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To. 36. LEGAL XOTICr.S, $1 per square for first insertion, and BO eta for additional insertions. eldest son, was sent to San Francisco AT CHRISTMAS-TIDE. BY HARRIET PKESCOTT SPOFFORD.

to studv politics and finances. His mother also directed him to visit the home of his father and kindred, but the young man, for some reason satis- isfactory to himself, did not go to Barnstable. He will do so now, however, after concluding official interview with the president of the United States. Thus we have an Like some immortal heathen thing, All fresh with bloom, with odor sweet, With brook and bird and breeze in tune, The beautiful bright earth of June Moves to the fullness of her noon, While serving sunbeams round her fling The purple violets as they fleet But when the winter's feathery rime Plumes every leaf and every spray, And the deep sky about her close, With morning's azure evening's rose, Sparkling along her stainless snows, iso some great spirit, done with time, Takes into heaven its white winged way. Harper's Bazar.

easy solution of the friendship of this monarch for our country and institu tions. For this interesting narrative we are indebted to a cousin of his majesty residing in this city, Major well known in mining circles, who, with the exception of being a few years The Reform Dress. Female Physician in Des Moines Register. There seems to be quite an interest at present in the "dress reform" question, and I want a word in." For nine years past I have worn what I call an undersuit, which now I prefer to "chemiloon." My husband, a very intelligent and thoughtful physician, was always suggesting some good idea in dress. I improved on the first idea in several ways, until now I think it as nearly perfect as it can well As to the idea of its disfiguring a pretty woman, that is nonsense.

If there is any perfect -eon tour -a woman, the undersuit shows it to herself, at least, if she has no husband, and it is not supposable that even "pretty women" show all their toilet to every curious eye. I have persuaded many ladies to wear the undersuit, as it does away with garters and I insist upon my' patients leaving off their garters. I am never afraid to run, elimb a fence, or have a "rough-and-tumble" frolic with somebody's little folks. There is no danger that the loss of a button will precipitate a suggestive white muslin parcel into unwelcome view. I never have to step into the store and whisper with crimson cheeks to a gaping clerk that I must "fix my clothes," The Uost "of Living.

Philadelphia Ledger. A comparison of the prices of the staples of the country in wholesale markets in November, 1859, 1864 and 1874, shows that prices are nearly as low, and in some cases lower now than before the war, if they are reduced to the gold standard. is selling at about the same prices in currency as it sold for gold in 1859. Corn is selling for half what it did in 1864 the year when gold touched 285,) and about the same price, gold values, as it did in 1859. Cotton is worth a little more than in 1859, but is about one-ninth the price reached in 1864.

Provisions, sugar and coffee show a heavy decline, but the present currency quotations are above the gold prices of 1859. Dry goods show a great decline since 1864, prints being below the prices of 1859. Beef was rather higher, in the local market, before the war than to-day. Sales were reported in the Ledger in November, 1859, for 7 to 9 cents per pound. The corresponding cattle market report published this year quotes sales at from 4 to 7i cents.

But before these articles reach the consumers items of cost are added to them, which have not been reduced in proportion to the reduction in prime cost. older, is said to resemble the king in a remarkable degree. Their fathers were brothers, born and reared in the An Indian in Corsets. An Indian yesterday called into a Woodward Avenue store to sell some baskets, and he was so persistent that one of the clerks finally took down an old corset and offered it to him if he would go away and buzz some one else. "What he for?" inquired Lo, as he held up the corset.

"Put him on squaw make her look gay here, this way," replied the clerk, passing the corset around the Indian. "Ugh Him Good replied Lo, and he took the corset and went out. Reasoning that what was good for squaw was good for Indian, he slid into tho alley east of the avenue, dropped his baskets and started to put on the corset. He got it bottom side up, hind side before, and every way but the right one, but he finally saw what the matter was. He was too big for the corset.

