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Abnormal apnetites.

From the stomach of patient who recently
died at the Michigan Asylum for the Insane ut
Kalamazoo there were taken 10 stones, 80 nails.
from one and one half to Eve and one half
inches long; Is staples, two screws. two but
tons. one piece of glass. several pieces of barbed
wire besides dirt and gravel, the whole weigh
ing 21 ounces. The patient lived long time
after commencing this diet, but long nail
finally perforated his stomach and killed him.
James Tobin. living near Charlottesville,
Ind, was confined to the house last Summer
afflicted with stomach trouble that almost
bsffled medical skill. 1t was found that no
food except ice cream could be retained long
enough TO he digested. So, since July IA, he
has eaten nothing but ice cream. On that day
he weighed 40 pounds. and now he tips the
beam at 2l0, and works early and late. A
gallon of rich ice cream is frozen every morn
ing and is sufficient for the day. Tobin can
take other kinds Of food now. but has suffered
so much from indigestion that he thinks it
best to leave well enough alone and not worry
about the monotony in his meals.
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nTn-ra-ra in Africa.

"Ta.ra-ra Boom.de-ay" has just reached
Sierra Leone, aud, according to reports. it has
touched the natives in their most susceptible
spot. At a recent concert, attended by large
free.list gallery audience made up of natives
mostly clad in shirts only, one of the singers
gave Ta-ra-ra with the usual gymuastc ac-
COMPARTMENTS" "The effect was magical"
says he report. "Tbe native audience rose to
their feet. kicked up their legs. and howled
their Eo ,m de.ay's' in their vernacular. The
more timorous portion of the audience retired,
tho concert was stopped. and the whole place
was given up to the devotees of Ia ra-ra.
The seats cffnred no obstacles to the perform
ancc of the dance, and the yells of the singers
were heard all over the vicinity" At last re-
ports Ta-ra-ra was in possession of the coast.
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Columbian Coins all Coined.

IFFI't'eIs
The coinage Of the 100000 Columbian half
dollars was completed at the mint yesterday.
The first piece was struck by Mr.. Steel on the
morning of Nov. &C. when there were present
Col Bosbysiell and other mint officials and a
representati of the Fair Commissioners. The
first the fourteen hundred and ninety second,
and the eighteen hundred and ninety
pieces were set aside, and the large premium of
$4,000 was offered for the first. Since that
time the presses have been kept steadily going.
superintendent Bosbyshell has been called
upon by the Commissioners to deliver ., ,5650O0
pieces The others arc stored in tho mints
crowded vaults.
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mont in pursuit. but under orders from Gen.
Grant he Discontinued The pursuit, and after
DESTROYING the railroads returned to Nicks-
burg
The loss of the Fifteenth Corps during
the Jackson campaign was as follows: Com
miss:oned officers Wounded, Eve; captured
or missing. one Eulisted men-killed, 10;
waunded. % captured or missing, 81; total,
SO. There are no separate returns or reports
of The casualties from May % to July 4,
1868. The total loss of the whole Union
army during this period was $50 killed,
wounded, and missing.
TRANSFER TO CHATTANOOGA.
From the time Of the return of the FIf-
teenth Corps from Jackson, Miss, until the
92d of September, it lay in camps along the
Big Black River, about 20 miles east of
Vicksburu. On Sept. 80 Gen. Sherman was
ordered by Gen. Grant 10 detach one OF the
divisions of the Fifteenth U6res TO march
to Nirksburg to embark for Memphis, where
il was to form part of an army 10 be sent to
Chattanooga to reinforce Gen. Rosecrans
i
y. m. The same day it marched for Nicks-
burg and embarked the next day.
On the 23d OF September, Gen. Sherman
was summoned to Nicksbnrg by Gen. Grant,
and was informed that he and his corps
were to go 10 Memphis and thence eastward
TO reinforce Rosecrans. As the division of
Brig. Gen. John T. Smith, of the Seven
teenlh Corps, had already been ordered up
TO Memphis, il was decided 10 take II. and
leave one division of the Fifteenth Corps in
lis stead 10 hold the line of the Big Black
River. The Third Division Gen. Tuttlel
was accordingly detailed TO remain, and re-
ported to Mai.-Gen. Mcpherson, commanding
the Seventeenth Corps, at Eicksburg This
division never rejoiued the corps. The di-
vision of Gen Smith took its place, and
was STYLED the Third Division, though still
belonging to the Seventeenth Corps. 1t was
composed of three brigades, commanded by
Brig.-Gen. Matthies, Col. G. B. Raum, 56th
Ill., and Col. J. ]. Alexander, 59th Ind.
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heavy fire of cannon and musketry, and joined
to Col. Walcutt, but the crest was so narrow
that they necessarily occupied the west lace OF
the hill The enemy, being massed in great
strength in the tunnel gorge, moved large
force under cover of the ground and the thick
bushes. and suddenly appeared on the right
and rear of the Union force. The suddenness
of the attack disconnected the men, and. ex-
posed rs they were in the open field. they fell
back in some disorder to the lower edge OF the
field and reformed.
When the two reserve brigades of Gen. John
L. Smith fell back, as described, the enemy
made show of pursuit, but were caught in
flank by the well-d directed fire of one brigade
on the wooded crest, and hastily sought cover
behind the hill. Thus matters rested on the
north end of Missionary Ridge at p. m.
While Sherman was actively engaged i'll fill
ing his part of the program of the operations
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His Solemn Oath.
London Million.l

