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oMASONIC DIRECTORY.
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, Have on-hand a large stock of
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A large assortment ot r;; -.
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Merino Vests & Shirts,
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beat material and employs only thu fluent wo; k
men. He keeps a full stock of custom mad
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entire satisfaction in every instance.
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Caatinge of ail kinds made to order on. short
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C^fiiFf W anfl BiRlfllng.
He il&f repai?fl* Cott^rt bin a, Xbrash'ers and
F.-.D3. A fall eupply of Gin Material aln?j>j
on <^hfl? * Fftritoera Hrhfrt qn$st>?d to' Sring I
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In Old Man's Dream.
Oh, for on? hour of youthful Joy !
Give back my twentieth spring !
1 d rather laugh a bright haired boy
Than reign a gray haired king.
Off with the wrinkled tpoils of age ,
Aw?y with learn g'n crown ;
Tear out life'* wiscLm-written page,
And cast its trophies down.
One moment let my life blood stream
Fr >m boyhood's fount of fame ;
Give me one giddy, reeling dream
Of We, of love, and fame.
My ilstenlng angel heard the prayer,
And, calmly smiling, said :
?4 T$ T atlvArA^ hldr
Thy batty wish had sped.
" Bat is there nothing in the tr&ok
To bid thee fondly stay,
While the swift seasons harry book
To B?d the wiahed-for day ?"
Ah, truest soul of woman kind,
Without thet what wer? life ?
One bliss I caj lot leave behind?
Til take my precious wife.
The angel took a sapphire pen
And wrote in rainbow hue:
11 The man would be a boy again,
And be ajiusband too.
" Ai 4 is there nothing yet unsaid.
Before the change appears ?
Remember ' thy gifts have fled
With these dissolving years."
-- nuj, JOO, i MULUU uuo iaiui uium.
My fond pafernal Joys?
I could not bear to lose them all;
I'll take my girls and boys."
The smiling angel dropped his pen.
" Why, this will never do ;
The man would be a boy again,
And be a father too!"
nd bo I laughed. My laughter woke
The household with its noise,
I wrote my dream when morning broke
To please my girls and boys.
? Oliver Wendell Holmet
The Emerald Ring'.
In one of the splendid palaces of t
Russian capital, a fair your)g girl tlir<
herself upon the crimson cushions
the divan in the embrasure of a lar;
window. Alarm and anxiety were c
picted on her features, and she constai
ly clasped and unclasped her am
hands, and nervously arose and look
out into the street, and then reseat
herself as if awaiting some painful i
telligenoe. it was the fair yom
Natalie Radetski, the beauty of the Rt
sian court, upon which nature and ft
tune had showered every gift, and f
whom even the stern features of ti
Emperor Nicholas would relax in
something like a smile as he looked upi
her beauty and grace.
Hastily the door opened, and a youj
man advanced towards her.
"I am to bid yon farewell, Natalie
he said, in a voice broken by emotio
" Oh, Alexis ! what is it ?" cried tl
young girl.
it T ^iorvlooeo^ omnornr ?i
he has ordered my arrest."
"The emperor will pardon you
will go to him," said she. "He will n
refuse me. He has always been so ki
to me."
" Alas ! my Natalie. He will refn
you this. The emperor believes i
concerned in a conspiracy, and he ne\
forgives. I am innocent, but he w
not believe it. I know not what is
be done with me; but if I am sent
Siberia "
" To Siberia ! Oh, Aleife! it canr
be?it must not be I"
For a moment neither spoke,
length, with a powerful effort at ee
control, the young man said: ' Natal
let me place this ring upon your flng
and promise me that you will wear
always in memory of what my love 1
been to you. The emperor will foi
you to marry. I do not wish t
thought of me to make you alwt
wretched."
He placed upon her finger a ring,
which was a single emerald of gn
brilliancy.
" Do not take it off, nor read the
scription, till you hear oertainly tha
have boen banished," he said. A sbr
of horror ran through her frame, but
went on, firmly : "Then read it;
will comfort you. Now I must go. 1
emperor allowed me this interview, ?
thi< guards are awaiiing me."
