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. B?Wl!HBmEBg5 fctes!S3 WMIst iUK; ', ' 5!5 V K X --' -.w. rS? fc ? fk- sl Rates of Advertlsta. THE-RED CLOUD CHIEF; if The Cloud Chief. Om coIsmb, oat rear..... .... . .. .flS rCBLIBBED WEEKLY AT tvttt - - . tm JrrUffwta, ul 4mlliietair RED CLOUD, KEBKASKA. ImIImUii cm rf.arfcjlf S liiH4Uy XUm eHll art taasrUna. aaa S aas far , Ucslaarvettoiac at man yet. BajtaMS ceiaa iTrar. C L. MATHER M. n. WABXEB, RED CLOUD, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1875. NUMBER 43. rs (Mr to VOLUME II. Wttt W (tTM. Keitem Pr-prictan. - aaMMaaaaaaaaaaBBBBBaanaaam, fM RfiiiMAWAWmWiMAWBMWMAMAWAiAWMAWAWMwkAAWAWKAWMAWAWMAAWAWMAMA Red V UENEBAL NEWS. Phil. Sbendsa is to be married ob JuneSd. George Vail, n Boted politician ef New Jersey, is dead. Abraham Jackson's defalcations la Boston swell up to 700,'000. Supreme Grand Lodge Knight of Pythias met in Cleveland the 25th. A Confederate memorial monument was unveiled in Savannah on the 24th. In the Brooklyn court room, Porter is still being poured out on Tilton and Co. That new disease of horses contuses in St. Louis, several more having died. Erie's financial troubles are such that it will probably go into the hands of a receiver. Henry Lippitt, Rep., has been elected governor of Rhode Island by the legis lature. Bluford Wilson, Solicitor of the Treasury, is investigating Chicago whisky Irauds. Col. I). R. Anthony, shot by Etnbry, is slowly improving, but may die suddenly any moment. Undo Sam continues dihUiisMug rev enue ofliccrs in Illinois, Ohio, Indiana, and Missouri. Some die daily. A Good Templars' Congress, composed of delegates from all parts of the world, is in session in Peoria, III. it A fire at Waco, Texas, on the 19lh, de stroyed several flno buildings. Loss, estimated at $125,000; insurance, $50, 030. Total receipts of the National Grange for 1874, $210,381.02;eipenses, $175,000; expenses of the executive committee, $42,198.11. Presbyterian General Asstmbly, Cleve land, recommended its ministry to pray for the aversion ol the grasshopper plague in the West. .lay Coulee's country reHidencc, near Philadelphia, was nut up at auction on the 25th, bids being limitedlo 8W000m)m t. He has already not out "No bidders. New York Board of Trade declares that smuggling is due to the demoralized custom service and exhorbitant tariffs. It censures the wholesale merchants who deal in smuggled goods. Only $87,000,000 of the $500,000,000 5 per cent, loan remain to lie negotiated, and Secretary Bristow believes the remaining amount will be taken this year. This will reduce the interest debt $5,000,000 a year. Mabel Young, four years old, was killed in the belfry of Warren Avenue Baptist church, Boston, Sunday the 23a. Tlios. W. Piper, the sexton, has been arraigned for the act. He denies it, but says he was not in his right mind that day. Copeland The Scoundrel, who fcoled Iowans so badly a lew years ago as an impecunious clergyman, preached in a New Orleans Baptist church on tho 23d, and left suddenly the same night, through police pressure. A letter published in New York on the 25th by W. L. Grosvenor, scientist, claims that the insect ravaging western crope is not grasshoppers but the young of the Rocky Mountain locusts, hatched this spring from eggs deposited last year. He apprehends noiujury of consequence cast of Sedalia or Des Moines. A Man Dies from Sheer Fright. Five weeks ago Alexander V. Brower, of Schenectady, lacerated a finger by means of a corn-cutter. Ho was attended by a leading physician, and in due course I of time the wound healed, leaving a mark for a while of a pinkish indigo tiat. While attending church subse quently, at tho East Avenue Mission Chapel, a fellow pew occupant asked to see Ida hand. Observing the partly healed wound, he whispered to Brower that in his opinion the wound hid mor tified. Brewer's father sat in the seat with him. His son took a piece of paper and wrote thereon, and handed to hie father a request that they leave church. The father, on reaching the outside, asked the cause of the sudden request. The answer was that he (the km) wee going to