He removed his coat, took the corset strings out, and then clasping the corset behind him, he put the strings back and then tied them in front of him, and the corset was on. He folded up his coat, picked up his baskets and appeared on the street again, hat slanting over his ear, and his look betraying great pride. "Great goats! but what's that?" shouted the boys, as they caught sight of him, and they laughed until they fell down. The Indian presented a nrost laughable spectacle as he passed up the avenue, but he stepped high and didn't mind the boys, until a policeman stop-ed him and a crowd gathered. Lo then got it through his head that the clerks had sold him, and that he- was being made fun of, and he unlaced the corset, threw it on the sidewalk, in great wrath, and exclaimed "Heap cuss whoop "Detroit Fres Press.

Kalakaua't History as told by His Cousin. Salt I.ake Tribune, December 6. In the year 1821, the whale ship Independence, from New Bedford, Massachusetts, foundered in the Pacific ocean, and ail on board perished, with the exception of four who made their escape in a boat, which, after tossing many days on the boundless deep, at last reached the Sandwich Islands, then in a state of semi-barbarism, that being about the time of the first appearance of Christian missionaries there. One of these seamen was a fine looking stalwart young 'man from Barnstable, and in the strange land upen which he was cast up from the waste of waters, at once Lighting tias by Electricity. Cincinnati Gazette, Pec.

16. A large number of members and friends of the Second Presbyterian church assembled last evening at the the new church edifice, corner of Eight and Elm streets; to witness the first illumination of the large auditorium. In addition to the pleasure of seeing the beautiful room illuminated for the engaged in such pursuits as a viva An Eccentric Will. The Troy Chief says There is recorded in the Probate Judge's office in this County, the will of Johnson Thurston, of Knox County, Ohio, dated July 9th, 1850, and admitted to probate in that County, December 30, 1858. There was property belonging to his estate in this County, hence the will was placed on record here.

The testator was the father of Hon. Orlin Humboldt, in' this State, who is remembered in the will. The document, in some parts, is a curiosity. It seems that Mr. Thurston was an Infidel, which fact he handed down to posterity with his will, which commences in this wise: "In the name of the Sun and Moon, Johnson Thurston, of Knox County Ohio, do make and publish this, my last will and testament." 1 Then after making his bequests, and appointing his wife and son Executors of, the will, he proceeds to give directions as to his burial, as follows also direct whoever may have charge of my burial, in case I should die at or near this place, to be buried on the mound on the above described four hundred acres, a little west of Adam Shults' Cabin, where he now lives; to have my coffin made of two-inch oak plant, well put together no planes to be used on the boards except the edges, them to be matched; the shroud not very fine cloth to be buried in the ground five feet deep, with my head to the east.

I must positively forbid the officiating of any Priest, or of any other religious ceremonies being performed at my funeral. I would request the tenants that may be on my farm, to be in attendance. I hope that there will not be any mourning, or-as little as possible, for I am confident that I shall be at peace. If there is any Infidel near me that is capable of idelivering an oration on my character, will permit it to be done." But Infidel as he was, he wanted his just debts to be paid with "the proviso, that if any persons had let their accounts run oyer time allowed by law, they should not be permitted to trump Up accounts against his will winds up thus: "I also direct that my Just debts be paid but any demands that shall be brought in against my tors that have been longer standing than the law will allow, or that have lost their lien upon me, I forbid to be paid. The reason why I do this, I have always been able to pay my debts, and by their long standing, I consider them unjust." The tax rate of 1859 on real estate was $1.75 on a very low valuation of prop cious disposition and true Yankee first time, there was a curiosity-to see the--action of an electrical machine placed in the church, which is designed to light simultaneously the six erty; to-day it is $2.20 on a cash valu genius discovered, both for employment and livelihood.

He soon sue and hide behind a file of dry goods, while the clerk looks so innocent at the next customer. I wish there was some medium by which I could reach every woman who cares for good health and let her have my patterns. One more idea allow me to suggest on 1 1 1 T. 1 hundred gas burners with which the ation. A house which was worth $1500 in 1859 could not be bought for ceeded, and in a year or two after making his involuntary settlement among the Kanakas, had the extraor twice that amount now, and rents are elegant room is furnished.

