Show LEGAL HOLIDAYS the following legal holidays were established by the now york legislature any day recommended by the tile governor por bor or by the president as a day of fasting in and thanksgiving ji the he fourth of july tile the twenty fifth day of december the first day of january the twenty second of february in case cage any of these days fall upon sunday the monday ensuing must be the holiday any paper or legal egal obligation falling due on any of these days shall be due and payable on the next tuesday the law will take effect on the first day of august tiie THE RICHEST the tho wealthiest E English noblemen are the duke of northumberland the duke of cleveland the dul dal duke e of bedford the duke dilke of SutlieF sutherland iund lund the marquis bf of westminster and the earl of dudley neither of whose whose incomes is less than a million of dollars a year est has a million anda and a half per annum he could carry on a war or rup a anuw newspaper A CRITICAL OPERATION UPON A LION the brussels journals give an account of a curious surgical operation just performed on the great african lion belonging to the zoological society of that city for some time past the animal has been suffering from disease in the feet which necessitated the cutting of its claws in order to do this without danger a large box was prepared with a grated bottom covered by a wooden noor floor which could be withdrawn so as to allow the lions feet to pass between the bars the top of the rass box ox was also made to descend by means of screws so as to press on the animal and prevent it from drawing in its feet when the lion had entered the box the latter was turned on its side and the sliding bottom withdrawn the paws aws then slipped between tile the bars acx and tile the screws above were tightened M Thier assisted by five pupils of the veterinary school then proceeded to cut cat away the claws the patient bore the operation tolerably well only uttering a short roar occasionally and ancl seemed relieved when the first paw had been cut and dressed A keeper to whom the lion is much attached sat near its head and endeavored to calm it by talking evidently not without effect the operation was successfully performed ea formed and there is every reason to believe believe belleve that the cure will be complete A NEW CHURCH THE QUARTZ MINERS CATECHISM the religion of the people of grass valley vailey sum in this catechi catechism sni sui have you gat a quartz vein rowin Howin how amich tich lich does dees it pay to the ton howmann how many feet have you in it do you believe that quartz will soon be the only deity in california do you believe belleve that when you die if you have lived well on earth that you will have for your reward a rich vein of quartz and a awen ty four stamp mill in heaven do you believe that a true and perfect christian is one who prospects for and finds rich qu quartz dont you believe that fleeing from tho the wrath to come means to keep clear of poor rock on these questions beill belli being 9 answered din Ain in the affirmative and the can able to repeat the lords prayer and the ten commandments he is admitted to the full fellowship of the quartz church the commandments are as follows 1 thou have no other god but quartz 2 thou not jump thy neighbors lode unless it be bb a good one 3 thou not steal thy nel nei neigh gh brya bobp bora tools neither his pick lest lie he pick I 1 k a quarrel with thee nor ilor his shovel iest lest esp in so doing you k go before the scribes and lawyers 4 thou not covet thy neighbors lode nor his specimens pech ilens his mill nor his quicksilver 5 on six days thou work and on the seven seventh go prospecting thio 6 thou sha t not commit adultery by mixing copper with thy gold orleaf with thy quick quicksilver 7 thou not make false pretenses and sell a poor lode by specimens stolen from a rich vein 4 h 8 thou not swear when thy vein 94 peters out 9 honor the man wh j liven ilven 4 quartz that thy luck may be increased 10 thou make and get all the money thou canet and keep it for of such is the kingdom of grass valley the prayer is this our father quartz whose abiding place is the bo bowels of the I 1 earth and whose children are rocky bar Alli sons ranch and tho the old emperors vein hear our prayer give us right now our daily strike forgive us our blunders when we missed striking it even as we forgive those who have struck it lead us not away from the lode and ours be the lode the sulphur ets free gold and baill tailings wealth without end sl so bo be it B bill IV if dadd in golden end erd WHAT A CHANGE said sald aid ald a 01 clergyman turned editor once I 1 serve served ergy a di divine ibi idi c master but now I 1 am tho the slave eatho ito iio the devil who keeps nudging my abow elbow and incontinently shouting copy RAILROAD PROGRESS A gentleman of this city has received a letter from the secretary of the pacific rali Rall railroad rodd road company 13 stating tating that the road will bo be comple compie completed ted tej to Illinois town by the first of october next there are now employed upon the road 2200 men menan and d more will be put t to 0 work as fast as they can be obtained I nevada gazette Ga zedie zetie may the railroad track reached clipper gap on wednesday 43 miles from sacramento and 1800 feet above the sea and passenger and freight trains will commence making their regular trips to that place today to day the stages of the california stage company will run in connection and be withdrawn from this place auburn verald herald loth AN ARTIST WITHOUT ARMS there dwells in antwerp an artist named fil lu who born without arms educated his feet effectively to do their work his taste dire directed eted his choice of life he became a p painter albiter and has succeeded in being a very accomplished 0 one ne he may be seen in the museum copying with great fidelity some fine work or other he balances himself with ease and firmness on a stool grasps his maulstick and pallet with the left great toe and with the right uses his ills brush with perfect facility the toes of his feet are alone exposed SAD STATE OF MORALS it seems that when the pocket comes in play the scruples will vanish A witness in the congressional investigation on the trade with the rebellious rebel libus states testified 1 I do not believe there is an honest man on the mississippi river connected with cotton permits in any way the temptation is so great they cannot withstand it As honest men as you can find in the country go down therland there and become contaminated contaminate 11 it is the spirit of the age acre the moloch of our race this greed for gain S S F P F flag lao lag A WESTERN description Dr OP OF WALTZING A group of splendid ones one is on the floor and lovingly mated the gents encircle their partners arthers art ners wats waists with one arm the ladies ladles la adies and gentlemen closely face to face they are very erect and lean a little back the ladies lean a little forward music now all wheel and whirl circle and curl feet and heel of gents go rip rap rip rap rip ladies feet go tippery tip tippery tip tip then all go rip clip slip snippety flip skip ship ho pity jum pity sump pity thump la ladies ladles T les ies fly y off by centrifugal momentum gents pull ladies hard and close they reel swing slide look looh tender look silly look look dizzy feet fly tresses fly hoops fly all fly it looks tug tu gity I 1 huggitt lug hug ug gity cullity pul lity pres sity uppity rup I 1 rip the men like a eross cross between steelyards steel yards and limber jaeks jacks s 10 beetles and jointed the maidens tuck down their chins ver vei very verv w low or raise them exceedingly high some isome giggle and frown some sneer and all ali a IL sweat swe freely the ladies faces are brought rough against those of the men lilen or into t their air bosoms toes against toes now they are again aill ir making a sound alii alil georgy perrgy deery aery peery didy pidy coached peachey po achey this dance is not much but the extras are glorious if the men nien were women there would be no such dancing but they are only men and so the thing goes on by womans comans love of it M RENAN IN E EGYPT gyrt the number of the acs aes deux beux fondes mondee I which has just made its appearance contains a communication from egypt from the pen en of ernest renan henan M renan henan believes I 1 e v es that he has arrived at definite conclusions not only as to the period when amenophes and rameses reigned when the shepherd kings invaded the awta dalfo but bitae e also fixes an epoch when CI attained a high state and was governed by absolute rmon monarchs who constructed some sonie of those marvelous works which astonished herodotus and continue to be to this day the riddle of the learned he has found in the museum now established by M marletti marietti Mari Mar lettl ettl at cairo sculptures inscriptions script ions statues and cartouches touches car which must have been in existence four thousand bani bant sand band five hundred years before the christian era M renan kenan finds sermons in stones and believes that he has discovered proofs of the existence of long dynasties before Ma had collected his list of the kings who reigned over the land of egypt A chronological eh r on succession of monarchs 11 lie lle e 8 states t ate has been lately discovered discover edat at th the e gr great eat cat t temple emple of which must convince the most ine inc incredulous re bulous that he lie is right in affirming that ho he ar rived at a certain knowledge that egypt possessed a continuous history much anterior to any that we have hitherto belie beile believed vedi and which proves that the globe has been peo peopled led by numerous groups of mankind iong long long iong before former chronologists have hitherto imagined MRS GRUNDY SPOILS OUR GIRLS re rev henry ward beecher gives some good advice about the girls he says A girl is not allowed to be a girl after she is ten years old if you treat her as though she were one she will ask you what you mean if she starts to run across the street she is brought back to the nursery to listen to a lecture on the propriety of womanhood now it seems to me that a girl should be nothing but a girl until she is seventeen of course ther oare proprieties beloli belonging ging to her sex which it is fitting for her to observe but it seems tome to me that aside from froan these she ought to have le the utmost latitude sh she ought to be encouraged cou raged to do much out of doors to run and exercise in all those ways which are calculated to deve develop develon lol iol