g if- Fk F ; , r& K9 THE LITTLE FOLKS. GnurfiMlktr's Diplomacy. Ka, the fair, 'Kith soft flaxen hair, Acd dir azure eyes, Use ber fatherfeld's alien, Sid, t-lijly nd low, witb'dimplr aglow, ' Mamma, will you brinK ' A little gold ring J'ront the town, when to-morrow you go?" Hut the crate mamma' ryes were aolemu ami wihe; ' Why, Ktb, my dear, you are only a child. And chould think of your book Iiihtetd of your looks ;'' Hn, (gcly, tlic grave mamma sinllM. " or vain, reouin tninj;, like Jewel and ring. Don't think till you're older, my child." Oraudma, the fair, with fcof t silver hair. In her even a "long-ago"' look, With c half-mujiing eigh her glasse laid by. And dreamily turned from her book : "King, did you say? My thought were away ; I rrniember no well the first that you wore ! You often had coaxed me for trinkets before; And once, in the town of Hamburgh, I bought A tiny gold ring, no quaintly wrought How you danced and aaug for joy that day Do jou remember it. daughter May? Ah, me! ah, me! Ho long ago! You Kcarcely uere old as Eva, I know.' llva rhook down the ringlets bright. To hide in her yea the mischievous light ; Mahima carefully guided her reams ; Grandma went lick to her " long-ago" drcamu. CJ rare diplomacy. Quietly wrought, In the town on the morrow the ring was bought ! Cland aud the tattle Bird. " Claud," said Lis mamma, one day, " would you like to see a bird's nest ?" " Oli, yes J" said Claud, jumping up .-aid down with delight ; "where is it?" "I will tako you to see it," said his mamma ; " but I Hhall blindfold you." " What for, mamma?" asked Claud, anxiously. " Because if you should go there of ten you would disturb the pretty littlo mother-bird, and she would go away and leave the eggs." " Then I could have 'em !" said Claud, eagerly. "But she would feel bad to lose them ; so I shall not lot you sec where it is. If you want to go you must be blind folded." "Will it hurt?" Claud asked, hesi tating. " No, of course not," laughed mam ma, taking out a clean white handker chief and folding it up cornerwise. " Now let me tie this on." Claud camo up, had the bandage tied on, took mamma's hand, and they started out. " Now I'm a blind man, like poor old lloger in my book, and you're my dog to lead me. Ain't you a pretty big dog, mamma?' "I should think I was," said mamma, laughing. When they were on the walk there be gan a curious and mysterious perform ance. First mamma led him a little way toward the barn ; then she turned and walked toward the chicken-house ; then she went back past the house, down by tho fountain to the front eato ; and then she led him over all the winding paths of the yard. After that she turned him around several times, so he would not know which way he was going, and at last sho led him across the grass and up to a littlo rose-bush, not twenty feet from the front gate. Holding her dress around him, bo that he couldn't look out, sho slipped up the bandage and let him look. There on the ground, away under the bush, was n cunning littlo nest, and in it were four pretty speckled eggs. Claud could hardly believe his oyes. Such tiny bits of eggs, and such a cunning little nest. " Oh, mamma !" ho cried, eagerly, " oh, do let my take it home and put it on the piazza !" "No," said mamma; "you wouldn't want to tako away the poor littlo bird's house, would you? By and by four tiny bits of birds will come out of them, and then I'll bring you again to see them." "It's eyer V ever so far from our house, ain't it?" asked Claud, inno cently. " So far that I think you'll nevor find it," said mamma. Then she blindfolded him again, and by the same windingway led him back to tho house. Every day after that Claud might be seen wandering away off at tho end of tho lawn, looking eagerly at the foot of every bush, trying to rind that nest. Mamma kept her word, and in a few days alio took him, in the same mysteri ous way, to see four littlo widc-mouthcd birds. A day or two after this Claud was playing on the grass near the fence, and no saw a bird fly down into the grass at the foot of that very rose-bush. Then ho heard a loud peeping, and he ran tip to see what it was. Tho old bird flew up as he came near, and there was the nest full of birdies. Ho stood looking at them, never suspecting that it was the Biimo family that he had scon, when a big boy, who lived near, noticed him through the fence. "What you looking at?" ho asked. " Little birds," answered Claud, not looking up, " with big moufs, and not any f fathers." " Give me ono," said the boy. " 'T ain't mine," said Claud ; "b'long to their mamma." " Well, just bring ono hero for me to" look at," said the big boy ; " I want to see what kind it is. Come, I'll give you some candy if you will," he added, coax ingly. Candy was a great temptation to Claud ; so, after a moment's hesita tion, ho carefully took up one of the droll-looking things, and c;irried it down to the fence. The boy snatched it and rau off. "Here!" cried Claud, "whero's the candy? an vou must n't take it away !" "Wait there till I bring it," said the boy with a laugh, as he turned around tho corner. Claud waited a long time, till his mother came out and called him. He went up to the big tree where she was sitting, and told her the whole story. "Why, Claud," said she, "that is a bad boy, and he just promised you the candy to get you to bring him'a bird. He did n't mean to give it back ; and now the poor little mamma will feel bad." Claud began to cry. " I told you not to talk to that bov," said mamma. " I didn't," sobbed Claud : "he talked to me." "I think," said mamma, "that Td better tie up these little hands, so that they can't do any more mischief ; don't you ?" " Y-e-s," said Claud, hesitatingly. So mamma laid his arms across each other andtied them with hishandkerchief. And then she told him the whole storv