The burners are so arranged that those in front of the organ can be lighted separately from two to three times as high now Children of Same Father Acquainted with Each Other. There are some astonishing and few admirable features about the religion of our Latter-Day neighbors; but without stopping to discuss them all, it answers the purpose of this article to mention a circumstance which came under our notice a few days ago. It is a sample of many such cases in Salt Lake City and throughout the Territory. In a conversation had with a liberal-minded young Mormon the writer asked him if so and so of the same name were his brothers? Stopping a moment as if to study a puzzle, the gentleman then spoke of several of his brothers and sisters, remarking at the close that these were all he was acquainted with. "But are there more of your family whom you don't know?" we inquired; whereupon the party proceeded to explain that his father," one of the foremost of the priesthood, has many women and also a great number of children; that under the polygamous system boys and girls of the same paternity grow up to manhood without ever meeting each other.

They are, therefore, not even ordinary friends, but as much strangers to one another as though born of different races and in different States. Surely this place of the kingdom is not to be emulated; although it may afford a solution to Brigham Young's doctrine that a. man may rightfully marry his own sister, as has been done in Utah. Bringing children up in ignorance of their consanguinity might help to carry out the idea. Salt Lake Tribune.

Symptoms of Maidenly Celibacy When a woman begins to have a little dog trotting after her that's a symptom. When a woman begins to drink her tea without sugar that's a symptom. When a woman begins tq read love stories in bed that's a symptom. When a woman begins to sigh on hearing of a wedding that's a symptom. When a woman begins to refuse to tell her age that's a symptom.

When a woman begins to say that she has refused many an offer that's a symptom. When a woman begins to talk- about rheumatism in her knees and elbows that's a symptom. When a woman begins to find fault with her looking-glass, and says it doesn's show her features right, that's a symptom. When a woman begins to talk about cold draughts, and stops up the crevices in the doors and windows that's' a symptom. When a woman begins to change her shoes every time she comes into the house after a walk that's a symptom.

When a woman begins to have a cat at her elbow at meal times, and gives it sweetened milk that's a symptomi When a woman begins to say that a servant has no business with a sweetheart that's a symptom. When a woman begins to say what a dreadful set of tuues crea men are, and that she wouldn't be bothered with one of them for the world that's a symptom. dinary fortune of marrying the daugh as before the war. While it is true tne neaitn question, nave experienced considerably and watched close- from the others. The same is the ter and sole princess of the monarch therefore, that, what are often called case with the elegant rhandelier, pen then on the throne of the islands the necessaries of life" have been re dant from the ceiling in the center This royal damsel had fallen in love duced in price at to nearly and also with the brackets on the four witn tne wrecked mariner, ana pro the prices which ruled in 1859, it is the results.

In bathing, a warm sponge bath with plenty of castile soap, applied one limb at a time, then rinsed off with cool water, wiped with a soft towel, brushed with a fine soft brush, gives th best texture of skin. walls of the room. They can, however- not to be inferred that the cost of liv posed wedlock in right queenly style, which the New Englander accepted, all be lighted at the same time. At 8 o'clock the inventor appeared ing to working men has been corres pondingly Provisions con sume about one-third to one-half work for the reason that the king ordered him to do so or have his head chopped on the platform, on which an electri Ladies who admire (as we all do) a cal machine had been placed for lise off. Being son-in-law, and recognized ing men's- incomes.

The other half last evening, and explained its work as a member of th our hero ings to the assembly. It is not a gal is expended for rent, clothing, fuel lights, and other expenditures of al velvety surface of body, fine in color, and magnetic to a high degree, will do well to follow this formula of bath. A coarse' towel or stiff brush will not bear comparison in result. M.i if' i lignitybf vanic battery there are no cups or orj; tV larkable kinds, and in many of these there has chemicals; electricity is engendered i of the been no reduction from anteTwar prices simply by friction on a rubber disk by turning a crank. This furnishes 5ut witn a reduction in tne prime cost of provisions ithere will undoubtedly come in time a reduction in the rviving son or the Massachusetts man, out of a large family.