A popular comedian tells a story of waiter
at one of the London restaurants who was sadly
given to drink. A party OF young men deter
mined to reform him. and one day they read TO
him all imaginary paragraph from paper re-
lating a terrible accident, in which An inebriate.
in blowing out n candle. was killed By the
flame igniting the alcoholic fumes OF his
breath. James priekcd up his ears at this. and
requested that the paragraph might be read to
him again. which Was done, to the evident
horror of the poor man, who Immediately went
in search of Bible. Returning with this he
expressed desire to take solemn oath upon it.
bemoaned the fact that he had been sorry
tipplcr and was bringing himself to ruin, and
then swore that never again. so long as he lived,
would he attempt to blow ont candle!
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operations Of his command. makes the follow
ing reference to the Fifteenth Corps:
81 cannot speak of the Fifteenth Army
Corps without a seeming vanity; but. as ! am
no longer its commander, assert there is nc
better body of soldiers in America than it, OF
who have done more or better service. wish
to feel just pride in its real honors."
The loss of the Fifteenth Corps and the Sec
ond Division of the Seventeenth Corps, at
tached, during the Chattanooga -Ringgold cam
paign, was: Fifteenth Corps, 1,l72; Second
Division of tho Seventeenth Corps, 523, and
was distributed MS follows:
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The Genuine Article.
[Ne,o York Weekiy.l

Old Lsdy-"Is this genuine alligator
bag?"
DeaIer-"Yes ma'am. / shot that alliga-
tor myself"
Old Lady" 1t looks rather shop.worn."
Dealer-"That's where he hit the ground
when he tumbed of the tree, maam"
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TUPELO,

THE following song was composed by Lieut.. E.
X. Pickett Co. l. 10Th Mimi, the Sunday follow
ing the battle of Tupelo. Miss, which WAS fought
on tile 14ti and 18Th days of July, 1864. Lieut..
Pick still lives in the town of Albert Lea Mimi,
The place in which he resided when he entered the
service of his country.l
Come all ye Southern heroes. pray You lend an
ear,
And listen to the story of Western volunteer.
Who left his home and fortune, his wife and chill
dren, too,
To fight the foes of Freedom on the field of Tupe!o.
We started from old Memphis the twenty-:hird
of June.
With Generals Smith and Mower to lead our forces
on;
Through clouds of dust and burning heat our gal
liant soldiers go
To fight the foes of Freedom on the field of Tupelo
We had brave men from Wisconsin, likewise from
Illinois,
With Indiana veterans and gallant Iowa boys;
But twas Minnesota soldiers that aimed their rifles
They moved you down by hundreds on the field
OF Tupeo.
saw their long batialons they charged you on
the run,
with brightly polished bayonets a-glancng in the
And / heard the cry of victory as down the hill
they go,
Driving Forrest i'll confusion from the field of Tu-
peio.
Go tell your General Forrest that lie never need to
try
To whip our Minnesota boys. who conquer though
they die
There's Jennison and Marshall. and Colonel Will
kin, too,
who've taught their boys to fear no noise on the
field of Tupelo.
But for iie loved ones left at home our hearts with
pity burn
For those whose husbands marched away and
never will return;
But their names shall live in story, and Nations
tears bedew
The grave of every hero who fell at Tupelo.
Come pass around the bumper. know the boys
are dry,
Well drink TO Minnesota boys who are not afraid
TO die;
And TO cur fallen comrades we'll drink toast also.
To those who died close by side on the field of
Tupeo.
Let peace attend their sumbers. and in that long
repose
Nav Heaven protect their ashes from the tread of
Southern foes!
And when the last loud trumpet shall summon
them TO go,
God shall welcome homo his heroes from the field
of Tupelo.
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The TaIIRSt Man

