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E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and rroprietor. * A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literature and Politio?.
VOLUME I.
NUMBER 51.
TIMELY TOPICS.
' TUE recent Ticean flood is swelling
tho streams in a manner calculated to
do much damn go through tho country.
MOODY and Sankey. concluded not to
go to Paris, and Will probably bo back
in the United States by the middle of
August.
EMIGRATION to California foll off
noorly thrue-fourths in tho month of
June", which was lucky for tho stay-at
homes.
THE Baltimore American says the
grasshoppers have made their appear
ance in Frederick county, Md., whore
clover and ryo crops aro particularly
abundant.
: * THE Chinese have, for the first time,
whipped the Formosan savages. These
aborigines number 20,000 only, aud yot
Urey have kept in terror about two
millions of Chinean settlers.
THE revenue officials havo abandoned
tho idea of placing a rovenuo stamp no
every cigar, and smokers can still inhalo
the dreamful vapor without tho dis
oom/ort of the bnrnt paper taste.
JAY GOUT/D intends to remain king of
Wall street. Ho proclaims his power
by allowing the New York Tribuno to
publish the facts that ho owns 100,000
shares of tho Union Pacifio stock. The
present value of this amount of stock is
$7,600,000 ; but no doubt much of it is
bought with borrowed nionoy, and hold
on a niargin. Gould ia of Jersey birth,
and is now past sixty. Ho was brought
up a leather dealer in what is called
V The Swamp."
ORDERS have been aont by Gen. Terrv
to the commander at Fort Randall, to
expedite the dopartnre of a cavalry
force at that point, under orders to
proceed direct to the Black Hills, and
bring out all persons found there with
out authority. Meantime, so far as we
can observe, tho gold excitement seems
to have almost entirely died out, j
THE monument for Edgar Allan Pce's
hitherto nogleoted gravo will be com
pleted in October. A small stone hali
a foot high and three inches square now
marks the poet's resting place in thc
Baltimore graveyard. Tho new mona
ment will be surmounted by a bust ol
Poe, which is said 'to bo an accurate
likeness.
IN addition to tho shortage in th?
United States treasury caused by tin
thoft of the $17,500 paokage, there is t
$1,060 shortage in tho redemption di
vision, whioh was discovered in January
This was reported by treasurer Nov
when he took charge. Otherwise tin
funds are all straight, and Spinner ?B t<
bo congratulated.
Ar-noros of the recent shipment o:
Florida fruit direct to Chicago, thc
Mobile Register says that, with some
improvement in railroad facilities ant
proper, oo-operation among the ship
'pera, prudent and industrious farmeri
jCOTdd. realize more from vegetable
gardens in Alabama in six woeks thai
they could make in 'a twelve-niontl
; upon nu Iowa or Illinois farm.
THE British government has fnlfillei
. its pledge .to appoint a royal commissioi
to inquire into tho subject; of vivisec
tiona! experiments. Tho instruction
- io the commission are to inquire int
tho practice of subjecting livo animal
to experiments for scientific purpose*:
_ and to consider and report what mea*
ures, if any, it may be desirable to tak
in respect to any such praotice.
Mn. JOHN BRIOHT writes thus sens
bly to a Glasgow workingman: "
. book, and not a small one, might I
mado np of the strange doings of tl
trade unions. Monopoly is hard i
teaob, and I- fear tho workingmen wi
only learn through Bullering, and tin
may do mischief whioh caunot aile
ward be repaired." The adviceappli
' cqnallywell in this country, and t!
recent Pennsylvania coal tro ?blca affo
an apt illustration of its truth.
KENO GEOROE^O? Greece, seems to
in an unhappy predicament. His kin
j dom is threatened with a revolution ;
is unpopular, aud nobody takes I
hat off to him on the .streets; t
queen has been insulted, and ho
afraid to go io the Hellenic Lo
Branch, at Dekeleia, because he thin
it quite probable he will not be able
. get back into his capital again. T
Russian ships aro ready at tho Pire
* to^eawy him* away in ease of a revo
tion.