He clasped her convulsively to
hrpftsfc. kissed her brow and lips, i
laying her gently npou the divan, pas
out. In the street the guards awai
him.
Tbe words of her lover did not d<
Natalie from attempting to save h
She sent a petition to the emperor,
ploring an interview; bnt it was det
her. She waylaid the empress.
"My poor child," said the erapr
kindly, "I would gladly take yen to
emperor, even at the risk of incuri
his displeasure; but it is too late. Ah
Potemkiu has been sent to Siberia
life."
Natalie heard her not.
4 Lift her up," paid the empress "
has fainted."
But Natalie had not fainted. 81o\
but resolutely, she rose, and makin
?oi >n?o nl vocna/at.fn I Qn }im isRlOTI tf)
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empress, bpgged leave to retire.
When Natalie reached her own ap
ment, she drew from her linger the 1
ihat Alexis had placed npon it, and r
he inscription carved upon the inf
m French: " Death is the only c
soler," it said. "We shall meel
heaven I"
There is no place more dreary, ir
terrible, even in imagination, than
mines of Siberia.
Among the condemned in a la
quicksilver mine in the very heart of
country, thousands of versta from
Petersburg, stooped at his daily to
form whose tall and noble proporti
evefc his ooarse habit scarcely ehrouc
His delicate frame, unused to labor,
exposed to the rigor of an Arctic
mate, soon yielded to the nnhenlthii
of his occupation; and he was fast si
ing under his trials. Yes, death wc
oome, gentle death?and his heart lea
with a momentary joy.
The struggle was not long. A
days of confinement to a hard palle
"'few nights of suffering, and the 1
? ' _ . i i
wmcn even au imyen'u unww
not stop, went f*rtb. The victim
released.
Three months after this, the gr
chamberlain of Bussiu presented h
Belf before Mile. Radetski, and 6
moned her to the presence of the
peror.
When conducted to the palace,
majesty dismissed tho gentleman
waiting, and Rigued her to approi
His stern features were contracted b
expression of deep displeasure.
" Why does Mademoiselle Bade
wear mourning ?" he said. " Does
mourn for conspirators who would t
vert the government and bring dest
tion upon their country ?"
"No, sire," she answered. "I\
mourning for one whom your maji
saw fit to condemn, but to whom,
your express command, I promised
hand."
" We will not discuss the past,"
plied the csar, coldly. " I sent for
| for a different purposo. I have chosen
| a husband for you."
I "Mercy, sire!" exclaimed Natalie,
i clasping her hands, imploringly. " Do !
' not force me to marry."
j "Force, mademoiselle! that is an
! ngly word. I, your emperor, recom
1 mend your acceptance of the suit of a
young nobleman of high rank. There
. are reasons of state which make me ex
j pressly desire this marriage. And,
j Natalie," he added, his harsh tone and
j manner softening visibly, " grief
should not be eternal. Life is not given
j us to waste in idle sorrow for what is
irremediable; and new ties will bring
you solace, and, in time, happiness."
As she pressed her hands to her
bosom, in a momentary spasm of pain,
he observed the glittering emerald that
enriched her finger.
"So splendid a jewel is hardly befit
*? ryinnmiYin rrarVt morlomniR^llA.
t bLLl? m *MVLUIIU1Q ? ?
! May I see the ring? -
" Poor Natalie murmured faintly :
" Your majesty -will r.ot take it from
me ?"
j " I will return it," replied the em
peror, as he examined the inscription.
"Death, the consoler!" he murmured
to himself. " Yes, death is the great
healer and oomforter."
His rigid features relaxed into an ex
pression of deep piety as he remarked
| her wasted appearance and pallid fea
tures ; but nothing of this was percepti
ble in his tone as he said : " It is my
j will, mademoiselle, that you should be
j married a month from this day. The
| time will come when you will thank me
| for this decision. You can now retire."
