1 J THI VOL. V. NO. 3 Summer Idyl. Meadow flowers, fair and sweet, Cau you feel the summer ? Can you hear her dainty feet Coming softly, light and fleet ? Will ye not outrun her ? Spring up, white anemone. Graceful as court lady ; Iling, ye harebells, merrily, Hyacinths, stand cheerily, She will greet you, maybe. Blushing red, rose-campion fair, Like a rustic beauty, Hides behind the maiden hair, While veronica, the rare, Opes blue eyes from duty. She is coming, is our queen, Softest breeze shall waft her ; Palmy boughs of freshest green Wave where'er her robe is seen, Little brooks bring laughter. Even* joyous scent and sound Rises sw ift to greet her; E'en the dull, insensate ground Shares the fragrance all around, Let us go and meet her. All's WeH That Ends Well. When Mrs. ex-Congressman Perkins brought home a pre ty waiting-maid, the latter attracted the attention of the whole village. When this fresh young girl was known to frequent ghostly old Mother Prim's desolate abode, the gossips wagged their tongues, and the juvenile cuti'c'e rose in an universal gooseflesh. Mother Prim's cottage door opened to admit Dolly and closed" agam, untouched by human hands. So, at least, claimed the village urchins who were wont to feed their taste for the horrible by watching old Mother Prim as she nightly lipr kinHlinc wood. One night Dolly remained "within that tinlighted cottage until it was time to hasten home to put the hair of Mrs. Perkins in crimping pine, and make her otherwise ready for the reign of Morpheus. Then she stepped alone out into the night a man's voice from within bidding her a tender farewell. Still alone, Dolly sued toward home at a pace that made her own shadow seem to be leaping and running in the moonlight to keep up with her. % She did not reach the Perkins mansion unmolested. At the bridge, the very spot that it had made her heart palpitate to think of, she was intercepted. "I would as soon believe harm of an angel as of you, Dolly, but what means this?" . The man who stopped her spoke as one having authority. " Edward," cried Dolly, " do you watch where you promised to trust ?" It was bitter to the lover to find that the maiden was not glad to see him, and his wrath rose with his jealousy. He said, sternly: 44 Whatever this business is, it has stolen your heart from me. I am not one to brook mysterious aud unknown rivals. I sa,w you come forth from that house where they tell me only an old woman lives. I saw the shadow of ? a man. and I heard his voice. I believe in you, w Dolly, but I also claim your confidence. Explain this to me now, or cast me off forever." Dolly trembled like the moonlight shadows in the summer wind, but she answered bravely: 44 Then this, too, this last sacrifice of all! If only it may not be in vain ! Edward, I am not free to confide in you !" TKo man si!#>nt- As the meanincr of these words entered his heart, he seomeS to petrify. He uttered no appeal. In a moment the night resounded with the echo of his receding footsteps. Mrs. Perkins, in the magnanimity of a sympathetic nature allowed heaha# to be well pulled that night and showed herself worthy to be the mistress of no ordinary maid, by abstaining from teasing her with questions. The following morning, when the lady appeared in fresh toilet in their elegant breakfast room, the Hon. Ur. Perkins, who was a fastidious gentleman, informed her that her rich Jace cap was on awry, and aiso that her necktie was veering as idly as a weathervaue. Mrs. Perkins glanced anxiously at her reflection in a shining coffee urn, where she sawit, combined with ?he reflection of the firelight, t1#TMHow did you Irnow?" she asked/ "Where ' ; is father?" 1 j " My son is safe," mysteriously replied the ! old woman. " He bade me say to you that your tears and prayers were answered; that f \ God helping, for your sake, he would lead a ] j better lifo." Dolly wept. j The old man arose in vague alarm and wrung i his hands, as he feebly paced the floor. 1 , At this sight the devoted old wife turned t ? j , " How dare yon 6care my poor darling !" she cried. Have you no thought for him !" She went to him.*and with a strange; grim c tenderness stroked his gray hair. t " Have no fear," she said to him; " trust t me. I saw the man hovering about here last t night, while the child prayed with her fatherprayers for them, watching for me. I have only waited to look once more at her pretty face that i thought to have seen so many times f -nowI am ready to lead you to a safe place. * Be easy and trust me, darling." With the confidence of a sleep walker or a f monomaniac, the old woman led her charge i forth toward a wood at the rear of the cottage, a She appeared to have utterly forgotten Dolly f who was left sitting there blankly, entirely alone. Some words of the old woman still rung in c her ears. s " I saw some one hovering about here last s night while the child pra.