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CITIZEN E. A. WEBSTER. Editor and Proprietor. A Weekly Paper Devoted to Temperance, Literatur? and Politiea. VOLUME II. ? NUMBER 9. TUB UULF STOH.,1. Devnntnt lull in Tn:m tty Vt'i ntl anti Witter -Callt'Mtin Itt tile .licrc> <>r tilt' .Sen - .nilen ?if SleeelM i.ai.l Wanto lit tit?* pal I? ?>f lite ?'nlal l-'tooil-One ss muli t d anti ?"!: ty ItllilllltlKM < in rli'd irwin l lu ir Fonn ?IntloMK, Huit 1ML- liiii, Iluinaii Hellion In lite t.onoral Itala. KewOrleaitH Special in Chicago Times. From passengers who arrived from Gal veston to-night thc iiu^st harrowing ac counts of the effects of thc cyclone were gathered, as it is estimated that sane for ty lives were lost and near 200 houses were swept away by the flood, which cov ered thc city for fully two days, besides others made untenantable by the losing of their foundations by the "water. The scene between thc hours of 12, mid night, on Thursday, and 4 o'clock on Friday morning, witnessed TUE MOST FEARFUL SCENES in the island city, the events occurring then being of the most thrilling and heart-rending character, houses being un dermined and sent with their inmates whirling through the streets, some lodg ing und others being turned over in their Sirogress to bury alive the inmates in the [ebria or drown them as they attempted to escape. Not until 7 o'clock Friday morning, did thc wind change to the south and drive the water from the city, the fall being almost as rapid as had been the rise, and tit S o'clock scarcely any water was left in the streets, boats in the meantime being used, and busily plying between the suburbs and thc heart of the city REMOVING WOMEN A Nil CHILDREN to places of safety, the greatest alarm ex isting, as the waves during the night swept with immense force from the gulf to the bay. Scarcely had quiet been re stored, with the disappearance of the wa ter, when thc wind slutted, and increasing in force gradually wore around to the southwest, again sending the water through thc city from the west end, and . by 3 o'clock in thc afternoon the strand and bay front, which but a few hours be fore were nearly dry, became covered with waler to thc second floor, covering tho wharves, the wind blowing at forty miies an hour, and sending the water up with immense force, and AGAIN GOODING EVERYTHING. Thc storm continued until nightfall, wKeh the wind went down, and the wat? as suddenly as it ro?e, leaving innumerable wrecks ol'churches, houses] barns, and leaving, many ships and sloops high and dry in the streets of the city, or upon the beach, and damaging the ; stock of goods ip sonic of tho Stores to a .Alargo extent, but to what, exact amount i^d^o^ve^ccrtainod u]> toSaturday morning, wlieri the steamship Mary left the. harbor. At that time the stores were closed, the merchants and citizens generally assembling to devise ways for thc immediate RELIEF OF THE DESTITUTE in the way of food, shelter, etc., hun dreds of them being without homes or anything to cat. Thc Howard* associa tion was also' hoing organized, but even with its full force they would hardly be able to meet thc wants of the dish ssed, who numbered at lenst five hundred. Every house in thc city, cast of South street, from A street to the Gulf, was wrecked or damaged to such an extent that they were untenantable. THE RAILROAD BRIDGES, it seems, were badly damaged, some Htating that it would require a week in repairing them, while others were equally as confident that it would require two weeks to repair thc new Santa Fe bridge, and a much longer time to re {ilaee the Houston bridge. The city .ridges were entirely swept away, some of them hoing carried several milos from ' their original locat ion. Not a tree, not a shrub, is left standing upon the island, thc scene presenting, as the Mary left 1 the harbor. 1 A BARREN WASTE, not unlike a desert, excepting that the ? standing houses gave a token of life. 1 The steamship Mary started from her ! ?wharf at Galveston on Wednesday morn- ] ing while the wind waa blowing a gaie, 1 and evidently it was the intention of j the Galveston agent to send her to lira- ' shear, but knowing it pe? ileus to put to 1 sea during such a storm, Capt. Benson 1 concluded to go no further than the 1 bay, and, after getting a safe distance 1 from the dhwarf, let go both anchors, his 1 udgment forbidding bim from proceed- 1 ing further, notwithstanding the, UH your reporter learned, "imperativo order" to go to sea. Had he done so, thc boat with all on board would doubt less have been lost, ns she could not have withstood THE TERRIBLE GULF SEAS that prevailed all that night. Almut one o'clock on Friday morning, when the gale raged the fiercest and the seas dashing over the boat, and when noth ing could be seen a boat's length dis tant, thc English bark Mary McDowell, a three mast vessel and the largest rn thc harbor, was driven against the steamship Mary, even while (the former bad her anchor out. Houston Hpodal lo .New York Harald. The following dispatch was sent by a special reporter! who pushed through to tuc city on a schooner. It is thc first re liable news from Galveston since the storm began: "I reached herc about, five o'clock this evening (18th), coming' over in a schooner from Virginia Point. The city shows but little signs of the Btorm. In the business part of the town thc wharves arc safe and sound, and the Htreete show but little sign of thc forty eight hours' inundation. . *- !'