The name Kalakaua ii an electric spark at the opening of Kansas Militia Expenses. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled That the Secretary of War be, and he is hereby required to ascertain the amount of expenses necessarily incurred by the State of Kansas for arms, equipments, military stores, supplies, and all other expenses of the volunteer, forces during the Indian hostilities upon the southern and western frontiers of said State in the year" eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and report to Congress the names of persons entitled to relief, together with a statement of the testimony upon which such, report may be based. each burner at the same instant. He value of the things for which corn stated that the capacity of the machine ueuutes tue ungm 01 me suvereigu, and translated, means "safe journey" oeel, wneat, are exchanged: had never been tested, that, no build or "God speed," referring to the escape other words, a reduction in all the of bis immediate ancestor from the ing in the country had burners enough to establish a limit. The Brooklyn many which together make up perils pf the wave as related above the real cost of living.

Tabernacle, having more gas jets than Digressing from the general narrative any others edifice in the country here, we will mention that the father thirteen; hundred was lighted bv The following, from the' Troy Chief of our august visitor, notwithstanding the same apparatus. He made an ex is as eloquent a temperance lecture. as his illustrious alliance, had never for we have seen for many a day gotten his home in the distant repub periment on a small scale, showing the operations of the machine, and A few days ago the court of Nema lic; but day after day and month after then the gas burning was turned off ha county declared Coh John C. Tarr, month looked out from the portico of leaving the room in total darkness. A of Sabetha, to be incapable of attend palace for the friendly canvass few turns of.

crank, a moment's ing to his business, and appointed his waiting to allow the gas to be turned sou, Hammond Tarr, his guardian Tobacco Culture. s. XewTork Price Current. There is no doubt that tobacco culture, under ordinarily favoring conditions of soil and climate, and with proper management, including careful fertilization and a rigid adherence to rotation of crops, may be rendered very profitable. Being, as it is, a luxury of wealth and the "anodyne of poverty," it -commands a higher price comparatively than if it were simply a necessary of life.

With an almost universal demand, and an ever-increasing consumption, there would seem to be little danger of over production, however general the culture may become. The production has increased within the last generation in an almost incredible degree. Twenty five or thirty years ago the plant was not cultivated in New England to any considerable extent. Now the annual crop in Connecticut and Massachusetts is not less than i 6,000,000 pounds annually, of the kind known as leaf. In the western states, where the crop is comparatively a new one, the production now.

reaches nearly pounds. Kentucky, raising' over 100,000.000 pounds, and Virginia nearly 40,000,000, are the largest to on and expel the air from the pipes, a This is a sad closing of a once useful and flag of his native land; but five and twenty years of weary watching were endured before the. keel of an American ship glided into the Island harbors. When this did take place the sudden burst like the explosion of a life. Col.

larr was formerly one of It is believed by Mr. Glendenning's friends that he will eventually give up active pastoral duties in New Jersey and accept the mission to Africa. The dusky children of Senegambia are represented as suffering dreadfully for want of a moral example. They don't ask if a young Georgian owns land or property, but when he commences to court a girl they query. "How many lottery tickets has he The resolution "to do or die" is nev the most prominent citizens and busi torpedo and tne large auditorium was brilliantly illuminated for the first ness men of West Virginia, and was Yankee Prince yearning for the scenes atone time treasurer of that State time.

Expressions of delight escaped from every onejn the large assembly, and associations of youth, one night deserted rank, wife and children, He has resided in Kansas some fouror five years. 1 he cause which led to which finally broke out into loud applause. The inventor then demon jumped into the sea which a quarter of a century before had cast him up his disability to attend to his own strated the lighting of the room bv affairs, was the same that has ruined naked to become the progenitor of a "ki ngly line, and sailed away for the sections, spoken of above, much to the so many bright and promising intel lects whiskey as it is bound to ruin shores of Narragansett. After a long Crusoe's It was fortunate -for Crusoe that the island of he became monarch perforce was a fruitful. one.