Eighteen Bolivian Indians. the first to visit
the United States have arrived in New York
on tho steamship Newport, from Colon. ON
their way to the Worlds Fair. One of them is
believed to be the largest man i'll the world
His name is Jose Santos Mamaui, of La PaZ,
where he is known as the Great Bolivian Giant
He is nine feet 10 inches high, 20 years old,
and weighs Alb pounds.
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If any young, old, or middle-aged man suffer-
ing from nervous debility, weakness will in
close stamp to me will send him the prescrip-
ton Of n genuine certain euro free of cost.
No hnmbug. No deception. Address Charles
Gaus, Marshall, Mich.
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GRATEFTE-COHFOR
EPpS'S COCOA,
KREAKFANr-STPPER.

GBy thorough knowledge Of the natural laws
which govern the operations of digestion an nutTi
ton and by careful application OF the fine proper
ties tf weIseleced Cocoa Mr.. Epps has provided our
breakfast taoeS with deIicateiy havored Leverage
which may many heavy doctors bills It IS BY
the jucious of such articles of diet That cOnst
tuition may be gradually built up until strong enough
20 resist every tendency TO disease Hundreds OF subtle
malades floating around ready to attack wner
there is a weak point. We may escape many a
fatal shaft by keeping ourselves well fortified with
pure blood and properly nourished frame - cictE
Se1-Uice GTzette.'
Made simply with boiling water or milk. sold
only in halfpOund tins, BY Grocers labelled thus:
JAMES EPPS & Co., Homeopathic Chemists,
London, England.
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Poisoned

Mrs. Mary Il. O'Falion,
n nurse. of Piqua, Ohio,
was poisoned while as
sisling physicians at an
autopsy 8 years ago, and
soon terrible ulcers $
broke out on her head,
arms, tongue and throat.
She weighed but IS lbs, T.,
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Mrs. NJ. 4. U'EaIIen. ond sow M nrnsnoct of
help At last she began to take HOODS
SARSAPARILLA and at once improved ;
could soou get out of bed and walk. She is now
perfectly well. weighs 1913 pounds. eats well.
aud does the work for a large family.
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HAWAII FOR
OLD SOLDIERS.
An Iueal Spot for a Veterans SAM
tarium.
BY F. T.. CLARKE.

HILE the annexation
of the Hawaiian ISL
ands to the United
States may be delayed
for a few months, it
will undoubtedly be
a eco m plished d this
year, and the " Para
disc of the Pacific "
become a new Terri
tory Of the Republic.
80. Il q.
The National tribune., 1893-04-13

Hoods Pills should be in every family
medicine chest. Once used, always preferred.
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MISSIONARY RIDGE.


About midnight of the 2ith Gen. Sherman
received orders from Gen. Grant to attack at
I" dawn Of day" and possible the fol-
lowing dispositions were made:
The brgades of Coils. Cockerill and Alex
ander and Gen. Lightburn were 10 hold the
hill as the key-point Gen. Core, with as
much or his brigade as could operate along the
narrow ridge WAS TO attack the right center.
Gen. Lightburn was TO dispatch regiment
/ from. his position 10 cooperate with Gen.
/ Corse, and Gen. Morgan L. Smith was to move
! along the east base of Missionary Ridge, con-
! meeting with Gen. Corse, and Col. Loomis was
! to move in like manner along the west base
! supported by the two reserve brlgades of Gen.
John l.. Smith.
At sunrise on the morning of the 25th Gen.
Corse advanced to within about 50 yards of
| the intrcnched position, where he found a
| secondary crest, which he gained and held.
| As soon as he had made his preparations he AS
sanited, aud close severe contest ensncd, last.
ing more than an hour, gaining and losing
ground. though the enemy WAS unable TO drive
1 lin from the position first obtained. Gen.
| Morgan l.. Smith kept gaining ground Oh the
| leit spur OF Missionary Ridge, and Col. Looms
got abreast of the tunnel aud railroad embank-
nent On his side drawing the enemy's fire,
aud to that extent relieving the assaultipg
! party on the Interest
! TIE artillery fire was directed to the clear
ing OF the hill in front At 10 a. III. the fight
ragged fuTiousy. aud Gen. Corse received a
severe wound aud was taken from the field, the
command Of his brigade and of the assault al
that point devoIving upon Col. Walcutt, OF
the 46th Chic. who continued the contest and
pressed forward at all points
Col L0oms had made good progress to tht
right, and about p. m. Gen. John L. Smith
ordered up Col Raum's and Gen. Matthiess
Brigades across the field to the summit thai
Was being fought for. They moved up under
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Feeding Fraech school Children.