of the birds how the mamma and papa birds came there in the spring, and found that cozy little place under the rose-bush, and how they went off and brought horse hairs and other things, and made a nice little house, and then the mamma bird laid four eggs, and sat on them all the time, and hardly left them a minute till the little birds broke open the shells and came out And then when ahe vas gone out to iunt np something for them to eat, a. jiaughty boy came and carried off one of her dear little babies. Cland hung his head and felt Very touch aahtfMd, and rtr? toim aai promised that if his naughty hands wanted to touch any more birds he would come right to mamma and have them tied np. Little Corporal. X Story ef a Grizzly Bear. " Now, uncle, we are all ready for a story," said Benny Beetle, as ho and his brother .Tosey drew their chairs to his side, before a nice blazing wood fire, on a vilil pvnnincr in November. Uncle was a great favorite, and a very important person in the eyes of all the children in the family, for they had but recently made his acquaintance, as he had ppent a number of years in Califor nia and Oregon, living the wild, rude life of a hunter and trapper; and his endlcps "budget of stones was an un failing source of pleasure to them all. "Now, vou may tell us just as awfui a Biory as you know, and you won't frighten me a bit," mid Benny. "Well, let me see," said uncle; "shall it be a grizzly bear story, or an Indian story, or what? " O, a grizzly ! a grizzly !" they both shouted. . ,. " Well, a grizzly let it be then. 'Tib a true story, remember ; but you may not think it is as awful as the made-up ones." " When I first went to California, I knew a man there by the name of Jolinny Astor. He lived alone in a tent, among the mountains, and the boys all said that Johnny was piling up tho 4 dust ' very fast. He went shares with no one. He occasionally gave us a call, on his way to town for provisions; but he said very little about his busi- HOSS " We often told him it was unsafe for him to live alone, for some of the In dians at that time were very hostile ; and the bears were even more to be dreaded than the Indians, particularly the grizzly, which had often been seen in that vicinity. They are the most powerful and ferocious of all the bear tribe, and when hungry or enraged, will attack a man or an animal ; they have very large feet, and very long claws ; their hair is coarse ; and they have a mauo between their shoulders which stands erect ; they are very difficult to kill, aud, when wounded, arc very dan gerous to tho hunter. " One morning, the whole camp was surprised by the arrival of Johnny, with all his earthly possessions on his back tent, frying-pan, pick and shovel. " What's the matter?' 'Where are you bound?' 'What's happened?' were the exclamations heard on every side. " 'I'm bound not to live alone any longer; that's what's the matter. A grizzly came near making mince-meat of me, last night, and I thought it was time for me to pull up stakes and leave that place.' "'Good for you, Johnny; I have been telling you to do so all along,' said one of the boys. " Well, what about the grizzy ?' " I asked. " ' I'll tell you : Last night, after I had finished my day's work and eaten my supper, I sat down before the fire to smoke ; everything was as still as a mouse, aud I was thinking over old times, when all at once I heard a terri ble scratching and snuffing behind me, and turning around, as true as you live, there was a grizzly poking his noso un der my tent ! "'J knew what that meant, boys; and I can tell you, my heart thumped as it never did before. I had neither gun nor revolver, for I am hot a fighting man ; and if I had had any fire-arms it would have been useless for me to have attempted to kill him ; for unless you are a suro shot, 'tis plaguey risky busi ness to pull tho trigger on a grizzly. But my wit served mc well that time, for it suddenly jwpped into my head that it was tobacco smoke that made him snuff and sneeze so ; for he would tuck his nose under the canvas, and then draw it back, with a terrible snort; so, what did I do but just stir up my fire to a brisk blaze, and taking out my tobacco, whittle it away lively on the coals. It was pretty tough for me, I can tell you ; but it was for life, boys ; and I kept whittling aud whittling till the old tent was blue with smoke. He walked clear around it, putting in his nose hero and there, but it was too much for him ; my tobacco held out longer than he did ; and finally he marched off and left me ; but I watched for him till daylight, and then I packed up my traps and here I am.'" "What a good thing it was that he knew how to smoke," said Benny, who had been listening with open oyes and cars; "mother thinks 'tis such a bad habit, and is always talking against it ; but now I mean to learn, for it may save my life sometime." "It certainly did a good turn for Johnny once; but let me tell you, Benny, that the use of it destroys more lives than it saves ; and your mother is quite right about it. I remember her good advice to mc, when I left her years ago ; and the remembrance of her gcntlo face and encouraging tones saved me from many a temptation. Be true to your mother's counsel, and I am quite sure that you will come out all right. Johnuy's fright cured him of living alono ; and ho was never seen afterward without a revolver in his belt ; but we were all doubtful about his knowing how to use it." " O, that was a first-rate story, uncle the best one yon have told yet please tell us another." N " Not to-night, boys ; not to-night ; but if yon are very polite to me, I will take you to the menagerie some day, and show you a bear, though he may not be a grizzly." " O, that will be splendid," they both cried ; and bidding him good-night, they went to their bed, on the