the tho muscular frame what is true of b boys OY in the matte matter of bodily health is eminently so of girls it is all important that woman should be healthy well developed man alan votes writes does docs business etc but woman is the teacher and the mother of the world and anything that deteriorates woman moman is a comprehensive plague oil on human life itself health among women is a thing that every man who is wise and considerate for his liis race should more earnestly seek and a P promote r 0 at ta en fanny a n i iff fern e says and she ought to inow know its a great plague to be a woman I 1 think ive said that before but it will bear repeating now the wharves are a great passion of mine I 1 like to sit on a glie rile pile of boards there with my boots dang dangling ing over the water and listen to the far off heave lio ho of the sailors in their bright pecks specks of red shirts andsen the vessels unload with their foreign fruits fruit sand and dream away awaya a delicious hour imagining ng the places they came from and I 1 like ilke k to el climb I 1 mb up the sides of ships and poke roun round generally rene rally raily just juat when when vlen mrs grundy would lay her irritating hand on my arm and exclaim what will people think tiie THE QUESTION OF THE WOMEN women are very haughty creatures very resentful of any supposed slight very aggressive besides if they imagine the tile time for attack favorable will they sit down patiently as makers of pill boxes and artificial flowers will they be satisfied with their small gains crains and smaller consideration will there not be ambitious spirits amongst them who will ask what do you mean to offer us we are of a class who neither care to bind books nor draw patterns we are your equals if ir we were not distinctively modest we might say something abre more than your equals in 11 acquirement and information behave we have our sin smattering altering att ering of physical science humbug as you have wo we are read up in theological disputation and are as ready as you to standby stand by moses against colenso in modern languages we are more than your match what have you to offer us if we are too proud or too poor or too anything else to stand waiting for a buyer in the marriage market of belgravia Belgra via ria you will not summer suffer us to enter the learned professions nor the service you will not encourage us to be architects attorneys land agents or engineers we know and we feel feet that there is not one of these callings either above our capacity or unsuited to our habits babits but you cleny deny us admittance and now we ask chatis your scheme for our employment what project have you that may point out to us a future of independence and a station of respect have you such a plan or failing it have you the courage to proclaim to the world that all your boasted civilization can offer us is to become the governesses of the children of our luckier sisters but there are many of us totally unsuited to tp this brought up with ways and habits that would make such all an existence something thin very like penal servitude what will you do with us vaga Maga magazine sire sine PROSPECTS OF tim THE RUSSO ameri amerl CAN car the russian gov contracted with collins and sibley two american gentlemen for an electric telegraph to be laid from the mouth of the amoor to california via bearings Beh rings straits the line is to be opened on the ad of april 9 1870 the permission of the english and american governments having been beell already obtained for their respective territories and every assistance promised by the three cabinets concerned of the required for this gigantic design it is said have been subscribed by the western union telegraph company the rest being covered by the contractors themselves As yet however it is an untried experiment to lay down electric wires in such disagreeable gre gree able cable vicinity to the tile north pole and that in a country inhabited by bears and uncurbed savages in promiscuous variety fancy suspending on wooden ries nies poles doles for a distance of some miles faney fancy an 1 c y conveying all the requisites to the northeastern extremity of siberia and when finished leaving the wires exposed to the winter snows and the no less injurious influence of the summer thaws in southern siberia where the telegraph has reached Ki achta the wires are frequently in crusted with a covering of snow and ice several inches thick andi andy and as a rule break or get got ather wise out of order each winter winten for reasons not published the contractors have however pret preferred erred the ordinary mode mode of structure to any other that might hav been devised the only cable empl empi employed employed being reserved for the short distan distance e between thelast the east cape and the prince of wales cape the line is intended to follow tho western shore of the tho Pacific drom from the amoor as far as and alid on the other side of the ocean will traverse long tracks of russia and america down to vancouver lian IiAn island iid lid bregou and san fran franeisco francisco V Y times mag may 5 VIEWS OF gil gli til LONDON TIMES 0 1 from froin thelon the london mimes times november it Is eviden evident on s smallest re that the south even if nayed could never resist for t |