\od." Was Edward c there, her Edward, the representative of a law J and justice that would destroy all of hers ! Dolly was no sophist to questiou the recti- v tude of her position. If her liauds fell list- li less in her lap, if her blue eyes filled with tears, \ it was because she had lost her lover, not be- s cause she had helped to evade justice. , Iu this dejected attitude she sat too much * engrossed in mourning after her lover to see f' him outer. e " Dear, faithful, true, girl, I hare found you out at last," said a voice that electrified her. "Dolly, the whilom proud, piquant Dclly, & threw herself in an attitude of supplication at t! the feet of her lover. v " Do not?oh, do not!" she cried, " hunt (. him down. If you could see him, if you knew of his repentance, his misery?oh, spare him !" 0 " Why, bless your dear heart," answered the s detective, raising Dolly in his arms, 441 g wouldn't touch him if he'd eaten my grand- p mother. How could I know? I was* in hot p pursuit of the five thousand dollars reward to set my little wife up in housekeeping in a style worthy of her. Now she will have to be con- tJ tent with something plainer. But know, you are my prisoner. I can lock you up in jail if I wilL "Now beg mo not to!" 44 Can you tolerate me, knowing all; can you P overlook my being "? p 44 If you will ask with your arms areund my |j neck. I think I can hear it," answered the detective. "InfactI don't think I could tolerate your being the least bit in the world dif- ti fereiit from what you are?" * t Two hours later they appeared before Mrs. j] Perkins, Dolly beaming, Edward looking like a hoin Samson, and a?ked her consent to a ' speedy marriage. f4 That evening Mrs. Terkins triumphantly ex- it plained to her husband that he was altogether a; mistaken about Dolly having anything to do p -villi the murderers. 4* How do you know, dear?" he asked. 44 Why, she is actually to be married in a o; week to" the detective wllo is here hunting for ? them !" This was conclusive, and the Hon. Mr. Perkins ejaculated " Oh !" f< != it Mid-Air Telephoning. ti In tliese days of telephony some inter- ? est attaches to two old-time instances of ct the transmission of sounds for great dis- r< tances, doubtless from some peculiar S electria state of the atmosphere or of the earth. The particulate are these: On , * ? -r* I I 1/ the morning of the battle 01 Jtsuniier " Hill?if the traditions of a few years ago universal in Berkshire, Mass., be true? 11 the booming of the cannon on Charles sx river was distinctly heard in various " towns-on the Berkshire hills. At Lee it 01 was first heard by a man digging a well, P who called his neighbors, and they also ^ heard it. In Pittsfield it was heard by P many persons, and more distinctly by ^ laying their ears to the ground. Captain ; Jared Ingersoll, Hosea Merrill and others C( often spoke of it in their later days to w arsons now or recently living. In 1X1 Wortliington it was first heard by three tx recruits for the army resting by the road- 01 I side with their heads upon their hands w j and their elbowa on the ground. The ' second case was in 1822, and is related 1X. 1 mi tliA nnthoritv of the late Dr. O. S. sx I Root, a physician of high standing and Ul I of more than ordinary scientific culture. J On the twenty-sixth of November in the year named, Samuel Charles, an Oneida ^ Indian, was hung at Lenox for murder, P i and the Berkshire .Greys, a Pittsfield bl military company, acted as guard. At P noon of the day of execution Dr. Root, ^ ! standing on the hill at the foot of South tr ! street, in Pittsfield, heard the sound of 0< their drum and fife so "clearly that it d; seemed within a few rods. He went to P j the brow of the hill, expecting to see the P company marching up the side, but, to S1 his surprise, saw nothing, although the P ' sound continued. It appeared after- ix J ward that at the moment Dr. Root heard ^ them, the drum and fife, the company *s ; were marching down Gallow's hill, in ' Lenox, six miles off. On the same day c< a party fishing on Pontoosuc lake, ten e' miles north of Gallow's hill, heard the slow strains of music proceeding to the place of execution, and then the rapid c< imurch played on the return as clearly as tliOTigh within a few rods. These well | o; i attested cases present a fair problem for | p Professor Bell's solution. f< ? b Women as Bull-Fighters. v After the season of the principal bull- a fights is over, a second series is inaugurated in Madrid, and in this stout young y Amazons take the place of the hardier o brutes who usually play the matadors. I These heroines bind up their abundant q hair with ribbons, and around their n bodies wear a wicker bottomless barrel, f< which protects them against the most furious assaults of the tormented animals, c These women, when dancing before the y j bulls and exciting them to combat, look v more like ponies walking on their hiud g legs than human beings. They are fre- li quently thrown high in the air, and now e and then coming crashing in their osier barrel down upon the spectators. The d animals chosen for this minor series of li combats are ordinarily young, and their f< tormentors avoid killing them if possible, li ! The rings are frequently invaded by crowds of amateurs,who are provided with long, flexible poles, by the aid of <1 which they leap over the backs of the u maddened bulls that rush at them. A few years since, children were 11 introduced into the rings in combat with v ! bull calves, in which the poor, little, i i misguided human creatures were some- ! v times crippled for life by the calves, j ii whose play was too rough for them. | d ;auj iND PORT BEAUFORT, S. FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD. ; Recipes. Kisses.?Beat three fresh eggs to a stiff froth and stir in five spoonfuls finest powdered sugar; flavor with lemon. Butter a pail and lay in white paper ; Irop the mixture on it in cakes of a tea- j spoonful each. Sift sugar over and bake in a slow oven for half an hour. Beef Tea.?Cut up nice lean beef in ; small pieces, put in a small sauce pan or pail with tight-fitting cover. Set this nto a pan of boiling water and cook till , :he juice of the meat is all extracted; ;hen season to the taste. MUFFINS.?