best of terms with their uncle and all the world beside. Bazalne's Place of Confinement. The island of St Marguerite, where Bazaiue is to be confined, is one of the two Luvia Islands on the Mediterranean coast of France. The largest of these islands is St Marguerite, the smaller St Honorat Both are fortified islands, and have been used by different French Governments for many years, as a place of seclusion for State prisoners. The fortress on St Marguerite, to which Ba zaine is destined, is famed in story as one of the places of the imprisonment of the "man with the iron mask." While confined there, as the romance goes, he wrote his story on one of the silver plates on which his meals were served, and threw it overboard. A fish erman picked it up, but being unable to read, brought it to the Governor ei the castle. In consequence of this in cident, the prisoner was removed to the Bastile. where he died. In latter days St Marguerite has only been brought into notice as the temporary abiding place of some of the Communist prison ers. Probably, as the French always hare an eye to the historical fitness of tilings. Marshal Bazaine zaay now oc cupy the same apartments once tenant ed by the prisoner whose story is one of the saddest, an well ae the xaoet -afttok'e, i?4f. cf mricn kktorr. BoMparte An Esfllsli Criticism, of His Character. (from Temple Bar.) ,. , Ho loved noise, movement, martial life, drums, trumpets and the destruc tion of life upon a large scale. Egotism, jealousy, acquisitiveness, a passion for mystifying others, falsehood, were strongly-marked characteristics. He was also a reviler ; he insulted all whom ho feared or hated. Thus this old friend of Robespierre, this whilom Jacobin and terrorist, designated tnc sincere ltcpuu licsuis as "chiens enrages" and as brigands. He called the King of Prus sia the most complete fool of all the Kings on earth ; Pitt an enemy of the human race ; the Spanish Bourbons a troop of sheep; Broglie, Bishop of Ghent, a reptile ; the emigrants who were faithful to the monarchy, and the nriests who disapproved of the con cordat, "scum of the earth." Hecalnm niated the Due d'Enghien by pretending that he had proffered mm ins services. He accoscd Grouchy of the defeat at Waterloo, Bernadotte of not having come to his aid on the field of Eylau. He showed himself a true Corsican to the last. It was a boast of his that he had never committed any crimes pri vately. This was a lie. His Corsican enemies, Arene and Ccrrachi, fell into a trap of his sotting, and lost their lives. Pichegrau was strangled by his order ; several former Jacobins were summoned before a council of war, and by his pri vate command condemned to death. The assassination of the Due d'Enghien made a noise in tho world because he was a Bourbon. History will some day relate many analogous cases hitherto left in obscurity. Nero and Torquemada destroyed fewer lives throughout their entire career than did Bonaparte during a single month of his reign. I believe that, from 1804 to 1815, his victims (in cluding Frenchmen and others) num bered not less than six million men. It would be important to know how many deserters were shot. Each principal town of the several departments had its place aux fusillades, and many towns of the second rank also. Probably several thousand French subjects were shot before councils of war for mere de sertion. France has nevor had such an enemy. If she perishes, it will be by the appli cation of the Napoleonic idea that is to say, by falsehood, audacity, despot ism, cunning, hypocrisy, war, luxury, corruption. The eulogists of this man have been visionaries, unscrupulous worshipers of brute force, soldiers, priests, the ignorant and the servile in fine, all who venerate the devil more than God, and who are incapable of re signing themselves for the good of hu manity to tho inconveniences of entire liberty. He has been popular in France because the French are imaginative and have believed hitherto that their Em peror defended France and their Repub lic against all Europe. Writers and artists have encouraged this notion. In exalting the Emperor, they have sold their works and attained a success. Next to the history of religion, the his tory of war has most attraction for the popular mind, and the apologists of Napoleon have followed the example of religions writers and artists, who repeat the lives of saints aud martyrs in poetry, painting and sculpture. Government Bnildings. One of the fruitful causes of expendi ture by the last Congress was the ap propriation of over 12,000,000 for the erection of public buildings for Gov ernment use in various cities and towns. In tho face, however, of this fact, a much larger movement in that direction has already been made in the present Congress. It was ascertained at tho Capitol to-day that there wcro over 40 bills pending before the committee for the erection of public edifices in the fol lowing cities and towns, and involving an expenditure of nearly $$0,000,000 : Austin, Tyler, Dallas, Galveston, Hous ton and Jefferson, Texas ; Leavenworth and Topeka, Kan. ; Kansas City, Jefferson City and St. Joseph, Mo.; Council Bluffs, Iowa; Charleston, S. C; Charleston, W. Va.; Portland, Oregon; Brooklyn, N. Y.; two in Pittsburgh, San Francisco, Syracuse, Lynchburg, At lanta, Santa Fc, Greenville, S. C, Erie, Pa., New Albany, Ind., Wilmington, N. C, Auburn, N. Y., Port Townscnd and Olympia, Washington Territory, Talla hassee and Jacksonville, Fla., Mont gomery, Ala., Rochester, N. Y., Oxford, Miss., Nebraska City, etc. If the promised retrenchment is carried out, not one of these buildings will be au thorized, though most of tho bills for them have been presented since tho resolution of economy passed the House. Washington Telegram. Why Chubb Mourned. When Chubb's wife died we called in to