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L JMkim tot p^lknUon writtn l'> ft clftv, legtbl* hand, and 01 only om akk of tka pft(i>. 4, All ohftngaa la adrorliacmeL ti a. u <t rta ek ua on Fr'ady. NEWS GLEANINGS. The flint thing the English veterans asked on getting ashore at Alexandria : “W’ere’a Cleo|»atrn ?” No fewer than two German expedi tions will come to this country to ob serve the transit of Venus next Decem ber. A California young man, hugging bis aged grandmother, forgot that it wasn’t his sweetheart, and broke four of the old lady’s ribs. John Sullivan, the Boston slugger, who pounded Ryan and Ellsott, offered “Tug” Wilson, the English champiou, $500 to stand up under his soft-glove blows four rounds, and to 8ullivan’a disgust, Wilson went through the ordeal and walked off with the money. —An American by the namc oTLiv’lng- stone, who has lived in Florence during the past thirry years, is seen almost avery day driving twenty horses—ten •pans attached to an ordinary wagon— and ha manages thenJ with perfet ease. The harnsas is quite curious in i’s adap tion to the purpose of driving so many horwa at once. The appropriation VRe ha* been cut d. New station* have •f ecial trfs Ms f. r t. taccv. rvtli.a amt aug*' f" have l«e« the telagrapk hills have «f id wtlU the satmtha st a< THE TOPICS OP THE DAT. Jam Rkdpath haa purchased Jfo Ooe’t Weekly, Tn Prince of Wales’ individual debtedneas is $3,000,000. m- Thb Fits Jphn Porter ease will oome up in the Senate next December. ' Thu King of Siam has determined to establish a legation at Washington. A Russian colonel was exiled to Si beria for being too lenient to Nihilists. Susan B. Anthony is going to Texas to lecture, and perhaps, grow up with the sb—t»y.. - Olive Logan says Bernhardt’s hue- band is “highly kiaaable,” and nobody knows how she found it ooi Genual Newton announces that he will be ready in a few days to Mow up another section of Hell it of Agriculture on for July is i Shall snakes have been discovered in the proboscis of flies. They are about ono-twclftb of an inch in length, and two-thousandths of an inch ih diameter; K is suggested that the tly may carry disease germs, and scientists are invest igating the question. A Moiihon cider of Salt Lake has had his thirteen wives photographed, both in a group and separately. The pictures have been placed in an elegant album, and uudtr each woman is engrossed a quotation of sentimental poetry sugges tive of her best quality. ' Kate CLaxton, the actress, who is summering at Patchogue, L. L>- was en joying a sad in her b*«t, the Coquette, a few days sinee. when the craft was upset by a squall. She was thrown into the water, but rescued without injury, aud having passed through both fire and water, may consider herself safe. The New Turk Sum is receiving com- mnnicntiona giving remedies for snake bitav. This is the heroic for ratttmakft bite* : Plop the rirctitalbm ahnwr the Kite; •tick your rum* are all rlrTif; put there • >und. and A TALE OP A KHIBT. •M The kVeglli of TImo Nlair.man tV Greet law* the re One. (Drurer Tcibuna.) ^ , ’ Apropos of General Sherman’s visit to Denver, a story is told of the General's exfierience with Henry Clay Doan. The two had been frieiids for years, and when Sherman became General and Dean happened to be in Washington, the later, naturally enough, felt a desire to renew the old acquaintance. He called at Sherman's house and was received with open arms. They talked over old times, and nothing would do but Dean must stay to dinner. “ But. Geniiral remiinatrnl But, General,” remonstrated Mrs. Sherman in her husband's ear, “ I can’t have such a dirty looking man at my table; can’t you spruce him up a lit* tie T** ' - The General said he’d fix Uut, and so at an opportune moment he hostied Mr. Dean up stairs, ransacked a bureau, and produced a clean shirt for him to put on. Mrs. Sherman was mollified, aud the dinner was really a charming affair, for there is no more delightful, enb-rtuin ig and in* true Live rnmvsiaatanMltst than „'7 Henry S l>*-an. “ d One year after this event General Sherman was at tbs Undell Hotel, St. Lmiin, with kia family. A sard was brought up Wanna Henry Ck^ Denn’e name. Mrs. She man was mweh pi rest d. ** lie is sack s charming talker, ws mn>t kfw ktm to dtensr. Only vsm I evUtenes bv tW ust srw ll.a ks ImAa n«nw ■totAs" | ka.HvUtae of Iks an! Testimony of Experts. An action was brought by ao attor ney-at-law against his client