-tseai two eggs jvitu uucmlf cup of sugar, one generous tablespoonful of butter and a little salt; add me and a half cups of sweet milk, and hree cups of flour in which is sifted j liree teaspoonfnls of good baking powler. Boat well and bake in buttered 1 nuffin-tins. Yeal Soup (excellent).?A vessel used , or making 60up should never be taken ' or cooking anything else, and should be larefully cleansed after each using. Into ' t put a knuckle of veal (the size known is a ten-cent one is large enough), three [uarts of cold water, a small quantity of j alt, and one small tablespoonful of unooked rice. Boil slowly, hardly above ' immering, four hours, when the liquor hould be reduced to half the usual [uantity ; remove from the tire. Into the \ ureen put the yolk of one egg, and stir rell into it a teacupful of cream, or, in fJ tot weather, new milk ; add a piece of j utter the size of a hickory nut; 011 this tram the soup, boiling hot, stirring all ' he time. Just at the last beat it well ' or a minute. This soup is economical, * asily made and delightful. * Tomato Catsup.?Boil one bushel of \ omatoes until soft; squeeze them ( hrougli a sieve; add half a gallon of ( inegar, one pint of salt, two ounces of f loves, quarter ounce of allspice, two f rtorflnna nor>nor tlnPA tnblp UUVCO \JL y v nuv , poonfuls black pepper; mix these toother, and boil not less than three ours; pour in a jar or keg till cool, then ottle ; it will keep well ; the cloves and llspice put in whole; when boiled strain krougli a colander. Beef Hash. ?Use stale bread soaked i milk or water; season with butter, epper and salt and a little onion clioped tine. Make into cakes and fry a ight brown. Potato Cakes.?Boil some white poltoes, mash them very fine, adding salt, utter and milk as if used as a vegetable; iien mold them in sufficient sifted flour ) make them into a soft dough ; roll lein out 011 the paste-board about an mil tlimk put, in small souare cakes lk! fry on a griddle with equal parts of ^ ml and butter ; cook slowly turning but ' nee. Tliey are nice for breakfast, or an 1 rdinary lunch. c pecilir for Insert** and Mildew in OrclmrilN. ^ We have been asked to give a formula j >r some wash that will prove beneficial c 1 keeping insects and mildew from fruit \ :ces. The following is probably as j ood as anything that has yet been dis- s Dvered for that purpose. It has been j jeommended by a meeting of fruit rowers, among whom was Prof. 0. f liomas, our State entomologist: c Insects and mildews, injurious to the f >aves of seedlings and root grafts, can s e kept in subjection or destroyed by a n ee use of a combination of lime and y llphur. Take of quick or unslaked *< me, four parts, and of common flowers s F snlnhur. one part (four pounds of sul- i, 1 J * ># .. liur to one peck of lime); break up the ? me in small bits, then mixing the sul- u hur with it in a tight vessel (iron is [j est), pour on them enough boiling g ater to slake the lime to a powder ; 3ver in the vessel close as soon as the ater is poured on ; this makes also a tost excellent whitewash for orchard ees, and is very useful as a preventive l I blight on pear trees, to cover the a ounds in the form of a paste when cut- u ng away diseased parts. Also for coat- c tg the trees in April. It may be con- v dered as the one specific for many d oxious insects and mildew in the or- 1, iard and nursery ; its materials should I e used quite fresh, as it would in tims ecome sulphate of lime and so lose ite ri WlierAvcr dnstinc of lime is I ? )oken of, tliis should- be used. This a reparation should be sprinkled over j, le young plant as soon as or before any ouble from aphides, thrips or mildew a 3curs, early in the morning while the j ew is on the trees. This lime and sulhur combination is destructive to these 1 ests in this way ; first, by giving off ilphuric acid gas, which is deadly a oison to minute life, both animal and r ingoid; and the lime destroys by conict the same things, besides its presence s i noxious to them ; neither is it injurious I > common vegetable life, except in ex- o ?ss, unless the lime to the foliage of rergreens.? Western Rural. j CJoocl Breeds of Fowls. ^ The four best breeds of fowls in this I mntry are : 1. Light Brahmas, the finest form,one f the largest, the most beautiful, very * eaceable, confined by a fence three or nir feet high, require each only one ushel and three pecks of mixed grain a * ear, cost of feed $1, and lay 150 eggs nnually of very large size. 2. Plymouth Rocks, produced fifteen 1 ears ago by a cross of Dominique fowls n an Asiatic breed, not quite so large as 1 Irahmas, very hardy, consume same c uantity of feed as lirahmas, and lay as 11 iany eggs as that breed?a fine market 2 awl. 3. Leghorns, a small fowl, various ? olors, all good, require a high fence to j ard them, non-sitters, too small to sell ? rell dressed, eat a bushel aud a half of rain in a year, not very hardy, combs 1 iable to freeze, valuable only for their ( ggs, lay 150 to 200 each in a year. ( 4. Hamburgs^ several colors, a splenlid little fowl, non-sitters, not quite as irge as Leghorns, require the same 1 ood, noted as splendid layers, and that, ? ike the Leghorn, is all they are good for. To Keep a Fowl llousr. 