mourn with him, and, if possible, to consolo him in his affliction. The old man sat in the rocking-chair with his eyes closed, chewing a toothpick, and rocking to and fro as he apparently mused over the years he had spent so happily in company with his late part ner. We gently approached the subject of Mrs. Chnbb's departure. We as sured him that we sympathized with him in his deep affliction, and the more sin cerely because we well knew the estima ble qualities of his wife, and were famil iar with the virtues with which she adorned her home. "She was, indeed," we said, "an ex cellent woman, a remarkable woman ; a woman of sterling qualities and unaf fected piety." Chubb stopped rocking, and looked at us mournfully. Then exclaimed : "Unaffected piety ! That's just what's the matter. I tell yon, Adeler," said he, bringing his hand down emphatically on the arm of the chair, "the way that woman would roast n sugar-cured ham would bring the tears to the eves of a graven image." Then we went out and left him alone with his sorrow. There are some kinds of grief that are too Hicred to be lightly intruded upon. Max Adder. The Grain Tkade of America. The chief features of the grain trade of the country are the increased concentration of the exports from the four chief At lantic ports. From 1866 to 1872 the percentage of.increase in the receipts of grain at six of the leading Atlantic ports stood as follows : Philadelphia, 232 ; Baltimore, 150; Montreal, 70; New York, 58; Boston, 50; Portland, 44. Taking only the ports named above, they aggregated, in 1872, total receipts amounting to 83,010,803 bushels, against 90,217,375 at New York. Philadelphia ranks next to New York, her receipts having reached 24,117,150 bushels. During the tame period the receipts at Boston were 16,701,934 bushels. With the opening of the Hoosac tunnel, the grain trade of Boston will be largely in creased. Lrcr Iiawkescx, colored, died at the poor-house in Somerrille, Tenn., on the 9th inst, aged 120 yearn, ahe was once owned by the noted robber, John A. Murrell, wfcp figwed to conspicuously in Tewa" and Kentucky atany years The YlrgiaUas PriwHwre Horrors of their CaatlTlty. (From the New York Tribune.) A fact which has not generally been known by the statements of prisoners now comes to light, which is that they were robbed by the crew of the lornado, and nearly all who owned anything were robbed of money, jewelry, watencs ami . other valuables! Tho prisoners were taken to the jail of Santiago soon after their arrival in port. Here they were crowded together like cattle : here the suffering began. They were not as signed to separate cells. Indeed, there was no opportunity for such confine ment in the contracted quarters of San tiago jail, but the entire party of nearly 200 were driven into a small room, nearly 50 feet wide by 15 long. Thcro they were obliged to live as best they could, though the air, of course, was al most deadly, and there was little or no opportunity for exercise. The prisoners were supplied with provisions which, though sufficient as regards quantity, were poor in quality, and hardly fitted to sustain life. Tho provisions consist ed almost wholly of rico and water. One night the prisoners were stealthily taken from the jail aud marched with the greatest haste to a point seven miles below the city, in tho vicinity of the Morro. The road lay through a rough tract of country, aud the journey wns most wearisome, while some of the prisoners were so sick as to be almost unable to stand. The sufferings of some of tho number were inter. -e, and no pity was in th breast of tho Spaniards. At this point ou the coast they were placed ou board the steamer Bazeau, which at once sailed for Havana. At Manzanilla it was met by the mail steamer coming in the opjositc direc tion. On tliis steamer was Gen. Burriel, who at once ordered the Bazexui to re turn to Santiago. She turned about, but soon ran aground, and the passen gers wero transferred to another vessel. Here they suffered horrors heretofore unknown. The were crowded in the hold of the vessel, where scarcely a ray of sunlight could struggle in. Tho air was poison ; the darkness was almost continuous ; the food they ate was wretched in qualtty and insufficient in quantity ; tho water they drank was what remained in tho buckets after tho dumb animals were satisfied. These an imals consisted mainly of horses and mules. They wero kept on the deck alwvo the Virginius prisoners, and were thus a constant source of annovauco to the helpless prisoners below. -It was in tho midst of all this filth and suffering that the prisoners were not allowed to wash while on board the Bazean for ten days, and their arms were pinioned be hind them the larger portion of the voyage. They were occasionally beaten on ine sugutest provocation, ami some times on no provocation at all. The Seven Wonders of the World. Although every school boy and girl in the land has read of the " seven wonders of the world," and every person of any intelligence has either read or heard of them ; probably nmetj-uiue persons out of a hundred who might be asked tho question could not name them. They are : 1. The Pyramids, the mystery of the past, tho enigma of the present, and tho enduring for the future ages of this world. 2. The temple, tiie walls, and hang- ing gardens of Babylon, the most cele- brated city of Assyria, and tho resi - donee of the kings of the country, a'ter the destruction of Ninovah. " 3. Tno Chryselephantine statue of Jupiter Olvmpus, the most renowned work of Phidias, the illustrious artist of Greece. The statue was formed f gold, and was sitting on a thronu al - most touching the summit of the tem ple, which was seventy foot hight 4. The temple of Diana, at Ephcsus, which was 220 years in building, and wbii.h wns 4'n foot, in lentil nn.1 'Mm in breadth, and supported by 127 marble columns of the Ionic order, 60 feet high. 5. The mausoleum of Halicarnassus, erected to the memory of Mausoleus, the King of Caria, by his wife Artemisia, B. C. 353. 