die.. Mr. Brower rid; feukd the idea, botpreeeeded hose. After a time following their arrival, the father foundthe bob engaged ia prayer, ad waa agaia teld by thelatterthat hie tiaae was aear. The sob had boob to be raaoTedtoBbed, aad the dectorwas agaia aummoBed. The latter oa arrival foBBd his patient with high pulse, much excited, and showing marked syaapsoaas of typhoid Jew. The f eraser woaad hk haad was found ib the same coadidoB as whea last seen that la everythJBg presaging rapid aad persaa&eat healiag.1 Friday yoaag Brower died aa evideat victim of frighfc-!V?y.fVi One of the Dcaullar? eeacers a a m fome a correspondent of the Loadoa taw4erthatnu trial t wen drank aad that arreral ot the of the steerage paessagsn lay till they were swap away by the wa The Inferior or the Ocean. The popular ideas with regard to the sinking of bodies 1b the sea have usually been qaite BBSCkatiic Some have the orized to the effect that. In the case of ships which founder at sea, they sink to a certain death and then float about BBtil broken ;to pieces, or thrown upon some bank beneath the sea indeed, a book was some time ago published, sua taining this Idea. Others, again, argue that the buoyant force of the water at great depths is enormous, and due to the whole pressure of the water abuve, and that all bodies which are lighter than water at the surface, will, if sunk to the bottom and detached from the sinker, shoot upward with a great velocity, or, in other words, that the density of the water iacrcases directly with the depth. Now, it is proved by tho most reliable investigations, that, though the pressure increases with the depth even to the amount of fifteen pounds upon every square inch for every thirty-four feet in depth the density is not thereby in ereascd sensibly, owing to the lncom pressibility ot the water; so that, in re ality, neither the buoyant force, nor tho resistance to the motion of any body, is sensbly augmented from the surface to the bottom. At the depth of three thousand fathoms, for instance, the pressure upon a square inch is Bearly eight thousand pounds; but the column of eight thousand feet of water is only shortened about sixty feet The density is thus but slightly increased ; but the effect of such enormous pressure upon compressible bodies, as air, wood, etc., is to condense them into a smaller bulk, by which they may be rendered heavier trian water, and will sink of their own weight. A piece of wood cannot float to the bottom of the ocean, but a very slight extraneous force will bring it to the surface. Five Minute for KefrefthmeBtg. When a train draws up to a station five minutes for refreshment, it is easy to distinguish the experienced traveler on me piatiorm, ana is euner on me bottom step or close enough to it. Just as soon as the speed of tho train becomes less than he can make, he springs off and dashes madly for the saloon door, through it and up to the counter, giving his order for coffee while moving and snatches up the right article the first ime. Ho knows how much time is re quired to make five minutes and when it is expired he is out on tho platform, picking his teeth and is talking about real estate. Alas for the inexperienced traveler! such is not his record. He is inside the car when it stops, with twenty persons ahead of him. He jumps dawn on the platform in time to see tho mass surging into the door, and then it strikes him that he may be too late, and under this inspiration he moves into the strug gling gang he don't reach the table. He and ttie other inexperienced travelers form the outside line, shout their orders through the openings, and receive what's handed them with thankfulness and what dexterity they can muster. Such a man will perspire, and choke and paw, and jaw, during the entire five minutes and and in that time may get down two thirds -of a sandwich, one third of a custard pie or more and less of the cof fee, and and then get out of the door jusl in time to get hold of a car rail and be pulled on by the brakeman. And when he has reached his seat aad is scraping the rest of that pie from his boot, and drawing cold air into his