..' ? TUE LOSS OE LIFE. A great many houses were unroofed, and a great number of shade trees were blown down. Thc water has subsided at this time, except what may be standing *in tue low places. Thc destructiof of nfc in thc etty was ?m al h It cannot be truly estimated yet, but not more than a do&m lives havo be?b loHt. A woman was crushed hy thc falling of lier Innis?'. Dr. Peet, thc city physician, was hist ut thc quarantine, station, together with his grandson. Willie Munt. He moved his family into the city and then went l?uek to thc station, which was destroyed. Sixty men at work on the breakwater were cut off from the city. A NINE MILK i Uti FT. All were saved but four. One of these, Patrick Landngah, drifted to Virginia Point on a plank (nine miles) and struck the Santa Ire bridge ami hung to it. Three vessels in port dragged their an chor.?;. One of them is known to bc safe. Tlie safe vessel is the Memory, an Kng lish brigantine. The steamer Diana weathered the storm nobly. One of thc. dredge boats from Rod fish is oh thc prairie near Virginia Point. Two schooners drove through thc Gal veston railroad bridge and their crews were lost. Seven houses were destroyed at Vir ginia Point. Thc storm was the fiercest ever known here by any citizen. A number of wrecks are reported on the island coast, hut nothing definite is known concerning them. Matrimonial Economy* Dr. Lorenz Von Stein, one of the most eminent of the Austrian political econo mists, has recently made some admirable suggestions in a lecture to the German students in that city upon " woman in the sphere of national economy" which are worthy of.re-production in discussing this important question, although his sta tistical theories are somewhat al variance with American practice and American management of the household finalices. Von Stein divides thc entire family in come into two distinct parts. The first, which depends entirely upon business ami capital, belongs, to the husband. Th< second part, which pertains to househoh economy, he subdivides into six parts Four of these, including that part of tin income to be devoted to the dwelling, tin standing wants, such as dress, licht, fin and servants, thc expense of sickness death, insurance and recreation, and s certain sum sot apart as the family sav ings-box for thc subsequent benefit o the children, are to be under thc imme diate jurisdiction of husband and wifi together. The wife alone has tlie sol charge of thc other two parts, which in elude thc daily and weekly expenses o housekeeping. He thereupon demand that the wife, who thus has charge ci one-third of thc life-economy and an coila jurisdiction in thc other two-thirds, anal make the closest possible estimates of al items of expense and of thc prices am quantities of commodities. Upon thi point and its importance he says: " It i more important that girls should kno\ how much a family with an income < 1,200 or 2,400 florins should spend o Hour and meat, turnips and sugar, tba how much nitrogen and oxygen enter int their composition-most important fe them to know how much it costs to fee a lamp during a winter, and how mile clothing and washing the household nccdi or how much fuel is required to cook fa five persons. With this supervision ove the expenses under her charge, the wif. is to have tho care of thc house and se that all things ure in order and notllili] is wasted or lost." There is a vast deal of wisdom nhl sound philosophy in Dr. Von Stein's sue gestions,and they are not altogether with our. a sentimental nearing. They have cory evident bearing upon connubial haj inness, since good and economical houst keeping can make a happy home and ba housekeeping cannot. It would probabl istound any person, even the most ol servant, lo know how much business til li vorce courts have done which lias grow :>ut of dirty rooms, ill-cooked meals, in wiso provision of commodities, bad bin ing, waste of money, etc. Carclcsshei md improvidence have been the fir; dons io the ruin of manya family, whil prudence, economy and thrift are vcr 01 re to cement