THE trial of the noterions John
Lee for complicity in the Mounti
Meadow massacre of 1857 will not coi
of! until tho 15th inst. Tho difficulty
in this caso will bo that ef obtaining a
proper jury, as |ho Mormon element is
vory strong nnd^irojudieod in TJOO'S
favor. Lee was indicted last Octobor,
mid tho witnesses against him will bo
porBons who witnessed tho massaoro
when children, seveutcon years ngo, Lee
and his fellow-murderers having spared
that number. The Mormons ol aim that
tho Indians did tho killing, but this, it
is said, can be entirely refuted.
ON Ascension Day thoro was a horri
ble row in Jerusalem between sumo
Greek and Armenian priests who had
boon allowed by the Latins to moke
uso of a chapel built over what is bo
lieved to bo tho Savior's footprint.
Tho quarrel aroso on a question of
precedence, and ended in a fight. Tho
priests went at it "tooth and nail,"
fighting up aud down tho saored edifico
with such fury that they had to bo sep
arated by Turkish soldiers. Two
Greek priests were wounded, and ono
of tho soldiers, in trying to restore
peace, lost his eye. Tho 'Mussulman
population look upon thojo seotarian
shindies nt Jorusnleni as peculiar illus
trations of tho brotherly ; love which ?B
tho distinguishing mark of their Ch nu
tian fellow subjeots.
TIIE cf at no of Lafayette, tho gift of
tho French government to tho city of
Now York, reached that port on Wed
nesday. It is tho work of Frederick
Bartholdi, a- native of Alsace, and. is
Boven feet high exclusivo of tho pedi
ment. The project of its presentation
to New York originated with the Thiers
government nnd..nearly $30,000, gold,
was appropriated for its execution in
bronze, The Tribuno says tho design
of tho sculptor represents Gen. Lafay
ette in his twentioth year, at tho time
whou ho joined the continental army.
He stands upon a ship as if in the act of
speaking. His right arm is extended,
and the left is thrown across his chest,
with tho hand grasping tho pommel of
his sword and a mass of drapery which
falls at his feet. The- body is .firmly
poBcd upon tho right foot, while tho
loft leg is extended. The head is
slightly turned to tho right. Tho statue
will be placed in Central Park, and the
unvailing will probably take placo early
in the fall,
Mns. BEAVER is, or was, a materializ
ing: spiritualistic medium. She gave se
ances in Boston of the Eddy and Katy
King kind, and was making dollars in
grokt numbers. One night there was
an unusually large audience, and the
exhibition was uncommonly startling.
In the dim light forms emerged from
tho cabinet, and some of them were at
once recognized by persons present as
reanimations of dead relatives. At
length tho form of a ohild appeared at
the doorway of t ho cabinet, and a woman
said that sho readily recognized it as
her baby that had died a fow weeks be
fore. Then a young follow, full of
earthly realism, sprang forward and
grabbed tho infantilo form, and was
promptly knocked down by tho man
who conducted tho show. Tho investi
gator held fast to tho baby, however,
which, upon examination, proved to
hnvo eon materialized with rags and n
mask.
LOOK ont or moro earthquakes. An
examination of tho history of theso sub
terranean disturbances shows that each
great earthquake-say of the dimen
sions of tho recent ono at Ououta, in
which ten thousand lives were lost,
has been followed for o certain period
by innumerable leBBor ones. In tho
Hummer of 1868, the coast of Chili and
Peru were shaken by terrible earth
quakes, in which many lives and a vast
amount of property wore lost, and, just
two months later, on October 21, San
Francisco was shaken so violently that
buildings cracked from top to founda
tion, and fissures throwing forth jots of
water- opened--in tho streets? in- tho
same year : the Hawaiian volcanoes had
violent oruptions, and the subjects of
Kamehameha were mado sea-sick by the
continued swaying of their islands. In
the same year VeenviuB opened ont
with a fresh emption. The groat
earthquakes of Caracas, in Venezuela,
and New Madrid, in the United States,
occurred just six months apart. If
we are to regard those precedents, an
other great upheaval may bo expected
somewhero on the American continent
between thisdimo and tho 1st of Janu
ary. Tice has booked us for cata
clysms, cyclones, and earthquakes,* and
similar lively occurrences during the
month of October, Taking it altogether,
tho prospeot for the remaindor of 1875
is deoidely uncomfortable for everybody
except Elder Thnrman hud his fol
lowers.
