique designs have been fire.
quently initiated in modern times, and if
the use of this ornament is to be con-
tinued it can scarcely assume a more
graceful form than was often given to it
by the ancients. The smallest earring
in Fig. 2 is sketch of one of pair
copied from the "Masterpieces of the
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DEPRESSION.

Whatever may be the cause, there are few
of us who do not know by experience what
it is to be depressed. The causes of this un-
happy frame of mind If they can be discov-
cred and removed, may afterward, as far as
possible, be avoided. In any case we must
always be concerned as to ways of behaving
ourselves when the mood is on us. Some
people find relief in injecting those around
them with the malady, and when the infec-
ton takes, recover rapidly from their
trouble. Some find solitude cure, and
shut themselves away alone till
the paro1ysm is over. Some
plunge into work, and forget themselves in
the rush Of business. Some soar away,
with the help of the philosopher, the lit
terateur, or The poet, into regions OF peren-
NAL light and beauty. Some find relief in
visiting and comforting those less favored
than themselves. Some betake themselves
to the abundant sources of consolation
found in the Old and New Testaments.
Moses, David, Elijah, jeremiah, Jesus Him
self, knew what it is to pass through deep
waters Of affliction. They all passed through,
and so shall we, if we hold fast, as they did,
10 the Source of everlasting strength.
Steady occupation is as good preventive
of unaccountable depression as we know OF.
A great many people are unhappy because
they have not enough to do, and that in
such q world as this, where there are so
many books to read, so many sciences to
explore, so many arts to master, so many
ignorant to teach, so many hungry to feed,
and so many in prisons to visit. Work is
panacea for great many woes, and invalu-
able in warding off and driving away at
tacks of depression.
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she will take leaf and roll it up and in
,ert it in her ear. Gradually the weight
IS increased by the addition OF otner
larger rings, till the lobe often gives way
and splits. Carl Book, in his book on
"The Head Hunters of Borneo," asserts
that he has counted as many as sixteen
rings in single ear, each of them the
size of dollar. The rings are generally
made of tin, and cut so that they can be
removed at pleasure. Sometimes disks
of colored wood running up to an inch
and half in diameter are used. In ad'
dition to this mutilation of the lobe, the
helix of the car is pierced or slit in
several places, and In these holes pie"sSss
of colored rihhon 9. cord are tied. or
buttons or feathers inserted. In Fig. s
there is given a sketch made from one OF
the illustrations in Books book. 1t rep.
resents the head of Dyak belle, the
measurements of the ear being as fol-
lows: Total length of the ear IL inches,
length of the cash in the lobe ATS
inches, distance between the level of the
chin and bottom of the ear 2.S5 inches.
-iSdn Francisco Chronicle.
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CHAPTER XVI.
ANOTHER ORDER FROM THE cZAR.