more closely the bonds > mutual love in the family. As Vc "Stein says: "The frugal wife in her ne; irosa at breakfast, who sends her busbar to his business with good spirits, luis mo: liold on him, year in and year out, thu the spendthrift pleasure-seeker who tri to charm him in the evening by her sill iin^jcwels." A Point for Postnl-Card Bonders. The. postal laws prohibit any writi upon a newspaper or wrapper sent mail, unless prepaid with letter posta] and restricts the writing on postal cai to thc back of thc same. A single wc is considered to h? a violation of tin regulations, and papers which ov anxious people label "one paper" on t wrapper, to indicate thc exact contd thereof, arc pretty sure to never reu their (destination. Thc other day Chicago (inn received a postal card, which six cents additional postage \ eharged-.ber-nusc on the lower left ha corner OT the face was written "Sept. 1875." Thc nostmastcr general was pealed to, am! sent the following: ''Gentlemen: In answer to your qulry, I have to state, that by a rulint this department anything whatever, < cept an address, written or printed ni the. side of the postai card intended thc address, renders such card unrna hie, and thc same can not be legally warded, unless prepaid at thc letter i .-three cent?. Hut if, by inadvcrtai it Kaches it* destination without s prepayment, it is chargeable, with dot the letter rates, under thc provision: section 152, postal laws, edition of i; In accordance with thc said riding, card submitted, was rendered sidnee letter postage Irv' the writing tho <fat< the fide designed for thu address, Wiving been forwarded without the payment of such jtostago.it liecanie 1 i to double the letter rates-six cents, Funeral Kites of au African of Rank. A correspondent of the London Times gives the following vivid description of thc scenes which attend the death of a " caboeeer," or man of rank, in Ashantee: Well, immediately after demise, the body of a eahoeeer is washed, anointed with sweet oils and grease, and sprinkled with gold-dust. Thc (dis ami grease cause the gold-dust to stick to the corpse, which being black, throws off the brigid color of the gold to perfection. The heard is trimmed into knots, and upon euell knot are tied small beads of glass and thin particles of gold. Tile Ashan tees, you perceive, are as dainty in the decoration of the heads of their dead as thc Assyrian dandies were of their own when living. In cloth of costly silk cmbroidered damask, or in velvet or in other rich garments, thc body is dressed and ornamented with armlets and necklaces of gold and silver. Very of ten pure lumpsof unwrought nug gets of gold, bored through and through, are strung upon a piece of hempen string and twisted round the forearms in the form of bracelets. Tims gavly bedizened and performed and cleansed the body is placed upon a chair in sitting attitude, ur is shown recumbent ujion a bcd, trimmed with gaudy drapery. When this combined rite of purification and garniture has been completed thc rela tions assemble and begin to dance and sing. While the relations and friends, are making merry a fetishman, or priest, is led slowly into the festive throng, and the female slaves of the dead eahoeeer are brought before him. After thc utter ance of various incantations he pretends that the fetish has denoted, hy means of his mediation, a certain slave for election to follow her master to the next world ; hut I neel not he a much trouble to suggest to you that the members of the family always decide beforehand among themselves which unfortunate wretch shall accompany thc deceased chief. Be ing chosen, and hy thc choice condemned to die, thc slave is stripped naked. Around her neck a wisp of nay is wound and her arms are rudely pinioned with a rope of straw. She is now roughly dragged a second time to the presence of the fetishman, who recommends her, ir/ a speech of blasphemous rhodomontades and rhetorical parade, to serve her master dutifully through thc mazes of the unknown sphere to which bc has been summoned on a journey. During the delivery of the jKirtentous exhorta tion he is busily employed in daubing a white-colored earth over thc face of thc weepihgslave; and when the'adinoiiitory harangue has been exhausted he strikes her severely with his open palm upon either cheek. In benighted zeal the com pany snatch up the sacerdotal cue. They strive to rival one another in re .-icu ting tho assault with thc harshest Violence, and in dealing the keenest pain on her nude and trembling person. the executioners, moreover, are blessed and the congregated band of cabeceen manifest their profound respect hy raising thc foot of each executioner with both bands and by rubbing the sole upon the crown of their heads. The natives of tho (!ala coast have a loose conception of a state of purgatory or probation; ?ind en tertain the idea that the soul of thc dead wanders unresting!