THE ARCTIC EXr LUKER.
From leafy England far away,
lils 1 mm i? aro laid ;
Not wlicro tho lark ealnloR tho ilay,
Nor where white lambs lu nieadow? i>loy,
lu thu creon Bbacte.
Ho UCB within a lcaflcse laud,
In tho cold enow ;
Whom no kind foot or kindlier hand
Can visit bim, or weave a baud
To Bolton woe.
Tho white drift whirling all around
On Bea sud shoro ;
They took him from tho ship Icc-bannd,
Ami InUl him gently In tho ground
Foi overniore.
And though no English larku shall thron?,
Above his grave,
To pootho his clumber with tliolr Bong,
Ho He? poctirn from n'ortal wrong -
O sweet aud brovt?l
Tho Merrel of tho Polar Sea
I? yet concealed ;
Bat to thy vision, pura and free,'
Tho Beeret of eternity
Has been revealed !
THE GREAT DBLUGE.
Titree, lliousn UnuR.cu Howl*--Sixty
nillllm>s ot Dollars tu l'ropcrly Known
to Ilnve lt'-eo Lost.
From tho London l'OBt (Editorial), Juno 29.
The geographical position of Franco,
although in many respects highly fa
vored, is finch as to entail npon large
districts of the country a liability to bo
suddenly ilolngod bv tho overflow of
flooded rivera. At TOUIOUHO, such in
undations have occurred ovory twenty
years-or, nt least, in 1815, ?835 and
1855-although never before to tho
same extent as at present, or with tho
calamitous consequences to lifo and
property which wo are now called upon
to record. In 1856 tho whole valley of
tho Rhone was visited in a similar man
ner. The streets of Lyons woro for
many days traversed by boats, and not
only trees and oattlo, but bridges,
cburohes, honsos, even whole villages,
were swept away, and great numbers of
people were either drowned or buried
amid fallen ruins. But when
compared with tho inundation which
has new, we hope, snbsided, nil others
sink ir to comparative insignificance.
A week ago to-dav. our correspondent
tolls ns the river Garonne, at Tonlose,
was unusually bif?h, but no serious
dancer was apprehended, and no pre
cautionary mcasuros were takeu. On
Wednesday tho waters roso rapidly,
and by ten o'olook in the morning they
lind reached the level of the flood of
1855. At two o'clock two arches of a
bridge and twenty houses were swept j
away, and tho floating swimming baths
and lavatories wore torn from their
moorings and hurried down tho torrent^
At five the water overflowed tho -paray,
pet whioh protects the populous quar-'
ter of St. Cyprien ; at G it was ten feet
deep in tho streets, and before night
this qnnrter was cut off from the rest of
the town, tho threo bridges of commu
nication being destroyed. All night
the crash of falling houses and the
cries and shrieks- of sufferers were
heard. On Thursday the flood began
to abate, and' the water had fallen six
feet by tho evening. In the town of
Toulouse alone, it is said, nine hundred
persons have perished and 20,000 are
left destitute. Nearly three thousand
houses have fallen, and the destmotion
of property is roughlv estimated at
from X12.000.000, to .?15,000.000, ster
ling. The whole valley of the Garonne
is said to resemble a vast lake, covered
with fragments of the ruinB of tho
town, ns well as with wreck brou gi it
down from higher, districts, and dotted
with corpses, some of them wearing tho
costume of places twenty leaguos away.
