IK JFOMSIGy LAXDS,
To this pretty, womanly city there are
wo sides, a writer tells us; it is the
most deceitful city in the world a city
of wide and wonderful contrasts. Venice
is full of beauty, but full of ugliness
also. It ia full of gayety, but overfull
of want and wretchedness. The great
attraction, however, to one who dwells
long in Venice is the gentleness and the
never-failing politeness of its people of
all classes and all conditions. Beautiful,
beautiful Venice ! A dead and decaying
city of cholera and half the diseases o .
the world, yet all the time as beautif- j
ujr aream or picture, u ne oeauty - arff
m yuuuxx woman. A diy hick at w jtr,
full of decay and disease. A city o on-
- vasts ana contradictions. 'Xne jrirv of
mn, xustory, ana song, yes nou
sad as a shell of the sea.
ah account or - the stre jag& of the
wpamsn army , has been ' jaftfiuhed. It
mnsiiitsof 40 regizaeuta of tSieline (80
batta lions), 80,000 men; 39 battalions of
light. infantry,, 24,000 ?.nv 4 regiments
f f t artillery, i, 000 man; 5 rerimente
of 1 wne artUlwy (180 gams), 2,500 men;
, r egunents m. ngnieerc, 6,000 men; 17
re guweotsaf Heavy, eavalry, 5,540 men;
8 MadroB8 af ligat owralry, 800 men ; 2
r assmeatsof .hussars, ;840 men. These
EHS88 men form Che regular army.
D Uexexe also layOOO carabineros, or
satoa thocao soldiers, and 105,000 men
,. 3aUed-etit in 1873 ana 1874. This makes
m total, on paper, of. 257,986 men at the
tSaposal of the new "King. . They are not
3af3friflnt for his wants, however, for he
-Jm has, decreed levy of 70,000 more,
'rutdera conscription which allows of cx
. . "-eajpiaon only by the payment of $275.
r " JL COB&BE J.V THE A.XX.
Tfce Paris correspondent of the Phila
' -"delphia tPress -writes :
One of the strangest and most horrible
- sensationsl incidents took place the
- -other day at "Puteaux. A party of chil--2re
who were playing in the environs
discovered floating in the air and partly
-entangled amid the branches of a tree a
"white parcel -upborne by some twenty or
' thirty litSe Ted toy-balloons which were
-attached to it. The attention of the
polioebexDg called to this singular ob
ject, was brought down and the pack
age opened, which proved to contain the
orpae of a new-born infant.
Iirvee ligation into the matter brought
to light the following facts : The child
was ihat .of a poor toy-maker and his
wife; just after the confinement of the
: latter 4he ihusband had died suddenly,
and sH the household goods and chattels
bad een seized for rent. The unhappy
woman -was. driven mad by this aocumu
. lation of misfortunes ; she killed her in
fant, land then went out and threw her
aelf into -the river, leaving a written paper
in -which -she declared .her intention to
commit suicide, and said that she " had
gotten Iter baby all ready to go up to
beaven. " Aadder tale with a stranger
toraunation it would be hard to find.
The toy-balloons had evidently formed
patt.dl.flie dead husband's stock in trade.
jkjm&ino in china.
K 3e.a singular fact that the custom of
kissing is altogether unknown in China.
' The Chinese, indeed, have no word or
term expressing love as we understand
the tender passion. An American navy
officer voyaging Chinaward narrates an
amnwing experience of the ignorance of
the Chinese maidens of the science of
kissing.. Wishing to complete a con-
- quest ne naa made of a young mei iin
(beautiful lady) he invited her using
the. lyngliHh words to give him a kiss.
xontung ner eomprcnenaion of ins re
quest .somewliat obscure, he suited the
action to the word and took a delicious
kxaa. " TChe girl ran away into another
room, "thoroughly alarmed, exchvming,
"Terrible man-eater I ' I shall be devoured-.But
in a moment, finding
herself ' uninjured by the - salute,
returned to his aide, ; saying :
she
"I
-would. learn more of your strange rite.