}' for many yearsabo: i the world, and requires a servant for thc performance of menial duties in his h>ng and ceaseless wanderings. Hence come; thc custom of killin?.' a slavic at the dcutl of ti eahoeeer, tor a caboeeer may not draw water, nor "new wood, nor eook food. Having been removed by dint of ctiffi or manual force from the sight of the fe tishman, the slave is hurried to a wonder box, into which the carcass of the cabo eeer will eventually he squeezed. Alon*, the lid of the box thc slave isstretehei upon her stomach, and her feet and Imm ure grasped by two executioners, so tba her struggles may be subject to control A friend pf the dead caboeeer approachci the prostrate creature and slashes lie with a sword just below the right slioul dcr-blade. Catching the blood that flow; from the wound, he smears the box When a sufficiency of blood lins beet drawn for this purpose she is lifted fron the lid, and is reviled, struck and coverei with spittle hy the bystanders. All th while she utters thc loudest and mos grievous lamentations; and the loudc and more grievous they are, the more tu centuple do thc torturers deem the suer fiend gratuity to thc dead caboeeer. Sh it- then driven to the. spot where she is t be slain. When the head has been cn oil" thc heart is plucked out through a opening in the back. An executioner ri ceives the betid with yells and frant: signs of joy, and runs with it through tl town. Savagely and furiously he tessi it to thc ground and kicks it like a bit liefere him, snatches it up in his High spits upon it, flings it into the air, catch it' in its descent, or, permitting it to dn heavily, kicks it again ami again. Tl body is never buried, hut is spurned ash to lie calen hy wild beasts or vultures. How to (?row .Mushrooms. Mushrooms may he cultivated simp by taking manure from the stable small heaps, as little broken as possib and laying them about three inches thi on a hot-bed made of alternate layers tanner's bark and borsc-dung, the uppt most layer consisting of tinner's bn about two inches thick, ('over tho b then with a little manure and about tin inches of good soil, and -over all a thi coat of straw. The manure contyini tlic germs may be known by the appe ance of white threads running throu thc little heaps, and these lumps on bret ing will give forth a mushroom sm? The shed behind a hot-house or stable li cow-house isa good place for a.mu room bed, as no light is required; 1 only warmth and moisture. Calcaroi earth of any kind will greatly help. production of mushrooms. In Puris there ure extensive underground mush room gardens, several of thc proprietors of some of thc French mushroom farms having many miles ot mushroom hods, cultivated entirely by lamp light. In all moist climates they ought to he pro duced sn great abundance and variety. Hoing rich in,'nitrogen and phosphorus, and constituting, as old Erasmus Darwin sind, " an isthmus between the two great continents of nature, thc vegetable and Animal kingdoms," they supply a whole some, dcl'cious, and nutritive food, and Y"ould amply repay the trouble of culti vating.- Bural New Yorker. Women at Fairs. The agricultural fair is abroad again, and the annual reports and premium lists will soon fill the papers. There is nothing much drier intrinsically than a premium list to a non-exhibitor, but nevertheless it has its value in the social history of the time. Wc have been struck in particular by the character of tue articles in which women are en couraged to compete, and we think those articles are peculiarly significant of the toil exacted from thc sex and the cul ture commended to them. Although tnesc fairs are called agricultural, we ah" glad to soe that they are also largely domestic and becoming more and more so. In no case do we value the compe tition and rivalry aroused 'so much as tile direction and attention of the mind toward improvement. '.'fitere are always premiums on butter nad cheese, and usually on bread, and perhaps on pickles and preserves and a few other staples of housewifely produc tion. This is very proper, and our only suggestion is that the competition is not carried fanienough and with proper dis crimination. NV e noticed, the other day, ic premium granted for "the best one hundred dipped candles," when in this agc of cheap kerosene and dear tallow, "dipped candles" must be a toilsome aird expensive luxury. We can not but entertain a feeling ot indignation also at tile encouragement of elaborate bed quilts and other products bf thc needle inAvhich the amount nulabor involved seems quite disproportionate to the use ard beauty extracted. The American