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he then owned has become extremely valuable, having since become a part of Smtbat) Jetting (loll. THE ONLY SUNDAY PAPER IN KANSAS. 100 grninsl Multiply this by the days in the yaar and the number of smokers, and we arrive at the conclusion that Americans annually consume. 23,762 pounds of opiran in this manner. Last the city of Cleveland.

GEEJLT 83IOEEEBS. The Hollanders are more given to" smoking than any Northern people dreaming with the eyes open." Tha boatman of the Treschkrit, the aquatia diligence of Holland, measure distance i i i i .1 SIR Walter jtxuBxan; Sir Walter Ealeigh was born at Hayes, Devonshire, in the year 1552. He 'lost favor on several occasions. In the year 1531 he committed a grave offense against one of the Queen's maids of honor, and although the lady, a daughter of Sir and he thought it was awful hard for the first poet in all Persia, But what do you think 1" exchims our friend Talmage. One day he saw a man come down the street, who had no feet There was seme balm in the greater misfortune of the other fellow, to be sure.

But not enough to warm the poet's toes. Cold comfort, that sort, after all. OFFICE AT NO. 611 OGDEN BLOCK. botJTH Carolina is agitated just now over the result of a case tried recently in the amount of opium imported "was 77,197 pounds, valued at 773,796.

York county, wherein John Crawford, a Throgmorton, became bis wife, colored citizen, and Maggie, his wife, were charged with violating a law passed I and lived happily with him till his death. in 1879, which prohibits the intermar his conduct was not to be overlooked, so he wa3 imprisoned for two months and uj BtuutiB i irom one piace -vo anomez not so many miles, but so many pipcs Entering the house, your host offers yocx a cigar, often insisting on filling yocx cigar case on leaving. Some go to sleep with pipe in their mouth, relight it cn? wakening in the night, and in the morning before getting out of bed. Diderot says A Dutchman is living alembic." rage of blacks and whites Although the woman is fair, and has light auburn hair The famous spring of boiling water in the middle basin of Hell's Half Acre, in the Yellowstone region, has lately become still more wonderful as a geyser. Four or five times every twenty-four hours it discharges a great column of water; freighted with stones and ob Dr.

D. Hates Agnew's practice is re ported to have largely increased since his and blue eyes, it was claimed by the defense that she has in her veins negro blood, her Grandmother, according to connection with the President's case. testimony, having been a bright mulatto. In order to settle, if possible, the ques scured by a dense volume of steam. The hollow formation for hundreds of yards around the orifice trembles under the upheaval, and the water is thrown to a banished from the court.

Again, after the death of Elizabeth and on the accession of James, he was stripped of his preferments; forbidden the royal presence and shortly afterward arrested on the charge of conspiracy to place Lady Arabella Stuart on the throne. He was convicted on the slightest evidence, but was reprieved and sent to the Tower, and his estates given to Carr, afterward Earl of Somerset. During his thirteen years' imprisonment he composed his tion of the woman's race, a physician was called who made a microscopic ex feet. height of 100 amination of her hair and skin. He said that, while he could discover no traces of Pattl Botton was taken for a goose and fired at ss he floated down the Mississippi.

You can't fool those Western men. The highest mathematical honors of the University of Heidelburg, Germany, were taken this year by George D. Olds, of Holley, N. Y. According to the census figures of 1880 the entire settled area of the United States is 1,569,570 square miles, or 1,004,524,800 acres.

negro blood, he was not willing to say the woman was of pure white blood. In JL EOYAX, EEIE A 'Paris correspondent recalls the magnificent fete once given by a member of the Kothschild family at his lordly pleasure house at Ferrieres, in which the cost of the out-door decorations alone exceeded $100,000. Ferrieres is thirty miles from Paris to the northeast. Workmen were put on the road in vast gangs and had it prepared with asphaltum every inch of the way. Chinese lanterns andBengal lights rendered it as light as day along the entire way.