Ke-e-met": He knew it wasn't 'right,
but fee kept on instructing her in the rite
of "kee-e-es me , until she knew how!
to do it like a native Yankee girl ; and,'
after all that, she suggested a second
course few remarking, "Ke-e-se me some
more, eJtnMee-lee-keer'! Anglice
American), and the lesson went on un
til her awiawnsVseioe rudely awakened
them frpni their delicious dream. . . - t
; ',' 'iunuri sroMEjrl' ;" ' '
A writer in ZAppincotea, speaking of
Havana society, sayst ! - ? '"
."The ugliness of the women amounts
to a vice, and is unredeemed bv- any
quality such as sometimes palliates plain
ness of festurea.; I have cried aloud for
the beautihil Cuban, bat in vain.- X-ani'.
assured, 'that she exist-am told, 5Iy
dear fellow; Vou 'never ma rw
ways, nut i cannot find her. i
uear ""a owing t the politScaJ
chaos here she his retired from public
' butJ " P toWjKi: she will'
go to the carnival and the opera. T in
warned not to expect hex at the ball inl
onso a mmor at tbe Spanish Clubi and
certainly it was a timely warning. Fancy
a. long ; haH of eolored marble pillars run
ning .th " length of i forming arcades
balconies on both sides hanging over the
streets, and fuU of young men smokin
cigarettes ; men parading up and down
the hall and quizzing tiro women, who
-were all seated two rows of them, hun
dreds all together seriously contemplat
ing thel male 'procession.; enamelled,
powdered, attired in the wealth of the
Indies; saying 'nofiiiug, doing- nothing,
not smiling -- nor; blinking, just, sitting
there an' ! awful -array" of. hideousness.
After tW bsni struck up and the dane
infr began Zemaiaydlon enough to lose
in tlieV ukib the 'hon Ibla impression ' of
the ojx'iJitj k- -then , hurried
home., At tii c?&$ and , the Carnival it
i . --; i ' -,',
is not so positr
tdfy unendurable, but a
handsome face,
, r a pretty face, or even
an intelligent.
. Expressive face I have not
seen in a wo
Beason of
man in Havana ; and at this
the year, if ever, Havana is
don't condemn them I merely
luck."
Cuba. I
give my
tjstjs
A7
LIO HT FANTASTIC" IN FI.JI.
iji correspondent of a London pa
writes.: f
per
At eight a company of 200Fijins per
rmed one-, of their stranire dances bv
ii
Jorch-light. These people, -with their
faces blackened in a great variety of hide
ous patterns, and their bodies decked
with leaves, branches and tapa in a very
grotesque manner; .formed themselves
into a compact company, with an orchest
ral party and master of ceremonies in the
center. . The music began with a sharp
clapping of hands, accompanying a meas
ured, monotonous song in perfect time.
Then those composing the outer edge of
the company formed themselves' into a
wide circle round the orchestra, and went
through a series of most extraordinary
an ties, shouting and gesticulating, and
giving the circle a constantly revolving
motion. But however eccentric the mo
tions were, they were all performed in
exact time by every member of the party,
and the cadence of the hand-clapping
was never lost. Sometimes arms were
advanced to their fullest extension, and
sometimes they were swung wildly
around. Then the men would stop with
an extravagantly ludicrous wriggling
motion, which affected all their members.
You had no sooner determined that they
were going to tie themselves in so many
knots than you changed your opinion and
felt sure they were about to stand on their
heads ; yet neither feat was actually per
formed. The light from the coooanut
leaf torches fell upon the figures with a
strangely weird effect. "When the dance
neared its end the outer circle closed up
on the central body ; the shouting and
gesticulating became more wild and inar
ticulate, until with one last effort there
was a prodigious yell of Wa-oo !' at the
very top of the voice, and exhausted
nature demanded rest."
JL H EX 8 A TIOJfA I, KOHBE1CY
JTJT
PA.XI8.
A few mornings-since, says an Jnglish
paper, a sensational robbery was com
mitted,, of that bold but patient and
thoughtful type which we are beginning
to recognize as the American style. A
M. Delapierre, money changer on the
Boulevard de la Madeleine, joins to this
business a trade inexpensive nick-nacks.
Nearly every day for the last six months
an American has made small purchases
in the shop. With the ease and volu
bility of his pleasant race, this gentleman
had fallen into a habit of exchanging
long gossips with M. Delapierre, who
looked on him as one of his best cus
tomers.. , The other morning the Amer
ican arrived as usual with a friend. M.
Delapierre had just taken out a bag of
money and valuables, whinh he placed in
the window while taUdncr. There is. of
course, a money changer s grating be
tween it and the shop. Presently entered
a third person, who bought a silver tea
pot, which the assistant packed up and
carried to the address given. When he
had gone the American-produced a claw,
such as gas globes are set upon, and said
carelessly to the moneychanger, "I wish
yon would see if you have a glass to fit
this claw." M. Delapierre went with
him into the back shop and sought a
globe to match, leaving the friend alone.
It appears that he immediately opened
the grating, seized the' little bag of
valuables, and called out, " Haven't you
found a glass yet ?" The American came
back, chose some small articles to be
sent home, and then went off quietly
wito ins companion. Not for half an
hour afterward did M. Delapierre dis
cover his loss, which amounts to 12,000,
half of it in bank notes and gold, the
rest in checks and negotiable paper. A
theft so patiently. concocted,' so auda
ciously carried ont, is worthy of notice,
lake our own bank forgers, these men
had plainly some capital, beside shrewd
brain and cold resolution. - They could
afford to wait six months and to buy
silver tea-pots and trifles of that sort.' '
THE STMraiKO TMBE.
One of r the torments, says, a .writer on
Australia, to which the traveler is sub
jected in the North Australia scrubs is a
stinging tree (Utica gigas,) which is very
abundant, and ranges in size from a large
shrub of thirty feet in height to a small
plant measuring only a few inches. Its
leaf is. large and , peculiar, from being
covered with a short, silvery hair, which,
when shaken, emits A fine pungent dust,
most irritating to the skin, and nostrils.
If touched it causes most acute pain.
which is felt for, months afterward a
dull, -gnawing pain, , accompanied by a
burning sensanon, -particularly in the
shoulder and under the arm, where small
lumps often arise.; ' Even when the sting
has quite died away, - the unwary bush-
man is-forcibly reininded of his indis
cretion each time that 'the affected part
is brought into, contact with water. The
fruit is of a pink fleshy color, hanging in
clusters, so inviting that a stranger is ir
resistibly tempted to pluck it, but seldom
more than' ,onoe, for, though the 'raspberry-like
berries are harmless in them-
"elvesi some contact the leaves' is
aunost unavoidable. The blacks are
aaid'to eat ihe fruit,1 but for this I can
not vouch, though . I have tasted one or
two at odd times, and found them very
pleasant. ' The worst of this nettle i the
tendency it exhibits to shoot up wherever
a clearing has been effected. . In passing
through the dray tracks cut through the
scrub, great caution was necessary to
avoid the young plants that cropped up
even in a few weeks. I have never known
a case of its being fatal to hurnan beings,
but I have seen people subjected by it
to .great buffering,' ' notably a scientific
gentleman, who plucked off a branch and
earned it some diet&nae as a curiosity,
!i l''""-1 " 1 if" i -III
wondering the while what car the
pain and numbness in his anr Horses
I liave seen die in agony frcra the sting-.
the wounded parts becomirig paralyzed;
but, strange to say, it does not injure
cattle, who dash through the scrubs full
of it without Deceiving any damage. This
curious anomaly is well known to all
bushmen. .
"A JtOATt OK TOMBS."
' CoL Forney writes from Borne :
Everybody has read about the Ap-
pian Way. It was. the great line of com
munication between Borne and Southern
Italy. Before you reach the old road
you see the colossal ruins of the baths of
CaracaUa, which occupy the space of
nearly a mile, and accommodated 1,600
bathers at a time ; but this is surpassed
by the size of the bath of Diocletian,
which accommodated 3,200 bathers at
time. The baths were the favorite re
sorts of the poets and philosophers, and
were adorned with porticos and vesti
bules for the idle and libraries for the
learned ; they were also decorated with
the finest objects of art in painting andc
sculpture, and placed in the midst of
fountains and shaded walks. Along the
Appian Way were built the tombs con
taining the urns with the ashes of hun
dreds and thousands- of Romans who
lived and died thousands of years ago.
These tombs are temples above ground,
built of solid stone walls, inside of which
were placed the urns, while outside were
carved the beautiful decorations and in
scriptions, oftentimes including exquisite
statuary to designate the dead. Many
of their busts were found centuries after
inside, and as you now ride along this still
solid road you see the remains of costly
sepulchers, with the fragments of their
marble memorials and highly wrought
statues.. You would think that this road
of the tombs would be rather a mourn
ful affair, but the Romans had strange
notions of death. , Their funerals were
jolly feasts, and they liked to have their
villas and their merry meetings near the
houses of their : departed relations and
ancestors. . For miles the relics of the
graves extend along the Appian Way.
One of the most curious of these sepul
chers is the tomb of Cseoelia, Metella,
erected sixty-seven years before Christ,
to the memory of Casoeila, the Crete, and
wife of Crassus. It is a circular tower of
massive construction and enormous
strength, and has seen many changes. It
was a fortress or feudal stronghold in the
Middle Ages, and sustained great injury
in the sixteenth century when Borne was
besieged. To-day it stands in solid and
solitary grandeur, as if grimly defying
the ravages of another 1,900 years.
WHAT 18 LOTELtNESSt
It is not in pearl powder, nor in golden
hair-dye, nor in jewelry. It cannot be
got in a bottle or a box. It is pleasant
to be handsome; but all beauty is not in
prettiness. There is a higher beauty
that makes us love people tenderly. Eyes,
nose, hair, or skin never did that yet ;
though it is pleasing to see fine features.
What you are will make your face ever
for you in the end, whether nature has
made it plain or pretty. Good people
are never ill-looking. Whatever their
faces may , be, an amiable expression
atones for alL If they can be cheerful
also no one will love them the less be
cause their features are not regular, or
because they are too fat, or too thin, too
pale, or too dark. Cultivation of the
mind adds another charm ' to their faces,
and, on the whole, if any girl is desirous
of being liked by the many and loved by
the one, it is more in her power than she
may believe to accomplish that object.
Cosmetics will not accomplish it, how
ever. Neither will fine dress, though a
woman that does not dress becomingly
wrongs herself. Forced smiles and affec
ted amiability will be of no avail ; but if
she can manage to feel kindly to every
body, not to be jealous, not to be cross,
to be happy if possible, and to encourage
contentment; then something will come
into her face that will outlast youth's
roses, and gain her not. only a husband'
but a life-long lover.
Tax origin of the American races 'is
pretty plainly hinted at by some facts
collected by C.-W- Brooks, for seven
teen years Japanese Consul at San Fran-
cisoo.; Mr. Brooks finds that since 1782
forty-one wrecks of ; Japanese - vessels
have been borne upon the coasts of the
Sandwich Islands and of America, twenty-
eight of them since 1850, and au but
twelve of them bearing' human -lives.
These " wrecks were , borne east by the
Japan current, or as the Orientals call it,
the black stream," kuro tiwd. Jap
anese navigation , laws since 1630 have
favored this course of afiairs by prohibit
ing the ship-builders from making
going vessels.' When the navigators got
blown off into the stream, the heavy sea
knocked out the rudders and masts and
left them to the mercy of the ocean cur
rents, j This accounts for the Mongolism
words mingled with the language of the
present Pacific coast Indians, and pos
sibly for the origin of the aboriginal Tol-
tecs and Aztecs.
'A J
BpzAXixe of the Brazilian yam, now
extensively cultivated in the Gulf States,
a correspondent of a Mobile paper writes:
"These .potatoes are the best I have ever
seen. - They are equally as sweet as the
old yam, and on the same land, 'with the
same cultivation, wiu maice tuuy one
third more than any. variety I ever saw.
They are hardy and keep well during the
winter, x have also tne rea-sam yam.
yellow inside, which is certainly the best
early kind to be had. They are fully six
weeks earlier than any kind obtainable.'
CownSM C&abxb tells a story of a gen-
tleman'whd lately, in making a return of
his income to the Tax Commissioners,
wrote on the paper: " For the last three
years my -income -has been ' somewhat ;
under 150; in future it will be more pre
carious, as the man is dead of whom -1 1
borrowed the money;" ! , , -
JECCJEXTXIC - DMSP08AX.8.
One ordered his body to be sewn up
in a pig's skin ; another wished to be
buried in the market quite naked, clothed,
as the TnHttn say, with the points of the
compass ; another in amber, as the flies,
which' cause more wonder in their posi
tion than in their rarity of richness ; an
other in honey, a disciple of Democritus,
Alexander the Great. Another gave his
body to. anatomists, saying that nature
teaches us to use the bodies of the dead
to preserve those of the . living, and that
we ought not to honor what she dis
honors ; another ordered his body to be
thrown into the sea, for the benefit of his
wife, who had sworn to dance on it.
Diogenes desired to be flung out as dung
on the face of the field. ' In a museum,
at joanchester, is a lady mummy, prop
erly labelled and placed in a clock case,
over the glass face of which a veil of
white velvet hangs. Bentham, the cele
brated jurist, ordered his body to be dis
sected and the skeleton afterward put
together, clothed, and the whole seated
in a diaphanous house on wheels. He
is said to be preserved in this condition.
with a stick in his hancLin a back room of
University College.' Inspired by that
sad sight, some witty . fellow produced
what he was pleased to call an anagram
on the strength of the change of position
of a single letter : Jeer my bent ham.
The jest is deficient, perhaps in point
and polish, but in other respects it is
perfect. People have been buried in
various positions, with their heads turned
to every quarter of the compass, and a
world of words have been written in de
fense of each position. The advocates
of cremation say that one, and not the
least, of its advantages consists in its
rendering all idle dispute about position
unnecessary. Many have been buried
standing, sitting and lying lying supine
or prone as Diogenes wished to lie in
this world turned upside down, that at
the time of the general resurrection and
restoration he might be found, as flat
on his back as a flounder or old BUI
Bowling. Seme have desired to be
buried "without coffins, , and it seems
probable; from the absence of the name
of this contrivance in the burial service,
that at the time of the compilation of
formula it was not in common use. The
officiating priest, it will be remembered,
speaks invariably of the corpse or body.
Others buried in coffins or vaults have
desired that the lids should not be sol
dered down, and that the door of the
vault should have the key inside, as if
they dreaded the absence, after their
long interlude of sleep, of some angel
to roll away the stone from the mouth of
their sepulcher. Comhill Magazine for
March.
Tax DIFFICULTIES Of ENGLISH
SPELLISQ.
The Methodist comments favorably
upon the spelling-school . mania, and
It is a noteworthy fact, that the En
glish language , is the only civilized
tongue in which the problem of spelling
offers any difficulties. JThe French, with
its peculiar sounds and silent letters,
appears hard to a stranger; but the Cor
respondence of sounds to combinations
of letters is . fixed,' and. the rules once
learned, the' pronunciation of the word
follows from the writing, and the man
ner of the writing from the sound, with
out variation. ; In the other languages of
Europe, whether of Teutonic or Latin
derivation, each letter has its exact value,
and mistakes provided the ear be cor
rectly trained are impossible. As the
countries speaking, these languages must
be deprived of the " spelling school,
we may congratulate ourselves on having
one amusement that is unique. Our
language, as to its written forms, must
be classified with such primitive tongues
as the ancient Asyrianj whose writing has
been pronounced the most complicated
ever invented, and the Chinese, in which
every ; word is represented . by its inde
pendent character. " 4
xt is a serious disadvantaee to our
complicated and irregular methods that
so much time has been consumed in
learning to speH. What other people can
learn, in a few hours takes up the time
of ouTj schools for ' years, and is never
completely acquired. v No rules will
answer,' but each word must be learned
by itself in detail. The time thus spent
must, of necessity, be lost from otaer
branches of -knowledge. We find it hard
to believe that anything can be gained
from the retention of the. present forms
which win compensate for this loss.
A EAMOTX8 CANNON HALL.
A cannon ball is preserved in the office
(bureau no longer) of , the Revenue Ma
rine, in the Treasury Department, in
Washington, which , deserves -to beoome
historic if cold iron can be said to deserve
anything. " It weighs twenty pounds: if
our recollect on is correct, and is a plain,
rough shot; with an iron ring attached to
it In a' storm which occurred "on the
coast ol NeW Jersey; many years ago, it
i thrown from a mortar, with a line
fastened to the ring, and, passing over,
fell beyond a ship which, was stranded
and m danger of going to pieces. The
line was tied to a cable on the shore,' and
the shipwrecked people drew this in,
and fastened' it' to the vessel.' On this
cable a life-car was passed backward and
forward from the ship to the shore, by
which means 200 lives were saved. The
ball was hauled in and retained. . It was
subsequently sent to the headquarters of
the Revenue Marine Department, where
it has since been carefully preserved,
and where it' is always regarded with
much interest by "people who are in
formed of its history. It might have
sunk a "seventy-four" and never been
heard from. '
lie 1850 the Presbyterian Church of
England contained about 78 ' congrega
tions ; in i860 the number had risen to
95 ; in 1870 it had reached 117 and in
1874 the number was reported at 147.
. :r-,
FLEAS ANTHIE8.
Mosquitoes buzz-urn friends. '
Early fruit Chinese dates of yester
day. .
A point any woman can appreciate
xromz lace.
What is that which, by losing an eye,
has only a nose left f A noise.
Thb financial pressure is looseninfr.
Even the days are not so " short as they
were.
mm T a . . ...
-juova, saia Ueorge Hand, "is an
internal transport," the precise defini
tion of a canal-boat.
a. x-KNNsxiiVAHiA breach, or promise
case has been settled by the man giving
the woman six eords of wood.
Maht women who are counted honest
steel their petticoats, bone their stays,
crib their babies, and even hook their
dresses. j : ; ,
Thb latest dodge of a San Francisco
chiropodist is to exhibit a small boy and
announce that he has been successfully
removed from a corn.
Patrick, said the priest, "how
much hay did you steal t" " Well, I
may as wen corneas to your riverenoe
for the whole stack, for I am going after
the balance of it to-night.
Thb Peruvian government wants to
pay off Henry Meiggs' little railroad
claim of gl5,000,000 in guano. In reply,
Mr. Meiggs remarks to the Peruvian
government, "G' wa' now I"
A XiTrrms iour-year-oid woke up -very
early one morning, and seeing' the full
moon from the window, innocently re
marked: " I should think it was about
time for Dod to take that moon in."
A ham who fell into a vat of boiling
lard and got out alive, says that it was
not an unpleasant sensation after the first
moment, but he thought what a mighty
queer-shaped doughnut he would make.
A coiiOBBD. congregation in Dayton
have decided to forgive their clergyman
for betting on three-card monte and los
ing $90 of festival money. One of the
deacons remarked : " We are all human,
an' de game is werry exciting."
A colored congregation in Dayton
have decided to forgive their clergyman
for betting on three-card 'monte audi os
ing $90 of festival money. One of the
the deacons remarked, " We is all
human, and de game is werry exciting."
A drunken Chinaman, feeling - rich
and elated at his progress in American
civilization, went through the streets of
San Francisco crying, " Hoop-la 1 hoop
la ! Me all same as Melican man. Hair
cut short and drunk like hell 1"
Then you won't lend me that dime
novel, eh ?" inquired one boy of another
in the post-offioe Saturday. "No, I
won't." "All right, then; next time
our chimney burnes out . you shan't
come into the yard and whoop and hol
ler." Thb Brooklyn Eagle says the elegiac
bard of the Philadelphia Ledger has es
tablished a school of poetry in this
country which is doing much to assuage
the pangs of final parting. 1 The , last
tribute is in memory of the late lamented
Thompson: :.
Death came at haU-paat nine o'clock.
And put out Thompson candle.
Thank Heav'n, that give him reat at Uat
From this here Beecher acandal.
A young married man received his
first curtain lecture the other night from
his wife, Polly. He calls it " the epistle
of Poll to the rum one." He won't be
so facetious after awhile. Ephesians
the flowing bowl, he may get a rest, but
Poll will lay the law down to him every
time he gets Titus a brick.
On Saturday night two men got into a
wordy controversy, which waxed quite
hot, and finally one of them challenged
the other to a square fight. The chal
lenged party filibustered around and en
deavored to avoid committing himself on
this issue, but finally, pressed by the
other, he positively refused to "fight.
" Not that I'm any coward," he said, "or
that I'm .afraid of you, but I was allers
an unlucky man in a fight."
A UTOXATlSHr. ,
The subject of crime and automatism,
or the moral responsibility of great
criminals, receives careful and skill
ful treatment at the hands of Dr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes in a recent mag
azine article. The discussion turns upon
the question whether ' the . quality of
crime can be recognized and provided
for in some measure in the, laws. If the
principle of automatism can be scienti
fically established, its practical applica
tion must " eventually follow. It wfll
then become the duty of scientific men.
in specific cases, to ascertain in what de
gree, if at all, a murderer has been con
trolled by inherited instincts or auto
matic passions and impulses; and as the
argument proceeds on the basis that most
wanton criminals are automatons, medi
cal officers wul become necessary ad
juncts of every court. When this new
order of things is arranged, each crim
inal, instead of . pleading mitigating cir
cumstahees, . wiU expose the; foulness
and -. blackness of his heart to the best
possible advantage, and seek to, prove
himself an automaton beyond peradven-
fore.
It is announced a an interesting fact
that for $1,000 a man can buy a ticket
that will carry him around the globe.
This seems like useless extravagance,
when, if he will stand still, the. globe
itself will carry him around the same
distance in twenty-four hours for noth
ing. ' -
Thb San Francisco Call, under the
head of "Personal, "publishes the follow
ing touching notice: " Notice I will not
be responsible for any debts contracted
by my wife, Maria A. Charnay, she hav
ing put me but of the house. Antoine
Charnay," ' ' ; i ,,'
Thb St. Louis Globe gives a new word
Shot-gunned." . .
BUSINES3 CARDS
JOHN CORNER,
' AND -
Exchange Office,
ALBANY, OBEGON.
Depoaita reoetred (abject to eheck at right.
Interest allowed on time deponlte in coin.
Exchange on Portland, San Francisco 'and New
xorK tor aaie at lowest rates.
Collections made and promptly remitted.
Befera to H. W. Corbett, Henry Failing. W. 8,
iadfl
Banking hours from. 8 a. m. to p. m.
Albany, Feb. X, 1874. 22rg
J. W. BALDWIN,
Attorney and Counselor at Law.
Will practice in all the Courts in the Second, Third
and Fourth Judicial Districts, in the SupVsme Court
of Oregon, and in the U. 8. District and Circuit
uourta.
Office in Parrish brick lup-etairs). in office wn,
pied by the late X. H. Cranor, First street, Albany,
wnifuu. - tOLDYO
D. B RICE, M. D.,
" SURGEON AND PHYSICIAN.
Office, First-st., Setteeen ferry and Washington.
Residence, Third street, two blocks below or east
or Methodist Uhurch, Albany, Oregon. v6n0
J. C. POWELTj. Ii. FLYNN.
POWELL & FLTNN,
Attorney ana Counselors at Law,
- AND SOLICITORS IN CHANCERY,
lj. Flinn, Notary Public), Albany, Oregon. Coll no
tions and conveyances promptly attended to.
Albany Book Store.
JNO. FOSHAY,
Dealer in
Miscellaneous Books, School Books, Blank
Books, Stationery, Fancy Articles, Ac.
Books imported to order at shortest possible no.
ice. veoau
DR. GEO. W. GRAY,
Z E 1ST T I S T
Albany, Oregon.
Office in Parriah Brick Block, corner First and
rerry streets. .
Residence, corner Fifth and Ferry streets.
Office hoars from 8 to 12 o'clock a. m. and 1 to 5
o'clock p. m. 18t8
Epizootics Distanced.
THE BAY TEAM STILL LIVES,
And is flourishing like a green bay tree. Thankful
for peat favors, and wishing to merit the continu
ance of the same, the BAY TEAK will always be
reaay, ana easily louna, te ao any naming witnin
me city limits, lor a reasonable compensation.
I Delivery of goods a specialty.
30t5 A. N. ARNOLD, Proprietor.
W. C. TWEEDALE,
Dealer in
Groceries, ProTisions, Toteo, Cigars,
Cutlery, C rockery, and Wood ana Willow Ware,
Albany, Obeoon.
XT Call and see him. MtS
The lYletzler Chair X
Can be had at the following places :
Harrtaburir
...Sam May
Junction City.,
..Smith Brasaeld
......Kirk k Hume
J. M. Morgan
i.l. Brown
Drownsviue....
Halsey....
Seio
Albany..
Graf A Collar
A full supply can also be obtained at my old shop
on sirs street, juoany, uregon.
J. St. BIHLISB.
H. J. BOTOHTON, M. D.,
GRADUATE OF THE
UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE
OF NEW YORK,
and late member of
BelleToe Hospital Medical
College, New York.
umce m a. uarotnen
bany. Oregon.
k Co.'a Drug Store, Al
Piles!PiIes!
Why aay this damaging and troublesome com
plaint cannot be cured, when so many evidences of
aucoeas miRnt oe piaoea Before yoa every day
cures of supposed houeless cases f Your nbvsiclsn
informs you that the longer you allow the complaint
to exi-l. you lessen your c nances Tor relief. JSx-
ptnenet Ao taught thittn all aura. .
A. Carotliers &Co.'s Pile PiM Ointment
Are all they are recommended to be. Will cure
Chronic, Blind and Bleeding Piles in a very short
time, and are emnenimt to .
This preparation is sent by mail or express to any
pouit wim in we unitea etstes at vi.au per pacsage,
Address
37 vB
L.A1VU tULim &
Box 33, Alsbany. Oregon.
JOHN SCHMEER,
DEAIJEB IN
Groceries anil Provisions,
ALBANY, OREGON,
Has just opened his new grocery establishment, on
Corner of Ellsworth and First Streets,
With a fresh stock of Groceries, Provision, Candies,
Cigars. Tobacco. Ao.. to which .he Invite, the atten
tion ox our ciusens.
In connection with the store he will keen a Bakerv.
aqd will always have ou hand a full supply of fresh
presa, v;racaers, sc. ; ,. ,.. .. .... ,;
I-W- call and see me. ...
. . .. JOHN rCHMEEB.
February 18 . i '44 v
The Old Stove Depot
John Briggs,
Dealer in
Coot, Parlor anil Box Stores J
i I; OF THE BEST. PATTERNS.
AL8Q
Tin, Sheet Iron and Copper Warej
And the usual assortment of Furnishing Goods to
be obtained in a Tin Store. ; ..
Bepairs neatly and promptly executed on reason
able terms.
. '5... r .-.! - ..: 1.
Short Reckoning Make Long Friends.
' ' Front Stbkxt, Axbaht. '
Dec 6, 1874. .
A. WHEEELEB,
C. P. ROUGE.
' O. B. WHEELER.
A. WHEELER & CO.,
, . SHEDD, 011EG0IT.
M ESC H A JTT S T "
Dealers In Merchandise and Produce. A good
Maortment of all kinds at Goods always in stor
at lowest market rates. .,,!..
Jf"!''" ot Wagons, Grain DriUe, Cider
MilU, Churns, Ac fco. -7
SH paid lot WHEAT, OATS, POBK. BUT
TS R Pyvifl immmL VA
AW. GAMBLE, M. D.,
PHYSICIAN, SURGEON, Etc
Office on First St., over Weed's Grocery Store
Residence ovnosite late residence of John C.
denhail, near the Foundry, First street, Albany.
octooer xi, lavs.
Webfoot Market!
CHARLES WILSON
Hiring leased the Webfoot Market, on First atreer,
adjoining Oradwohl'a, respectfully aska a share of
the public patronage. The market will be kept con
stantly supplied with all kinds of fresh meats. Call,
and aee.
Sr The highest cash pries psid for Hides.
CHA
:hables WILSOX.
. Albany, August U, 1874.
GEO. B. HELM,
Attorney asi Counsellor at Law u
ALBANY, OREGON,
Will practice io all the Courts of this State.
Offloe ia Fox's Brick Building (up-stalra), Firsts
stfeet. Bt7
ALBANY
Milry anil IlacMn
" A. F. CHERRY, Proprietor,
ALBANY, OREGON,
- Manufactures
Steam Engines,,
Flour and Saw Mill Machinery,
WooforllDE&AiTicnltiiralMacliiiisrye,
, And all kinds of
Iron and Brass Castings.
Particular attention paid to repairing all kinds of
machinery. . 41r3
A. CAItOTIIEltS & CO.,
DEAIiERS TS
Drugs, Chemicals,,
Oils. Paints,
Dyes. Class,
Lamps, Etc-
AD the popular
PATENT MEDICINES,
CIGARS, TOBACCO.
NOTIONS, PERFUMERY,
And TOILET GOODS
Particular care and promptness siren physiciana"
prescriptions and family recipe.
A. CAilUlUKH cu.
Albany, Oregon.
4tS
GO TO THE
BEE-HIVE STORE L
V
TO BUT -
Groceries,
Provisions,
Notions,
Cheap for Cash E
Conntry Produce of All Kinds BmuMl-
For Merchandise or Cash,
This is the p'aca to get the
Best Bargains Erer Offered la Albany.
Parties will always do well to call and for thenw
les. H. WKBD.
First Street. Albany, Oregoru.
82v
MEXICAN
Mustang ';, Liniment
Was nrst known in America. Tta merffs .
well known throughout the habiimhl wi w.T '
the oldest and beat record of mnj Liniment la the
world. From the million, upon million, of bottles
sold not a single complsiut has eer reached ua. Am
aHesJina; andPaio-Subluing Liniment it has nov
BENEFICIAL TO MAS AND BEAR1V
Sold by all Druggists. .
S.T.--I8B
Y OLD
Homestead Tonic
Plantation Bitters
. Irm lan"I' ""an Sweet Fug. etoj
also Tamarinds. Dates. Prunes snd J..r,i.
preaerred in a sumcient quantity (only of thT.MVTj
awjr relieve and cure the following oomnlaiuts
Dyspepsia, Jaundice, Liver Complaint lili J
Appetite, Headache, Bilioua AtUoks, KiimT!.!
Ague, Bummer Complaints. Sour Btomach. PalniC.
tion of the Heart. General Debilitv. m
speciaU adapted as a remedy tot the diseases tn.
wmcn -
WOMEiJ
Are subjected: and as a tonic for th Am w..v..
andDebiUtated.havenoeonal. n . "
tended a S Temperance Tonio or Bitters, to hsT
used a srmedieiBe only, and always according to,
dbwetiona.
SOId BT AXJj FIMT-CI.AS8 DbTJOOISTS
BROOM FACTORY.
Who manufactured the first good Broom trerv
nude in Albany, has returned iroa California, sad
kwsted permanently ia this city, where b. haa
agaia oommenosd tno manufaoture of ail kindsof
Brooms, Brushes, TFlsps;
c. at his fsotory on JIRST bttitt '1. .
Metaler old stsno
ad, east of MamMiiia Mi'ila. wwi "
0""IIa
Tr.To'flSmr1 fi- th"
Ulbanv, Oct. !. 1874. . . SELD ' '
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