As soon as Natalie had left, the em
peror rang his bell for Dr. Seckendorf,
his favorite physician.
"Seokendorf," said' the csar, "go
and see Mademoiselle RadetskL Find
out if she has any organic disease. Be
turn here and report, but say nothing of
l what you observe to any one else."
i In a few hours Dr. Seckendorf was i
i again admitted to tne presence 01 me
! czar.
. . "How is your patient?" inquired
Nicholas.
. ! " I fear very ill, your majesty. She
has aneurism of the heart."
" Is there any immediate danger f"
" There may not be, if she is not ex
: cited. But violent agitation or grief
j may prove fatal."
i " What has caused the disease ?"
he : " Her constitution has always been
5W I frail; but I think "? here he hesitated,
of i " Say out what you think," said the
ge i czar, impatiently.
le | "Then, with your majesty's permis
lt-1 aion, I think that the sentence of Count
all | Potemkin was her death-blow."
ed I The czar paced his'cabinet impatient
ed j ly. " She will get over it, Seckendorf.
n- i A happy marriage will make her forget
ag j ail that. There is nothing like happi
is-1 ness for a woman's health."
>r- " I do not presume to contradict your
or majesty, but I doubt whether Mademoi
he selle Ridetski is able to bear either hap
to piness or sorrow very long." I
an I The emperor dismissed his physician j
I nflar oninin ill or liirtl tft Visit his natient ,
daily. In the meantime the preparations
for the marriage went on. A costly
trousseau was provided for the bride,
and all the beanty and rank of the capi
tal invited. The emperor himself was
to grace the ceremony with his pres
ence.
Bnt still Dr. Seckendorf visited his
patient, and his face grew grave as he
looked at her.
One morning he reached her mansion
at a later hour than usual. Her attend
ants informed him that their mistress
had not yet rang her bell, and they hesi
tated to disturb her. He went at once
to her apartment. The'attendants drew
aside the curtains of the bed. With one
hand supporting her head, which rested
upon the pillow, lay the pale sleeper,
less brilliantly beautiful than_.wi.au,
with proud step and careless grace, she
trod the gorgeous salons of the capital,
but far more lovely.
Death, the consoler, had stooped to
kiss his victim, and had not disturbed
the peaceful smile that rested on her
Una Tn her hand she held the ring
ce which she had taken from her finger,
he and she bad passed away while reading
iys its inscription.
Gently Seckendorf replaced it npon
in I the marble finger, from which it was
sat j never more to be taken.
" Truly," he murmured, " for her,
in- j death is the consoler."
fci;
per ,
h? ! Servian Martyrdom Defined.
: f |
'he | Emilio Castelar, ex-President of
ind ; Liberia, io a letter to the Herald writes
| .is follows : Unhappy people! Their
his ! martyrdom is one of tne most heart
ind j rendering trng' dies in the pages of his
sed [ torv. Their mountains are the highest
ted' of Calvaries, and, perhaps the most
I bloody among the crucifixion of nations.
>ter ; Persecuted, martyred, their life during
im.'tbe last three long centimes seems like
im- | a continuing death. Their oppressors
tied cast a portion of them from the bosom
| of the cities to the bosom of the woods,
ess, j and compelled tbem in a savago state to
mnnnfoin foofnocooe an/1
I Mia. jui mu
irig ! to cloth themselves in thob;irks of trees,
ttis ! TboRe who remained in tho city carried
for | their heads bowed upon their breast?
| and their eyes fixed on the ground. II
I ihey raised their heads it would bo said
she i that they elevated it to look for the lighl
of heaven"and not for liberty. If thej
vly, I raised their glance it would be Baicl thai
g a they elevated it to look at their tyrants,
the t and" this would bring down death. Some
were dragged from their families, sc
art- that thoy might not speak of their conn
ing try?even at the fireside with thfcir chil
ead ! dren, or in tho uuptiul couch with their
side j wives. Terror reigned to such a de
son- I gree that the old men and the womec
; in ! went in search of the strongest in the
j tribe and said: "Slay us before leav
tore ing us to the will of the oppressor."