to recover $2,000 for legal services, and in proving the value of these services he put upon the stand as witnesses live fellow-attor neys, who estimated their value from $0,440 t6 #l l 000. The plaintiff recov ered a judgment of $1,800, the Court having charged the jury that they should find their verdict on the testi mony of the attorneys, and the defend ant carried the case up to the Supreme Court of the United States. In this case. Head vi. Hargrave, that court, in April, reve rsed the j udgment Mr. Jus tice Field, in the opinion, said: The evidence of experts as to the value of professional services does not differ in principle from such evidence as to the value of labor in other de partments of business, or sato the value of property. So far from laying aside (heir general knowledge and ideas, the jury should have applied that knowl edge and those ideas to the matters of fact in evidence in determining the weight to be given to the opts tees ex- id ft was oely in Ahat way IbaA-tbey *—H ntfft.1 ft just conclu sion White they cannot net In any c»ss upon particular facte material to in >liq>>Mitiun resting In their private knowledge. “ by the md u> act »o**re of t WlslIigenUy tbs weight a ■far eanmptel tbs ds—gsn —la plHaflf a frustum nf hte ten bv the mmlaamaai luf • defemdanb lbs pmy nuakd ■ psr- ■ Wrm tbetr duty. ss>' • •!*•/ cm fwa-'UI ■tbs tsuilmsM sf| Imwiwt* as te lbs mpuvy IndbdaA km kpn nee tbetr kmewtedge and « pwrwucw <4 (be esdus «d • im *en*v ^ev^ms V'.i.A. pesdesUHU^ ■* lMi» • % bovd* tedge 4 tks tutes *4 ri lewnmssl see* wun smA. wUtee gei uwsgas i b —> t wlwe** W g* ••*» «• I «w. W in *> uuk *Se •* ► •I y%mt to-, to. %m *4.tod » ne—ij Sleeping Accei Cleanliness is the great essential. Our life is passive during thu hours of sleep, but our breathing goes on constantly, and the demand Tor pure air in sleeping rooms is very'important. There should always be coismunication with the out: side air, and in warm weather, the doors and windows may all be wide open. If currents of air can sweep through the rooms in the day time (or in the night without endangering the sleepers), so much the better. The bad air that originates in sleeping rooms—the waste substance that escapes from human bodies, by the lungs and skin—settles and clings aboyt the carpets, curtains, bedding and clothing, tainting them wi)h decomposing, and it may be, poisonous matter, unless a constant cleansing process is carried on by plentiful airing, and the action of light, especially sunshine. The room should contain as little drapery as poasibls. Rugs are better than carpets, and no heavy curtains should be used. The bed should not be made up after using, until the bedding baa been well aired, and the more It ran be exposed bright •unshiilr —IB the better. Tbe all be kopt Tbe night rlo’ihtng ibould be Welt si rod the dav ctothing 1» Will get T hie than II happy. —The mother-in-law does not rement* her that she wasjonce a daughter-in-law. -.Spunith^nctTb. —Minnesota has Just exhumed the skeleton of a woman who must have stood nine feet high and had a foot os long as a uail keg. Anybody missing from Northern Indiana?—Defroif Fret Prtu. r " —The Rector (to Irish plasterer on ladder pointing a wall): “That mortar most have been very bed.’* Pat (wfch a grin): “Falx, ye can’t explct tbe likea o’ good Roman cimlnt to stick lo a Protest ant church, sorr I”—AtncA. —A journey around the world takes about ninety days, and the can be reduced to $800. And in round In that time and at that yon can have about aa moch fun as you’d get la slttlag all night in a rainstorm on a picket fence Ifataaiog to a bull-dog bark ataeatlaabarm.—Dssfsa Item. I’ wo'it.t U- wrll. c*>mM ro- h. •*«»gH. ha<# a prltfls n-xu A gr»ei gnia |tbw arvuags Blaaerpse—ft pkg^fc. we rea waty ■ k be *• *• ««dp ror—-JT*. rmmtftaiba^* •WaJw The 1 w ms^RgSPef^LmT^Baa^pm mss m* amn at Aa n rote Wad • estei balnd |i • Am • at » • tv. mamw* I a^aam^msstehk am • a^mms^n I^(a^^smim*ma^ • t* Tlai Tw terwssed isemaate ea tw dmpsasmMtf ( as ba< • Trrm«>^ Admitted into the I nn n bet it i« | rolabte that ibr asibt Uous WsabitigU.msika will have to wail nubile. The Temiory is a very lieau- tiful piece of munlrr. In 1M0 the lunileimcn cut S.'iO.OCO.COO feet; aboul 150,000 toss of coal are pn duced ; the manufactured products arc valued at $6,120,7^2 ; the nlest product last year was nearly 2,000,000 aushels; Uxahle values apfireyate $14,000,000, and the population 