ANOTHER ORDER FROM THE czAR-
But q few short weeks before this
there was no man whose POSITION was
more to be envied than General PauPs.
He was prince of the empire. He
was young, handsome and wealthy.
His name, as a conspicuous hero in the
late war with Turkey, was on every
lip, and he was an especial favorlte Of
his Majesty the Car But there is
there can be-no permanency to honor
under the rule of tyrant.
The General did not care for the
loss of his uncongenial office; if he
had had a choice in the matter he
would not have accepted it, but he was
profoundly troubled by the almost
violent anger of the Gear.
He we'll knew why he had been sub
iected to the last humility, and that
his only hope for return OF the i'm
peris1 favor lay in his complete sur
render and obedience to the will of his
master.
He must wed the Countess Linwold
OR lose his vast estates; and he must
help to hound from the empire the
woman he 30 profoundly loved, and
her father, whose life had been blasted
through the brutal authority of his
General Paul's) father.
A less noble and less resolute man
would have debated long before de-
Gliding TO brave the wrath of the Car
by being true to himself; but the Gen
erals decision was that of o man who
has only one course before him.
After the Cars departure General
Paul left the great Office, telling his
subordinates that his authority was at
an end, and then he went to his own
private reoeption-room and threw him
self into chair, with o compression
of the lips and brow that denoted un-
shakable resolve.
He remained absorbed in his thoughts
for more than an hour, and he might
have remained longer Indifferent to his
surroundings, had he not been aroused
by knock at the door.
It was opened, and tall young man,
dressed in the picturesque costume of
Q couriey of the Gear, entered and
saluted.
@Excellency." said the courier, as he
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NJ. Thivrier began work in the coal
mines at Commentoy, France, when
twelve years old, and for twenty years
remained in them, handling the pick.
Afterward he became vine grower and
dealer in wines. He is Socialist, but
not Communist, "for, having" as q
French paper puts it, acquired his capi-
tai by his own hard work, he cannot
easily understand how that capital should
belong to all the world" Through all
his career he has stuck to his working
mans blouse, and it was largely upon
the strength of that popularity that he
was elected a Deputy. He is said to be
a man of unusual intelligence and good
speaker. When he came to Paris to take
his seat, his blouse, which he wore not
only at the Chamber, but at receptions
and all other functions that he attended,
made him at once famous.
The garment, it will be seen, is similar
to the outside shirts worn by Cinnamon
in this country, and would doubtless bring
the Deputy ridicule rather than honor OF
popularity if worn ere.-Ne,o York Sun.
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Centennial Exhibition" where it was
shown among the Castellani antiques.
The original is about two inches long,
the pair representing the dolphins,
which were emblematic of Venus. The
eyes, fins and other details of the figure
are executed in the professional materials
of the jewelers. art, instead of by en-
craving Or molding, that is to say, they
are sketched upon the smooth surface by
lines of rope-work applied and soldered
on. The minute gold cords of which
this rope-work consists, so delicate yet
so even, and so firmly soldered as to be-
come homogeneous with the body of the
object, constitute the grand technical
superiority of antique jewelry. The date
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and precious stones" Elizabeth re-
vived the antique love for pearls and wore
"rich drops" two large ones with third
depending from them being seen in her
portrait by Zucchero. Continual men.
tion of them is made by writers in the
seventeenth century, at which period they
were given as love tokens. They were
also worn by men at the same period all
over Europe. George Villiers, Duke of
Buckingham, wore diamond earrings, and
all courtiers wore either gold, stones or
pearls in their ears. Men are not seen
wearing them after the restoration of
Charles II, but there was singular fash
ion existing at the same time on the con-
tinent which found its way to England
about the time of James I, viz, the wear
ing of two or three strings of black silk.
The noble red man who once ranged
through the forest primeval was not con-
tent with a simple pair of earrings, but
tied his ears up in thongs of stained skin.
At least that is what George Catlin says
in his "North American Indians" from
which the sketch seen in Fig. 5 has
been taken. This species of fantastic ear
decoration is, however, simplicity itself
compared to that practiced by certain un-
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RELIGIOUS READING,
GOD CARES FOB NE.


sat in the door at eventide ~
My heart was full of fears;
And saw the landscape before me Lie
Through mists of burning tears
I thought to myself the world is dark,
No light nor Joy see
Nothing but toll and want is mine,
And no one cares for me.
A sparrow was twittering at my feet,
With its beautiful auburn head,
And looked at me with dark mild ey0
As it picked up crumbs of bread,
And said to me, in words as plain
As the words of bird could be-:
Pm only sparrow, worthless bird
But the dear Lord cares for me-"
A lily was growing beside the hedge,
Beautiful, TALL and white,
And it shone through the glossy leaves or
green,
Like an angel clothed in light;
And it said to me, as it waved its head,
On the breezes soft and free:
"Tm only lily, useless flower,
But the Master cares for me-"
Then it seemed that the hand of the LOVING
Lord
Over my head was laid, ...z
And he said to me, ~Oh, faithless child.
Wherefore art thou dismayed?
clothe the lilies, feed the birds,
I see the sparrows fall,
Nothing escapes my watchful eye,
My kindness is over ALL"
Hrs. Matilda @. Edmunds.
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SEVEN WAYS OF GIVING.