throat to allay the pain of the scald, ho will think up things about the keeper of that restaurant that would make the hair of a saw horse stand straight on end. Wflmra la ike Professions. Of the sixty-four medical graduates of Michigan University, at the recent com mencement, twelve were ladies, some of them in the front rank of excellence. Ia one instance, says the correspondent of the Christian IUgi$Ur a husband and wife who had been studying together were separated by the fatal verdict of the judges; the wife was accepted while the husband was rejected is spite of the fact that he was the gradaate of a Methodist college, a bachelor of laws, a master of arts, aad had studied for some years in the universities of Europe. Like a loyal wife, aeTaithelciai, the wemsn preferred ;ta share the drreca;jef her hasbaad aad weat away with him, not wishing to receive an honor which he could not here. : ' Iarthe law school there were three lady gradaates; aad ithe Jarge class had. bo more competent or well trained mem bers, more accurate aad quick ia their answers to qaeetioae thaa these beaatifal yomng woamea, .wacea.jsreieace oatae alatfcnaV waa greeted with load applas who were praised by the class not kea than by, the jtrofceaora. Now for the Mft tiaMladtoi have received degrees ia law aad aaediciae ia this aaifaraUy, aad have stahliehad the preaamptioa that ia wiaaga taey are ia bo degree to ta stronger sex. ;a- ty xaauues is aereem- by little hoys headed dowa to them by Shear wiU give She B.N. Mart Twala ea SpelUay . There was a spelling school at the Asylum Hill Congregational Church, Hartford, Conn., and Mr. Simuel L. C'emens (Mark Twain) being called on for a few preliminary remarks spoke, as follows: I h vo been honored with the office of introducing these approach ing ortho graphical solemnities with a few remarks. The temperance crusade swept the laud lately, that is that vast portion of the land where it was needed, but it skipped Hartford. Now comes this new saelling school epidemic, and now we are strick en. So I suppose we aceded the afflic tion. I don't say we needed it, for I don't see any ums in spelling a word right and never did. -I mean I don't see any use in having a uniform and ar bitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleas inj. I have a correspondent whose let ters arc always a refreshment to me; there is such a breezy, unfettered origi nality about his orthography. He al ways spells Kow with a large K. Now it is just as good as to spell it with a small one. It is better. It gives the imagina tion a broader field, a wider scope. It suggests to the mind a grand, vague, im pressive, new kind of a cow. Superb effects can bo produced by variegated spelling. Now there is blind Tom the mnsical prodigy. He always spells a word according to the sound that is car ried to his ear. Aud he is an enthusi ast in orthography. When you give him a word he puts all his soul into JL I once heard him called upon to spell orang-outang before an audience. He said, (tO-r-a-n-g, orang, g-e-r, ger,oraag ger, t-a n-g, tang, orangger tang!" New a body can respect an orang-outang thai' spells his name in a vigorous way UkroneeJel8lli,,tuene8roei,downHoath that. But the feeble dictionary makee a mere kitten of him. In the old timet people vpelled just as they pleased. Thai was the right idea. You had two, chances at a stranger' tHeh. 'Yonaaew' a strong man from a weak one in his' iron clad spelling, and his hand writing helped you to verify your verdict. Some people have an idea that correct spelling can be taught and taught to anybody. That is a mistake. The spelling faculty is born in a man like poetry, music and art. It is a gift; it is a talent. People who have this gift in a high degree oaly neei to see a word once ia print and-it is forever photographed upon their mem ory. Tbey cannot forget it. People who haven't it must be content to spell more or less like like thunder and ex pect to splinter the dictionary wherever their orthogragraphical lightning hap pens to strike. There are 114,000 words in the unabridged dictionary. I know a lady who can spell only 180 of them