7$(000. Many immigrants arc going to Washington Territory this year, but it will be some time before the Bute can show enough^K\ople to give a would-be congressman a chance. The required ratio is 151,000, The New York directoty appears this year with 1302 pages and 289,724 names, an increase of 4,5/7 names over last year. It begins as it has done for many years with Elizabeth Aab and ends with Jacob Zypress. Among the noted names which disappear this year are Henry W Bellows, Lorenzo Delmonies, whose rtmefinf t]|Hs :u ihchnloyof 982 ; Fletcher U. Harper, one of the original firip. George Law, Clarkson N. Potter, Bamuel B. Ruggle*. J. Cotton Bmith, E. W. Stoughton, Moaea Taylor and James R. Wood. The first directo, ry of New York mads its appearance la 1784, a paper covered pamphlet tjgfety page*, btnje then there I been one regularly with «oe iilervai — IT*— - ligkl Is seed a see bsek IV tbs Boathsen is Mias Pranssa G Flsber. Her Mkmflril si tbs hand of bis regiment at Bull Bun. sad is reportad to have been tbs first Ooufadarata kilted In too war. ftzvxxAL ministers are preaching on the Egyptian war, and advancing the theory that the Egyptians of these days are being pun ished for the hard hearted- ness of I’liaraoh to God's chosen peo ple. -T~ S A i.utter of Queen Anne at a recent •nle in London sold for $150. One from Queen Henrietta Maria to Cardinal Mazaron went for $105. Another of Henry LL, Prince de Conde, sold for *KK). The public debt of Egypt is. $500,- 000,000, and tho greater part of it is held in England. She also pays £750,- 000 tribute to Turkey annually. That is why tho natives are making a kick for repudiation. s Just before he stepped aboard tbe steamer for Europe, Michael Davitt said that imprisonment in England would be better than the-treatment he bad receiv ed hero from some of those whom he had formerly cetnted as his ft lends. Foom hif rm itiou received at the of Ace of the Osto State Board of Agnesi- it saem> Umt tbs apple crop About mol sfletwmte yeeserds; ■ wbo pulls itowu lb# asotes >, «hi>1« m-to rnd*-*t tbe first fl rain* bsv <>wd tbs poftt uflkis bl ,— — . . a bag of sate w mid jj^ have cIkm*'u. aud wbe# a** brought up at the foot he was In no frame of mind to chip in anything for the heathen in Africa. Tbe first citizen who arrived on tbe spot knew what hi#dim required of him on such an occasion, and lie smil ingly remarkn! ••I don’t believe yon can improve on the old wayT’ . . The second citizen passing was in a hurrv; but he Anew that he must halt down the way the rest of us d<>? * * w The third citiwen had business at tho post-office, but he turned aside, cleared lifs throat, and remarked: “ Evidently fell down stairs? Curi ous how it sets the blood to circulating! Some of yon had belter see if his nose is- broken- good-bys?” - —- There was a fourth sjiectator, and ho slowly entered tho door-way, bent over the victim, and remarked: ‘•I’d have given a dollarjo. see him comedown! He's on<5 of the sort who bump everj r stair!” The fifth man was about to add, hjs mite when the victim rose up. His elbows were skinned, his nose harked, his coat tom and his back sand-papered the whole length, but he was a man who had traveled. He knew that ev erybody in the crowd was hoping to sec him jump np and down aad shake hit fist*, ana paw tbe air. and to hear him dedarq^that he would lick all tb«* men wbo '-otili b<v packed ift a ten-acre lot. and therefore he brought a swart smite to bis foes, lifted ki# bst hke m perfect limped up stoirs with tea as I csss# ta tbs 4* ter Mro il 41 Msumb ; d/*«q«a>s tbs eyslbK «iu« a la ml | S Uudnf Itol, f *»• to lbs | >1 npraaabte at abysms ! m! tesguor. liar mnnmr was full *4 ; ', aud tolnkimily yrmratal; bs« fcH rf. cImiti uf avuintetry, is Fn-orh ; tbe hands had tlie rrtu cum uI >4 pink nails aud taper fingers, sad even tier votes bad changed aud dropped into tiiuae sweetly mudulatod touea which iss.cukri-ut for thorough liroeding in rad society. Poor, tiiyatified Mrs. an looked and wnnderoil, pondering on all this, asking hem* If and others, “ How iff the world did' she aocomplish such a metamorphoey?" How? How does the winning horse lap and pass ■.I.,i*****•’ rrri. ’ Is dabror a s: or Is him tksa ibsi of tbs Bui roughs 4a oribus a ns upos two tdipucal, be rdux wed to B day always a task to her surround' In a tew where to look.