1. Clean out every day, and sprinkle 1 ry earth or coal-ashes over the floor and * mder the roosts. 2. Change the material the nests are j a ide of once every month, and white- t rash the nest boxes with hot whitewash. < 3. Paint the roosting poles every week t rifcli kerosene, and whitewash the whole j aterior of the hennery even* two months s uring spring and summer. ? FOR1 ROYAL C< C., THURSDAY, The Actor and the Emperor. The following anecdote is related ! apropos of the Russian Emperor j Nicholas, father of the reigning czar, whose fondness for the stage and artists { led him to institute a Theater Francais at St. Petersburg. He always treated the actors with great kindness, almost bordering on intimacy. The emperor often took long, solitary walks; and, to prevent troubling the tranquility of his promenade, it was strictly forbidden to , address a word or present a petition to ' him under pain of a fine or imprison- i ment. One day a comedian met the emperor, and, removing his hat, bowed respectfully. It happened that this . actor was a particular favorite of the j monarch, and on the day in question was to appear in a new piece. " AJi! is that you?" said Nicholas. "Well, my friend, I hope you are going to make us laugh to-night." " Sire, I shall do my best to please you," was the reply. " Well, well, I trust to you," said the emperor. ~ ... AT i. Some steps lurtlier on, as uie acwr uuu- j tinned his way, he was accosted by two Dfficer8. " Come w*ith us," said one of them, taking the artist by the arm. "Go with you! "Where to?" " Why to prison, of course. You have just spoken to the emperor." "Not at all," said the ictor; "it was his majesty who spoke to me." " Come, there is no use arguing ?march ;" and the poor actor was Iragged off to prison and locked up. * * * * It is eight o'clock. The imperial Theater is crowded with Russian nobility. The emperor enters his t>ox, and is received by his ministers and generals. He bows several times, then jits. It is customary in Russia on the jeating of his majesty fdr the performince to commence. Nicholas, like Louis YIY., disliked waiting; but the performance does not begin. An aide-decamp is dispatched to inquire into the ?ause of the delay. He soon returns ind announces that the comedian has ailed to put in an appearance. A useless search is instituted?the actor has disappeared. The emperor summons the general of police. Questioned by his najesty, he knows nothing of the whereibouts of the actor. "It is your busi less to know everything," says tne czar, vith lowering brows. " I give you five ninutes to find out and pull up the curain. Go." Tliereupon all the agents )f police are set to work, and with such mccess that, at the end of three minutes, he general of police comes and anlounces to his imperial majesty that the ictor has been incarcerated for having lared to address him in the street. The imperor laughs long and heartily. "Go, ;ir, and order the performance to comuence, and after the representation you ' rill bring the hapless prisoner here." ' -Vhen the actor found himself a prisoner lis fury hail been uncontrollable. But >y degrees he had calmed down and had letermiued to abide the course of events, aaking no efforts to regain his liberty. iVhen he appeared on the stuge the ein>eror himself gave the signal for the vation which greeted him. The assem?ly had learned the whole affair and was iterally convulsed with laughter at the erious face the comedian wore. At ] he end of the performance he was conlucted to the imperial box. " My dear ; ellow," exclaimed the emperor, who ouldnot help again laughing at the piti- ; nl mien of the actor, "lam really very ! orry for your misadventure, and to lake vou amends I grant you, before j1 ou ask it, any favor you ask of me." 'Sire," said the exasperated comedian, till a pray to nervous irritation, "I iave only one favor to ask, and that is hat you never speak to me again." The ! ext day he received in a casket, which ore the imperial anus, a superb watch, tudded with diamonds. A Detroit Bashi-Bazonk. George Carlysle, a prisoner with a >Iack eye and a deSolate look, mounted | ] barrel on Jefferson avenue, at mid- j I light, and harangued a crowd. The 1 rowd was composed of one old man, < rlio was looking for a soft bed in some ; loorway. Mr. Carlysle didn't ask the : one old man to assist him to mob the J liddle House, but said : " Gentlemen, I leave for Europe tomorrow to tafce part in the glorious 1 truggle for freedom, truth, religion, ' nd?and sunthin' to drink. Who will i oin me ?" The lone old man sat on the curbstone < nd looked