fntm-wifc is generally a hard-worked poison, and wc believe that there ?ire nic^e restful diversions than in slaving W-'clf to trifles of this sort. We do n< ? lucan to frown on the adornment of llhi^house ana- the 'person, but taste I etches simplicity. The competition should bc turned into other channels alio. The clothing of the family, and pa'rtieulary of the children, how much mi y bc learned and eiived from a judi cious comparison in this direction? In short every branch of woman's effort in the exhibition community should Ix? re presented, but with a view to the en couragement of the useful, the tasteful, the labor-saving, the healthful, rather than the merely curious, thc prodigi ously toilsome, or thc seemly impossi ble. . A suggestive field of exhibition is that of "female accomplishments," in which arc usually awarded "one dollar," or " two dollars5' for a few indifferent paintings in oil or crayoning?. This is a relic id thc New England female cul ture, which flourished most, violently about twenty years ago, and which ll fortunately is not yet extinct. We shn have to acknowdedge our gratitude all the chromos for this, among ot to things, that they have aided in the ex tinction of the. passion for "painting, five dollars extra," which used to bc a conspicuous feature of girls' education. The chromos are better pictures than the girls can paint, can be had for less than the cost of material, and don't waste any time. Of course there are some excuses for it; it was woman's crude effort to adorn thc bare, old farm houses, and she toiled religiously at it, heaven bless her, unconscious that she was daubing. It was no worse than multiplying wicked tucks ad infinitum ! on the sewing machine, and the great sin is that while they are painting and tucking they arc growing up empty headed, and without thc knowledge which would sustain life when it pressed hard. There are other accomplishments not so exhibitable but better worth while. A familiarity with English literature will adorn the house more even than chromos and tidies, though these have their places. We have been struck by the good sense of a Vermont grange which has offered and just awarded premiums for the best flower gardens, a wise encouragement to a healthy out door art. The first prize was awarded to a lady who had raised ninety varie ties of geraniums and some very choicer flowers, this in one of the remote hill towns. From horticulture the step is easy to botany, and so to a whole class of accomplishments which are really en larging to the soul, recreative and tonic to the whole being. Of course it almost goes without saying that fairs, as con cerns women, should be in the hands of women.-Springfield Republican. jAcoTTON pressof extraordinary ]>ower has just been put up in Charleston, 8. C4 lt is so easily controlled that at one stroke a pressure/of 1200 tons can lie brought to bear upon a OOO pound bale of cotton, compressing to a width of seyon and a half inches, and at the next stroke a hickory nut, held lictwcen the phttens can bo craked without hurting tile fingers of the holder. ?nornssou TICK maintains his reputa tun as : the great American weather prophet.' Ile predicted for September, iilgorific waves and voilent tempests on tile sea. Facts sustain the I'rofe&or. Liszt's Playing One lady of rank, at whose house Liszt was spending the evening commit ted tile extreme indiscretion of asking him to play, a violation of all rules of et iquette among great musical artists. He had been enchanting her guests with Ids divine music in the earlier part ?if the evening; and lani just come in from sup per, when slie preferred her request. " Madame, fai mange tren peu," was his answer ("Madame, I have eaten very lit tle,"), and, with this implication of hay ing played out the worth of his supper he left the house. His contradictory ele ments only prove him to he what lie is at thc piano-half-demon, half-angel, if his mood happens to he a gloomy one, hisfin gers Hy about as if he had a demoniac imp at the end of each one. His play ing becomes almost infernal in its wild passionate power, and he looks furtively at his audience with a malicious expres sion of delight and triumph, watching the effect he produces. This is his demon side. At other times he will play with tin- deep est pathos, touching the keys so care lessly, so tenderly, so wecpingly, that I've Seen men listen with tears running down their cheeks. And yet, when he rises from the piano, not a sound is heard. He is too great to bc applauded; He does not need it. He merely walks quietly away from the instrument, waiting until some one recovers broath or self-posses sion enough to speak, and then perhaps the first break in the silence will he a long deep-drawn sigh, and " How