At the present day it is a perfect garden, and abounds in fruit and flowers planted by Selkirk's successors for he was not the only man who inhabited the island. An emulative Englishman be came his successor, though he did not occupy the historical cave, having built himself a hut of stones and sods, roofing it with the straw of wild oats. As cooking utensils, he possessed only single iron pot, the bottom of which, one unfortunate day, had fallen out. This damage he had, however, the ingenuity to repair with a wooden bottom but now he was compelled to place his pot in the ground and build a fire around it. This man was ft Londoner, and finally left the island because he could get no roast beef at ieast, tradition sayeth thus.

This famous island is now in possession of a colony of Germans, who brought with them everything necessary to make a life comfortable. gratification of all present. The house committee on the ju every man who gives it an opportun ity. Some may indulge in it for long time, without its getting the ad diciary, to-day agreed upon a supple-. vantage or tnem, out it win conquer in the end.

Give it an opportunity bacco-growing states. The aggregate mentary civil rights bill, taking that which last year passed the senate and is now pending in the house, as the and whiskev can beat the stoutest production of the United States di minished in the last decade consider foundation for The only altera A Missouf ian who attended prayer meeting with his daughter felt compelled to rise up and remark "I want to be good and go to Heaven, but if th em fellers don't stop winking at Mary there will be a good deal of prancing around here the fust thing they know A Lowell mill girl the other day said to a director who wished her to consent to a reduction of wages "Before I'd do it, I'd see you and your whole graspin' set in To-phi-et, pump-in' thunder at three cents a clap." It is sliid that if a dog's tail stands man that ever lived. -Youthful Innocence, tions made are the omission of ceme ably by the incidents of the civil war, is not far from 300,000,00 pounds! teries, and the insertion for provision voyage Barnstable was again visited but all had changed. Leaving there in sunny youth, the traveler now f.jusid that -the few remaining acquaintances of the past had died, departed to. other places, or had grown gray and forgetful of the time when all were boys at school together.

It was a mistake to return; for the heart con id not give up its love for the wife a iid children of more than a score of yvars in the far off islands of the Pacific. The longings of the wanderer and his loneliness were intolerable, lle then once more looked for the dy bark to carry him to his only itmeand waited three years before opportunity came. he sailed away forever. In 1847, the Within the last few years California This morning, writes "Eli Perkins" from Saratoga, after the fashionables of separate schools for white and iit- i i er much to anybody so lavishly as to the young man who bursts his suspender button in the midst of tho "Lancers." Gov. Bradley of Nevada, did keep his "ink" in a jug under the table1 until his clerk got to drinking it, and now his excellency Cilrrles a fiat bottle in his coat-tail pocket.

It is said that the reason why Eli Perkins never lectures twice "in ties same totvri is because money is so-tight and tho price of eggs is so high. It is intimated that Edwin Booth's troubles have impaired his mind, and that there is danger of his sharing the fate of Hamlet. A Green Bay man dreamed that he-died and went to Heaven, and in his excitement he felt off the bed and broke his leg. The Baltimore' and Ohio railroad have secured the exposition building at Chicago for a and will start. uiacu.s, wiiii equipments and pro a state of wonderful fertility, has embarked in the business of tobacco cul visions for instructions, in all re had all gone to the races, I quietly took a crowd of children down to see "Educated Ben," the miraculous pig ture, and it would seem with entire success.

The state boasts in this early stage of the interprise, of the larg spects equal; the appropriation of the school funds to be pro rata between the races. An alteration is also made Among the children was little Freddy Wall, who has always been troubled est--tobacco plantation in existence. in the matter in the punishment for a violation of law instead of the penal out horizontally it is a sign that he is Nothing short of this would be deem-! because he had no little sister to play Jenkins says: "We notice since the fashion of embracing the necks of gentlemen by their partners' arms has When a woman's bnst.lp with VV hen he-fisked his mother to ties being cumulative, the house com ed even a successful The San Diego, Cal. Union says there are mittee has been instructed to report come into such favor, that there are stands out horizontally she is happier than a dog with three tails; all curled to suit him. Brooklyn Anjus.

from forty to fifty thousand acres of the choicest land in the state for to more male partners to be had for the round dances than during the' fore part of the season." Very likely. bacco growing-within twenty miles of that city, and it expresses the belief It is hardly necessary to deny the the bill, with the understanding that Mr. White, of the committee, shall offer his bill as a substitute. The latter does not prohibit separate ae-commodationsliriV schools, railroads, inns, for the races, provided the accommodations are of equal equipment and kind. A Springfield gentleman concluded that within three years there might be a return of $3,000,000 to the county to have a the other evening, and in the dark got hold of a chunk of get him a little sister she always put him off with: ''Yes, Freddy, when children get cheap, I'll buy a little sister.