The peasantry in from all the neighboring provinces. The scene resembled a Greek mystery. Forests of new frees in full growth were set out wherever the roadside happened to be bare. The imperial carriage, which left the Tuileries at 5 o'clock, passed through continuous masses of holiday spectators. Along the route wine and edibles were given by the Rothschilds' orders to all who bore decorations cf any sort flowers or The chateau it his charge to the jury the Judge said "History of the for six years hi3 wife was permitted to bear him com that all doubt regarding: the matter A Jersey Cm lady, discovering sign3 of small-pox on the face of a child in a street car, asked the mother about it.

"Yes, but he is getting over it." The lady exclaimed "What, got the smallpox The car was empty in a twinkling the woman was made to get out the vehicle waa ventilated, and a lady, who said she was on her way from ex-President Grant's mother's house to his home in New York, had to be carried should be in favor of the prisoner, but in spite of this a verdict of guilty was The cigar is not the companion of indolence, but the stimulant and aid to labor. Smoke is called their second breath, and the. cigar the sixth finger of the hand. A Frenchman tells the story of a rich gentleman of Rotterdam, Van Klaes, Eurnamed Father Greatpipe, being old, fat, and a great smoker. As a merchant in India he had amassed a fortune.

Oa his return he built a palace near Rotterdam, in which he arranged, as in a museum, all the models pf pipes fronl all countries and of every time. This waa open to strangers to whom, after his display of smoking erudition, he gave catalogue of the museum, bound in velvet, with pockets of cigars and tobacco. Mynheer Van Klaes smoked 150 grammes of tobacco, per day, and died at 98; frora 18 years of age he smoked 4,833 kilogrammes making an uninterrupted, black line of tobacco of twenty French leagues in length. When but a few day left to complete his 98th year, he sud returned. pany.

JLtaleigh was liberated in March, 1615, when Villiers supplanted Somerl set in the royal favor, but was not pardoned. He obtained from James a commission as Admiral of the fleet, and fitted out fourteen ships for Guiana, reaching that country in November Miss Emua Abbott has been at Den ver plaviner in "Era Diavolo." The A big monopoly in New York appears in the consolidation of the three elevated railroads of that city. They represent a capital of $26,000,000. Denver Tribune announced previously into a drug store and revived with that Deacon John Evans wouldn't miss ioi witn tne loss of two of his vessels. that opera for the profit of a dozen libel I The Spanish settlement of St.

smelling salts. The six healthiest cities of the United Thomas A- I A- 1 I a A. I a-h A Neak Thomaston, a gray fox at-. buils, out wuuiu ue mere ui lue iiuui i waa aiuxcueu, me uovernor killed and tacked some shoats, when the old sow gave battle, and, catching hjs foxshipjby States are said to be in the order follow ing: Knoxville, New Haven, Portland, row with a double-barrel marine glass, the town set fire to then the invaders referring to the scene where the heroine I retreated in haste to their many partially disrobes and retires in full disasters followed and Raleigh returned the throat, choked him to death. San Francisco, Cleveland and Lawrence.

The unhealthiest are Charleston, Memphis, Lynn, New York and St. Louis. view of tne audience. Ueacon John to Jrlymouth in June, 1618, entirely Evans thereupon, claiming not to be broken in reputation and fortune. He Senator Anthont has been a United States Senator continuously for twenty- St Petersburg is the unhealthiest city in that sort of a man at all, has brought a was arrested, tried to escape to Prance, suit for libel against the editors of the the world, and is followed by Malaga, two years.

No other man now hi Congress has continuously served so long in failed, and was committed, once more to the Tower. The Spanish Ambassador self, an imposing structure, as roomy as the Capitol at Washington, was a blaze of light and rich draping. The dining room, which takes up a square in the center of this vast edifice, which is nearly a parallelogram, was such a scene as the mind conjures in Aladdin's palace, built by the slaves of the gold and jewel caves. At a vast height from the floor a narrow gallery runs around the chamber. From this were suspended folds of golden drapery, in which some legend of Bonapartist glory flashed out in jeweled letters.