right. She steers clear of all the rest. She can not learn any more. So her letters al ways consists of those constantly recur ring 180 words. Now and then when she finds herself obliged to write upoa a subject which necessitates the use of some other words, she well, she dont write on that subject. I have a relative in New York who is almost-sublimely gifted. She can't spell any word right. There is a game called Verbarium. A doaen people are each provided with a sheet of paper, across the top of which is written a long word like kaleidosco pical, or something like that, and tlie game is to see who can make up the most words in three minutes, always be- gining with the initial letter of the word. Upon one occasion the word chosen waa was cofferdam. When time was called everybody had built from five to twenty words except this young lady. She on ly had one word calf. We all stud ied a moment and then said, "Why there is no 1 in cofferdam I" Then we eiamiaed her paper. To the eternal honor of that uninspired, uucoaeciona, tablbjaely-indepeadeat soul, be it said, she spelled the word "caff!" If any body here can spell calf any more sensi bly than that, let him step to the frost J aad take his milk. The insurrection will bow .begin. TrightoauBr ChUoren. Nothiag can be worse for n child thaa to be frightened. The effect of the scare is alow to recover from. It "rem lias aatil maturity, as k showaby y instances ef morbid aad excessive Btervousaeee. Not aafre qaeatly fear is employed as a mesas of dtacipliae. Children are controlled by being made to believe terrible will happen to them,' nad ana ished by being that np in dark igMa9MPfta tawystaadla dread W. 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Aaaa can't cet his house on fire, collectthe aaca and rat on anv stvle wiaraat without some one is meeaeaough to throw oat insinuations. -Jft When six patent medicine almanacs are poked under a man's Croat door every day, there is no excuse for rthst man's painful ignorance in not kBowing that spring is here. There is only one man left in tills country who can swallow a sword, and if you want to work your boy into a good thing let him commence now to work on pn holders, shears, paint brushes, etc. By declining to eat things that you want because they are unhealthy, by going to bed early when you want to sit up, and by making your lite wretched in a thousand ways, you have a chance of living to a ripe old age, if that is any satisfaction to you. The regnant thought with most men islVHow to make money; and the reg nant thought 'with most women is: How to spead it ' In their better moments OBM of these women have been heard to admit that a man is a useful animaL A fellow with a red nose and blind in a pill warranted to make them white, aad about fifteen minutes after they swallow it(thej lean across a saw buck aad, turn themselves inside out, but the 4 v ... -,i j - - v n waive ia.au twi- men mea.- " Two years ago a Peaaayivaaia arrant girl was sent to prison far aanaUag tjtlt from her employer. The found the other day hidden it, and now as a recompense, w rhile esjaa ,- ooo. -t W la Art. You will doubtless be interested to know how Miss- Elizabeth Thompson, of whom so much was expected from her "roll call" contributed in the Acad emy last year, has done to redeem the promise of thejlcture which first gave hr distinction. "The Twenty-Eighth Regiment at Quatre Bras," will proba bly be as popular as the "Roll Call." With some undoubted defects it unites striking merits. Its defects lie in the conventional; modernisms, into which Miss Thompson has fallen; its excel lence in the fidelity with which she reproduces the incidents ot a stirring scene and the happy enthusiasm with which she haa cangh; the more characteristic features of sa historical event From Siborne's "Water loo Campaign" Miss Thompson hss gained her ideas. She there reads that, "in the battle of Quatre Bras, Jane It, 1815, the Twenty-Eighth (Rrgimeat, formed together with the Royals into a squsre in a field of particularly tall rye, were repeatedly assaulted by the enemy's cavalry, cuirassiers aad Polish lancers, who closed