You must, wait." when Mr. Jarvis read these red letters on "educated Ben's tent Children half price 15 cents, little Freddy jumped straight up and down, clapped his hands and exclaimed "Now, Uncle Eli. mamma can buy a little sister for me, for little children ain't only 15 cents how stove blacking for the soap. A more polished man than he was has never from tobacco alone. In several other counties, the conditions are equally favorable, and the Californiarts are urging its culture as being the most profitable crop that can be raised in rich and fertile valleys of that been seen in the whole State of Mas rumor that ladies who attend Brooklyn theatres frequently turn an honest penny by accepting from gentlemen behind them pecuniary inducements to sit bareheaded during the play.

A woman in the suburbs of Milwaukee has made one clay pipe last her for thirteen years, whilj a young man in Boston wears out six pairs of $13 pants every year sachusetts. Thoma3 Jefferson, from New London, was fishing in the Pacific. Meeting a school of Leviathans, the crew prepared for action, and among the parties sent out from the ship to operate against the nronsters of the deep the prince was one of the first to volunteer in the hazardous duty. As has often happened, the boat of the harpooners was demolished by a wounded and infuriated whale, several of the men, including the father of Kalakaua, perished in the disaster. That was the end of our hero's romantic balance of this interacting story mav be stated briefly.

When the' New Englander fled from the Sandwich Islands his spouse mourned for a customary period, but grief did not cause her to neglect the grave responsibilities of widowhood. She gave, her children the best edu-c ition the islands afforded, and David A contemporary asks: are trains from there next week. The troublesome Visitor who has been shutting the doors fiffcer him all summer, now begins to leave them open. If children were allowed to legislate, they- would introduce a Santa Claus in the constitution at the present time. Bewher has had so many suits thitf year his congregation do not think it necessary to treat him lo a new outfit Christinas.

A.MIssourian offers 150 aiid thre The! tobacco trade is one of the most street lamps for?" The man who doesn't know what a street lamp is Senator" Ingalls has, introduced a bill to authorize the Secretary of War to ascertain the amount of expenses incurred by the State of Kansas for arms, equipments, military stores, and all other expenses of the volunteer forces during the Indian hostilities during the year 1874. curious that commerce presents. A originally, smoked" by a very for is hardly fit to sit in an editorial chair and mould public opinion. imited numbeT of savages, has suc- ceded, in spite of royal "counterblasts," Street lamps are for weary young men to recline against when they for the most persistent opposition of the get the way home. There 115,023 soldiers' widows in the United States who receive pensions from the government.

Strange strange, that young men continue to marry girls without a cent. moralists, the most stringent prohib itory laws, and the most onerous rates The Lebanon Shakers, now in session in convention' at New York, are an outspoken' set. When asked if their doctrines, carried out, would not depopulate the. earth in a very brief period, they reply: "Certainly, that is precisely what we are at." Shear nonsense clipping jokes. Conversation never sits-easier upon mules to any girl who will marry him of taxation, in becoming the Prof.

Watson, one of the members of the Transit of Venus party for this country, has discovered a new asteroid. This is the seventeenth discov- us than when we now and then dis but tl question arises, iat can any cherished luxury of civilization, in youcg lady do with thr. creasing constantly with the i ncrease charge ourselves in a symphany of laughter, which may net improperly hj called the chorus of eon venation. bing 1he farorito, though not the hat Jery of this kind made by him. of time.

"My Sunday evening mail'' v. she calls him in Detroit. Stanley has found tho navigable for Uzht.