the j How often has the mountaineer, on do
I parting for the wooJa, caught his be
cromeu oy wie uuu, gn/.cu uwu uu
with the ecstatic eyes of love, driven
his hunting knife to her heart, launch
iug forth an agonizing wail and receiv
ing in return a dying smile from the
martyr glorified and transfigured. T1k
principal hero of Servian iudepeudenw
killed his own and honored father will
his own hand. In that eternal captivity,
in those ages of misfortune, this racf
acquired a mixture of puthusiasin and
dissimulation of pride and self-abnega
tiop, of strength and astuteness whicl:
hardenod it and gave it tho cunniDg and
t, a j patience of tho weak, as well as th<
Sat, I energy and the might of the strong,
mid j
WAS i " Crooked " Whisky Sentences.
and j Iu sentencing the "crooked " whisk]
dm- [ men in Indiana, several of the prisoners
nm- who were revenue officers, before sentenc*
em-. was passed, pleaded their honorabh
' wounds and faithful service in the arm}
his and various other reasons in mitigation
in 1 Judge Ore^ham admitted the unploas
ich. antness of his duty, but could not allov
yan j sympathy to malco him forget the crim<
: they had committed. He drew a de
tski cided contract between the officers ol
she the government and distillers. Tin
rob- former are trusted seivants in the paj
rue- of the United States, while the lattej
are not trusted, but watched by govern
rear menfc officials. Therefore the furmei
3flty ought to have increased punishment,
by He then announced that those officer)
my who had betrayed their trust Bhoulc
have two vears in either of the peni
re- tentiaries tnov might prefer, and pay i
yon fin* of 81,000 each.
THE NEW TARIFF BILL.
What It Propose# to Do?-The Changes
Made In the Dntlable Articles.
Mr. Morrison, ^chairman'of'the ways
and means committee, has introduced in
the United States House of Representa
tives a new tariff bill. The]|principlo of
the bill in, in tho first place, to abolish
all combined duties, simplifying the
tariff by fixing a specific rate of duty,
and making that specific rate a fixed
rate, twenty-five or thirty per cent.,
ad valorem ; and seooudly, to reduce in
general the dutifla on those articles the
importation of which is now prohibited
by the high duties that are imposed
upon them.
The new bill lowers tho duty on wool
more than one-half, and reduces corre
spondingly all duties on woolen fabrics.
It places on the free list every article,
with the exception of raw wool, in
i-a"? j .1.
ciuuiug ujr-ett, cm;., wrnui 10 uku iu
manufacturing, the consumption of
which now amounts to $3,000,000 an
nually. This is chiefly in the interest
of the manufacturers.
It imposes a duty on ooffee and tea
which, although light, will yield a
revenue of $19,000,000 per annum.
It changes the duty on cigars to a
specifio duty, bo as to do away with all
undervaluation.
Its most important rates as fixed are
as follows :
Manufactured oottons, not exoeeding
one hundred threads to the square inch,
two and one-half cents per square yard.
Bleached ditto, three and one-half
cents.
Colored and stained ditto, three and
one-half cents.
Finer goods, unbleachcd, three oents.
Bleached ditto, three and one-half
cents.
Colored ditto, four and one-half oents.
Goods of the same description and
lighter, unbleaohed, three oents.
Bleached ditto, thre? and one-half
i cents.
Colored ditto, four and one-half cents.
nrmAa nnf or7?flO(1ir?D' ften hnn
I i.' iUCi gwuoj MVB w?.-Q ...
dred threads to the square inch, un
; bleached, four cents.
Bleached ditto, four and one-half
cents.
Colored and printed ditto, five cents.
Goods of lighter description, exoeed
[ ing two hundred threads, four and one
half cents.
Unbleached ditto, five cents and
seven and one-half cents.
Yarns, a uniform rate of duty, ten
cents, twenty cents, thirty cents and
forty cents per pound.
Spool thread, six cents per dozen and
nine cents per dozen.