around as if he wanted to i oiu a square rueai. ' Thou coward !" hissed the orator, as le looked down upon the crowd. The old man stared across the street at , patent hitching post, and made no eply. "I'll begin the war right here!" houted the orator, as he fell off the >arrel. " Square off, old man, and look iut for jour nose!" The lone crowd dusted down the street < 'elling " Murder!" at the top of his oice, and Carlysle was arrested as he lursued. " What business have you with this European muddle?" asked the judge, as ' le looked down upon the drunkard. ' And, further, who hit you ?" "Fell agin a house," was the mournul reply. " Do you want to go to Europe ?" " I'd like to be counted in when war ages, your honor." *4 You are a nice specimen to be around < lollerincr for freedom!" sneered the soiirt. " You'd better holler for soap ind water and a clean shirt. When did rou wash last ?" " Wasn't I around during the last var?" protested the prisoner. "I'm 1 ust aching to be on the skirmish line i ilong the Dan-u-be." " You'll be aching to get out of the louse of correction before your sentence expires. I'm going to make it sixty lays." " Very well," quietly replied the man. ! ' I shall stay up there just seven minltes by the watch, and then run the piard and take the first t rain lor Europe." " Write me from Kalafat or Erzeroum, ind don't give me any more informs- 1 ion," remarked the court, and that ended he case.?Detroit Free Pre**. ?^ A Western Munchausen writes to a San Yancisco paper a long account of a secluded ribe of Indians who in winter sink their chillren (wrapped in air tight caskets of birch >ark) under the deep waters of the lake in i heir vicinity, aud in the spring raise theni up rom ' the botioni of the lake Alive and well, i ifter being six months dormant and uncon- ; clous. t t: DMMERCIAL. JUNE 28, 1877. THE CZAR'S WILD CAVALRY. Freak* of the I'ntnuied (.'omnrks?How they Hide and Play?Horses that can 3Iouut a Table. ? 1 t A Kischeneff correspondent writes : r " The Cossacks are divided into several ] corps?the Cossacks of the Don, the ^ Cossacks of the Ukraine, the Cossacks of T the Caucasus, etc. Each of these divis- c ions has a chief, who is called an ataman t and holds the rank of general, and all the J Cossacks of the empire are united under j a single chief, who has the title of the ^ "ataman general." This latter title t always devolves upon the hereditary E grand duke. The Cossack clothes and t equips himself, and his uniform and his horse belongs to himself. He wears a t large, round, low cap made of skin from t Astrakan, wide pantaloons, stuffed into E his boots and reaching just below his knees, the whole covered by a kind of 8 overcoat, buttoning on the back, and having three long flaps reaching to the j b feet and fastened on the full length. On ? his breast, to the left and right in vertical p cases, he carries six cartridges at each p side. In his belt he carries a poinard. y A baldrick hangs from his right should- b er and passes to the left side, where it b supports a long saber in a leather scab- tl bard. On his back, hanging from a bandoleer and wrapped in a cas* made of f goat's skin, he carries his rifle. The f, Cossack always carries in his hand a ti whip, with a short lash, which he calls g, kinjal. His horse is small and rather r< ugly, and, though he is made of good n stuff, his form is somewhat angular. To a form an idea of the Cossack saddle, tl imagine an ordinary saddle upon which q would be fastened by a strap a square f< leather cushion about four inches high, g This is the reason that at first sight one a is so much surprised to see this curious looking cavalier perched up so high on jj his saddle. He sticks on his horse's t< back by sticking his knees into the ani- tl mal's sides with all his strength, which A ?- ? ? ? I- - ? I - r\f r% rvaiv gives xiia legs mc uppruxuucc ui u |jau ui pinchers. The stirrup is an equally t< curious thing. The bottom is round and w thick enough, but from that up it re- u sembles very much one of those tin s] boxes in which preserves are sold. It g has been already said that the Cossack's ff horse is his personal property, and it ff may be added that he turns it to busi- & liesa account by hiring it out. Since the ti arrival of the troops at Kischeneff they w have been the delight of the collegians, x who, for a rouble an hour, have been q enabled to make promenades on horseback in bands on these valiant little e] animals. k: At the time of my arrival the squadron sl of Cossacks was massed in a heap in a iE corner. One of them started at a gallop and threw his cap into the middle of the square. Immediately all the others pvecipitated themselves forward at a headlong gallop and endeavored to pick up the cap either with the hand or the whip or by jumping to the ground. It was a scene of general confusion, during which the eye could scarcely distinguish w liorse3 from men. All this is accom- 111 panied by cries whicli do not cease till some horseman bv an adroit maneuvre " lias managed to obtain possession of the trophy. Then they all start off again, lashing their horses with all their might, p] for it is a curious fact that during the s\ whole time that the Cossack is mounted cc he beats his horse without a moment's cessation. The reader must not suppose u< that it is necessary that the Cossack 10 t *? ? - c - i 1 rnusi iorm out; 01 u uuuu iu uiuci t>u?i/ u, lie may give play to his fantasies. Somelimes when he is alone he lets himself run into certain eccentricities, of which I will give an example. ^ I was breakfasting in a restaurant when all on a sudden the door opened ^ with a loud noise and a Cossack rushed -! in like a hurricane. After promenading noisily around the tables he pulled up bis horse before one of the guests and n< placed the animal's nose on a plate of tL careen salnd which had just been brought ?