a long series cf un successful attacks by a furious charge simultaneously delivered agaiast three faces of the square." This ratnre raav resents the last effort of the enemy at about five o'clock p. m. "The failure," adds Miss Thompsoa, "of these attempts to break the formaMoa of tka squares was productive of mach levity oa the part of the yoaager soldiers, ia cidents of which are traditional in tho regimeat." , Accordiagly,Mtos Thomp son has interspersed the ranks of her warriors, whose features speak of grim determination aad silent resolve, with here aad there a yoaager soldier, whose maacles have relaxed thsmselfsi into,, a broad gnn, aad who k evideny barling forth a laagh ef defiance at the ; who imaetaoaslT bears dowa, hat arodace no elect oa the firmly pleated phalanx. 'The whole nictare k with life aad aad b better the cloade of piaia; aothiag f which the faces of the cfacera, Bat there k moToment. 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""""l1" WW gmaBaaBaaaavWeaaamiaw saaa aaVWAVfaBamaV aaavmaam eaVmwmWV aanVVMgmaf anavaaaV MaaVaaBaW JmatrnW 4 an aamsaam omamBaWaaaB aath aaaMasnaaarV anaaaaamsaaa aahea. .4 . -aaa- a-- "" i'- v " A V --! -.'-- " -m amaaaaaa amw a aj naaaawaawaam ammw with inaistfciag like the ama bob, aad esmswm n fhr. We hawo aoc as vat, ---- m m. aaa - m & a& " v akananaaJ' msm, anVmmi faaVmamal gdggfgB. WeBjHavat' amaaaT aaamm gmam mfm - mmm 4 BBV-.B 4aamw amasaeaw- aaaaaaaa m mL. ml. '-T v . sTw aawmmw aaaaaaaaaBi maaay bbbbbbbbb, ra. afce Lwcela Seat to Ajyli Oa the If th of May, the trial of the qaeetioa of the iaaealty of Mrs, Lin cola, widow of Abraham Liacola, came ap ia the Coaaty Court ot Cook Cmaty, niiaoia. The proceadiags were based oa a petition filed by Robert Lincoln, setting forth that his mother, Mary Lia cola, has property aot exceeding $75, 000; that she is non compos mentis, and iaeapable of msaagiag her estate, aad prayiag for the issuance of an order for a warrant aad veaire to test the question of her sanity. The petition was accom panied by a certificate of the family physician, to the effect that be had ex amined Mrs. Lineoln and-wee of the opiaioa that she Is insane and a fit sub ject for the hospital treatmeat. Several witnesses testified to ecceatricitiesjln the conduct ot Mrs. Lincoln, which com menced with the assassination of Mr. Lincoln, and which have become marked as time progressed. She imagiaed she beard voices in the walls, that itrange beings beset her in the entries of the hotel, and that she was the victim of poisoniag plots, etc. Her closets are full of unopened packages of goods which she baa ordere d seat to her room. After a short argument the case was givea to the jury, who brought in a ver dict ia accordance with the facts elicited. Mrs. Liacola will be removed to the hospital at Batavia, Illinois. Her rela tives and friends delayed this step as loag as was considered prudent, but fiaatly agreed that nothing else would suffice. At the announcement of the verdict, Robert Lincoln took the hand of nis mother affectionately, when she ex claimed, "Ob, Robert, to tbtnk that my son wouli ever have done this!" There were bat few spectators ia court. John C Breeklanage John C. Breckinridge, born near Lex ington, Ky., Jan. 21, 18S1, was educated at Daavilk, aad sraaied Uw at the TaiaejlfBis kwtitoto, ia tho same State. On the hsaalriag oat of the Mexican war, la lf7, he fiihaafatfiitor military sm waseheeeamijrrio aregi- a riiuk iiImm'Ji in fin Ilia "- WW B' V" " a waa eseciea to we n-eniucay - . - i, J . i . ,t . .li.a . .,l ..wi - .