6. The Pharos, at Alexandria, alight house erected by Ptolemy Soter at the entrance of the harbor at Alexandria. It was 450 feet high, and could be seen at a distance of a hundred miles, and upon which was inscribed " King Ptolemy to the gods, the saviors, for the benefit of sailors." 7. Tho Colossus at Rhodes, the brazen image of Apollo, 105 Grecian feet in height, and which was located at the entrance of one of the harbors of the city of Rhodes. A Kentucky Fanner Killed by a Pan ther. For some time past a ferocious pan ther has been prowling through the woods over the Cat hills, near Taylors ville, Spencer county. On Monday last, Richard Holt came across the pan ther while out hunting, and fired two charges into its side without fatal ef fect. This tended to enrage the ani mal, and in less than two minutes it had landed upon Holt and was savagely clawing him to death. A little boy who was with Holt ran to where a party of men were working in a field aboutlialf a mile away, and, as soon as these men could arm themselves, they hastened to Holt's aid ; but when they reached the spot they found his head and his body torn almost into shred". The beast, after killing him, had evidently eaten a portion of the body, as large lump; of tlesh which had evidently been torn out of the body could not be found any where about the spot. Mr. Holt was a farmer, very fond of hunting, was brave to a fault, and was very venturesome. The inhabitants of the neighlorhood have organized for the purpose of hunt ing down and slaying the monster of the woods. It is said that the hideous yells of the beast can b heard every night, but that the people arc afraid to pursue it in the dark. Louisville Ledger. GcraiaBy Flooded with SIlTer. The circulation of coin in Europe is about to be considerably increased. The German Empire, in a very short time, will call in the circulation of silver, all except enough for small change, about e3,000,000 of silver, and little or J no gold, in circulation in trermany. i Aft t Onrman Cmvemmmt rvd J the French indemnity money, it was re solved to get rid of the clumsy silver, and -substitute the more portable and valuable gold coin. With this purpose .u.Uiv6u.uwuu ...... ... r r. , in view, the Berlin Mint has been com- inff about 5.000.000 or 6.000.000 Of LvW Jk s thalers per week; and there must be , now at least $200,000,000 of that com j readv for distribution. But the Gov ernment is puzzled what to do with the vast quantity of surplus silver. Large shipment of it have been made to In dia and China, for purchase of teas and other products ; but, as the people of three countries are not accustomed f the silTer thaler (about a 70-cent piece! ine money hi recerrea received with tMjneUm UFrit httft and at a diteormt Fall of a Monster Aerolite. Trenton (Mo.) Correspondence Chicago Time. A few days since the inhabitants of tho vicinity of Farmersville, a hamlet of Livingston county, in this State, were startled by the appearance in the heavens in broad daylight of an im mense ball of fire, or meteor, falling with inconceivable velocity to the earth. The spot of its fall was visited by the awc-Mruck citizens in crowds to learn more of the strange apparition. A man was found who had been nt work iu the wikkIs close bv, and who seemed almost distracted by fear, but who toon recovered himself sufficiently to tell what he knew of it. Ho said as he was at work he heard a sound like the fierce screaming of a huge shot from a rificd cannon, accompanied by a rushing noif-e, like the sweep of a tornado. Looking about to discover the Bource of so strango a sound, a bright glare like a flash of lightning attracted his eye up ward, and then he beheld, apparently coming directly toward him, a mass of fire " as big as a mountain." Before ho had time to escape it, it struck the earth a quarter of a mile away, and the shock was like an earthquake. Tho party ap proached and found a glowing mass, which prcvouted close inspection by its radiant heat. It cooled off gradually and now presents tho usual appearance of such bodies, being a black, shining mass of meteoric iron, but its huge size is unprecedented. It is deseriled as reaching a height of full twenty feet from the surfaco of the ground, and as being twenty or twenty-live feet in di ameter ! This seems almost incredible, but as hundreds of recctable and truthful people have seen it, aud all tell tho same story, the facts force them selves on our belief. It is Mipioscd, and with good reason, that at least half of it is buried out of sight ; but up to this timo no means have been used to ascertain the depth of its peuetration. Tho largest aerolite on record to my knowledge is ono which fell in Asia Minor, wichh was estimated to weigh 25, 000 pounds. But this huge monster from tho upper deep will weigh nearly as many hundred weights. Co'Operatioa in Germany. Hero is the progress of co-operation in Germany: In 1850 there were 80 societies, with 18,676 members, who had on loan 4,131,436 thalers ; sharo capital, 246,001 thalers; and in 1870 those figures had risen to 740 societies, 314,656 members, 207,618,287 thalers lent, and the share capital had risen to 13,440,152 thalers. Even during the Franco-Gorman war, tho number of co operative banks increased by 121, and 112 new stores were opened, while 0 manufacturing societies were estab- lished. Tho business done by all these societies in 1870 amounted to 350,000, 000 thalers. Tho paid-up capital was 27,000,000, and the loan capital 62,000, 000. The number of co-operators now in Germany exceeds 1,000,000. Among the trading associations thero aro of shoemakers, 65 ; agriculturi.sLs, 43 ; tailors, 37 ; cabinet-makers, 21; smiths, . 