grand!" spoken in nu undertone of awe. Liszt knows his own power well-noni' better -and makes no concealment of his opin ion. Fhave heard that upon one occas ion ti lady asked him whom he thought the greatest living pianist-this was nany yearsago-and he answered nroinpt y, ""thalberg." " Hut," she said' aston shed, "do you consider him superior to 'ourself?" And his answer was most ommcndnble in its engaging frankness: ' Madame, ? had no idea you made any eference to me. I statid too high to be ompared to ordinary pianists." Hooks. The following passage from Gregory sarianscn is the most extraordinary pecimcii of rhetorical power wc are ac uainted withal. Tom Moore in his flowery essay on the Ireek Fathers, which appeared in the idinburg Review, called it a most in pirctl piece of declamation,., infinitely uperior to anything of the same kind ii the whole range of English literature, ts effect is not spoiled in translation, t is worthy of popularization. Joe (rcnan, thc leading writer of the old ?CW Orleans Delta-fl young Irish exile, 8 years of age, a genius, a poet, an ora nr, a brilliant prose writer, endowed rith the greatest conversational powers, nd a brave and gallant gentleman, ren ercd this piece into Knglish. Poor brenan died in l.Sfw in New Orleans, thc I atv of his adoption, where he became anions. He never stole any man's noncy, nor any man's thoughts. Had ie lived a few years longer he would nive become renowned all over our .o.untry. He rests in peace, out of thc urinoil and villainies of our modern ocicty, in New Orleans, in an obscure ??rncr of the old Catholic Sit. Louis .emetery. We often visit the grave of he inspired jxiet, and always leave it vi th the consolation that lew t?f the iving amongst us can, when their last lour comes, sleep so soundly as our dear loe Brenan. The following is his translation: A hook is not a mere collection of nanuscripts, bound in vellum, and oran nentetl by cunning hands, which amus?s bra moment and passes away. It is a lower amongst men, which rules them, ?ither like a tyrant or a merciful king, urrendcring its sceptre after no tempo ary reign, but renewing its prerogatives rom year to year forever. When Horace lovingly warned his Tit le book against its inevitable fate, and iredieted for it the thunthings of greasy titizens or foolish school-hoys, he little bought that he was addressing a pilgrim if eternity, charged with a di vine mission if wisdom and pleasure, which should sense only when all the sons of num be .omens generous as Maecenas and as giftet is Flaecus. When Homer chanted his great lyrii it the feasts of the hospitable Creeks, th? poet (o poietas) was unconscious that hi drains would assume form and symmetry ind, collected in one mighty book hy i generous sovereign, become nh heir loon nf ages, until each of its burning thought shot through the veins of humanity lik arrows of empyrean lire. Who knows hut that these wingci words {epca pieroenta) 1 inscribed upoi this parchment to-day may rcoppcn amongst readers and students after man centuries, and claim kindred and com panioiiship with hiter and more gifte tenchersofthegospel. Wlioknowsbtittoii a fortunate sentence, springing sudden! from my pen, may contain a seed of in mortality, which, should burgeon an blossom into a boundless forest ol though under which innumerable gencrntioi might recline in dreamful repose, scatter this seed broadcast ; if barrel let it rot; if fruitful, let it grow. The factory women of England Jun inaugurated a movement in favor of tl appointment of female overseers in fact ries, and against legislative rcstrictioi upon the Inlier of- women. They b Heye they can, by their own effort obtain Itettcr hours, as men have don without the interference of parliament. Tl?Rl?K are 1,700,000'Baptists' in tl United States, and only 2RO;000 hrfcn huid. Virginia^ alone, has n? many Maine, Now Hampshire,, Vermont ai jMiissiiehusett? put together. The dcnoi ination is very popular with negroes. A CALIFORNIAN'S MUNIFICENCE. Ono of thc Gulifornin princes wa? casu- \ illly strolling with Iiis wife through Tif fany's jewelry establisnment. The wife called her husband's attention to a fine opal that was not yet set. It was taken out of the ease, and the value-$7,000 was named as the pjice. It was pur chased in London, and had belonged to Eugenie's collection. The lady said it would make a handsome brooch set with diamonds. His attention was attracted by something else, and she passed on. lier husband then conferred with the clerk as to the beauty of a necklace and enrings in addition to thc brooch. The clerk was authorized to draw a design for ah entire set of opals and diamonds. The design when submitted was accepted, and thc wife received a surprise present from her husband of the finest set of opals and diamonds in the country. The cost was il mere trifle-$27,000.