- -."" - - ww. .w t.iftiia a k- .i,. iQn ir. awk v waaaf aw -vi.vwu ana wwa aw mw isvmvu v a www sail xWeckiaridge was chosea vice presideat, with Mr. Buchanan president, aad pre sided in the senate with dignity and ability for the next four years. In 180 he was one of the candidates of the democratic party for the presidency, but wsa defeated. At the commencement of the civil war he was a United States sen ator from Kentucky, but openly avowed his sympathy with the confederates, and soon after joined them, and was expelled from the United States senate in Decem ber, 1861. The following sammer he was appointed a major general In the confederate army, and took part in sev eral battles, bat did not dutiagnish him self as a military commander. He was secretary of war ia Jefferson Davis cab inet from February, 1865, to the close of the war. Ia June of that year be es caped from the country to Cuba, sad thence to England. He remained abroad till 18$f, whoa he retaraed, aad avowed his determiaatioa to take bo part ia politics henceforth, a resolatioa which he has strictly observed, devotiag bis attention entirely to hbvprofeesion. H awe Easy The Baptist paper of the West, the BUindard, k lncliaed to have suHcieat eease to nee that retigtoas aad other titles are hambags aad no index to the worth af their wearers.' It says: In coauaeatai .Europe a maa mast prove hk fitness for n degree before ho can hare it Ia this coaatry he does the same, so far as the lowest degree k con cerned, the college "A. B." Beyond that, the higher tho the amai It k vary mach aha sasaa with titles. It may always be a captaia or a cOtoael haa bat we have kaowa more ach the same right to that Gob kisnhi who has for years heme theftiUe ef jast hscsass la a certain kaU sport. aoor fallow hasnasa mader ana imnaaa. a rata ahkar tttOtumam eaatfsal- and a r m .T OBf -m. --m - ,. . - A rraMtm la Natar. tt0 Amti$mrmm-mg HmUU' eTC!! feraU SB Jkmm I t CkaaBvt mi thm Cm UaMs U var t -ImmwIIk BjweateltMM. The Portland (OregoB) BulUtin aays the moat striking aarileruua depoit ia Eastern Oregon is the gravel mixed with boulders, clay, aad sand, varyiag from six to hundreds of feet in depth, "in strata dktiagnlshed from oae another by difference in color, in the site ot the boalders and sixe of particles of geld.n This is particularly the caw with the "gravel lead" in the bed of the extinct river In Baker county, Oregon, which runs in a southerly course. The channel of this ancient river has aot been defined as yet, but it is believed, I San informed, that it mas soatherly through this State. Its coarse wan im peded by upheavals. It is believed that this is the ancient channel of the Co lumbia, whose course waa turned by some freak of nature through the Cas cade Range to the ocean centuries ago. The belief is that it flowed through to California, and emptied into the ocean somewhere north of Mexico. As this channel of the ancient river passes through the auriferous regions of the Sierras, it is known as the "Big Blue River lead." In relation to this subject, the 0r land Monthly, ot September, 1889, in an article entitled the "Dead Rivcra'of Cali fornia," says; "A dead river ia a chsa nel formerly occupied by a running stream, but now filled up with earthy or rocky matter, and is not to be con founded with a chaunel that is open aad remains dry during tho greater part of the year because of lack of water, or that has been abandoned by the stream for a deeper channel elsewhere." Tho dead rivers of California, so far as known, are on the west idope of the Sierra Nevada, from 500 to 7,000 feet above the level ot the sea. They are all auriferous, and therefore tbey have all been sought for and examined. They have yielded probably $300,000,000 in all ; they have produced perhaps $8,000,000 annually. The largest dead river is known aa the m. n. r,.-" it.murM t "uatK. !. tia tin n4 t.. .o.t t h ; muuk uu uus wt uv uauiKv a. - . . , . ... Sierra Nevada," traced about 110 linn , m .1 1 -"y am Ine " mw aw . 9. - wava aoiniag nw im grave anaiugaM to tell the story of its existence and Hi greatness? The main cause most hate been the subsequent rise of the Sierra Nevada." The Big Blae Riverbed "was parallel to the Sacramento, aad has, to a certain extent, been succeeded by It; but it drained n much larger district than the Sacramento does. The Sacramento does not carry one fourth of the water which ran in the Big Blue perhaps oae tenth. If we coald ascertain thai the quantity of rain had not altered, then we would be justified in presuming that the Columbia River, which would aboat fill the bed of the Big Blue, iastead of tuning westward at Walla Walk, originally continued southward, until tho lifting up of the