8 ; weavers, 5 ; bookbinders, 4 ; manufacturers, 2 ; carpenters, 1 glove has- ' ket-makers. 2: house-painters. 1 millers, 1 ; cloth-makers, 1 ; sewing I machinists, 2 ; booking establishments, 1 ; house-building establishments, 5 ; and they appear to make most progress in co-operation, just where we make j least. -.-. -Tr ct'VUTi , ,, Commerce of St. Louis, i r.ll t Louis papers print elalwrato , reviews of tho trade aud commerce of ' t,ie VJ1? 'or the nat year, rlncli Rlio , gratifying increase of business. The i prominent features of the exhibit are ; ( Receipts of cotton, 81,l88 bales, agambt , '-9,430 last year ; Hour manufactured, j,-jlu, ii). uriH., iiguiuni i,-ii', yo nisi year; hogs packed since Nov. 1, 351, 20(5, against 335,073 last year ; receipts of hogs for the year, 982,463, against ioy,ub last year, ine increase oi cattle I j 20,000, and lumber 36,000,000 feet, The customs receipts havo been 31,400,646, about 300,000 less than last year. The number of steamers plying to and from the port is 170, tonnage 78,717 tons; number of barges, 159, tonnage 58,297 ; total tonnage, 137,004 tons. Tho amount of produce brought to the city by these steamers and barges during the year was 507,500 tons; amount taken to other ports, 6-17,800 tons. From an examination of the census .statistics of Austria, Russia. Turkey, Germany, England, Frauce and the United States, a writer in tho Mfdiral lieeord has ascertained that tho mean average duration of life among Jews exceeds that of Christians by about five years. The statement is made, aim), by Prussia, that thcro is 1-61 per cent, of deaths among Jews to 2-62 per cent, among the general population ; and in France, Christians live, on an average, 36 years and 11 months, but the Jews, 48 years and 9 months. YlIfEGAR BlTTEKH. Dtt. J. WALKER, a regular practicing physician of Califor nia, has conferred a priceless boon upon mankind, by the introduction of a " Bitters" compounded from lurbs ex clusively, which may be truly said to be superseding all otkers, and is becoming a bitter dose indeed for the charlatans and quacks, on account of its immcuso sale and universal popularity. Not only aro these Vinegar Bitterk, as he calls them, an invaluable tonic and alterative, but they are acknowledged as a standard Medicine, and the astonishing rajridity with which they cure diseases hitherto declared incurable seems almost in credible. After having been carefully tested, they are kept on nand in thou sands of households, and used for any and every form of disease, many relying upon them in preference to the most celebrated physicians. They haTe be come a recognized "Family Remedy," and properly so. 25 Lived it Dowx. An honest black smith was once grossly insulted and his character infamously defamed. Friends advised him to seek redress by means of law, but to one and all he replied : " No. I will go to my forge and there in six months I will have worked out such a character an 1 earned such a name as all the judges, law courts and lawyers in the world could never givfe me." He was right. It is by honeit labor, manly ooniage and a conscience void of often, e - - ". - ""., """ Prove onr honesty ami respectability. Xllwaakct Jfaatliljr Jlajca&Ja. The Milwaukee ilouildy Jlajaiine In on of the best periodical of it prfc jrohliibed in America. The January number in one of the one,.. erer testae"!, unry; miel with torie, eketche. poem, etc , br tle bet wtern writer, including two fifty-dollar crie ; i-t WMUp MitjiuuAi ex vni ' .. 'W "?- f"-- tma9xtdwt'tbm etrij konee of I rear. Adore T. itilwanke, Wie J. GtLxoaz, 407 Broadway, Wb were pleased to e, not long Hsce, in cae of oar exchange, oaM pretty MTertt remarks addrwel to aereral peracas wbo. darin? an iatermiujt lecture by KT. Joo S. C Abbott, kept a coatiircon coagliii C, which prtTe&td many froai btaricc. Pecjla who ctanot refrain from cocghl&g. Lad better ur ara iti aae ?!a. or tak bK-j tk f rAnfen'f .4ty4rY iMnm r m. j CarwAllKhMt m Catarrh. 8o aucceeef ul haa Dr. Pierco Golden Medi cal DiecoTcry proven, aa a constitutional treat ment for Catarrh, when coapled with the ue of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Kemndy, applied locally by the hmj of Dr. Pierce "aal Douche (tho only method of reaching the upper and back csoitiea of the head), that tho proprietor of thceo medicine ha long offered a tanding reward of 500 for a ca-o of Catarrh which he cannot cure. The two medicine, with instru ment, for 1 by Jnii;it. a srECistKN out or rotsr- Cvi;rLAM. Ill , April 28. 1S73. Dr. IIuk'c. ltaffilo, N. Y.: 1karir: It i with pleasure I niako thi idatemcut to you that alter taking medietas for t cuty year for tho Catarrh. I tried your Catarrh Keiuedy aud effected a cure, eo that it ha not troubled me for two jeare. S. Whmi.er. KTEAMsa ocr rnoutK. People rhould beware of those impostor who cony Dr. Pierce's original ftyle of adver tising, by offering various ued"reward for caeca of "Catarrh and other di-e-c which they can not cure. Tho? who do not poeeiw uf SHent intelligence to write nn original adver tisement are not likely to hate made great aud valuable- dicoverie iu Medicine. 'Cera. (iiAiri:t Hands. f:ic, rough skin pmc I-, ringworm, ralt-riiounu and uthercuU iieoo. affection cunnl, k, d tho t.i nude fCft and -mooth, by u-uig the JrMi'KttTAHtoAi made by Caswuli, IiizaxdA Co., '"'w YorV Bo crtajn to get the JuMf-r Trr Nwji. raiuk by u. as th'r aro mai v i::u:a.in. iha ie with common tar which ?