In the French primary schools tho
children pay for their midday meals
by means of counters, which arc
bought by their parents at so much
q dozen, but in case Of poverty,
either chronic or occasional, these
tickets can be obtained without pay
ment, though when the children
give them in they do so just as the
others do and none of their con1pan-
ions know whether it is by the care
Of the state or of their own paren,S
that these little ones are fed. Be
fore we eXclaim at the cost to th5
taxpayer we must remember that
the French have no poor law like
ours and that this is simply one OF
their methods for distributing relief,
and probably less costly than orr
own.
1t is something to be able to feel
that there hardly can be such Il thin,
as an absolutely starving child III
Paris within the limits Of school age,
and this not il winter only. but al
the year round One meal day at
least the state insists upon, and it
seemed to me that this vigilance over
the health of the young, this deter
mination to take off for them tbs
sha1pest edge Of extreme privation
without marking them with the
brand of p"2lperism, must in time
have visible effects on the physical
we'll being of tle entire population.
What an u1ltoi~. relief to many moth
ers it must IL to know that on schosl
days at any rate their children are
sure Of at least one good meal a day.
Itise eaten on temporary tables formcl
with boards and trestles l-Macnln
lan's Magazine.
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Confusion of Dates.

A correspondent says that he knew
schoolboys-in Boston schools, too
who seemed bound to grow up with
the impression that General Warren
stopped all proceedings just before
the battle Of Bunker Hill to stir up
the patriotic ardor of the soldiers by
declaiming to them three stanzas of
grandiloquent poetry.
All this, the correspondent says,
was chargeable to the fact that the
teacher was too Indifferent OF too
thoughtless to tell his pupils that the
stanzas in question, in Pierponts
National Reader, were written for
General Warren fifty years after he
was killed and by John Pierpo1lt
himself
The correspondent is moved to
this Renaissance by something seen
lately in an "ambitious periodical
gotten up by the students of a high
school not 100 miles away from Bos-
ton, and in fact not much nearer
than that"
In that periodical the familiar quo
tation about government of the
people, by the people, for the peo-
ple," is said to have been uttered
by President Lincoln in his eXhorta-
ton to the Union army as it was
about to enter upon the battle of
Gettysburg! Boston Transcript.
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THE RUSSIANS At HOME.
A Visitor Who Found Them Il P!casaH

Visitor Who Found Them Pleasant
and Hospst.5ls People.
l found the Russians a pleasant,
hospitable and social people, always
ready to fraternize and help me in
every way III their power. was
told sometimes by Englishmen III
the country that they were very
childish people; in the ease with
which they are willing to be amused
this may be so, and also, perhaps, i'll
q certain disregard Of conventional
appearance. | remember once see
ing a Russian general and a colonel
and be it noted that officers invari-
ably wear uniform and swords-slt-
ting on the ledge Of shop window
in the principal street Of one Of the
largest cities Of the empire, discuss
ing some matter with great anilaa-
ton and wholly unaware of any in
congruity in their position and Of
my somewhat bewildeIed stare.
Imagine such scene in Regent
street. My tutor, however, assured
me it was nothing out of the ordi
nary, and laughed at my surprise.
One certainly meets with little ways
and usages common among the ordl-
nary great middle class if I may so
call the class from which spring the
majority OF officers of the array, OF
binary tchni vuicl1s or Officials, stu
dents, lawyers, professors Of the Uni
versities and schools, doctors, mer-
chants, etc. ; the class, in fact, among
which the ordinary Englishman
finds himself cast in his attempt to
live in a family and learn the Ian
guage) which strikes an English
man as being mot nice" and form
to great extent the ground on
which we occasionally votes them as
barbarous.
Small matters, to which it would
be a pity to attach undue impor-
tanee, arrest ones attention, such as
frequently eating with their knives
as we use a fork; no salt spoon either
in hotels or in private houses, the
aforesaid knife being employed to
help ones self to salt. sometimes
stretching half the length Of the
table to get at it instead Of asking
that it should be passed; simplifying
the carving of a fowl, for instance,
by liberal use of the fingers
using the same knife and fork for
the various courses, and helping one 5
self to vegetables, etc, by sticking
ones fork into the dish and extract
ing what is required, and many other
little points similar in kind.
One common practice should be
mentioned. The men. and sometimes
the ladies, carry about a little pocket
comb, which is used in the most un-
concerned way anvwharo-''' ? +''o':?
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The Voice of a Dog.