* It was a slight addition to the collection she already possessed of a large set of diamonds which were too valuable for her to bring with her to Saratoga. She, however, felt no risk in wearing emeralds and elia, monds that excited the envy of those whose chief delight consists iii the dis play of gems that cannot be rivalled. Her coral set cost a thousand dollars, and there were other sets as valuable. She is handsome, and her laces and emeralds were the astonishment of congress hall ball-room.-Hartford Times. CHEATING AN INNOCENT OLD MAN. Ono day last month, when trade was dull, a Vicksburg grocery clerk procured a piece of sole-leather from a shoemaker, painted it black, and laid it aside for fu ture use. Within a few days an old chai) from back in the country came in and inquired fora plug of.chewing tobacco. The piece of sole-leather was tied up, paid for, and the purchaser started for nome. At the end bf the sixth day he returned, looking downcast and dejected, ind walking into the store he inquired of the clerk : " 'Member that terbackorlgot here thc itherday?" "Yes/' ' "Well, was that a new brand?'/ "No-same old brand." ?, "Regular plug terbacker, wav't?" "Yes." % "Well, then, it's me; it's rig^'-hercin ny jaws," sadly replied the .',. V "I ?-. mowed l^vas gittin porty old, I- .. Jl was illus handy oirbitin plug. I nev|r seed i plug afore this onethtltl couldn't tear o pieces at one chew. I sot-ay^eeth on o this one, and bit and nulled and twisted ikci a dog at a root, ana ?Tve kept(.pitfe?^?i-^^-f nd pulling for six dnv8;hnd there she am low, the same as the nay you sold her to ne!" "Seems to be good plug," remarked he clerk, as he smelled of the counter bit. "She's all right; it's mc that's failing!" exclaimed the old man. "Pass me out onie fine-cut, and PU go li?me and deed he farm to the boys, and git ready for lie grave."- Vicksburg lierait?};. HOW NlTItO-Gl.YCKHINK IS MADE. Nitro-glycerine is made by the action if nitric acid noon glycerine at a low temperature. 'Hie process consists es sentially in thc slow mixture of glycer ine with the acid, everything being ?lacked in iee throughout thc operation, lind then in washing the nitro-glycerine from the excess of acid with water. During thc process irritating fumes are given oil'in large quantities. (Thc work men resemble skeletons, they arc so un healthy.) When it is at last washed and ready for use, nitro-glycerine is an oily liquid, having a specific gravity of 1.0. Freshly made it is creamy white and opaque. After prolonged contact with the atmosphere, it clears and becomes a transparent amber color. It has a sweet aromatic taste, and produces a violent headache if placed upon the tongue, or even allowed tb touch thc skin, though the workmen and miners who are con stantly using it soon get rid of this. At 30 to 40 (legs. Fahrenheit it freezes to a white crvstaline mass. When frozen it can not be fired, and it is only safe dur ing transportation when frozen. FLOATING.-Men are drowned by rais ing their arms above water, theunbuoyed weight of which depresses the head. Other animais have neither motion or ability to act in a similar manner, and therefore swim naturally. When a man falls into deep water, he will rise to thc surface, and will continue there if he does not elevate his hands. If be moves bis hands under water, in any way ho please?, his head will rise so high as to give him free liberty to breathe; and if he will use his legs, as in the act of walk ing (or rather walking up stairs), bis shoulders will rise above the' water, so that he may use the less exertion with ins hands, or apply them to other pur poses. These ptain directions arc recom mended to the recollection of those who have not learned to swim in their youth, as they may be found highly advantage ous in many cases. SARATOGA EXTRAVAGANCE.- How much is there spent On dress in a season at Saratoga? It would he a curious puz zle to solve. Ata rough guess at least 200,000 people visit this village every year. Two-thirds of these arc women, or say, nt a round figure, 00,000. The aver age humber of dresses-and for conveni ence s:ike, we'll leave out such trifles ns bonnets, gloves, pencils, etc.,-bought hy each of these 00,000 fair ones may be safely set down at ten, and of those one fhalf arc ?certainly new. Two hundred dollars for an average Saratoga dress is a pretty low computation; but let it rmss -let us.begenerous, and not swell their hush ind's billi* to. moro than they already arc T?iat Would givo us $1,000 spent by odell fair Y^rt01"? mid, as a total, tho ro&id ?juin, of.?froO,006,000. How many schools and hospitals could be founded with this amount?-Cor. St, Lom's Hc jniHicani . '