-e ovthlv. (V :n. The imjxirtunce of giving Sheridan' CilCfdry CowUtton 'inrln to horpec tliat havo been out in the eulil ram, tood in cold wind, or drank too much cold water, cannot w ocreUmatd ; no man rhould b without them who ofin a good hnw. Com. THK liOl'KHOt.U PANACKA, AMD KA31IL.V laniSIKXT, tathebeitremrty laths world fur the fnlluwlug complaint, viz.: Cranps In the Limb and Stom ach, Pain in the Stomach, BowcU, or Side, nhn tnatHinln all Itt forma, Bllloui Colic. Nrurahcta, Cholera, Pyicntcrr, Coldi, Fief h Wouudi. llorut. Sore Throat, Srtnal Cenvjilalnti, Spralna and Bruiset, ChtlU and Fever. Vor Internal and K terual use. Itaorrratlonlanot only to relmva the patUnt, but entirely removea the tame of the complaint. It penetratra and pervade the whole )ilrra, re storing healthy actio to all Ita r'ti, atidttutck ntuir the blood. THE nOUBKnoi.U TANACKA IS TCRKLT VEO KTAHLK and All lleallcg Prepared by ccrtis nnoww. No. U 1 5 Vulton Street, New Tor. For lale by all DroirirliU. Urowa'i Bronchial Troche tor CourU a4 Cold. A C0C0H. COLD OR SORE THROAT Requires Immediate attention, and thomld be Checked. If allowed to coutlnue, laaiTATlo or THE Ll'IOI, A rBMAXaT TllBOAT ArrSCTIO. Ill A IacCBABLl Lvao Dubai la often the reault. BROWN'S BRONCHIAL TROCHKS. Having a direct Influence ou the parti. give Imme diate relief. For Bbobciiitis, Aintx, C4TAbii. CoairaPTiva aan Thboat Diibaibi, Tocnc.ir umcJ texts alttt good urti. SiauBBi An Public BrBABaaa Will And TaocilBtuteful in clerlnglbe voice when taken before Siuftng or Speaking-, aud relieving the throat after an unuiual eaertlun of Ike vocal organt Obtain onij Bbowmb UuoacuiAt. TaocMBi,' and do not taa any of the worthlei Imitation that mav ne offered. SjU ivtrvwhtrt. THIRTY VKAR.H' KXI'KRIKNCKOKAM OL.U NCUSK. MRS. WINSLOW'S SOOT1UNO SYnCP 13 TUM PRKSC1PTIONOF one of tho belt Ferial Phyil clanaand Nnriee In the United Statei, and hai been uied for thirty yrari with never falling lafety and lucccei by millions of mother and children, from the feeble infant of on week old to the adult. It corrects acidity of the stomach, re lieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, and gives rsst, health an t comfort to mother and child. Ws believe It to be the Best aud Surest Remedy In the World In all canes cf DT8ENTF.RT and D1AR RHF.A IN CHILHRBN. whether It arises frosn Teething or from any other cause. Full directions for using will accompany each bottle. None Oenn lue unless tiie f.ic-timllo of CCRTIS A PERKINS Is on the ontsldo wrapper. BOLD BT ALL MEDICINE DEALKKI. CIIIL.UKK.W OKTK.M 1AKJK PALK A.IO KICK, frem nn other cause tha having worms la the stomach. BROWN'S VKRMIFCOF. COMFITS will destroy Worms without Injury to the child, being perfectly wniTE, and free from a.l color ing or other Injnrlons ingredients usually used In worm preparations. CURTIS A BROWN, Proprietors. No. MIS Fulton Street, Sew York. IH&ly )rmjuf atiif i"htntitti, and dtaltri in Mtdi-inti. at twUTTrm ciiti A Box. Poultry, Seed f.Ac, r)letx' Journsl.C'harn ber sbg,P C.MPKKSK! VK.Y.VT, dally, fresh, at L. r ZANDER'S, lit; Clybourae Ave . Chics?". jrF7KAt'llVKKK.Agsnlswante.l,i.rtl-u-5 i mi tars free. J. Worth 4 Co . Bl. Louis. Mo. K Per Day. 1,00 Agents wante-K Send 1,000. Agents wante-K Sen . Blair A Co.. St. Louis, Mo. ps stsrap to a. H. i tit a month to men. women, hoys and airlt jUM1 t.. work f-trus. PAItriCULAK.S FflRE. Aloff . IIOWEN A CO . Marlon Ohio. alii V 'ending the address of ten persons with 10 fin I I ct. will receive. re, a beautiful Chroma nilC I and instructions how loget rich, p"it paid. UNCI Cxty Snnllw Co., tin 8. Ktghth-st., i'hiU., Ta. 4T lfAT'r" hTe found something jrw for ft I ! I agents. It will sell botter Oian any thlngyonever handled. Samples 2V- KUKKKA MA.v LTACTUIfGCO.JCCUrkorlHMadUouBUetUcag'j ORGANS. WflOl.KMAI.K WAHK. HIMI.Vf , W. Waafe llfois HI.. Cltlratcn. .. a, nibkwj.i. $15 for a full coarse nf Telegrsphlf r when taken with BUSINESS COURSE. VT circulars address Jones Cora'l College, St. Iuli. Mo. Open Pay and Night. VTEW WAY OF FILLING TEETH. VtI imp (tri .UrTirti.f Tiir ail ijorer. otMTst. AitMiCtATum. ai a. cirt u. osu. TKXXKMMKK FARM KOK AI.C. l.lClarres, t.') acres urtr pkiw tatsnee limber, well Improved, price .! per scrr Would es change fr productive property Yor particular address rosT,ASTSB,r"learmoDt.Wrreu (Vn.Te.nn. stn 1100 Inv sl4 la Walt trot men leads to a for- nn, No risk. C-psg uarachlet free. Vals. lnr, I iMStlcos Co. Banker 'aud Broker as Wall street, w. J BUSINESS. KuterprWtng yonng and middle-aged men and women, ambitions to make a mcceMfu! lUrtln buitne, are offered eripertorfacllltie for prepar ing themselves at the Bpencerlan Basinet College, Mllwaokea.Wls AOKJCT WA3ITEU KOK TIIK UNDEVELOPED WEST OR. Five Years in the Territories, i Its Retourcei. Climate. Inhabitant. Natural Cariosities, etc. It contains VfO fine engraving of the Scenery, Lands, People and Cariosities of the Oreat Weat.and I the enlrleat and bt telllcr book ever pnblUhed. 8nd for (pecimeo pare sod circular, with term, Addre NATIONAL PCB LISHINO CO .Chicago, 111.. or St. Ixsi. M Wood's Honsellolil Magaziis. THE BEST DOLLAR lOKTHLT. 0j 10 51 D vrHr THE YOSKM1TE VAX.1VKY. lts'Ae Issch. Is 17 Oil Calar. Xagasiae, year, with Mtraatad Cbroaso fltt? Magaxtae, on year. with Cesount4 Chromo. I & Xagasiae.alowe. owe year ... ... 10 Examine rar Clabbtng aA Freaslam Lists. Two first- la Periapical far Ik arte sfsBt, We sollat 5 aw re Cassra r and others to send at care ftrr terms a tpe1ora Magutae. Address - K. MCTKS, PnWIsksr, 41 Park Bow, y.T.City, t JsTrtiiIa.w.T. 99999999 S5 to $2i!Tlis.Tlai1S: TRF. A-IFsfiTAR XlJaVaaaTTl iiatu wtibit)OrTaaTor.'War- t raasadsoasltatltaswa-rersala , ttt rrvbrrt. Aa4 ssM si ki' L Wismm I ftmav. 