My dog not only shows a perfect
comprehension Of at least a score of
different things ! say to him, but |
verify believe can communicate to
me any idea his mind can grasp.
When he is tied up l can Instantly
understand whether he is calling fer
water or merely whining to get
loose When he comes up stairs 10
tell me that there is strange man
in the kitchen he by no means uses;
the same phraseology as when he
announces his conviction that the
time has come to take walk. Ho
expresses doubt or hesitancy by ons
growl, a threat by another, disgust,
e. g., at my differing with him Oh
the walk question, by yet another.
There is no difficulty whatever in
distinguishing between his bark of
anger and his bark of joy. His apo]-
ogetic whine when scolded is used TO
apologize and beg Off from punish
mcnt and for t It purpose only. Its
tone is exactly that Of a child under
similar circumstances. Cor. New
York Times
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Full Dress NIOuchoir.

With the dress suit the fine white
linen handkerchief holds precedence.
A colored handkerchief would throw
the full dress ensemble completely
out Of joint. The plain white hcm-
stitched mouchoir is indeed apropos
upon all occasions. Although the
handkerchief is for use primarily,
and in a strict observance Of the code
of good manners should never be OK
plotted, there is a strong masculine
penchant for the fancy handkerchief
for informal wear Clothier and Fur
nisher.
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Deep Ocean Scundinss.

The following is based on the re-
suits of soundings taken by the Unit
ed States steamship Tuscarora in
1890:
The Tuscarora was commissioned
to determine the feasibility of a
cable route across the middle of the
north Pacific from California to Yo-
kohama, Japan, by way of the Sand
wich and Bonin islands. On the
homeward voyage they surveyed a
Japan to the entrance of Puget
sound. On June II, 1890, on the sec
ond day out from the japanese main
land, a 3,427 fathom sounding was
made, only forty-eight fathoms short
of the deepest sounding made off the
Ladrones-this, too, at a distance Of
only 100 miles from the coast of
Japan. In making the next cast in
the same vicinity the Tuscarora' S
men can out 4,643 fathoms Of Wire,
and then the line broke before bot
tom had been reached. A Lucas
sounding machine, with 1000 faith
oms of wire, was next brought on the
scene, and exactly 4,655 fathoms of
the eslender metallic strand were paid
out before the nose Of the ma
chine grounded. Several casts OF the
apparatus were made in this inne
diate neighborhood and the depths
found to range from 1856 up to the
maximum OF / 655 IA thons. This Sc
ries Of remarkable depths south and
east of the ridge lying between Cape
Lapatka and the Aleutian islands cS
ceed any similar depressions yet
found III any Of the great oceans.
This extraordinary ocean basin has
been given the name Of ''Tuscarora
Deep" in honor CT the United States
vessel making the soundings.-St.
Louis Republic.
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South American Horses.

South America is a great place fer
horses and horse leather is one of the
staple products. 1t all comes to New
York or to Hamburg-most Of 1t tJ
New York-and Buenos Ayres is tho
great South American market. The.
are so many horses in Buenos Ayr2s
that beggars literally beg on horse
back It's strange, too, for st t ,
time of the discovery Of Anlal'i, |
horses were unknown in Sou
America. They were imported | :
the Spaniards and have bred IL;
countless herds. They run wild :.
the vast plains from the shores tt
the La Plata to Patagonia, and a's
caught by the Ganchos by the tho.1-
sands for their hides, portions II
which. under the native Treatment.
make the finest leather, for what 5
known as shell cordovan brings )
high a price as French calfsl-in
Interview in Brooklyn Eagle
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at railway station or on entering 8
room, without any apology TIE
hair is often worn by the men with
out any parting, sometimes rather
long, and brushed or co1nhed back or
straight up, which gives them a
rather wild appearance These are
some of the peculiarities Of manner
and ways which, however small,
somewhat jar on an Englishman In
spite Of the unique opportunity for
skating which their long winter gives
them. it is rare to find any Russian
who can skate well.-Cornhil Maga-
1i,o