( out and which the horse ate with great D celerity. Then man and horse departed just as they came, without any person, 1S not even the proprietor of the establishment, saying a siugle word. Perhaps it was because the Cossack held in his hand the kinjal, whose strokes would ar cost him nothing. Later on I spoke of this incident to the aid-de-camp of an ei ataman, who simply laughed and said ti "What surprises me is that the Cossack it did not ma?e his horse get up on a " table." Seeing that I was astonished he e: called a Cossack who was waiting in the ti yard. The soldier came in on horseback sc without hesitating. The officer spoke m but a single word and in less time than w it takes me to write it the Cossack made w his horse mount the billiard table. I h insisted on no more, for this experiment b< was enough to edify me. As much will y< be said of Cossacks iu this war it may be is well to give an account of this peculiar ol cavalry. However astonishing may be g< the acts attributed to them the reader tl may - accept the statement with con- pi fidence ; for the truth of the stories can hi be establishe^by good evidence. Already they have made hitherto unheard of marches, and they will be the real heroes of the events about to commence. ^ The reader has observed, no doubt, j( that in every war attention is concen- j trated on some one fact. In the Crimean ^ war the zouaves were the startling novelty. In 1859, in Italy, it was rifled ^ cannon. In 1870 the Uhlans. In the ?j Bulgarian insurrection of last year the Bashi-Bazouks were the feature of great ? interest. This year the Cossacks will ^ play leading part. They will encounter the famous Boslu-iiazouks, wiiom the * Turks will not fail to put in the advance * < guards. We shall then see if the Turkish ^ irregulars exhibit as much readiness to ^ meet and destroy an armed enemy as to aj butcher women and children. ^ The interesting thing about Miss Caroline fj Sulivant, a Boston bride, is given as follows : "When the Grand Duke Alexis visited this tl country the first time, he was fortunate enough C to meet Miss Sulivant at a ball, and the queenly Q beauty of the bright and lovely girl entirely ?f satisfied even his princely ideas. In fact, so Bincere and earnest was the young dnke in his C( admiration that before he left the country he wrote to Miss Snlivant's father and res|>ectfully p] asked for his daughter's picture in order to preserve the finest type of American beauty that -I he had seen. The requt stwas honored." A woman hermit has lived in Twenty-one- Cl Mile Desert, Nevada, for ten years, aud in that ? time has not left her hut except to procure the b< bare necessities of life at a small trading plnce on the Carson river, distant eight or nine miles, Sbe Uvea In equalcr and extreme por* p rty, tf RIB1 $2.00 per The Story of a Mummy. The Nashville American says that for leventeen years the most curious object n the museum of the Tennessee Hisorical Society has been the Egyptian uummv. It has a very singular history, n 1860 Col. Jeremiah George Harris v&r a purser on a United States man-ofear in the Egyptian waters. He went in shore, and was at once ushered into he august presence of the kliedive and lis numerous household. He was walkng out one day with ft member of the Iiedive's staff, when the latter was set ipon by ruffians. Col. Harris, who is a nan of great strength, interposed, and he roughs were vanquished. "What can I do, asked the Egypian officer, " to show adequate approbation of the services you have rendered ae?" " Give me a mummy," laughingly uggested Col. Harris. "A mummy?" repeated the officer, tolding his breath and pondering. ' Did you not know, sir, that our laws rohibit the removal of mummies under ienalty of death ? But never mind; our request shall be fulfilled. Just efore your vessel leaves the harbor a oat will come alongside. It will contain hat for which you have asked." Col. Harris had dismissed the subject rom his mind, but just before the hour or the departure of the ship, three naives were seen pulling toward the Yesel. The boat contained a bundle diected to Col. Harris. This bundle was ot opened until the arrival of the ship t Boston, when it was discovered that liere were six mummies instead of one. 