Although it is upon this particular
district that tho calamity hus faiion
with tho greatest force, yet the neigh
boring departments havo also been ter
rible Bufferers. In Aude the crops have
been extensively destroyed. At Bng
nieres de Bigorro the Adour has car
ried away bridges and cottages. At
Verdun (Ariege) more than fifty houses
have fallen, and manv persons have
been drowned. In Tarn-et-Garonne
crops have perished ; and at Eerenonil
lot, a village six kilometres from Tou
louse, only three houses ont of four
hundred aro loft standing. The railway
between Bordeaux and Toulouse is cut
in a dozen places, and the wi a ile coun
try is submerged. Tho power of tho
surrounding districts to assist the
greatest sufferers is crippled by their
own lossfs, and tho communication
with distant parts of the country is
greatly impeded. It is doubtful wheth
er tho description of what has actually
happened will include oven tho greater
part of tho calamity. As tho waters
recede a Burface saturated with mois
ture will bu exposed, and this itnrfaco
will be strewn with the corpses of men
and animals in every stage of decom
position. Exponed to the exhalations
hence arising there will be a large pop
ulation reduced to absolute want-de
pendent upon charity for all tho neces
saries of life, destitnto alike of clothes,
of food, of shelter and of employment.
To communities tlriis situated disease
comes with footsteps that aro neither
tardy nor uncortaiu, and it is only by
tho most prompt y and energetic aid
from external sources that tho inhab
itants of Toulouse} oan be saved from
even greater ills,' if such bo possible,
than thoBO whioh have already befallen
them. J
THE CATT8B OF THE 0 AL AMITY.
In order to form an idea of the causes
of tho inundation it is oniy necessary to
glance at the physical geography of the
departments in which it bas occurred.
Tlioy lie on tho northern slopeB of tho
Pyrenees, and oro intersected by nu
merous and rapid rivers, of which at
lea?t four unite to form tho Goronne
before it reaches Tonloueo. There has
beon heavy and continuous rnfns over
the whole of the mountain range, and a
fall of snow at Luz, where it would di
rectly swell tho head waters of ihe Ga
roane. It is said that at least a con
tributory cause is furnished by the
grout destruction of timber in tho dis
trict during tho last century. Troes
not only absorb water largely from tho
soil, but they also prevent tho surface
from being bakad aud hardened by tho
sun, and thoy oheok tho rapidity and
abruptness with whioh rain would
otherwise reach the ground. When it
fulls unimpeded upon dry and barren
hillsides, it will run from them almost
as freely as from the sloping roofs of
houses, and a few hours will carry tho
water of tho mountain storm to swell
the volume of the nearest river. It is
oa'.y to be wise after the event ; but in
a district BO situated there is great room
for measures of prevention, and tho
riparian authorities, whoever they may
bo, should be mtrusted with powers
commensurate to the magnitude of the
roourring evils, whioh, by wise precau
tions, they might do much to mitigate
or avert, Even the tiny floods which
somotimos occur iu this country aro
often greatly aggravated by local neg
lect, by somo silting up of tho channel
of a stream, or by some ill-placed
bridge, whioh forms an obstaele to the
passage of an unusual body of water.
In rivers in which are liable to be
swollen by mountain torrents the chan
cels should bo made tho objects of
unceasing soliciludo, aud the span and
construction of bridges should be de
termined by other than purely local
considerations.
South America.
Advices from Salvador Btate a dread
ful riot took placo at San Miguel, a town
of forty thousand inhabitants, in the
southern part of tho republic A great
deal of discontent has been excited
against tho government by its refusal
to allow a pastoral of the bishop of
Salvador, written in a tone hoBtilo to
tho laws, to bo read in the ohurohes.
There had also been considerable hos
tile feeling among the lower olasses,
owing to Borne regulations requiring
dealers to uso a new market place.
While matters wore in this condition, a
priest named Falacois, preached a
violent sermon against the constituted
authorities, on Sunday, the 29th
ult. That ovoning the mob arose,
attaoked the Oabilao, and liberated
some two hundred prisoners. They
then proceeded to assault the small
garrison, and took the Cuartel, killed
Generals Espinosa and Gastro, out the
former to pieces and threw the pieces
at each other, split tho skull of Gen.
^Castro, _ and threw him ovor a wall,
where he was picKed up by his mother
and died in three days. The garrison
were nearly all assassinated, and many
prominent citizens killed. After thin
the fanatic mob set fire to some sixteen
houses with keroBono. Before tho town
was entirely destroyed, it fortunately
happened that her Britannic majesty's
ship Fantome was at La Union, when
she landed her marines, which allowed
the garrison there, united with some
troops from Amapala, in Honduras, to
march to tho relief of San Miguel and
put down the mob.
The Curate Palacios, at last accounts,
was arrested, with others that had par
ticipated in tho ontbreak, and a good
many of tho inferior rioters had been
shot by un order of President Gonzales,
who had arrived with troops. With the
houses destroyed and pillaged, the
damage is estimated at $1,000,000, and
j commercial failures aro looked for in
? consequence. Tho country has been
declared in a state of siege, and Presi
dent Gonfalon is taking mensures to
establish ordor and bring the perpetra
tors of this disgraceful outbreak to
punishment. The Diario, tho oflioial
organ of tho state, and all pnblio prints,
abound in indignation against tho
priests, who were the instigators of
this savnge and sanguino affair. The
Capitular Vicar of the distriot pub
lished his order appointing Jose
Mannel Palaoios celebrant of tho ca
thedral of San Salvador. Tho munici
pality of this city asked to have said
Palacios removed, but the Curia Ecclo
Biastica paid no attention to tho peti
tion. Ho was continually exciting
hatred between lower and well-to-do
classes, and the result has been de
scribed. One curions and incredible
discovery was made after the murderons
affair was over, and that was that on
the persons of tho dead rebels were
found pay np or ta which read, when
translated, V Potor, open to the boorer
the gates of heaven, who has died for
religion." Signed, "George, Bishop
of San Salvador," and sealed with tho
seal of tho "Bishopric of San Salvador.
A nitoon maro heavy in foal, owned
on Long Island, broke her hind leg, and
instead of destroying her, as is tho
nlniost universal enstom, a votorinary
surgeon peaced her in slings, set tho leg,
and in six weeks the maro was turned
ont all right and none tho worse for tho
occident. Many valuable horses that
are killed booauso they have the misfor
tune to break a limb might be saved bo
following this humane nnd sensibly
example.
-It has been generally supposed that
the wings of a grasshopper ure grown
at a certain stage of its growth, bnt
this theory is now shown to be errone
ous. Mr. Knight, mayor of St. Paul,
Minn., has observed a great many
grasshoppers' skins supposed to bu
dead hoppers. He caught a tully de
veloped hopper with wings and watched
it. In n little time it crawled ont of its
skin, legs and all. Tho new hopper as
"born had a full sot of wings, and
wau quito lively, but not enough to fly.
Mr. Knight is of the opinion that aftor
this ohango takeB place one day is time
o'Jongh to accustom it for its new exist
ence and fit it for emigration,
BRIGANDS.
A Dana ar Koaliert Bonni an Kxpress
Train in Illinois-The Knglnerr ?hot
Dean, ana Kuglno ana Kxpress Car I)e
taclieii.-Ttio?xprcBBBIcB?oiigorOefenas
ills Car Suoocssfulljr.
One of the most high-hauded attempts
at robbery that has over occurred in
Illinois took place at liong Point, a
station on the Vandalia railroad, on the
night of the 8th inst. The dispatches
to the Chicago papers give the follow
ing particulars of the affair :
As train No. G, eastward bound, in
ohargo of Conductor Fraley and En
gineer Milo Ames, oamo up to Long
Point station for water, two men boarded
the locomotivo, one from eaoh side, and
Baid to tho engineer : Pall out !" The
engineer was at first somewhat bewild
ered, when they said again, "Pall out !"
At this he, seeming to comprehend the
situation, said : "All right, I'll pull
out." Tho men then said : "Wo will
run the thing ourselves," and at that
both of tho robbers fired. One of the
shots killed tho engineer instantly, and
tho other lodged in tho cab. Tho fire
man, who was on tho tank, taking in
water, immediately jumped and ran to
the rear of the train, to notify the train
men, he having heard the conversation
and comprehending tho situation.
During these proceedings at the
eugine, a confederate had detached the
Adams Express car, and they then, pull
ing tho engine wide opon, ran her about
two miles enst and Btopped, blowing
"off brakes" to deceive the express
messenger.
They then carno to tho door of tho
ear and said : "Let me in Jaok." He
replied to them: "You s-s of b-s,
I'm ready for you ! If you evor como
in boro, you aro dead mon ! " The rob
bers then commenced firing into the
cur. Tho messenger, Burke, said it
seemed to him that there were a dozen
of them, as the shots seemed to come
from all directions.
Tue conductor of tho train-men, after
the shots were fired, saw the situation
of affairs, and at once set about to pur
sue the robbors. They could only
fiud one revolver on the train, but found
two soldiers on board a ear, who were
armed with carbines. With these
woapous tho train-men and the soldiers
stnrted in pursuit of tho train and rob
bers, but when they came up to tho
train all was quiet, the robbers having
lied. They found the engineer in the
bottom of his cab, cold and stiff.
There ohanoed to bo a freight engin
eer, Jaok Vanoleve, on the train, and
he, with tho firoman, immediately ran
tho engine back to tho train and brought
it in.
The robbers'failed to get any entrance
whatever into the express car, it Oeing '
one of the dose kind, and having no
windows, and very strong every way.
Had!they detached tho American ex
press oar also, whioh was immediately
in the rear of tho AdamB, they
would undoubtedly havo accomplished
their object, as it was an open oar, hav
ing windows, and doors not very strong.
Engineer Ames was one of the best
engineers on tho road, about thirtv-five
years old, and had been married but a
short time.
The robbors who boarded the locomo
tive wore long linen dusters.
Conductor Fraloy, and all the train
men, in fact, did all they could under
the circumstances.
An Ohio Narrow Gauge Experiment.
The Poinesville ond Youngstown
narrow gauge railroad, in Ohio, is nearly
oompleted to the latter place, and has
already begun transporting coal to its
northern terminus nt Fairport, on
Lako Erie. It will soon bo in full op
eration and the test it will afford of the
relative economy of the three-feet and
ordinary gaugeB will bo watched with
interest. The line is about sixty miles
long, and runs nearly a little west of
north from Youngstown to tho lake. It
will have in the coal traffic the active
competition of three roads of the usual
gauge of five feet. According to the
claims of its officers, the advantage of
the nnrrow-gango is that on a car weigh
ing only four tons it eau carry eight
tons of coal, while tho five-feet gauge
roads transport only ten tons on a oar
weighing ten. Thus the narrow gauge
gets pay for four tons as freight on oaoh
oar wliiob its competitors must haul for
nothing in tho suupu of rolling stock.
Tho cost of building the line was about
$20,000, probably ono-fourth less than a
wide gan go rood would havo cost.
There is not much saving iu operating
expenses, as it takes just as many hands
to ruu a narrow train as a wide one.
Considerable saving is effected ? however,
in the equipment. As a passenger
road the line answers all tho require
ments of the country it travereos. Its
cars are comfortable, and as soon as the
road-bed becomes firm the trains will
run with ns much steadiness as on
other roads. <
BONE EsiiON.-Tho London Lancet
-very high authority-gives tho follow
ing remedy for the oure of this very
painful malady : "As soon as the pul
sation whioh indicates tho disease is
felt, put direotly over tho ftpot a fly
blister about the sizo of your thumb
nail and let it remain for six hours ; at
the expiration of which time, direotly
under the surface of tho blister may be
seen the felon, whioh can be easily
takon out with the point of a noodle or
loucet."
-Sometimos people writo n postal
card fall, and then turn over and finish
what they havo to say upon the face.
They ought to know that in such caBor.
tho party to whom tho card is addressed
has to pay six cents postage. Cheaper
to uso a three-cent stamp in tho first
place.
FAOTS AND F ANGIES.
-" Gently tho dues are o'er me steal
ing," us the man said, when ho had
thirteen bills presented to bim in ono
day.
-A darkey oalled at Owensboro, Ky.,
the other day, and wanted to know
"Does dis pos tor ll s keep stamped ante
lopes?"
-Perkins suggests that the racing
erews of our boat clubs might balance
their shells better if they parted their
hair in the middle.
-Precocious boy, munching the fruit
of the dafo tree : " Mamma, if I eat
datea enongh, shall I grow np to be au
almanac ?"
-" I go through my work," as the
needle said to the idlo boy. But not
until you are pushed ahead," as the idle
boy said to the needle.