The walls were in crusted with treasures which the house of Boths- Alexandria, Warsaw and Buda-Pesth. denly felt his end approaching, and senk for his notary, a smoker of great merit and said: "My good notary, fill my pipe and your own I am about to die. When both pipes were lighted Vaa Klaes dictated his, will, celebrated ores Holland. Tribune, who have obtained both United States Senators and two Governors to either house. demanded that he be punished, and In New York the deaths exceed the births by 1.000 a month, or 12,000 a give security for.

them. Another and Tennessee erirls must be "up to James was not unwilling. The Judges curious phase of the subject is that Miss decided that, being still under sentence year. snufT." A Nashville merchant last year Abbott has, for the scandalous use of of death pronounced in 1603, he could sold $300,000 worth of snuff, and it is To provide dinner for passengers on the new fast Chicago train, a man daily her name, begun proceedings against I not be tried again, and then it was r- estimated that $1,000,000 is spent for the article in the State. Aiusr uia disposal oi me duUC of 11X9 property to relatives, friends and hospitals, he, dictated the following articles I desire that all smokers in th the Grand Jury, who, in their indict- solved to execute the former reniencei accompanies it from New York; to take ment ot tne editors, referred to her as He was beheaded at Old Pal a YnWl down numbers and letters indicating the child had been centuries collecting.

The "a female singer, wont to represent and Westminster, Oct. 29, 1618, kind and number of dishes of different country shall be invited to my funeral. act the part of a young woman in her a young woman sorts which passengers desire. These tables were a mass of glittering gold, by all possible means, newspapers, pri-even to the candelabra. The dinner be- vat IaM.

inUr Good writing is not inconsistent with "WiiiiiiAM W. Astob, who was defeated as a candidate for Congress in New York, is one of the wealthiest men in the country, his sum total being estimated at $50,000,000. to chamber, disrobing and preparing are inclosed in an envelope and thrown off at Pousrhkeepsie. whence they are go to bed." good eating; for one's brains rather thrive than suffer by heeding the de telegraphed to the Albany restaurant. Speaking of the speech of Mr.

Brews gan at 9 o'clock; and was served by waiters in livery rivaling the1 imperial in sumptuousness. The knives and forks were of solid gold, and when the dinner was ended the head of the house sol ments. Every smoker who shall occepfc the invitation shall receive a gift of ten. pounds of tobacco and two pipes, upon, which shall be engraved my name, my arms, and the date oi my death. Th ter in the star-route case, a Washington At Albany, men enter the train with baskets containing the dinner, and serve mands of a healthy and hearty appetite.

To illustrate the folly of the etherial notions which young ladies sometimes form correspondent says: "For four hours it. remaining on the train till Yosts is this brilliant Philadelphia lawyer held George P. Nye, who was Captain of the steamer Stonington when she ran into the Massachusetts thirteen months ago, is now serving on the police force of Providence, R. I. emnly directed them gathered together poor of the district who shall follow my reached, where water is taken.

the court room completely fascinated and in. presence of the Emperor, ordered body to the grave shall receive, each" with his quiet and incisive eloquence. of their favorite authors and poets, an English paper tells tliis story of the way poor Charlotte Bronte was once disenchanted of her hero worship. Thacke- It was the eloquence of a polished, ripe Forty-six railroads, operatmg a total of 37,500 miles nearly one half of the total mileage of the country report gross earnings amounting to old age. Aside from his prominence as ray was ner favorite author, and in hei a possible Attorney General in the next them melted and the mass sent to the mint, declaring that having been sanctified by imperial use they should never be degraded to baser hands.

Bismarck, by a cynical sort of destiny, was one of the guests at this memorable feast. little did the Emperor and his host dream lonely borne on the moors her imagina Cabinet, his great reputation as a lawyer Sitting Bull recently served as mate on board the Key West at Port Buford. The crew deserted the boat at that point, and Sitting Bull volunteered to unload it. He wore the mate's cap and directed the work. 776 during the nine months of 1881 end tion inyested him with all the idea drew around him the leading represent ing with September.

For the same pe man, every year on the anniversary of my death, a large parcel of tobacco. To-all those who shall be present at tho funeral ceremonies, I make the condition, if they wish to benefit by my will, that they shall smoke uninterrupted during the ceremony. My body shall inclosed in a case lined inside with tha wood of my old Havana cigar boxes. AV the bottom of the case shall be deposited a box of French tobacco, so-called capo graces. atives of the bar in the District.

Mr. riod last year the mileage of these On a visit to London, she was lifted Brewster himself is one of the plainest roads was and tne earnings of men. His face is marked and scarred $167,779,134. The increased earnings that within five years the gruff German Minister of reviled Prussia would sit in that very palace master of France, and that in the adjoining cabinet he would to the summit of happiness by an invitation to a dinner where Thackeray was to be one of the guests. She was intro in a most horrible way.

He wears the this year keep pace with the increased dress of a gentleman of the old school. An intelligent young Englishman now traveling in the United States says that every American seemed to him, immediately after introduction, to be snrc3 to mileage, the average earnings per mile His blue coat and brass buttons, buck exact from France two of her provinces duced to the great man and sat next to him. It was a red-letter day in her life, this year, against $5,197 in 1880. skin vest, a ruffled shirt bosom with ruf repeat the formula How do you do and a heap of gold that would twice fill the spacious chamber in which all that fles cn his sleeves, made him look like a and memory was on the alert to retain all his bright sayings, and report them rat, and a parcel of our own Dutch tobacco. At my side shall be laid my favorite pipe and box of matches, because no one knows what may happen.

"When the' coffin is deposited in the vault What will you have to drink venerable father of an old English com was greatest in France were doing honor to the house of Bonaparte. to her sisters. Thackeray, however, did edy. But as he talked the grotesque- little talking but much eating. He had ness of his dress was lost sight of and Charles H.

Rogers, of Qusens county. New York, the only heir of $350,000, HOPE. the deformities of his face were forgot- recently recovered from a severe attack which was left him one year ago by his ten." The scars on Mr. Brewster's face OI typhoid, fever, which left him witn a father, has been declared incompetent should not be referred to without refer- ravenous appetite, while the dinner was and of unsound mind, a mental weakness ence to the pathetic story told of him in exceptionally good. Philadelphia that his face was burned Charlotte looked on in wonder at hjs attributed to the excessive use of tobac co.

Pauii Morpht, the celebrated chessplayer, is, it is said, afiiicteJ with two singular hallucinations. One is a horror of the game of chess the other is the continually recurring notion that unless he can secure a loan of $200 he will be financially ruined. His condition is well understood by his friends, and he goes about among them asking for a loan of $200, which is never refused, and which he never takes. When he drops into an office with this request, apparently in extreme anxiety, the friend to whom he epplie responds Certainly, Mr. Morphy, will you take the money now He is instantly while he was rescuing a young lady feats, and the surprise gradually changed whose dress was on fire.

The deformity I to disgust. One more idol had turned should be alwavs associated with th nri. clay. If she had known the modern Official reports of County Assessors in Nevada to the State Comptroller show a ballion yield for the first half of the law of the conservation of forces. her of chivalrous devotion that caused it.

every person present shall pass by and cast upon it the ashes of his pipe." The will was carried out. The funeral was splendid and veiled in a thick cloud of smoke. The poor blessed the memory of the deceased, and the country still rings with his fame. TWO MILLIONS LOST. The postal money-order system was established seventeen years ago by an act of Congress, and its devisers claimed that it was the cheapest, safest and speediest method of transmitting money ever invented.

However, the weak point in the system is illustrated by tha large amount of money deposited in tha postoffices all over the Union, and through one blunder or another, never paid to the persons who ought to have charity might not have failed her. Little word bo full of meaning, How you brighten many a way Help the toiler in his gleaning. Making sad hearts often gay. Mistakes of life which bring us sorrow Are made lighter far to bear, With a hope of a brighter morrow, When the ekiee shall be all fair. When rough trials crowd life's pathway.

And our days are dark and drear, Then this one word casts its bright ray. And to sad heart brings comfort dear. Hcpe shines forth to guide us onward Makes Us battle hard with fate; Gives us courage to push forward Makes us strong to watch and wait. The blackest clouds but hide the sunshine Look beyond and Bee the light. There's future pleasures in the Glad Sometime live on, and hope for days more bright.

year 1881 of $4,542,507, against Proclaiming: a thanksgiving day has 323 for the correspond iner first half of A. CTTNNina LITTLE HOMA.XCE. 1880: and the full returns for the year It was night a phenomenon occur- become so perfunctory an act, so much a matter of course, that a judicious ex ring seven times a week. will doubtless show a decrease of $2,000, 000. ecutive confines himself to the merest caimea witn tnis reply, ana goes away The moon shone brightly from the with the remark that he will call for it A Jersey City man asks a divorce again but he never does.

He resides heavens. (This latter clause is always added, although nobody ever saw the from his wife because she asked him for in New Orleans. moon shining from a hay-loft, or a frog- 7 to buy a new pair of shoes. As she pond or anything else except from the form. President Arthur, however, made some rhetorical attempts in his proclamation, but he is entirely outdone by the Governor of Massachusetts.

That worthy and poetical gentleman, out of the fullness of his heart and his memory, gives forth the following, which is blazoned with the arms of Massa had him down on the floor, was stand the JNew xorn postomee has a man whose business for the past twenty-five heavens.) A UNfON has been formed of a number ing on him, and held a blazing-hot received it. The postoffice in New York 1 1 i 1 -m -a poker, which she threatened to jam into years has been to decipher bad ad of typographical societies throughout is the general headquarters of the wo lovers Biroiieu aiong tne river bank, and Luna's soft rays mirrored svs- dresses. He has collected directions of his mouth if he didn't shell out, the Australia for the purpose of being able their reflection in the water. court rather thinks the man is entitled to take combined action in all trade chusetts the various cities of the country, and is said to know all the streets and a great number of the residences of New York to the divorce. It may be added, by the "Fred," she murmured, chokingly, as a great sob made her bosom heave, Whereas, it is a good and ancient eastern to way, that on the occasion described the questions that may arise.

The Executive Council is composed of representatives, of the different societies. It is proposed to raise a fund by subscription set apart after the harvest a day for public thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God shall I meet you in heaven tern, and there is now unclaimed at tho disposal of this office $1,825,497.49. Which is the result of seventeen years accumulation. All of the money unclaimed in the postoffices all through the country is sent to the New York postoffice. This accumulation of nearly lady got the $7.

city. Some time ago a foreign letter red stopped where he stood and Now, therefore, John D. Long, Governor. came directed to Patrick Mahoney. There was a novel and costly crema by and with the advice of the Council, appoint First House in America." The letter was looked her square in the face.

TTT-Tl li 1 1 1 from each society in the onion, to the extent of 12 per cent, on the cross an. therefor Thursday, the twenty-fourth day of neu, uarung, tsaiu ne, SlOWiy, as from Ireland, and, after the usual in November next. tion at Rochester, N. the other day, over 3,000,000 packages of flower and vegetable seeds and five tons of seeds in he folded her to his breast I really nual subscription income of each society. quiries, the clerk learned the time that Unto Thee, God, do we give thanks.

can't tell. It depends on whether you Ten per cent out of the 12 are to be set the vessel bearing the letter arrived. Thou visitest the earth and waterest it bulk being committed to the flames, to go there or noV As an experiment, he placed it in the Thou blessest the springing thereof. Thou apart as a common sinking fund, not to be drawn upon for two years, and the crownest the year with Thy goodness. The lands of a carrier, who was instructed forever dispose of any possible charge that a new concern, succeeding to thv The moon still shines on from its high pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also deliver it at the end of pier.

remaining a per cent are to defray the working expenses of the union. As a are covered over with corn; they shout for joy position, the water still murmurs, but The house was a sailors' boarding-house, they also sing. they don't any more. Fact is, they are and, strange as it may seem, Patrick business, was using any part of, the stock of the old concern whose rights it had purchased. The cost of this cleanup was $25,000.

first step the Council of the union has resolved that an Australian scale of Blessed is he that considereth the poor. A both married and settled down, but they Mahonoy was found. When the letter uome unco me an ye inai and are ain't husband and wife. Springfield charges for "extra matter" be compiled. 000 is largely due to the miscarriage in sending orders, or to their loss by the sender or payee.

Many of the lost or miscarried orders might have been paid if the payee( or remitter had applied to his Postmaster for a duplicate order. Perhaps it has been through perhaps through carelessness; that thi has not been done, but usually the remitter appears to suppose that the payee has received his money, and, oa the other hand, the payee thinks it has not been sent The surplus fund is increasing all the while. THE LOCOJUOTITE, In 1830, only fifty years ago, not Sv was openea tne only contents were heavy laden, and I will give you rest. found to be a draft for $100. "What's that asked Mrs.

Parting George Wakrick. a vounsr man of ton, looking np at the column on LEJLUN 2 JcSiS JSlCIJCr. Long visits, long stories, long exhor Thk oldest, and doubtless the richest Middletown, near Harrisburg, had a dream that at the bottom of a neighbor ing creek, at a certain place, would tations and long, prayers seldom profit the Place Vendome, during her recent visit to Paris. The pillar of Napo convict in the Ohio penitentiary is Horace Brooks, aged 74 years, whose long those who have to do with them. Iiife is short Time is short Moments are imprisonment is likely to be soon ter leon," was the answer.

"Well, I never did she exclaimed. "And that's his minated bv a larsre rose cancer, which found the body of a missing man. Th stream had already beeu dragged, but Warrick's dream led a party to tin riOht STkofc. ft Till iKn I-uuIt- Tt-it Tainter of the fruits and flowesr, We own Thy wise design, Whereby these humble hand of ours May share the work of Thine I Apart from Thee we plant In vaxn 1 The root and sowvthe seed; Thy early and Thy later rain, Thy son and dew, we need. Our toil is sweet with thnVfTiln Our burden is our boon The curse of earth's gray morning is The blessing of it noon.

And still with reverent hands we cull Thy gifts each year renewed; The good is always beauof The beautiful is good. precious. Iearn to condense, abridge and intensify. We can endure many an pillow He was a great man to use that I but it's more like a bolster. And has appeared upon his forehead.

He was received at the penitentiary Nov. 10, 1850, under a life sentence for murder in single locomotive engine had been built ache and ill if it is soon over, while even pleasures grow insipid, and pam intoler mm found. Tfc in America. The first two used in this it's made of iron, I do believe. Ah, Isaac I aee what it is to be great How he second degree, and has therefore able, if they are protracted beyond the limit3of reason and convenience.

Learn hard his head must have rested on that uijotviiuuo uaii, to be sure, but there could be possible reason for potting the youiC man out of the way by foul means, he being a sort of imbecile creature. been in prison thirty-one years. He owned a farm in the suburbs of Cleve- ironical pillow to be brief. Lop off branches stick to country brought from England irk that year. Soon afterward we began to buihl a few, as an experiment, but made slow progress.

The number in use io this country Jan. 1, 1879, was 16,445 Iris useless for physicians to argue and through which a railroad passed the main fact in your case. If you pray, Given at the Conned Caamber, in Boston, this against short-sleeved dresses. The con the cars ran over and killed some of bin and to avenge this injury Brooks ask for what you wonlu receive and get through; if you spt-ak, tell your message stitution of the United States says valued at $164,450,000. The number cl The right to bear arms shall not be day of October, in the year o-our lord one thousand eight hundred and -eighty-one, and of the independence of the United States of America the one hundred and sixth, John D.

Lojst a. obstructed the track, th-cw off a train, and killed five persons. He was indicted" interfered with." for murder by the Grand Jury of Ouya cars in use, including palace and freight 498,000, which would cost, at a low estimate, $600,000,000, the valu of locomotives and cars together bein $704,450,000. and then hold your ojgue; boil down two words into one, iuid three into two Learn to be brief. -Pfiaca Expret.

COLD COMFORT. A great Persian poet was very poor, It is said that opium-smoking is rap idly on the increase among American men and women, a low estimate giving 5,000 white persons who indulge habim ally in this practice. One writer stat-that he is personally acquainted wit! nearly 100 in New York alone, Eao! lrhito habitue consumes daily about Neurasthenia is the respeetabla hoga county, tried in the courts of that By his Excellency the Governor, with the idvce of the Council. ounty, aud sentenced to the penitentia: name which Dr. Crothers, cf Hertford, gives to intemperance.

He holds Al J. Hexbt B. Pierce, Secretarv. or life. At the time of his conviction God save the Commonwealth of Maflfla- and went down the street without any shoes on, crying no shoes, no shoe3 1 i I.

Help the cne who does tha nczt to help others, he was a weallhy man; and the property chudetts. Tons cxhsssiica,.