Shasta aad Lasoa aad the adjacent ridges stopped iU coarse aad compelled it to break through the Cascade Range at The Dalles." Bid the aacieat Columbia wiad ik way southward and deposit ib goldoa ssade ia the Sierras? Where did these sarireroas deposits ia the Big Blae River lead come from. Coald they come from the Saake or the Columbia branches? Or were they collected from both aad along the satire coarse of the ancient Columbia southward? In the Big Blae lead ia California the bed of tho aacieat Columbia, aad tho coatiaaatioa of aha gravel load of Baker Coaaty, Oregon? If so, k the graver leal of Esstora Or egoa as rich aa the Big Blae lead ia Cel iforak? aad k it rich ia gold along Ma satire length for ft miles mere? If so, what a harvest for future explorers! Hundreds of thoasaads of dollars have beea expanded ia California to de velop thk Msriferoas lead. Millioas of dollars have been taken from it, sad mill- maraiaory to sake oat mach more. Oa thk end of that lead (or sappeeed to ho) groat preparatioas have beea made to workk. A krge canal or ditch has beea ia Baker Coaaty, Oregon, to to sappiy thk gravel hod or It wse constructed at to oarry the water ot a river a to tok dry region, partially What ma 1Mb! Two cases have beea before Judge Smith this week, of persona wha had been violatiag the game laws. The last case was defeaded upoa the grenade of the birds killed not betag snipea, snipe being the tsrm used ia the atatate. This case occupied the greater part of the day, attracted a crowd nod created mach fua. Experts ia btrdology were called as witnesses, aad all writers upon orni thology fully quoted to prove that the particular birds thca aad there lying dead ia the court room were aot saipes, bat curlews, or doagh birds, a bird mi gratory ia Its hnWU, vary pleatifal bow aad exceedingly Oaaahte aad InsfHsi .. tosaoiBHBsa. Hat this eaaawassaaa- sged by able coaasel aad the wUaeeees had to swear to their knowledge of many things that they perhapa had an idea they were wetl posted aboat aatil they (like Beechcr) got into the hands of Uw lawyers. One witness testified that the birds were snipe, or were knows ia his neigh borhood as snipe, and that they ware quietly engaged picking away at the youag grasshoppers whea the guaa of the enemy opened upon them. Tbey were seen devouring the young hopper, aad the birds should be protected as the farmers' frteads. Another witaess who started to toll what he knew about snipe, was asked by oae of the lawyers if he could tell the ditfareace betweea a saipe aad a heron, collapsed the court and bar when he inquired if the attoraey al luded to "smoked herrings," and he solemBly believed that a brant was larger than a goose. Aa expert in orni thology testified that the birds were curlews, as before sUted, sad the que tloB as to their eatiag grasshoppers could be easily solved by opealag the birds. A post mortem cxamiaatioa was there fore hefd ia the court room, aad the con teats of the "crops' analysed. No grasshoppers coald be found, but oa the contrary the gizzards were found to contain some beetles that are known to destroy insects that prey upoa the pro- farm. Therefore, the birds of Issmw aha fisrsaera' Meads. The jadgahas af power to kill aayaasnher af hards eesary, and make an offldsJ rspsrt as t their habits and what they prey 'upoa, aad whose report coald be taken as au thority ia decldiag upoa what birds are or are aot the farmers friemls? Law renct Journal. The (rreelna Knot For the beaeflt of our lady readers we give what a woman says concerning the Orscisa kaot, a coiffure now coming iato favor: Aboat oae woman oat of tweaty five has a head aad features of the shape aeosssary to make thk style becomiag: Givea a broad, half high white forehead rather straight boss, well rounded face aad throat, and the careless kaot of hair low ia the aape of the neck, with a pure white part la the ceater of the head, from which the hair ripples aaturally over the temples and ears, is beautiful. mskiagthe wearer a Greek goddess at once, or, what k bettor nowadays, a charmiag American woman. 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