'b ami srsmi -an man iirkiataa fsasissj w.aBvKavMFW wars Mtr w ps ir ai US Dr. J. Walker's California VJn- Par Bitters arc ft purely VcpotaWi prcjAtniUon, made Mcily from tho na tive herbs found on tho lower ranges of tho Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor nia, tho medicinal properties of which aro extracted therefrom vithout tho uso of Alcohol. Tho question is almost daily asked. What Is tho causo of the unparalleled inicccss of Vinkoak Uit TKK.S r Our answer is, that they reiuovo the causo of disease, and tho patient re covers his health. They aro tho great blood purifieranda life-giving principle, a pertect Renovator and lnvigorator of the system. Never before la tha history of tho world has a medicine txva coinpuundiM poi)K,.injr, tho retnarkaJJa qualities of Yiskoa UlTTSis in healing th sick of every diueaso tnaii U heir to. They are a gcntlo lurjnttiTo as well a a Tonic, relieving Conp?.Htiiti or JnAamtnittinn of tfio Liter and Visceral Orfau, m l'tlioru Diseases. The properties of Dk. Wai.kkk'.s Yinkoak ltiTTBKS are Aperient, Dianhnrrtw. Carminative. Nutrition. Laxative. Ihuretir, Sedative. Counter-irritant, Sudorific, Alter live, and AntMliho- It. II. MrDOXAI.n i CO.. Iniirrtt'ntlt;rti..Vpt,Stn lrnel'.t'alifim. anil tr f "nhlneton ami (harltnn Sla. N Y olil by- all Drugxt'te and Dealer. GARGLING OIL The Standard Lrniaeat of the United Statu, in i;hu tins Hum mul Viiij, i'kilNiltn: tyrmm I Tnifjcs, ( AiV'"'' llilflt, h'lrjh ll'-iinit, fnut Ihtr. Krtmuil Nttf. .N'.lllll f Vit'-l.-. CiiIIm of all I-irfcl'. SUfii't, t:i)ljtmf, ! Kcit. llttmif tnlnul; 7WAhAf. l.hrumatUfi. lli m.rrTA.'i.j .f tltr. . r , ipflm. fidril ill nut t. UttHltt. .Viiffce. MriM'rn, "reerw r intikfi it Utriitr n ir;rWf. llVrii. nM, l-unlrrtd "r.l.lUrc '! ." in M.K in 1'i'uttiy, I nmr Ihu'l, iJN . ,r LarRo5ixe 81.00. Medium 50c. Small 23. Small SUe f.ir 'amll L'e,ceiit Tn i;rvlinr ' '" '" ,,M' " " llnlmriit Kill... lCt. All (' . I. 'ir ttiid, lint W ureuml fHw llrv-l.iii i wtnrimirvl lni).rlrili-alrriii P nt .Moln lni" fr '! ifiiur Alnuin.ii nml n-nl uli-il tlic expfe nUmt tlir il Tln l.nrjjllnic '"' l" r"r "'' "y " rr MfLiMi ilrofcr tlinillKtioul tln nir.l $i,t l""' " nnmtrU. our fMiM.m'rtjnUto fnun IMIIollw rr ent,nn.l.ui'Mn.iiXrtf. WValtnwnnUetiirr .IfrrrhaBt'a Worm Tablet. W iIimI fair Mini IIN-ml with ". lefy rontrmlicllori. .MtUiuf.irturnl at Ickport, N Y . L S A . by Merchant's (.arglim; OU Co., JOHN HODGE, Sccrctaty Ayer's Ague Cure, roa tub srriT Lir or Fever and Ague, Intermittent Fever, Chill Fever, Hemlttont vor. Dumb Ague, Periodical or Bilious Fovor, Ac, and In deed all the afToctlont which arle from ma larious, marsh, or mlsasmatlc poisons. fc Its len widely uel, rtnrlns r-e Utl Iwenly-nwe year In Ibe treat, ment i'f the UUlrexlNff dli. anil wllb nrh unvarying ntee that It h trained Ike ieitln ef helnir Infallible, The ilutri, . rh. IN. once ticikcn by ll.'l" il re turn until the iIimki I tnntrM4 again TblhmaUetan -ei ! feme.., nnu Ituateii terlnr, rur Ine ere ! Atf'ir r f the Welt. an4 the Chills anil Pevir f tie Hull III Ayer' Aime Care eradicate the nnslss tUri from the system and leuvc the tatlent well hefore the attack 'It thorcuubly tptl th dl eaie o that .to Mrr I nmplalnt. Rhumatm. Xenraltfla. Dysentery r tlility tulVn the rur Indeed, wher diirter f the Liver end Il.wl hSTCorrurred fri'm Mlssmatle PnUon. It rera the raue f them ami they dlaar Stbnly I It an effectual euro. Mil, If taken nrraitnnally y patient rpel to malaria. It will er-e ih potion and iirotert them from attack Trter and temporary rldnt In feverand Aifn !! t tlrs are thu enate! to defy In !! Thi Gsnaral Debility which Is ej apt to entue trn rintle.iel eiiur to Malaria and Mltimliii n speedKr remedy For l.lvcr C"iiMiitulnta It I an llea! rcratdy. BBrABSi r Dr. J. C. AYER ft CO.. Lowell, Max., Practical anrl Analytical Cbtmut SUd ty all VrvpgUti and DtuUrt t ilniuiM. OPIUM MMPMtar MiMT t-.li.'y riirrA trv Ilr M-k only known A win lttnelj. rvo niAnt'i: for treatment until enrol. Call on or sxMre DR. J. C. BXCK, Cf aelaaatl. O. PEOTECTION Against Fire and Thievcu. Fidelitj Mm Bank ani Safe Depository Of Chtrio rcle ar ln deynsltsrif any eiBt and alio- Interest njcn th m Karri4 ' men and minor ha a rlifht by the. rer t" der-ll money and draw cat In their i " It reeetTes In Its .sf trpalmf rfH; fr afe keeping, at a nomln! rit. Miejer " ware. Bond. Dse-I. Will aed ntbef raraabiea Th Ttlt i t H'tiX'H a d ' '.telr tr and bnriflar procf Kcb drtK' r I nirta.itf arate br. key and awr a-d tyr-- at b hit deputy hae arrea th" - y s eaalt paaled ISirr.nh the )tra Br mr e-J Qtmttt tut It depoiitura. Kiey ) by pre, or pntlt f3ee urdrr et bi mall t Sa)ir Department, ereited 15 . W II erf d other TaluaWe et f"r af j.i- j "l t tlpted fur aJVl kej aud p.r 1 t- Sea4 f.tr epUn'r-y elrrnlaf Addret W. l-fr ITOKT. j Randolph t Cbleair. CINCHO-QUININE in as effectual a remedy FOR FEVER fc AGUE a U Kaipbale in lb sao ite-e t je- V -S"1' IK hnit Ira. I tanrv palaahb turi 'f Servl U-t rniAr- CtrenUr lt" Trmii"1 VhyUlnna torn alt rrt of t-r iMy E8mfi4 psy-JtatTi t r trial. 25 rent. PreTre.!b7 U.UN'WlrUPI,& -J. Kmwn. 31a. Nw Vk OlSor. A 3 Wt VXm- IlTCKOMASCT. OB KCI- CHAtMlti" Jt How either e nay ftte 4 " Iut and aTerlioB cf any prw ty . stantly This !mtl mtl jtnlet oairii. tr by a4l. iff SSe t-ethr . MarrU r.alde. CryptUn Ofal-, Draa W tft tdie. A -r bock. JWCr ixM. Adlr T WILLIAM A CO fab , rntUdetpfcia. IMarrVKKMKr rMs eplri wm tk c tit mUl !itrxiBfI TBIfly ! tatil " alSlct-4 Ibniuo ed froa aa eaiy'"--lost ntaJity . erTs w.a.s. wa mar "'!(' wbyoot. bt snery lssal4 kealtk. T''r .rlea 9 swats. Ctrrutars u IsySJes tw CimialiaUca ttmm. Corararat4- "!.,' sail c3 Dr. A. O. OLI. iaolvt or ' Cairasyr XIL FUasaat boss r ssUesU. au cerrvdsca strictly covfideattaL mmmmmmmmmmm f JSSSSSiJ& taaaas. CooswItatUra r easaitrr. twr1. Mil. Lfftcest raaasj ,ta4ait aacesssfai sky )'' . . . - - - - jk&a 4a . si a JC ttG late V-ayasa nalviJb tw- - - . f.at aai.taa.a, aW aewa.aa am a- SAW t ft t tnm 3Trns:ss. DsUIHy. .. Motphbrt aaats,3tart Vr,aa5ps, ltHstrst4.M. C X c Hm. i waa5S7i?aSK5 aiBaiiai - BaasaSBaftsHaVsl V t ft V j i r-.Ts k-v K3 .'' mb8mbi'i" i' . - ...J3 eiXA'i t-. iisa-. -i