—/wdcpewdewf day, H «ras i to •sparai# tbs bird from lags, though ks stood witk- \ of bar, and ks knew just If ha estwsra two •ral warfare, M.tkj t* the great factors to success, and the way to succeed is to sueeeed. Mrs. Con gross has both. Money purchased her beauti ful hair, paid 1 for Turkish baths and cosmetics, secured the service of a maid eye-lida and teach her the art of droop ing lids. . It brought her graceless figure into shapely proportions. It paid chiropodists to treat her feet and mani cures to polish her finger nails, while tone and toimhlos tapered the fingers. It employed dressmakers and milliners, Salaried a master, who instructed her how to enter the room, bow, pose, seat herself and manage her train, all with the poetry of motion. The moral neces sity to be beautiful puts incipient wrin kles under the embargo of emulsions, sent her to bed with her face buried in poultices of Irish oatmeal and milk, bandaged f< et and pinioned hands in oinUneot-lrued gloves, sod put the brakes on a too expansive waist. Men poreue unbttioe. wealth, and that bub bis, repntsti na: unman asaruhow Is tbs Let the Strawberries Atone. That a donkey, by hi* ffjnter brows ing of a vine which yields superior gr.vpes the next season, originated the art of priming, is an old story. I stum bled by some such accident ujran a very MioccssfuLsiinpto way of growing straw berries. An overcrowded bed had yielded such poor returns of small, dry, inferior berrips that I hoed it up before nil the fruit was off, intending to let gome current bushes have all the benefit 4, as duels nasd to be \ as lawsuit* ora now, it was (bought necreaary that a frntteman should know tow to fenre. and thus E ect tbe Ufa sad boo or of himself, hie Hr and his friends.—Votes Lewere. is fit ttickoia*. graph u4 a I tbs know of Isaeet Life la BretO. Mr. Ernest Morris, the young treretef and naturalist, wbo has jut returned from Breaih repeats tbe general observa tion of vxplorere that the exuberance of insect life is the principal obstacle to the enjoyment of a sojourn in that part of the world. Cockroaches swarm in •very house despite the inroads of an who could give proper shading to her of The Troll. _ Later tp TfaeteftsoiT* a^ntj ^ ^ em plants were found to have escaped, and they made such a handsome start with the fall rains that where there was plen ty of room some were spared. These became very strong, and looked luxuri antly green and vigorous in the sf and yielded splendid fruit. This ct turn was so nearly no oultur® ftt all, but a mere Accidental permission to a few plants to grow, that I have condensed my practice into the mere dictum: “Let them alone." I find that this fill* the lull of requirements as to culture if we have given the soil for them to grow in loo;! that Is not charged with wred %eeds, and water enough white swelling their fruit. Winter shaker is useful, It afforded by thetr leaves If the auti C »wth has bass as .and it wdl be properly tot atoM. are intrusive and dangerous; a small red insect celled thy “meouim ” is aq intol erable annoyance; at certain hours of the day the air is black with flies and mosquitoes, aad ante are a universal plague. To baffle theae last-named foe* of peace Mr. Morris was obliged to keep his entire collections on hanging »h. Ives, the cords of which were soaked in the oil of copaiba. “The mast de structive ant in Brexil,’’ says Mr. Morris, “is tbe son bo. It? will strip trees of their folsge re ft ftinglft ftiffoti “d 111 places orange trees can not be for this reseem Tbe toeende: ry email act, the Mte of which » a painful K»e. I to week ter • many grown ■ a ve peot for the and pity s’e for- his fallen one day crept loved uoei When these even the them felt e I condition)*andf quietly returned the bag and its ctmu-nt* to where they found them, and replaced the sleeper’s otothea upon him. When a reporter tried to interview the man, and endeavored to learn something of his life in the past few yeere, he de clined to communicate anything. He cried tike a chQd when told bow his right name aud former position were ascertained, and, with tear* trickling do a n his cheeks, said: “For God’s sake,.nr, don’t publish mv degradation, or my name, at least, it you are determined to aay something about it It is enough that I know my self how low I have become. Will yon promise that much? It will do no good, but will do my friends a greet deal of harm, as, unfortunately, they think I died in Bouth America, where I went el the clues of the war.” - Iut» nii>enuice and the he said, W wrought kte; ’In at If e v