'hey were unwrapped, and the best one irwarded to the Tennessee Historical ociety, of which Col. Harris was then nd still is a member. When Prof. Huxley was here he examled the mummy with a great deal of iuirest, and said.that he believed it to be ie best preserved specimen either in merica or in Europe. About seven months ago a curious visi>r broke one of the panes in the case in hich this ancient Egyptian was put in 360. Almost immediately he began to iow that he objected to fresh air. ome of his toes crumbled and hung own over the foot in a dilapidated conition. A new case was made. The new ise is made of walnut with black velvet immings,and has a pillow for the head, hereas before it rested upon a block, he remains were well dusted,aud looked uite spruce in their new quarters. The mummy measures four feet and even inches, ten inches across the ips, and thirteen inches across the loulders, with hands six and one-quarter tches in length. Beautiful Thoughts. We should accustom the mind to keep le best company by introducing it only > the best books. Flowers arc the alphabet of angels, hereby they write on hills and fields ystcrions and sweet truths. 11 - ?i? *_ ? .Lauguage is ine arnutr iu wuitu <* Lousand precious thoughts have been lielj imbedded and preserved. Let prudeuce always attend your leasnres; it is the way to enjoy the veets of them and not be afraid of the msequeiices. It was an American who said : "We 5e two stones to grind the flour of berty. The lower is the school, the pper one is the Bible." Mauners are the shadows of virtues ; te momentary display of those qualities hich our fellow creatures love and re>ect. If we strive to become then what e raive to appear, manners would often 3 rendered useful guides to the perrmances of our duties. Avoid minutely examining what your jighbors do?or what will become of tern ; but look on them with an eye x>d, simple, sweet and affectionate., o not require in them more perfection tan in yourself ; and do not be astonhed at the diversity of imperfections, r imperfection is ngt greater?merely jcause it is unusual. Behave like the ! ?es?suck the honey from all flowers id herbs. Think twice before you believe every ril story you hear, and think twenty j mes before you repeat it, especially if is about a woman. Say to yourself : This may not be true, or it may be caggerated," unless you have proof of ie veracity of your informant. People >metimes tell falsehoods, they often take mistakes and they sometimes "hear rong." There is auricular illusion as -11 ? ?i:?i ? riuVa .n oco I en lis upuuai lliumuu, an. utvnv ings into consideration before you even elieve. As for repeating the story, ask Durself if it is necessary. It sometimes necessary. Then do it with the fear I God, and the remembrance of the jlden rule, before you. Let us give le helping hand, not the downward ush ; so may the angels reach their inds toward us when we stand in need. A Long Branch Mansion. The*most superb place in all Long ranch is the private residence of Mr. :>hn Hoey, who has become celebrated 1 over the country. Mr. Hoey has sout une hundred and sixty acres. Tho reatest display is to be found in the rounds, statuary and hot-houses, in all j I which the owner has shown remarkably , 3od taste. The grounds are beautifully raded with slate, which is ground into nail particles above New York city, ad brought by rail to Long Branch, bout the ground are about thirty pieces : statuary. The greenhouses are very ctensive. We passed th rough one of reive sections of seventy-five feet each, ad one just being erected four hundred :et by thirty. In these houses there is le greatest floral display, probably, in le country. There is one specimen of j te Latanica Borbonica, a native of liina, which is said to have cost $800. ' ne of the greenhouses was brought! om the Vienna exhibition in 1873, an I >st $8,000. The greenhouses altogether re said to have cost $30,000, and the lants $10 000. They are lighted with is at night, and present a most enchautig appearance. In the summer season 1 these plants are brought out and oc- ; lpy the ground in front of the mansion -a space of about 4,000 yards,and mini- ; 2r some 2,000,000 plants. About twenty- | re men are employed constantly during ! le winter season and about fifty during i re smuoaer,-~Trtntr-n Gazette* jne! Aim Single Copy. 5 Cents. Items of Interest. This is the season when baked clams like to hide in fat men. Alexander Bell, of Pike county, Ala., aged nine, is two hundred and forty-live pounds, and still spreading. " Be content with what you have," as the rat said to the trap, when he saw that he had left part of his tail in it Peril's population is declining. The decline is said to be due to earthquakes, civil war and brandy, particularly brandy. Ti. ?-vA iltA Iam/IaaA a*n?As?Ana f Viof oVlAV XI 19 IIUI liiu luuuvob CA|UVOOAVUO vuw ,? ; the strongest feelings. Still waters run deep, i and a watch ticking can be heard further than I a bed ticking. "Well, boys, here's for perdition!" said Alouzo Leister; and he coolly lay down on a bar-room door in Yolo, Nevada, and shot himself through the head. The streets in front of employment offices in San Francisco are so obstructed with men seeking work that business firms lately petitioned the chief of police to keep a passage clear. Bob McCullough stole money from his father, in Louisville, and gambled it away; and, when reproved for it, he took a club and broke $6,000 worth of mirrors in the father's furniture store. Maps of the war in the East are developing some very remarkablfe names of towns in Asiatic Turkey. " Near