Paxton Weekly Record, The (Newspaper) - October 15, 1874, Paxton, Illinois IB ri AT PAXTOK.FOBL On Thursday of laoh Woek OFFICE IN MARKET E PUBLISHER Bates IM Third Page G W House Sign and fainter AND attention to Frescoing and door west of M K Paxton Ill J C HALE Sign and Ornamental ILLINOIS All orders left with MARTIN A will hp rompUy attended to 1 JOHN POLLOCK A POLLOCK ATTORNEYS AT AND Will practice ID Ford and adjoining counties A SAMPLE will at tend to Attorney for UM debts dhe or hi this comity J R ATTORNEY AT in Chancery OBce First National ILL in Ford A Iro and McLean BROWN o So n Sooth Clark Boom Cor Clark CHICAGO CALVIN H FREW ATTORNEY AT At hie former one door south of ILLINOIS faithful attention riven to cases In Livingston and in the and V S If AS now in the handt of the late Ann will receive E C Attorney at Law Notary Prompt attention given to all their care attention given to the payment of Tazet and making of No ILLINOIS B Boot and Harkel next door to Marble ILLINOIS Work of ill grades done to s done to M TEC I Paxton Z 6 Champaign J C SWAN ft Notary Prompt given to all care Especial tion gl ven to the payment of Tuee making of Collections Room No IIX VAN HOUSE Formerly ILL TIT Proprietor This bag recently changed and bat bad an additional story pat which it OM tf the Finest Md in Central Illinois It haa also been thoroughly renovated and and traveling will find it one mosi comfortable in the Slate Good Rooms attached THF BANK OF A C President R Bay and Sell Domestic and Foreign Exchange ir at Sight on All in or Ana Letters uf Credit and Ima payable m Gold or Currency Liberal made with Made and Remitted and E L GILL LICENSED KELSO PHYSICIANS AND ILL Dr Wylie's houne north of northwest of the oart House i E H PHYSICIAN AND Paxton Illinois r L COOK ATTORNEY AT LAW NOTARY PUBLIC Having a ctt of ABSTRACT I an prepared tn f of any and all Land In Kuril and Collections a i and 4 Block ILLINOIS H 8 REED AND PAXTON ILLINOIS Lumber Slatt nnd or other work and tpt i VOL X WHOLE NO 490 EPITOME THE WEEK Telegram of ing Dales Oct 7 of announced n NCTI ToiK on the win also rumors on street of in ill departments and utmost MM MIR of them to at oiks nnd good M T lins nominated for by Hie ans of tlic loik The State Central Commit of lins issued nn to I hi in tin AMilli an t to composed of ul ne nt President nl St Louis on tbo of the Mil There be total eclipse of moon on the of the 24th visible In The a littlo o'clock on tnc of the total one Oct Hint hud been seriously wounded nt is untrue on state foi roops nre reaching the Win lie from Tennessee Gen been requested o spare a from his nnd he Thirteenth Infantry has been 01 dried to to the of the South lie Secretary of War if lie were to comply with nil the ions received It would Iv acreage the force of the On the 1st day of to Bn m Issued by the Secretary of the there were in the Slates subordinate During the month 409 new Granges hnd been The next session of the Grange 11 ill be held in on the first Wednesday in Rev Dr T M Missionary Secretary of the Methodist pal died in New York on the ftj The State Republican Con of Massachusetts met on the 7th GOT Talbot was on the ret receiving 755 of the ast Horatio G Knight the choice or Oliver Warner for of the R Vain for Attorney ott for and Charles for Treasurer The resolutions adopted in favor of a sound currency find uch legislation bj Congress as shrill lace the currency on a par express gratitude to the President for lis promptness in suppressing the New eans declare that the has itself under ill es he party of progress and cte C of has ob judgment foi the Chi Burlington Quint Railroad fui passenger and fi tight charges indictments been found by the Grand of St Paul against Charles late or alleged malfeasance in office The in Georgia on the for icrs of the Stale Legislature passed oft But little in a few was made to tho can The majority on Joint jallot will be about Congressional on the Mulligan A S Second John Young J H Pickrell John lie and Tenth ra B Von ate German to was re arrested at the instance of ho charged that lit had important tale documents and was about to publish A London of the 8th the had taken a iery nd that the had ordered that no lone be left unturned to the nubs ng papers The Count had denied that heie was intention of State and intimates that the documents were removed from the archives of the assy without his knowledge A Rome dis- iaU h of the same date the missing uments relate to the establishment of anew Government in France and to German inter with Spanish affairs Spain as disbanded the iod for which they enlisted having ex ired The Democrats of eighth Sew York Congressional have iated Edward S Esty for The Grand at Bait Lake one of their own E for He is barged with three of whom fere married to him since 1802 His own aughter is one of the witnesses The Attorney-General of Wisconsin with the general solicitor of the Chicago Kailway Company unitedly ask the United Stutee Supreme to take up the appealed rom the United States District Court at Mad and eel it down foi trial on the 10th day f At his own request the ame of Prof Swing has been from the loll of the Chicago by a vote of 18 to H The Con of South at their cut State to support the candidates for Governor and nominated by the Independent party John Means IB he Republican for Congress the Tenth in a reply to the recent ad dress of the Conservative Hiate lib hm anxiety to a full and and will to do all in hm power to that end Oct 10 has of UK in her of the Board of Indian Commission H Postmaster Gen Jewell lias a dc termination to do away with claim nts i Hie transaction of wilh i 111 road or other or He pi dealing with interested At UK alum John one of tin pert und Ilic also tli Ballaid and Ann In lln n WUH found money of eli with dii h At tin i It i lion in I aware for Inspectors and to con- duct UK in UK mo tin iv in gate of A Ni of Hie Frank from the I sent a to H U of Republican Slate Central that and in the parish of I to Kile h an no mori limn SOO ul the vote IB would register He Muted i Unit a of Dungs i in of the perishes Oct UK becoming Into and Tana n i It London to the Unit the ig In qui Minn would In it Fi i u d to the ni nitration of Hie Son on nee omit of tin of his lini been d to n Is said tin of tin 1 11 i tin and pill fin Hi for wilh f and i HIM iom n H li i h bn n i UK i i in In HIM If nnd Hi inK of Ni w ork i IU bine nominate d 1 1 AS Minn Ni w Oilcan nil in Hilt Die Milnin hm H I tl I 111 I H 11 to till of SI ih nun nl In n i of UK ii tin and ill pin In s to i bull M tin 1 1 MI 11 I IH u In MIS run be and il nn time A telegram of the Mh StalcH Attorney nl eleven Jind been brought to Hint horn bj a Marshal and hib Ti The In Fiance for Iho i ns follows III MINIUM MM A of the 12th announces the withdrawal of from c and that this hnd nude a bad on the soldiers of Don A dispatch of the sumo dale the Cm lists under hnd bi en defeated near The hid of tin Hfl lunik of I In Him Ebi o Late lies of Good Hope announce of dii Held ne n and Benjamin F Untie i been u nominated for Congi ess bv the He public imp in the and Sixth Dis In a fight with the Cheyenne 1 nil Inns and their allies on Jute noin the fork of the Red in on nil Mackenzie's destroyed over lodges nnd hoises and mules 1 he bodies of foui One white soldier was slightly wounded A dis- patch fi om Indian Territory Oi t twenty-four lodges of the under had to Neill Satanta and Big Tree would be helu In cloae confinement as hostages until fin thcr orders President accompanied by ex and w m recently on a to the Indian they met with a waim and ly welcome at the hands of the other tribes New Oilcans dis patches of the t that i had occurred the daj at the old road in St between the factions One party had assembled to ratify a compromise with the when the and the results as a free in which several were wounded none killed A was also occurred at la between the Jutler and Mahony Republican factions One man was wounded Gov ogg h id ed dispatches asserting that at St and that Republicans daie IB d Martin lenving that any intimidation in that TJIE MARKETS NEW Con ON Mi I in K Lnu iY u W 00 to 50 vvliuit gj Who it ii Chicago 10 i Milwaukee 81 11 Kjo und State LO Lard WOOL to 45 ilOt LIVESTOCK gj W to 50 i Cln i Yoi Western 1 c New VJ spring jO No 2 J 1 Mo Jl Wool rust eleai second Common A fi CINCINNATI HeJ 00 ST Fair to XX 1 No 2 SI Corn No No 81 MI Lurd Mil WAUKEE Kloin XX 71 Sluing 1 No No No No No i e it i Midi fl No a Hi 1 No Jl 00 r Ou e O LIVK 10 I in 84 JSAST V Inn K Uci v B Hi hi mi ilium WITHOUT nt u Win H II Ihi III tin J nn liming lln li Hi i fiom i In Hi of in li I ilion lo a I K 01 il inuy mill ulli i u i Ml Mi IH nl III III 11 n M IM Mil I h I I Wl OUI II lln i uf tin ih IMH Uhli i Si III IH I ii mi Ui nn Ii Lli i You to know lln Loin H n inn wilh in In i ind WIIK Mind foi honn und hv IKI n m imij i mill i win n i i on 11 I of IK i mill in iwo if i loin Muni Wi nl Hull 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who is Hie the Long Lord rff lim inel Km IT i loyal oath thai i maid should lie Ins but nf so lai as Die in of oui own days is in UK at In ss Mho 11111 mil loi he content lo ar i c I he sc onvi a git it in tins case Tlic illy was sole but it was made subject to conditions of H ciy were imposed the as a condi lion of the j Jle M as to n ail his lights and even his name lo be no the of lint a plain and IK vt as to an an nu al of 11 th it be 1111 possible The only did and Ihal the Pi IIH e ended mlo tin JM de Pels Jlc a line tenor a lul bi ide and he in idc but a shoil ago U tin tin at so lar one of wbo was of C indt i in Ins own but Ibc ceases Swiss aie not an and little 10 niantic M hissed oil UK statue al and lile II was easy to fiom mule ind II was till to 1 he young in 1 of Duchess ol of tlic domo lo Die so gn il foi Is ie made lo Hi is would be w the UK ely Al last a way was lo the end On the Lake of King has an estate known as theie il lias been the to give and n files A IH to lie built of tie to ol the lacy nei B opei is an lo bo mil and me also to appeal on the bills Joi Ibis d a dignified has to be und the van has a lasle loi diplomat li is found the ejf nephew UK of nu lives iae y I lie ol Paul de appi in don the play will be ol and ill known in as Ibc e and Masli i ol Hie Ibe young is the h SOUK Ion ign lo admit into UK n tls undr i all and win n M lie e is n Mis illy i stood Hi il lias some lo do no h alion bus UK this ol Ihn Hindi I tt Till t In In AiM 11 voi ovi rt X l IH In lln Slah IIV Ki Him on l i t In v Inn for n I Unit I nibble willi Di n I ol u IIK k of of cf I 10 lo in tin K nit uv UK s i my In bin in n nnd il i i kin gil on to in my II nv il 1 I II ll III llllll I DIM III IK nnd UK Ii nil in uny nil Mini It lii be In I lo nili n noo ill p IK IK In ll ulv up UK UK dny To Ibis nil f willi nnd T i Ilii UKJ 1151 ccd willi IIK wnl In IK dom and Unit Jin be a uv it Kvn 1 we git nl vi ly in the room ul up n pint foi ih lo UK uv Hie nv the m live by But UK ill uidi followed me all im und well nigb brot my linns in 101 low to tlic IIK on Al llnl I sent foi to RO JO Si to serve on a joory lo wy a for hog with of nol be put olf I told Ibc and to git liar nnd up the nnd tin to Ibe county paper to in i m strong jw I ted musty uv tlic dead and strike out new and llm Make cm und put hcs in with to day that all old tilings must be done with all must become Head oil tbe and and stch by goin back onto the and being more than they arc this advice I left cm and went to aad tried tlic We any time on evidence or anything uv soi t Noi did we leave box We brought him in and the county costs hung him at once the next mornin and went to see wat bed yoo diaw up them cm aic in print afore this Arr they askt I Yoo scd he Did old did yoo a sponge ovci the anel arc lull ol new They seel ib a copy j took the paper and red hod a the I IB aill a beliel U is Ii ss i iv to SJK nd It n loi Hi in OIK loi a book A pet son mil rin a holiday will spend loi it quail ol mills he eloi s and In als in in oi Iwo Ins ho would IK vei ol loi UK s inn muni y SOUK In i ol a book li would linn solid loi many and add lo UK ol hm Sue h a n Ine e is linn lo buy books a hole IK igli pi i lo nada IK w woik by a n loi will wail loi lo il ind hn iti li UK H iding ol intlii i Hi m spi nil i h ill il and lln Hi ippi lili al OIK i ly day in i ly ople spi ml lu i Ii n loi 1 IK s u Im b UK y do nol n UK would buy Inn nl i i nli il UN UK m loi a oi UMI mil in u b n minds loi I In y IK il i il mil di m 1 1 i illy I in s pip u linsl lo li nn mil hollow I ii 1 1 1 1 UK in mil wmi Is I IK sun b mom i hM to I hem in UK m us md tin piss by UK loi lln II tli in lln liont innk uv to dm and heln IH back onto the und ignores the hoi ith the it nv the ni ners the war of and lu return their to the heroic and so tlie honor ill the H in that 1 h it Ihi uv our we anil wut That Tali the in nnd al the i iih i Im HUH lied nnd that the all Inot forth in J I hat IH not only lilied tin tiling lor linn 01 oilier we hrand i from n and the I me not tolled upon to reeoy Thai a bem and ihM i IH Ills lite lo am with IH a lanatie and ought not to he allowed to live in a free the nv the lo vole null hi and tin m it UK uv their i hold to doe trine nl rite uv HI ei and the rile uv e lell Slali lo it pit the lawn lor uv oui men i til than all tin likker is uv no I the ind gnashed my teeth If idee uv suthin I this yoor uv Is this yooi idee uv getting into the ot public opm yun and sum advanced I'S all tin we knew thing sed and up he lied stood onto a that be bed nnd it lui bun It no use to aigue with foi they aic non clads 1 remark t to cm that while they w it they ought to hev H solved suthin about the act to ship the Alexander's uv and all things should hev agin the im in Uie in tbr bi ix 1 lie Mith scd with a look at Ibe is too hastily away The Yoo i git them old out uv the head uv in old line Demount anymore then yoo km em Irom com whiskey II my to hev to deal wilh Heaven help how 1 hev to at Ihi 11 hands V K h on the Sit tuition The lolloping me taken fiom of lion Dawes be- loic tin 1111 SI al ol he the i I'M nt nn of out ol tin nl i nines h the im suit mil a Mint m UK of Hie As HI h mn at so ill wi lie pil p tn il lo nu el of Unit I In n In d n md ils 11 Mill a ill H K h in U hi oni own In tin Im iK ol n ilion il si i lln und Mils s ii Us in tin N llu h lu In i n n mil d him i tin Hi pnli In in h ih h ill hi mo ion of us hli is Iti in inh MI nis MI u nk Into lln I ol K Im u ol In his IKOI by tin i h i ind h is fiom ilH plud lull il lo limit mil i lln i n hi i Ini honl u Mill to Mini sinin sh t UK und KH HI hi s mill u lusi to In hh iki n oil linn mil i Di mix ill in M iss K husi IK il n nol iiin iln- il nh i 11 on di li nsi h hs sout In i n i il i mil u ho would nol sinni li it is In n h pi mil I Ih mi li nili in ul limits is Him il I ml i In 11 I in nils nn III lln -I h m in lln nn imsl html In is hi n k is ll ll I ol Ills pi M h II In u nil il ilh ill h L il ui in- li ill li nil li nisi II in lln i nn nl d i u i v to UK him linn IH no mom in lln M hum lln in n of nre from HIU h II hill which hm 1.1 nor to any kii lln outrun H upon Flu linim s nml s of nl South nnd Ilii in lln SI il fon ilions Hill ili Tuil llu ir own i nds it too to withhold nu fiom IIK ic lo n mt nnd not i HID vvn Ids tin r of nn nl flu nn If yon nh ill In hm llnl Ihi Hi of In SI ili mil N ilion UK lur md lln I ilions of I In UK ii H ill il IK Mint in und UK Ki In in Ihi hi n aim r the lo lln the public to the lowest point of tic i y i Ilh n nation il lit upon 1 husis of il extinction in UK of the 1 mrl so for that the 11 hoi r r control the UK w n Lh it the Ann ncan mil UK ind nn i nn 11 In I Hh ill hi the of anil UK ily of i vi ly lo is UK duly of bom in lln t of UK mil their nt is the of Hut in our MTV of md the tin of which will In But no one fail lo nnd they will not of merit 1 IK deep BC po l the rebellion lias and the life of the Southern HUtcs deni mds sh ill the In i a of sdf be m ulc lo pi a body too to discern them and too we ik to them The future of the is crowded with great rto unknown or of little but tbe of which can't be ignored Iiy who shall administer its lo grapple with as they shall fine and solve them in catholic spirit which the final approval of a great and growing people it the golden opportunity of the Republican party Will it prove itself equal to just expectations of the 1 have faith in its wisdom and its and that in the long years to come it will continue to win by deserving it An Unreliable Witness The Liberal Republican and journals arc publishing with a great flourish a lettei written by W H Master of the State Grange of to O II Secretary of the National denying that there arc any serious acts of lawlessness m that and alleging that the whites of Alabama are as law abiding as those of New York These opposition jour also take pains to say Chambers is not u and therefore his mony ought to be conclusive The plain facts that Chambers an unqualified was a delegate m the Democratic State Con- vention of Alabama in July was sub sequently a candidate for Congress in the Democratic Convention in the Third Congressional Disti let came within three votes of a and is the apologist and defender of such Ku-Klux aa on in Mobile This is the ot whom the opposition of the Worm aie indorsing as unprejudiced and reliable MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS Ifa who by his bw would munt either bust or advertise THK first essential for a perm a swaid is a deep soil PKOR hit it eighty-eight limes out or every last month bonnet la to be your nose this my dear WHY are ladies thieves Because they steal hearts and hook each others sses A m agriculturist tells a story of his having corn thirty-three feet nnd ts tho public to give car to it A combination of Mrs of and a lighted kerosene limp has resulted in serious to Y Canada thistle has got such a foot hold in Missouri that the Legislature is upon to take immediate measures for its extermination JOHN lent a stranger a dollar at Richmond in and the other day the stranger paid him back Step this Prent A paper recently closed an of a young lady by remarking hat had nn amiable temper and was uncommonly fond of THE strongest propensity in woman's says a student of the s to want lo know what is going and he next strongest is lo the job LEWIS says he has found as ugh as 30 per cent of cream in the last of milk drawn from a when he first pint from the same cow had per cent NOT long since a juryman in making with a lady of a boarding house in Mass wanted a reduction made n Ins board he said use sugar in his tea IN repairing the Norwalk hotel he workmen found a large quantity of loney stored behind the front by i monstrous swarm of bees which had been at work for some years THE shingles upon the roof of the First Congregational Church in East says the New Haven placed there nine years and the roof is still IT is altogether too absurd to say that is not Who is there who has not met with many who were perfect strangers and some who were perfect and not a few who were perfect fools A WASHINGTON belle has forty eight pairs of shoes Some curious wretch calculates that if they were heel and in a straight the shortest possible length would be a tion over 110 Register has a wild man sensa- tion a man entirely except when lie covered his head with a white being seen near the village recently At times he would walk on all and starting up would run wildly about It is supposed he is an escaped lunatic IT is but nevertheless that the old-fashioned ar reaching to and sometimes be- low the to be revived in all its ancient and modem glory They are made of quilted cashmere and vet THE Springfield Republican calls upon Massachusetts to believe that it knows a Capabilities of nn Acre J M a market gardener of Gieen Wis furnishes the some statements of his experiments m high culture He has found the rule not a single exception to that the more he has spent in cultivating and the have been the net pi per acre Last season he cultivated fourteen and began with a more and ex- pensive cultivation than ever before The result that there was a of the dryest seasons ever known in that ter spending or per he had a better than in any previous yeai He appears to regard constant especially through thought in connection with copious as nil important Stable manure is the stand with such use of ashes and other manures is and good sense point out you have how to spend money to the best lie re- a be made by lay ing out per acre than with less the second if your land does not pay all its laxes and 10 per cent on per theie is some thing I have some acies of land that did not pay expenses loi two but foi a number ol past have not failed to pay 10 per cent on at lenst per acie 1 expect my whole gulden to ilo than that in a short Ilo thut he is now aiming at bushels of onions per tit then a crop of or or 500 bushels of 01 If or 400 bushels per acre This is not vv holly us we have undei out own tills rate on two thuds ol an acie Y How Catch Wild Fowls A number ol fiom this city and Gold Hill aic at in the mountains hunting and angling Wild duck aie found in some localities in anil the in the sti earns take the hook Wild lowls have uot yet made then m the in any as most ol those shot are kept by the spoilsmen tot own use As Indians will hike the held and m They make laigo swinging ni ts out of which they the fibrous The buik is oil and manipulated und by squaws into which is mlo bulls for use ll is Ihen woven inlo some of which itic forty leel in the being about two inches square These nets aie swung between convenient position ou shore of a luke 01 pond Euily on u some the Indians secrete in a while t into u semi i IK a Hoik ot them Ibe mouth ol They swim slowly IK sit Uing to 1 iki pel il by old The und the wild fowl me in 11 ol nets the Indians in Ibc a sinks and seme I mm Ibc Hies in an opposite mlo the in meshes ol winch they by heads md loot The Indians on then hiding down the and envelop Ibc ks in it i UK mil wolt ol i i s Tbe necks ol Mn buds IK sis soon us mil in UK i in pilis In Ibis in nun i si M i il d Us in SOUK linn s I iKi n il a single haul md UK i loi then HUM in ample loi III I YII I i III nil till to his and then enticed killed SOMEBODY having excused frequent pardons because the State's Prison is very the thinks that the next thing may be a justification of reprieves of men to be hanged because the Com- is out of RECORD is made of the preternatural sagacity of a hoise in N Y He trotted alone into a smithy where day before he was shod He was and in pulling off one of his shoes it was found that a cruel nail iad been driven into bis foot It is not every man who is wise enough to go to doctor when it is or to seep away from the doctor when it is unnecessary A MAN eighty four years who left thirty-seven years ago for parts has just to spend the remainder of his days The cause of his abandonment of lome was the loss of his property his love for drink He left a wife and eight taking with him a yoke of oxen belonging to a and it turned out he has been at work in the West all this time IT'S a Boston lawyer who tells this story Twenty just after I was admitted to the bar in J ailed one evening on the young lady who has since become my wife I made with her little brother and when he ran out of loom heard nm ask his confidentially do you think angels wings are strong enough to cairy lawyers to The good woman's answer was lost in the but in the battle of lite since then the question has back more than A in the State Prison at Mass has just been de- in an imposition which he fully maintained for two years and a hoping to get a pardon He took to lis bed nearly three ago and has lain there ever stating that his low er limbs were paralyzed A few days ngo the prison who was by no means satisfied with the fellow's administered ether to when lie got out of bed and danced around tLe room When the effects of the ether passed away the got into bed where he still remains A fish is f ound in great in the rivers of Alaska It is about eight inches and the of all tlic finny tribe TLis has nol the rancid taste of other but is like fresh lard When these fish arc dried the Indians often turn them to a novel and practical account burn them instead ot candles They give a brilliant and are not to be blown out by the wind Mi at Fort says that the tail should be lighted instead of the and each fish burn about fifteen minutes of Men and Animals Al meeting of the Association the Dean of Dr liyi mode an attempt to trace to the middle and of the hi or cerebrum the mental faculties which we see successfully developed in those animals akin to man He pointed out that in the and man portions of the brain arc ot larger development as we puss from iLc to and accompanying this development we hav the dci of new physical powers lu ILc rodents and there i In si the power of thinking o n set les of e acts In the carniv is a power of design and in thr apes a sense of general pi im Cases weie lo support these audit was in accordance with the corresponding anatomical that the in- tenot lobes of cerebrum belong to icl ot thinking of single objects of those of the middle lobe to the act uf thinking of such objects with a sense of their and of each as part of the and those of tbe posterior lobe to the act of thinking of the coexistence or succession of them as a general Our A What is the of our present nine I am aware they are but bow came they lo assume present What give the figures 8 and tor their peculiar 3 and Q nHb the tops turned cm and V arc the only re- d If you ran your readers any light on this somewhat recondite topic would lie obliged laborious researches have de tbe that the now in use arc not of Arabic origin are to be reckoned among the ingenious of tbe of and date back to some undetermined period before tbe Christian era An obscurity which scholars thus far un- able to clear up envelops the inquiry as to the tune they first known to the Arabs and were introduced into It is supposed by the most learned ers on ihr the Arabs ob- their knowledge of the characters through the who were con- by them in and adopted religion and one of Tlic so called Arabic figures resemble Persic which are those in popular use throughout India worthy authorities fix the period at which the Arabs acquired the numerals as late as tho middle of the thirteenth century Others believe the called by the were brought to during the reign of or his immediate and certainly not later than the time of and thence carried to Spain during the end of the tenth or beginning of the eleventh century A know ledge of the so-called Arabic was soon communicated to the learned men of Europe The mers of France and German v seem to lave first employed them in the in composing which were sent to the various religious louses By Ibis means the characters were generally diffused through Europe One of the oldest authentic dates in tbe Arabic numerals is that of which vas written by Petrarch in a copy of St The college accounts in the English universities were generally kept n Roman numerals until the ning of the sixteenth century The Arabic characters were not used in the registers before 1600 The oldest date met with in Scotland is that of which occurs in the rent-roll of the cese of bt Andrew's The forms of several of the figures have undergone considerable change since beir first introduction into Europe In he oldest manuscripts the figures 5 and 7 are most unlike the present The 4 consists of a loop with the mds pointing the some ness to the figure and the 7 is simply an inverted V In the dates used by in the year 1480 ts present but the 5 and 7 are still very unlike the same characters of There is no reason assigned for hese which appear to have been and the result of choice rather han introduction Nor hare we crer met with any attempt to attach an cs significance to tbe forms of the minerals If there be a symbolism den in their mold it has yet tn be un- Tribune Front of Rats IF bright eyes and smooth fur arc of animal a rat should not an object of disgust and mt when the rat appears in his thou he certainly inspires the greatest loathing in the human breast The notion of swarms of rats running over each other to reach some hapless and forming a seething mass in- stinct with hunger and is one ever present to sufferers from nightmare or students of historical novels These un- the IT rat's nest Thirty thousand were killed last year in the Central in tbe Market in he in the butch in the grocers in tbe tanners in the total of to which sum must be added about which elude so that Paris boasts of a standing army of thing like rats Some idea may formed of the magnitude of this host from the fact that if a of Parisian running ten were to start from Paris to the would reach the nan capital while tbe rear guard was from the gales of the French metropolis But then there is profit for ll in them Of the haps nearly all went to the where their skins are turned into prime Forney's Frets A Monkey AH previous narratives of intelligent proceedings on the part of animals are brown into the shade by the following of a medical described the Oriental correspondent of a lon journal He one day saw a monkey a snake by the throat and bing its head in the but as the was moist and tbe snake was not readily killed by this mode of Every now and then u.c uonkey would look most know ingly in he face of tbe reptile to see if it w as and in the course of one of these the monkey received a vere bite This angered him and he speedily dispatched tbe but its coils had hardly relaxed before the cey reeled and fell apparently n all the agonies of death by poison By his time an monkey ar rived on the and after examining he body of the snake and the ue started for some ng where be collected of the plant known as the These he rapidly and skillfully into a sort of w bich he administered to his com- who speedily revived and walked off with his physician The story is de- clared to come from trustworthy sources The Calculation The results of some arithmetical lems are simply incredible till the ess by which they are reached is lowed step by step It not surprising in spite of the notoriety of the famous two persons accepted the offer of a known fanner in the Brechin who lately proposed to pay the expend of a picnic to thirty farmers one of them would bring to him in the on Tuesday one grain of doubling the number of grains every Tuesday for twelve months Upon the offer being one of the parties it according to a local offered to carry all the oats on his back at tbe end of the a lation was which resulted as The grains of oats would amount at the end of the twelve months lo two and the at thirty shillings per was found to be Cd The picnic was not paid but the man who the ot oats stood a round of chain GIVE a man tbe necessaries of life and he wants the conveniences Give him the conveniences and be craves the luxuries Grant him the luxuries and he sighs for the elegancies Let him have the elegancies and he yearns for follies Give him all and be concludes that he has been both in price ind quality ol articles ark was 547 English feet 91 and 54 high