-A market house philosopher says :
"Tho race is not always to the strong,"
because if it was, the onion would be
a-head instead of cabbage.
-Tho Columbus Journal, describir?
an Ohio politician, says : " He ir
honest man by profession, and he
qis bread by the sweat of his jtv
-The people of Georgia'
oitod a few days ago over th?
discovery of a gold mino. T
ward found that the dopos
of gold foil stuck around tL
mucilage, "* .
-A test was recently made of ti
buoyant power of a leaf of a water
known as the Victoria Beria, in the
botanic garden at Ghent. Bricks were
heaped over its entire area, and before
it was submerged in the water a weight
of 761 pounds was floated.
-" Fred Douglas, in a fourth of July
address at Hillsdale, Pa., advised his
race to cultivate independence." The
cultivation of independence is well
enough, but they should not make it a
specialty. They should reserve a mero
garden-spot for independence, and de
vote tho far greater amount of their
acreage to the* cultivation of corn, cot
ton, and cabbage.
-Feathers are shooting all over the
toilets. The gossips say feather fans,
feather parasols, and feather hats are all
tho go. Feather trimmings are now
arranged with so muoh lightness and
beauty that they are considered as suit
able for summer as well as winter wear.
They are mounted with fringe as well as
bands, though as bands they are used
for tho trimmings of bonnets and para
sols.
-To bo read by moonlight only :
" On the Erie railroad, between Port
Jervis and Buffalo, there is a conductor
known as tho ' Rosebud Conductor.'
Many years ago he wau engaged to a
beautiful girl, and their wedding day
was Axed. She was taken ill and died
a few davs before she was to become a
bride. On her deathbed she said to her
lover: 'H you will always carry a rosebud
in y our button- hole, no accident will ever
befall yon.' He bas carried a rosebud
over since, and no ill has befallen him.
He is still a single man."
-Thomos Carlyle bas numerous ad
mirers on this side of the Atlantic,
but probably California does not take
much stock in his philosophy. He
blurted out to a lady of that State, the
other day : " You are doing no good
service there ; you aro harming the
world. Cover over your mines, leave
your gold in the earth, and go to plant
ing potatoes. Every man who gives a
Eat p. to to the world is tho benefactor of
is race ; but yon, with your gold, are
overturning society, snaking the ignoble
prominent, increasing everywhere the
expenses of living, and confusing all
things."
Our Riflemen in Old Ireland.
The account of the dinner gjyen*by
the faculty of Trinity College, Dublin,
to the members of the American team
will be found full of interest. Nothing
could better illustrate the profound
friendship all ol asses cf the Irish peo
ple feel towards Americans, than this
banquet offered to our riflemen. Among
all tue conservative institutions of Ire
land, old Trinity has. ever been the
most rigid and exolnsive, and that fel
lows of that institution should throw
open their banqueting halls to a num
ber of republican Amavioan riflemen
showB that the kindly feeling entertained
by the masses of the Irish people toward
our institutions' begin to be shared even
by tho most conservative element in
Ireland. Tho banquet itself gave occa
sion for a display of after-dinner elo
quence at once graceful and cfleetivo,
Toasts wore drunk to tho health of the
president of the United States, an honor
never before paid to any foreign ruler.
The value of all this is in the lesson of
unity and good fellowship it teaches.
If these peaceful contests at Creed moor
ain! Dollymount should do no othor
good they will have removed many in
grained prejudices from the minds of
many persons. Irish gentlemen will
learn from the testimony of men bf their
own caste that the American people do
not at all resemble the typical Yankee,
and Americans who have been drawn to
Ireland will find that the otago Irishman
has no existence except in the fertile
brains of .dramatists,- Their vi'-'ii-will
also demonstrate to them the existence
of a cultured and refined Irish society,
as distinct from tho whisky-drinking,
riot-loving oreaturos pictured by for
oign caricaturists a? could weir be
imagined. With tho disappearance of
theao and kindred, prejudices we may
hope that tho bonds of sympathy be
tween the Irish and American people
will continue to multiply. And if these
frequent visits and interchanges of sen
timents do no more than this, they will
have amply repaid tho time and atten
tion devoted to thom.