Erzeroum are Hush, Chewh, Gumgum, Chynyss, Bass, Tatoss, Kian. Sars, Kornyank and other appetizing corporations. Neighborly telegrams?"Can't stop a minute ? baby's crving; but I just ran over to tell you that Mrs. Jones' husband camo home a moment ago just as unsteady on his legs as he could be. Only think! Must go?knew von were not at the window. Good-bye, love! Special by cable: Tultscha, May SO.?Editor Express: Your map has changed the whole aspect of the campaign. My arm^ will move on St. Fetersburg at once, aixiui nenm Pasha. P. S.?Send on six gross of your excellent maps at once. My major generals are all weeping for them.?Buffalo Express. The streets of London, if placed in one line, wouTd form an avenue of 7,000 miles in length. In the daily cleansing of the streets about 14,000 men tind employment, and 6,000 horses and 2;400 carts. The engineer-in-chier has a salary of *10,000. The work goes on day and night, but the actual sweeping does not commence until eh; lit r. m. ''William," said one Quaker to another, "thee kuows I never call anybody names, but, William, if the governor of the State v should come to me and say : ' Joshua. I want thee to tind the biggest iiar in the State of New York,' I would come to thee and say : ' William, tho governor wants to see thee , % particularly.'" Fashion Notes. " Modesties " are the collars and collarettes worn over high-neckei dresses or street costumes ; some are finished with Valois ruffs, others have ruffles and chicoree ruches of frayed silk, or scarfs aud knots of crepe de chine ; they fasten at the back. Bonuets have strings now ; when of ribbons they are often tied on one side with a loop and ends, near the ear ; when of thin material and long, they are caught under the chin, and then confined again at the belt on the left side by a bunch of flowers or a rosette. Carmine, one of the new colors, is a pure shade without an intermixture of yellow ; it is very much used ; but white and the soft cream tints are so much worn .'r. PiiKiiid that ? T?reneb writer romnares 1 LI JUUXV^/V VUuv ?.? jk, a - ? the appearance of a French salon to a dish of floating island on whipped cream. The long scarfs of net or gauze worn with round hats are made to serve as veils, and are also wound around the neck ; when they are of black net dotted witu gold embroidery or colors, they give a Spanish effect. * Blue and yellow striped gauze, called " Athenian," is much worn on chip bonnets and hats. White dotted muslins, trimmed with Smyrna lace, or with torchon laces edged with color, are made over colored lawns and looped with bows of ribbon. All white will be more extensively used ; tine white camel's hair is a favorite material, and is sometimes striped with satin or grenadine ; thin white organdies and Swiss princesse dresses are made with the basque back, and trains fulled on in box plaits or knit plaits, held under sashes of silk. A Few Items for Mothers to Bead. A correspondent, in writing to the Middletown Press, offers the following seasonable suggestions to mothers of afflicted children: We hope that mothers will remember that good brandy is a core for summer complaint; in bad cases a teaspoonful in milk three or four times a day. A flannel cloth, wet in hot brandy, or better, camphor and brandy mixed and heated, will relieve the pain of the bowels, if frequently laid over the stomach and bowels. Bits of scraped ice are better on the tongue than drinks of water. For stings and poisons, a strong solution of saleratus and water immediately and then frequently applied, gives relief and sure cure. For burns, an immediate application of fl ur covering the burn and wrapped so as to exclude the air; then burn lard -l- -3 till it is quite brown ana appiy, uuu relief and cure will soon come. Do not wash off the flour if it clings, but put the lard over it. At night, in extreme warm weather, a lemon squeezed in tepid water, to sponge oft* the tired-out little body, will give rest to both the mother and child. Saleratus is good, but the lemon is best. Even washing off the little feet, neck and palms of the hands in tepid, never very cold, water, will induce a healthful sleep. FaLselj Convicted. A singular case of false conviction has insfc reached its sequel and conclusion in Germany. In 1869, at Halberstadt, a mill was burned, and one of the mill lioys, named Schroder, was arranged for setting it on fire. Chiefly on the evidence of a fellow employee, he was convicted and sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment. Last year, however, after lie had served seven of his fifteen years, his comrade, Gunther, reappeared on the scene, and confessed, not only that he had sworn falsely at the trial, but also that, instead of Schroder, he liimself was the incendiary. Schroder was at once released, but penniless, and almost ruined in mind. To an application for indemnity, the court replied that no funds existed for that purpose, and every thaler that had been raised for the poor fellow has come from private subscriptions. Now, then for the sequel. The real criminal was recently tried, not only for incendiarism, but also for perjury, convicted, and sentenced to six years ; that is to say, one vear lees than poor Schroder bad suffered: