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An Indian Cosmogony. Maj. Powell, in Feribner for December, gives the follow ir. accountof the religious traditions of Indians . who inhabit the Mooni towns of Arizona: TLi y worship a go.l of the north and a gotl of th houIIi; a pol of the cast nml a gotl of the west; a pxl of thunder and a god of rain, the sun, the moon and the bUrs; and, in addition, ach town hxi its pntron dcitj Thrrc sccrn.s also to be en grafted on their religion a branch of an cestral worship. Their notion oi the form anil constitution of the world is architect ural that it is composed of many stories. "We live in the second. Ma-t-li! -ta, literal ly the leader, probably an ancestral god, is said to have brought them up from the lower t.tor3' to the next higher, in which we now live. The heaven above is the ceiling of this story, the floor of the next. "Their account of their rescue from the lower world by Ma-chi-ta is briefly as fol lows: The people Lclow were a medley mas of good and bad, tind Jla chi-ta de termined to rescue the former and leave the latter lithind. So he called to his friends to bring him a young tree, and, looking overhead at the iky of that lower world, "the floor of this, he discovered a crack, and placed the young and growing tree immediately under it. Then he raised his hands and prayed, as did all his fol lowers; and, as he prayed, the tree grew, until its brandies were thrust through the crevice in the lower-world sky. Then the people climbed up in one long stream ; still up they came until all the good were there. Ma-chi-ta, standing on the brink of the crevice, looked down and saw the tree filled with the bad, who were following; th"n he caught the growing ladder by the upper boughs, tw'utcd it from its foundation in the soil beneath, and threw it over, and the wicked fell down in a pile of mangled, groaning, turning humanity. When the people had ppread out through the world they found tin? ceiling, or sky, so low that they could not walk without stooping, and they mur mured. Then Ma-chi-ta,' standing in the very center of this story, placed his shoul der against the sky and lifted it where it now is. Still it was cold and dark, and the peo ple murmured and cursed Ma-chi-ta, and lie said: " Why do you complain ? Bring ill's seven baskets of cotton;" and they brought hiin seven baskets of cotton. And he said: " Uring me seven virgins;" nd they brought him seven virgins. And he taught the virgins to weave a wonderful fabric, which he held aloft, and the breeze carried it away to the sky; and behold! it was transformed into a full -orbed moon. The same breeze also carried the flocculent fragments of cotton to the sky, and lo! these took the shape of bright stars. And etill it was cold; and again the people niutmurc I, and Machi ta chided them once more, and said : " Uring me seven buffalo robes;" and they brought him f even builalo robi-s. " Send me seven strong, pure young men ;" and they sent him seven young men, whom he taught to weave a wonderful fabric of the buffalo fur. And when it was done he held it aloft and a whirlwind carried it away to lie sky, where it was transformed into te sun. A German Justice-Room, TI9 different modes of administering j'istije in different countries is a curious stud. In lOngland the decisions of a magistrate, both honorary and stipendiary, are often far from satisfactory. The Lon don stipendiary magistrate, notwithstand ing that we have GOO legislators sitting in St. Stephens half the year to make laws, is frequently unable to find a law applica ble to the case in hand. In other cases he is far too much tied up by red tape and precedents to allow him to decide accord ing to the dictates of common sense. In Germany the magistrate is left much more to his own free judgment, and can himself decide as our judges in equity do; and in my various experiences 1 have been much struck by the prompt and correct decisions given. In all cases in which I have Lad to apply to a German magistrate during the List forty yvurs I have received the most satisfactory and speedy justice, an J, what is more, as cheap as speedy. Once, when on travel, a di-dionet fellow whom 1 had engaged to put on an extra horse up a long hill insisted on drawing me down the hill again on the other side with his extra horse, and became very violent and even menacing on arriving at a soliury place. In the next village I sent for the burgomaster and staled the :lsc. The burgomaster was the villagu blacksmith, and came to the inn with his leather apron on, and with his shirt-sleeves turned up. On hearing my statement and then the man s, he said o the fellow: "Where did you put your horse in coming down here before the carriage or behind it?" " Before," said the fellow. " Then be ofF with you as a rascal," said the burgomaster; "nobody wanU an extra horse to pull him down a hill. Had you put him behind, as a drag, I would have given you your money." I doubt whether an English IxtiI Chancellor would have given so clearly just a decision so prompt a one certainly not. And then as to expense! My judicial Vulcan refused any fee for his really valuable service; and on my begging that at least he would go in and hae a bottle of wine, replied: " 2o; I will have a choppin of beer, but I will pay for it myself." When I ex pressed my regret that I could give him no proof of my sense of the obligation he had conlcrred upon me, he said: "Well, if ever you see a countryman of mine needing help in Lngland give it him." I have never forgotten the village Lhadamanthus, j;nd on various occasions have repaid his services to hiscountry nien. 1 w ih I could say as much of the administration of justice in Italy. Will to in Hoxriit. Hats How They Ulaj Be Utilized. lats are not generally supposed to be of any particular use in the economy of nature, unless nbe to eat up retuse, make a noise, or haunt the subterranean cavities of large cities. A telegraph inspector in England has, however, upon a recent oc casion, proven that the rat as an operator in case of broken wires may be turned to good account. It was-necessary to over haul a cable of wires inclosed in iron tubes. A certain length of the cable had to be taken out of the tube, and the men commenced hauling at one end, without having taken the precaution to attach to the other a w ire by which it might be drawn back alter inspection and repairs. The question arose how the cable was to be restored to its proper place. The in spector invoked the aid of a rat-catcher, and, provided w ith a large rat, a ferret and a ball of string wound on the Morse pa per drum, he repaired to the opening in the tube. The flush-boxes" were opened and the rat, with one end of the string at tached to his body, was put into the pipe. He scampered away at racing pace, drag ging the twine with him until he reached the middle ot the pipe, and there stopied. The ferret was then put in, and oil went the rat again, until he sprang clear out of the flush-box. One length of the cable was thus safe, and the same operation was commenced with the other; but the rat stopped short a few yards from the pipe and boldly awaited the approach of the ferret, A sharp combat ensued, but alter sundry jerks at the string the combatants separated, the rat making for the other ex tremity of the pipe, cairying the string through and relieving the inspector from his anxiety. Popular Science Monthly. The following card, published in the lVells (Minn.) Uazette, over the signature of B. I. Ileynolds, of Winnebago City, is a curiosity: "Agreeable to promise be fore election, I shall be pleased to give any person who voted for nie (taking their word for it) leeal advice free of charge for two years. Jr'or any town which 1 car ried, or nearly carried, I will with pleas ure prosecute or defend suits, or do any business they may desire, for two years, free of charge. To my friends, who so generously stood by me, I am under many bligations, which I hope they will give oe a chanco to repay." Recexixy-discoveked manuscripts re veal the fact that the name of the mount upon which Noah's ark rested was de rived from a casual remark vhichacat made when it looked out of the ark and saw something sticking out of the water to wit: "Is that 'ere a rat:" Vetrott Jfewt. Those" Grand Aspirations. We alluded yesterday to the speech of the Hon. L. Q. C. Lamar, of Mississippi, before the Democratic caucus last Satur day, remarking that it foreshadowed to some extent the course of the majority in Congress during the present session. Mr. Lamar is a very glib orator, and may be fairly termed the jolitical minstrel of the South. He warbles only the softest and sweetest notes, and reminds us, some way, of a wicked charmer in the well-known panel game, who lulls the flattered adorer into blissful security while the low browed rutiian creeps in upon the un suspecting victim and makes away with his property or his life. Mr. Lamar warbled the following stanza to the pub lic in his address before the caucus: The grandest aspiration of the Democratic party is, and its crowning glory will be, to restore the Constitution to its primitive btrenth and authority, and to make it the protector of every section and of every State in the Union, and" of every human being of every race, color and condition in the land. This was exceedingly lovely 1 Who would have thought that the "grandest aspiration of the Democratic party" was to make the Constitution the protector of "every human being of every race, color and condition in the land ?" How long, pray, has the Democratic party felt such an aspiration? It is much easier to speak of a party in the concrete than in the abstract, but as parties are composed of individuals, and as these must have such aspirations before the party, as a man, can experience them, perhaps 31 r. Lamar will tell us who among hii friends have lately given ' sins of this wonderful conversion? There is John Kelly, for instance! Is John glowing with this holy fire? How is it with Harris, of Maryland? Has the light shone in upon him, also? How about Kerr? How long has it been since the great Indiana statesman who has de voted his life to opposing the rights of a portion of the people of this country be came a convert to this grand scheme of equality and brotherly love? What of Mr. Lamar's own constituents, who pub licly boasted after the late election that armed men were present at the polls to prevent men of at least one race and color from voting their convictions? Was not Mr. Lamar's sense of the ridiculous rather broadly touched when he assured the world that the Democratic party was actually inspired by a sentiment as f oreign to its members as piety is to the adversary of souls? Only a few months ago Mr. Lamar was makingspeeches in Mississippi breathing sweet-toned atlection for all mankind. His admirers in that State and in Louisiana laughed when they read his utterances, and proceeded forthwith to carry out their old design of driving col ored men from public meetings, and shoot ing them down by the dozen. They did this. They absolutely made it impossible to hold Republican gatherings. And through all that we never heard a wail or a protest from the silver-toned Lamar. He was as dumb as an oyster. Perhaps he was closeted in his 6tudy composing the beautiful sentence we have quoted about the " grandest aspiration of the Democratic party" to protect men of every race and color! We suggest to the Mississippi statesman that he ought not to be absurd. We venture to say that the Democratic party never dreamed of such an aspiration as that named until they were told that they had it " bad" lat Saturday. The idea of the long-haired bandits, night-riders, Ku-Klux and White Leaguers of the South having " grand as pirations" about the Constitution and the rights of man is so excessively ridiculous that we should take it all as a joke were we not assured that Mr. Lamar was very earnest and impressive while delivering his speech. Forbidden to laugh, there fore, we can only criticise. W e are very much afraid that a couple of our own representatives in the House to-wit: Messrs. Carter II. Harrison and Barney Caulfield may be sorely perplexed in their minds over this revelation. We vent ure to say that they had not suspected heretofore that they had "grand aspira tions" to protect "every human bein of every race and color in the land," and it ia not too much to say that they may not care to learn that such is the fact. Mr. Lamar ought to use discretion in his speeches and not reveal these startling truths so suddenly. He must recollect that not all the party are so far advanced as himself. Not all of them know so well what their "highest aspirations" arc, and the news should be broken to them tenderly. Chicago Inter-Ocean. " Ruined." It must have been a very touching scene in the Tweed mansion, the other day when the news was communicated to the family, in such an abrupt and unseemly manner, that the eminent statesman had oozed away. " What! Gone?" they all said, with "uplifted hands and staring eyes hands that went up and eyes that bulged with such perfect simultaneousuess and uniformity that it seemed as though the movement could only have been perfected by practice. Then one of the &ons, with a sudden realization of the terrible blow to the reputation of the family, uttered the exclamation: "We are ruined!" Anoth er member of the family, in dramatic atti tude before a mirror belonging to the city of .IS ew York gasped : " Ruined !" A son-in-law of the statesman who had oozed caught the refrain and, agoniziug away into the embrace of a luxurious arm-chair be longing to the city of New l'ork moaned : " ltuined." All over the mansion, the princely mansion belonging to the city of New York--there were noises of sob bing and wailings of distress, and every body said, with a unanimity that could not have been surpassed even if the old man himself had made out the returns; "limned!" Then the SheriiTs officers began to take on in the same way, and say they were ruined; and the hack-driver round the corner doubtless joined in the general chorus with the remark that he was ruined; and Sheriff Conner, when he heard the news, immediately dropped his face into his hands and said audibly that he was ruined. For a little thing like that w e have never known such large and per vading consequences in the way of ruin. Well might the Sheriff and his deputies meet each other with the melancholy re mark: " What ruins we are and what ruins we pursue!" JVtw York Tribune. The Story of an Infamous Conspiracy. A rnuot's story, apparently well au thenticated, and learingthe marks of con sistency, is told by a correspondent of the New York Timet. It refers to the sum mer of 1n(J4, at the time when the peace negotiations were in progress at Niagara Falls, and tells of an infamous conspiracy for the assassination of President Lincoln on the day before election. The plot had been thoroughly discussed und fully re solved upon by the Southern relels and Northern Democrats who flocked to the Clifton House under the pretense of dis cussing peace negotiations which were never meant to be consummated, and the fiendish scheme was only abandoned be cause of the angry and indignant refusal of Dean Richmond to give it countenance, and his threat to cause the instant publi cation of the details and the names of the conspirators unless their murderous machinations were discontinued at once and forever. As it was, so the narrative goes, the matter was communicated to Gen. Dix, and by him reported to Resi dent Lincoln, whose rare wisdom it xas, opposed to the counsels of his Cabinet, that kept the intelligence from the world at a time when he rightly judged the gen eral discovery of sucb a conspiracy would have a depressing effect upon our armies, which were then meeting with but indil ferent success at the front. The story is interesting, at all events ;the more so that it is probably true. 'Jhicago Tribune. t5? A professional gambler and former professional prize-lighter exercising a leading influence in the choice of Speaker ot the House of Representatives of the United States of America is a noble spectacle. N. '. Tribune. tW By Tweed's escape the Democratic party has received an accession of one rote, though it may experience some diffi culty in polling it.Indianapolit Journal. Ckceltt to w omen or children is the crime of a monster. The Garden of the GoJs. TTelen Hunt writes In the Atlantic as follows: The famous Garden of the Goda, for which everybody asks as soon as ho enters Colorado, and -which nine owt of ten people see for the first time with a ludicrous sense of disappointment, is an other of these strange, rock-crowded parks. Who is responsible for the inappropriate name, Garden of the Gods, I do not know; one more signally unfitting could hardly have been chosen. Fortress of the Gods or Tombs of the Giants would be better. This park lies only three miles from Colo rado Springs, and its grand gateway is in full sight from every part of Ihe town. Fancy two red sandstone rocJcs i'.OO feet high, of irregular outline and surface, ris ing abruptly" and perpendicularly like a wall, with a narrow passageway between them. The rock on your right, as you en ter from the east, is of the deepest brick red ; the one on the left is paler, more of a flesh-color. At their base is a thick growth of low oak bushes, vivid light green in summer, in winter a scarcely less vivid brown, for every leaf hangs on until April. These rocks are literally fretted full of holes and rifts tiny, round holes as smooth as if an auger hail bored tliem; ghastly crevices and chasms, smoothed and hollowed like sockets in gigantic skeletons. Thousands of swal lows have nests in these, and at sunset it is a beautiful sight to sec them circling high in the air, perching for a moment on" the glittering red spires and pinnacles at top of the wall, and then swooping downward and disappearing suddenly where no aperture is to be seen, as if with their little bills they had cloven way for themselves into the solid rock. ithin a few feet of the top of the high est spire, on the right-hand rock, is a small, diamond-shaped opening, a mull ioned w indow, through which is always to be seen the same diamond-shaped bit of sky, bright blue, or soft gray or shadowy white, if a cloud happens to pause so as to fill the space. Passing through this ma jestic gateway you find yourself in the weirdest of places. Your red road winds along over red ground thinly grass-grown, among low cedars, pines and firs, and through a wild confusion of red rocks; rocks of every conceivable and inconceiv able shape and size, from pebbles up to gigantic bowlders, from queer, grotesque little monstrosities looking like seals, fishes, cats or masks, up to the colossal monstrosities looking like elephants like huge gargoyles, like giants, like sphinxes eighty feet high, all bright red, all mo notonous and silent, w ith a strange look of having been just stopped and held back in the very climax of some supernatural catastrophe. The stillness, the absence of living tilings, the preponderance of gro tesque shapes, the expression of arrested action, give to the whole place, in spite of its glory of coloring, spite of the grandeur of its vistas ending in snow-covered peaks only six miles away, spite of its friendly and familiar cedars and pines, spite of an oc casional fragrance of clematis, or smile of a daisy or twitter of a sparrow, spite of all these, a certain uncanny ness of atmos phere which is at first oppressive. 1 doubt if ever one loved the Garden of the Gods at first sight. One must feel his way to its beauty and rareness must learn to like a new language; even if one has known Nature's tongues well he will be a foreigner here. I have fancied that its Bpeech"was to the speech of ordinary na ture what the Romany is among the dia lects of the civilized fierce, wild, free, defiantly tender; and I believe no son of the Romany folk has ever lived longamonr the world's people without drooping and pining. Dogs in Tennessee. Tennessee has more dogs than men. Returns of the dog-tax assessment from nearly thirty counties, nearly one-third ot the State, show 4?,3--t men and 79,780 dogs. A correspondent of the Cincinnati Commercial thus comments upon this fact: " The returns from the thirty counties, taken as a basis, indicate that there are about 22.3,000 dogs in the State listed for taxation. The manner of listing them in many counties is exceedingly defective, so that tens of thousands will escape taxation, but, even supposing that 223,000 is the cor rect number, what do you suppose is the yearly cost of their support? An average dog will, at the very lowest calculation, eat five cents' worth of bread and meat dally. Multiply by the number of days in a year anil dogs in the State, and we find that they cot largely over $4,000,000 annually, to say nothing of the sheep they destroy and the emigration they hinder. What they consume outright would fatten more than f 1,000,000 worth of pork, w hich would bring yearly into each county large ly over $40,000. In every one of thirty counties the returns from which are in there are more dogs than men. In Cheat ham County there are 7t50 men and 1,9'J!) dogs, or nearly three dogs to one man! I should like 10 know how many sheep there arc, and if there is not constant com plaint in Cheatham that there is no money in the country.' In Clay County there are tr07 men and l,l(il dogs. The total valuation of property in that county, real and personal, is only $7U1,020. In sheep-raising sections of our land it is not diflicult to Jiud single men who are worth more than all of Clay County. In Coffee County there are 1,37.3 men and 2,211 dogs. In Fentress County, U J9 men to 1, 137 dogs. In Giles County there is the enormous number of 7,2-30 dogs! But that is a moderately thickly populated county, there being men in it, or not quite two dogs to one man. In Hancock there are i)'2l men and 1,007 dogs. Henry comes nearer to being an even thing, that county having 3,Wii men and 3,2'M dogs. By men as here used is meant all voters under filly years of age, or 'polls.' They arc listed by the assessors along with the dogs, except such as arc over age and therefore not subject to a poll tax. There fore it would be fair to add aljout 10 or 12 per cent, to the number of men here given. But still the dogs would be large ly ahead. And, for that matter, there are no doubt more dogs not given in than there are voters in the State who are exempt from poll tax on account of age. There are 7,250 dogs in Giles County. Last year there were 1,7.30 sheep in that county killed by dogs. Last year, in Coffee Countj-, 403 sheep were killed by dogs; in Perry County, 500; in llayward, 1,147; Wayne, 500; Robertson, 1,115; Sequatchie, Gliu; Decatur, 1,(U)5; Sumner, 80d. So far as the dog-tax returns are made up we find that those counties hav ing most dogs have lost heaviest in sheep. From what few statistics we have fiom sheep slaughter in some of ihe counties it is safe to say that fully 45,000 are killed yearly in this State by dogs." Sir John Lubbock on Ants. Sin Jonx Lubbock has published some further experiments on ants and lees, which make serious inroads on the rei.u taiion of those exemplary animals. The sum of his experiments seems to he that the intelligence of the creatures is very much in proportion to the size of their brain matter, taken relatively to the size of their bodies. They arc active and in dustrious, but very much the slaves of custom; they seem to have the faculty of taking up a line and sticking to it, and what thev do Hicy do well, but they show nothing like the wisdom or the original power of contrivance with which they are popularly credited. This want ot origi nality Sir J. Lubbock established by a very pretty exjH-iiment. He suspended some larva; on a slip ot glass about a third of an inch above the surface of one of his ar tificial antj' nests, and placed some black ants on the glass w ith '.he larvae Within half an inch of the glasses he placed some fine mold, so that if the ants had possessed much engineering skiil they could in half a minute have constructed a bridge be tween the glass and their nest. Not only did they not do this, but the ants on the glass did not even risk the leap to the nest, which thev could almost touch with their antenna-. They seized the larva: and leaned over the edge of the g!r.si, ami some ot them got down on the lacks of their fel lows, but most of them traveled to the nest by a circuitous route of thirteen feet, along which was presently established quite a string of ants passing to and from the nest to the larvje. Go to the nut, thou sluggard; but do not go to the ant, thou engineer. London Examiner. An average crop of wheat in the United States is now about 300,000,000 bushels. USEFUL AD SUGGESTlYfc. The Journal of Chemistry tells ua that it is a common practice among millers to grind the soundest, best wheat into fine Sour, and the poorest into what is called " Graham flour," which is too often a mixture of bran and injured flour. What is needed in the market is a good, sweet flour made from the whole w heat. The brown loaf made from the whole wheat flour is sweeter and more palatable than the white loaf of bolted flour. Grease or paint spots in clothes are easily removed by oil of turpentine, or a hot iron pressed on the place over coarse brown paper, alter scraping all that can be got off with a blunt knife. Stains may be removed from light-colored clothes, such as drabs, buffs or whites, with lul ler's earth ; but this is apt to bike the color out of dark cloths. It should be dissolved in a little boiling water, put on the spot when hot, held to the fire to dry, and then brushed out. Pitch is removed, first, by rubbing the place over with grease or oil, and then taking out the oil bv the application of spirits of turpentine. Exchange. Souk-Kraut. In the first place let your "stand," holding from half a barrel to a barrel, be thoroughly scalded out; the cutter, the tub and the stamper also well scalded. Take off all the outer leaves of the cabbages, halve them, remove the heart, and proceed with the cutting. Lay some clean leaves at the lottoni of the stand, sprinkle with a handful of salt, fill in one-half bushel of cut cabbage, stamp gently until the juice just makes its ap pearance, then add another handful of salt, and so on until the stand is full. Cover over with cabbage-leaves, place on top a clean board fitting the space pretty well, and on the top of that a 6tone weigh ing twelve or fifteen pounds. Stand away in a cool place, and when hard freezing comes on remove to the cellar. It will le ready for use in four to six weeks. The cabbage should be cut tolerably coarse. Western lturttl. The Industrie Blater, of Berlin, recom mends the use of the wild rosemary (Iedum palustrc) as a substitute for the well-known Persian powder. This plant, whether fresh or dry, will kill lice, bed-bugs, fleas, moths, beetles and their larva;, the mag gots and bluebottles and probably other insects. It is also the best remedy for mosquito bites and the bites of all other insects. A little of the tincture of the plart applied to the bite not only relieves the intolerable itching, but also relieves the pain. If the tincture be mixed with glycerine and rubbed on the skin it will drive the mosquitoes away. If this le a fact, the plant deserves special attention. It is very probable that it will be able to entirely supplant the extensive and fre quently adulterated or counterfeit insect powder. It is niQst effective when green and in bloom, at which time it should be gathered. extern llural. How House Air Is Spoiled. The following facts will show how the air in houses becomes contaminated : 1. An adult person consumes thirty-four grammes of oxygen per hour, a gramme being equal to fifteen grains. 2. A stearine candle consumes about one half as much. 3. An adult gives off forty grammes per hour of carbonic acid. A child of fifty pounds weight gives off as much as an adult of 100 pounds weight. 4. A school-room filled with children will, if not well ventilated at the begin ning of the hour, contain twenty-five parts in 1,000 of carbonic acid, at the end of the first hour forty-one, and end of the second hour eighty-one. 5. Tlie air is also spoiled by the perspi ration of the body, and by the volatile oils given out through the skin. An adult gives off through the skin in twent3'-four hours from 500 to 800 grammes ot water mixed with various excrements, poison ous if breathed. 6. A stearine candle gives off per hour 0.4 cubic feet of carbonic acid, and 0.03 pound of water. 7. Carbonic oxide is a much more dan gerous gas than carbonic acid, and this obtains entrance to our rooms in many ways through the cracks in stoves and defective stovepipes, or when the carbonic acid of the air comes in contact with a very hot stove and is converted into a carbonic oxide. The dust of the air may, on a hot stove, be burnt to produce it ; or it may flow out from our gas-pipes when the gas is uot perfectly consumed. 8. Another form ot air injury is the dust of a fungus growth w hich fills tlie air in damp and warm places. We call it miasm from a want of a true knowledge of its character. 9. Accidental vapors are the crowning source of air-poisoning. These are tobacco-smoke, kitchen vapors, wash-room vapors and the like. 10. When w e heat our houses and close them from outside air the heat turns the mixture into a vile mess unfit for breath ing. The only remedy is ventilation. Now that it is cold weather and our rooms are closed from free currents of outside air let us look after the matter thorough ly and do our best to prevent injury to our selves from polluted air. Herald of Health. Tlie Board of Missions of the M. E. Church recently met in New York and made the following appropriations: Erie, $1,000; Florida, $3,800; Georgia, $7,500; Houston, $0,000; Indiana, $5,000; Iowa, $500; Mississippi, $7,000; Nebraska, $6, 500; Nevada, $:5,500; New York, $2,000; New York, East, $2,000; North Carolina, $7,000; North Indiana, $500; Pittsburgh, $1 200; Kentucky, $0,500; Lexington, $2,500; Maine, $1,400; Michigan, $2,000; Louisiana, $8,000; Minnesota, $500; Northwest Iowa, $5,000; Ohio, 1,000; Oregon , $2,500 ; Rock R iver, $ 1 ,200 ; Rocky Mountains, $10,000; S. Carolina $7,500; Southeastern Division of Indiana, $500. A man put his watch under his pillow the other night, bu couldn't keep it there because it disturbed his sleep. And there all the time was his bed-ticking right un derneath him, and he never thought ot that at all. Detroit Free Press. The JTIannfactarer and Builder, edited by Trof. P. II. Van Der Weyde, and published by Austin Black, 37 Park Row. S'ew York, should be taken by every Manu facturer, Builder, Mechanic, Architect, and in fact by everyone who desires to keep posted on the progress being made in Me chanical, ScielUitic, Architectural and Build ing matters. Each number is published in large quarto form, profusely illustrated and richly supplied with interesting articles de scriptive of the subjects upon which it treats. Designs of houses to suit all classes, the latest improvements in machinery, the new est discoveries in science, innovations in household appliances, articles on domestic economy and notes and queries are a few of the many attractions offered by tbc Maxc factdrkk and BciLDKB. The subscription firice of this excellent journal is so low, be- g but $2.12 per year including postage, that none need complain of not being able to subscribe. The expense is only about four cents per week, and we do not know where such a small amount can be more profitably employed or bring so large a return as it will if invested in a year's subscription to the Manufacturer and Builder. Send for a specimen copy to the above address and pass your own judgment. Xlirow Pli rate to tlie Dog; I'll None of It." We do not in the least feel like blaming Macbeth for this expression of disgust; in deed, wc are rather inclined to sympathize with him. Even nowadays moot of the ca thartics offered to the public are great, repulsive-looking pills, the very appearance of which is sutlicicnt to turn one's stom ach." Had Macbeth ever taken Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets he would not have uttered those words of contempt. It is really encouraging, when one is ill, to find that a little, sugar-coated Pellet, no larger than a train of mustard, will as promptly produce the desired ctTcct as a dose of great, nauseating- pills. These little Pellets, un like other cathartics, are really nature's physic. They do not debilitate, but tone and invigorate the system. No family should be without Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pur gative. Pellet. Burnett's Cocoaine. See advertisement. Gentian was our grandmothers' hobby for a tonic, and no bitter would be considered complete without it; hence it enters into nearly all. But experience bas proved that it is injurious to the stomach if frequently used. A far better tonic Is found in Guar ana Bitters. The Tubular Lamp is a wonderful thing. Read the advertisement, sure. Bcrnett's Cocoaine. & advertisement. Scbenck's mandrake Pllla will be found to pofe thoe qualities neceM&r? to the total eradication of all bilioa attacks, prompt to Mart the secretions of the liver, and give a healthy tone to the enUre yotem. Indeed, it is no ordinary discovery In medical science to have invented a remedy for these ("tubborn com plaint!', which develop all the results produced by a heretofore free use of calomel, a mineral Justly dreaded by mankind, and acknowledged to be de structive In the trerae to the hnmaa system. That the properties or certain vegetable comprise all the virtue of calomel without its injurious ten dencies is now an admitted fact, rendered indis putable by scientific researches; and those who use the Mandrake Pills will be fully Rationed that the best medicines are those provided by nature in the common hero and roots of the Celds. These pills open the bowels and correct all bil ious derangement without salivation or any of tbj injurious eBect of culomel or other poior.s. The secretion of bile is promoted by these pills, as will be seen by the altered color of the stools and rliappeanug of the sallow complexion and cleans ing of the u-cfu.-. Ample directions for use accompany each box of pills. Prepared niy by J. II. Schenck A Son. at their principal rtc:, corner Sixth and Arch streets, I'hilacU'phla. and for sale by all druggists and deal ers. Price 23 cents per box. Mr. Kditow: to every city, town and hamlet in the land may be found some feeble person unable; to perform hard labor: some man or woman that delights in visiting the sick and ministering to their wants, some local preacher not fully occupied, or some unoccupied peraon who would like to add a little to their present income tnd I want some such person in every place where I have no agent to sell a Medicinal Extract made by the Shakers, which has proved of such signal service in the cure of those long standing diseases that prevail in all parts of our country, and which have heretofore re sisted all kinds of medical treatment. Your columns for October contained a very flatter ing notice of the Shaker Extract of Koots, un der the head of "The Utrnure Jjheaxe" to which I would like to call the attention of your readers. Please induce some such per son as 1 have described to accept this agency. There ean be no risk on the part of the agent, as no capital is required where they can furnish evidence of their honesty. Let yourrendeis send for a circular and learn full particulars about the agency Yours re spectfully, "A. J. White, 319 Pewrl street. New York. Evert famii.t desires a good magazine one that w ill elevate by its tone, and enter tain every member of the household. No where have we found this idea so fully ex emplified with success than with Demor fft'i Monthly Jfaff'ixme, a description of which can be found in our advertising col umns, and we earnestly advise our readers to peruse the same before subscribing else where. The premium offered o each subscriber by this journal is worth many times its cost. Mast persons suffer with sick headache and nervous heartache, usually induced by costiveness, indigestion, etc. Such persons will tind relief, if not cure, by keeping the bowels open with small doses of 1'amotti1 Purgative Pill. IIavb you inflammatory sore throat, stiff joints, or lameness from any eause what ever? Have you rheumatic or other pains in any part of the body? If so, use John ton's Anodyne Liniment, internally and ex tcrnuHy. So many things have to be taken into consideration in calculating the weight oi hay in bulk it makes it diflicult to get at it precisely. For example: fine, new mown hay, like red-top or hcrd's-grass, would probably require 500 cubic feet for the ton; timothy, 550; clover, 650; coarse meadow hay, 700 or more.. After being stacked thirty days the bulk would be decreased from 5 to 10 per cent., possibly more, according to the size of the stack and the pressure upon it. Again, hay will vary somewhat in measurement ac cording to the time it is cut. If this be done when it is just coming into blossom, as it always should, it will pack closer and weigh more per cubic foot than if left till the 6eed begins to ripen and the stalks and leaves have grown coarser an 1 be come drier. Good judgment and some experience in measuring and weighing is required to get at this correctly. A neighbor of mine informs me that he once had the curiosity to weighhis timothy hay as he put it into the barn in July. He sold it about nine months after, and on rewcighing it as it came out of the barn he found, greatly to his surprise, that it had shrunk to within a fraction of 25 per cent. A. B. Allen, in N. Y. Tribune. A method of procuring fresh water from sea water through the direct action of the sun's rays is among the foreign in ventions. The apparatus consists of a liox of wood one inch thick, about four teen feet long, two feet wide and of an average depth of six inches. The upper part of the box is closed with ordinary glass, which has an inclination of an inch and a half. At the lower elge of the glass there is a semi-circular channel, des tined to receive the fresh water which is condensed on the interior surface of the glass. The operation is entirely simple. The salt water is let into the box foraboul an inch in depth, and it is tli2n exposed to the ra3-s of the sun. A very active evap oration then begins, and it is found that a square meter of glass will condense daily the amount of two gallons of pure water. Tlie investigation made of the circum stances attending the wreck of the Ottawa on the Taraniki coast tends to confirm the belief long since entertained by scientific men, that the magnetic iron sand, which there abounds in such immensequantitics, is the cause of the steering. compasses ol ships and steamers running along shore in that region becoming deranged. This has been alleged as the cause of the loss ol the steamer Airdale, and some three or four other vessels. It will be remembered that some fifteen years ago many Tesscls were cast ashore on the S'mth American coast, and, after niany close investigations, it was discovered that the base of some of the mountains along the coast line con tained larjje uantities of iron ore. At a meeting of the Connecticut State Teachers Association, lately, the Superin tendent of the Waterbury schools advo cated the study of language lessons in place of the system of grammar in use, and the abandonment of a great deal of the minutis which is now taught in geog raphy classes, and which lie thought should be reserved for the higher grades, the time thus gained to be devoted to the proposed language lesson, which will teach all to acquire a taste for good read ing and a good style of composition. A New Haven lady recently went abroad in order to take charge of the re mains of her husband who had died there. She is expected back soon and, being a woman of thrift, brings both a live and a dead husband with her. Mary (questioning her little brother on the gender of nouns) : Is ow, Tommy, what is the feminine of beau? Tommy: Why, arrow, of course! (Mary feels all of a quiver.) If yoi know your friend is at all sen sitive on any topic be careful not to allude to it. 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It contains over 44 flue historical enrav lnirs and papes. with a full seeount of the sp- proaclumr prsn, Centennial exhibition. Send for a full description and extra terms to Agents. NATION AL ITBLlSHINti CO..ChtcaKO.Ill.. or St. Louis. Mo. Selected French Burr Mill Stones Or all sizes, and superior workmanship. ortJille Jrindinsr Jlllla, upper or nnder runners, lor a-'atrxn or Mrriiaint work. tannine ln tell An. Urr Hotline 4 lotli. Mill 1'leks, Corn Mieliers and I 'lea iters, Gearinr, fhaftinz, Pnllies. Ilaneers. etc.: all kinds of Mill Machinery and Millers' supplies, fend for Pamphlet. itrot 11111 (omnanr, Hon 1130, (inrinnatl. Ohio. Come On, Book Agents! Jow Is the Time to Make Money! MARK TWAIN'S HEW COOK Is on the track and is bound to win. It will sell, aud you know It. Don't wait to experiment on other books and lose tliis. Get your names in for territory and circulars at once. Outfits t'Kr.r.. Addrexs AMEIiH AN Prp-LIMIINti COMPANY. Hartford. Conn., or 11H Kandoiph Street. 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It is published monthly, on fine book paP", is eli-p mtly illns ; rated, contains 40 pages. breec4 timns to a page, furnishing in the course of a year, over 1,-jno columns uf matter relating to live- tock. It tells all about the Lrccdiu, ft-ciiiug and ajansce nient of ail kinds of Mock, together with Vli manscement of the Dairy. Generally over half the proilnce of ihe farm is con "nmerl t he farm, by lite stork of different kinds. If the live stock is of the ripht Rind, and jnc iciotisly linnl'led, the farm is likely making money. If the stock is not adsptcd to the farm, or if ::t is improperly bundled, the farm mikrt It'll or nothing. It is right here that money is made or lost nu tho (urn, and it is a mstfr of the greatest importance ro ertry farmer, that he have a paper devoted exclusively to the breedinaj and feedinp of Live Stock, in is hicb. he ia to largely in tcrestcd. fcuch a paper should be coul4t4 A Farm r' UuMr.rst iViper." TERMS. 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No other compound pos sesses the peculiar properties which so exactly suit the various conditions cf the human hair. loss or hair. , Boston, July 19. Messrs. JosEm PrRNrrrr & Co.: For many months my hair had been falling off, until 1 was fearful of lrin;j it entirely. 'I he sl.in upon my head became gradually more and more in flamed, so that I could not touch it without pain. lly the advice of my physician, t- whom you had shown your process of purifying ill's Oi!, I commenced its use the last wec!c in June. Xhe first application allayed the itchirg and irritation. In three cr f'Jiir days the redness and tenderness disappeared, the hair ceased to fall, and I have now a thick growth of new hair. Yours, very truly, SUSA-?f R. EDDY. A REMARKABLE CASE. East Minni.FnoRo', Mass., June 9, S?4. Mkssrs. 1!i rnf.tt & C"o.: Vhcn my daughter's hair came ofT she had been afflicted with neuralgia in her head for three years, biie had used, during that time, many powerful ap plications. 1 hese, with the intense heat caused by the pains, burned her hair so barfly that in October. lSfii. it all came off. and for two years after her head was as smooth as her fate. 'J hrouyh the recommendation of a friend, she was induced to try yo-ir Cooi.iixk, and the result was astonishing, hhe had not used half the contents cf a bottle belore her head was covered with a fine young hair. In four months the hair has frown several inches in length, very thick, soft a:.d line, and of a darker color than formerly. With respect, W.M. S. EDDY. JOSETII BURNETT Sc CO., Boston, Manufacturer and Vro-prietor. rilOSrKCTTJr3 MANUFACTURER "llND BUILDER FOR 1876. The Cheapest. Rest and Jlcst I'epaTar Krltstifls aa4 Ksrhaniral Journal I'uhlisbed. 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