1. The careless way: To give something
to every cause trat is presented, without in
quiring into its merits.
g. The impulsivs way: Togive from inn
pulse-as much and as often as love and pity
and sensibility prompt.
8. The lazy way: To make a special
Offer to earn money FOR benevolent objects
by fairs, festivals, etc: -.
4. The self.denying way: To save the
cost of luxuries and apply them to purposes
of religion and charity This may lead to
asceticism and self-complacence.
S. The systematic way: To lay aside as
an Offering to God definite portion of our
gains-one-tenth, one-ffth, one-third or one
half This is adapted to all, whether rich
or poor; and gifts would be largely increased
if it were generally practised. :,
G. The equal way: To give to God and
the needy just as much as we spend on our
selves, balancing our personal expenditures
by our gifts.
I. The heroic way: To limit our own
expenditures to certain sum and give
away the rest of onr income. This was John
Wesley's way.-Homiletic Rsuiew.
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burial mounds, but both in England and
on the Continent, after the commence
ment of the tenth century, the fashion
appears to have declined and earrings are
neither found in graves nor discernible in
paintings or sculpture. NJ. Violet Cedric
observes that the style of headdress and
wearing the hair may in some measure ac-
count for this. In the thirteenth century,
however, the fashion evidently revived,
mention being made of earrings in the
''Roman de la Rose" but there is no
graphic description Of their form, and
neither monument nor miniature is found
to assist us. In the sixteenth GEN.
tury earrings were in high favor except
among the purlsts, who denounced
the ''women who were not ashamed to
make holes in their cars whereat they
hang rings and other jewels of gold
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drew a sealed letter from his pouch,
Il bear you communication from my
imperial master"
Having delivered the paper, the
courier turned like machine, and
strobe out of the room.
General Paul opened the letter and
read as follows:
70 his excellency General Paul. Prince
NJ Moskeya: Your EXcellency-lt having
rome to the knowledge of his Imperial
Majesty that you are now harboring in your
hotel one Count John Pulaski. recently re-
turned convict. and a woman calling her
self Lola Pulaski" who claims to be his
daughter. you are hereby ordered to send
them from under your roof. and to see that
they at once take their departure from the
empire. If within forty-elght hours Inc
said John and Lola Pulaski are found with
In the limits of the empire. they shall be ar
rested and at once sent. without further
trial or hearing, to Eastern Siberia BY
order Of the Gear.
The General rubbed his eyes and
read this paper over q second time, as
if he doubted the evidence of his
senses.
Then he sprang to his feet, dashed
the paper on the floor and crushed it
under his heel as if it had been the
head of venomous serpent.
ooh, God!" he cried, in paroxysm
of anger and grief. "Can this cruel
order come from the head of the en-
pire, for which I risked my life on q
score of battle-felds?
"Must I, to prove my loyalty to such
q monster as this, and to hold the es-
tates-which I value as nothing COM
pared with my own manhood-mu I
become q bloodhound, to hunt down
the brave man whom my father 80
cruelty wronged and outraged? Aye,
more than that; must take the alter
native OF showing my loyalty to one who
has proved himself tyrant, by driving
into exile the only being I ever have,
ever can love?"
The General might have continued
his soliloquy had not the door opened
and Count Linwold stood before him.
"Pardon me, your excellency," said
the Count, "but knocked, and imag-
ming I heard a reply, I entered"
II have just received this communl-
cation from the Gear, said the General,
picking the paper from the floor and
handing it to his visitor. "You already
know the contents and no doubt have
come for my answer"
[To BE Continued
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HOW TO BECOME A MILLIONAIRE.

Henry Clews, the Wall ttreet banker,
laughed pleasantly when the question was
put to him, and said: 'This is the problem
that bothers ninety-nine out of every one
hundred men living. and when it is solved
life should be worth the living. Some men
have the art of speculating with success. A
great many haven't, and they lose their little
all in discovering the fact. Others are sue
cessful mechanics, scientists, merchants and
inventors. Every trade and industry has its
rich men, and every man possesses the pecu-
liar qualifications which fit him for some
special trade or art. He should find out these
qualifications and their course, and then he
should act accordingly. A man should keep
his head clear and bright and free of liquor.
Nothing can be gained by drink, and con-
siderable can be lost. Find out what you
are fit for, work at it with your whole heart
and soul, and you will be doing what men be.
fore you have done to get rich."-New York
Journal.