Gimps, galloons and laces, thirty per
oent. *
Cotton shirts and drawers and hosiery,
thirty per oent.
Ootton braids, laces and trimmings,
thirty per cent. *
Wool of the first quality, six cents per
pound and ten cents per pound.
Wool of the second class, five conts
per pound and ten cents per pound.
Wool of the third class, tbree cents
per pound.
Woolen cloths and shawls, seventy
cents per pound.
Flannels and wool on fabrics, twenty
cents, thirty conts, forty cents and fifty
cent* per pound.
Italian cloths, nine cents and fifteen
ceiits per square yard.
" Carpets, ninety cents, sixty-five cents
and forty oents per square yard.
Pig iron, $5 per ton.
Bar iroD, one cent, one-half cent, and
three-quarters of a cent por pound.
Wire, three cents, four cents, and five
cents per pound.
Sheet iron, one cent per pound.
Kailroad iron, $10 per ton.
Steel rails, $15 per ton.
| Cfgars, 83.50 per pound.
Leaf tobacco, forty cents per pound.
Silka, twenty-five, thirty and forty
per oent.
Coffee, fonr cents per potind.
Tea, ten cents per potind.
The free list comprises all articles of
aniline dyes, medicine, and all raw ma
terials.
Too Many of Them.
It i3 onginniug to be apparent, says
the New York Tribune, that as one of
the results of the Charlie Ross excite
ment we are to have a miserable multi
plication of seven-year-old liars Every
few weeks a precocious humbug ia pina
fore is discovered in some out of the way
village, who sets the telegraphs work
ing and detectives running in half tho
cities of tho United States by a tale of
adventure that ought not to impose even
upon the habitual reader of dime novels.
The little romancer has all the characters
of the soul-curdling drama, and all the
stereotyped forms of expression, at his
tongue's end. Se gives us the usual
reminiscences of " a big house,'" and a
"papa," and a "brother," the usual
narrative of rapidnight journeys in com
pany of strange men, the usual old
i woman who kept him in a meanly fur
nished room. All the quidnuncs of the
village ply him with leading questions
> and stimulate his powers of invention.
For a wiiilo he is the popular idoL Then
it is discovered some day that there is
1 no mystery whatever about, his past life ;
| but the young rascal has enjoyed him
self hugely lying and being petted for
I, it, repeating the stories he has heard,
; adding the embellishments suggested by
' his questioners, and enriching the whole
; mess from his own resources. Every
child loves fiction and the mai7alous,
1 ii.fvoniAnfl' inrpn.
auu LUUOU UUllUA VU uaw
tors of strange stories. But it would be
better to confine this talent to the nur
sery than to force it into unwholesome
growth by the aid of the telegraph and
the newspaper.
Esquimaux D?g*.
Ten Esquimaux dogs mak? a full
team, and will draw a sledge twelve
miles an hour. On a good surface, six
or seven dogs will perform in a day a
journey of sixty miles, even with weight
amounting to a thousand pounds to
draw. When there is no suow, the doga
are made to carry burdens in a kind of
pauier, and one of them will travel thus
with a weight of twenty-live pounds
upon his back. As a general thing, they
all have names, to which they will
readily answer, and they are more at
UR'UtfU IU 1/liCiL JUiivotoio vu?4.(a ^iuwvkuv
alone would require, for they are never
car esse tl, and suffer mnch hard usage.
The Fortification Bill.
The Dnitcd States House committee
j on appropriations completed the Forti
i fication bill, appropriating for the pro
tection, preservation, and repairs of for
I titrations and other works of defense,
I 8100,003; for the conversion of heavy
| ordnance, 8100,000 ; for projectiles of
j heavy ordnance. 825,000; for carriages
i for heavy guu?, 815,000; for proving
| ground and proving cannon, S'25,000;
! for torpedoes, 850, OCO. The estimates
j were 83,000,000, but the committee cut
: down the appropriations to 8315,000.
No Sign.?A grocer in Newport who
has been doing business for nearly fifty
years, and has no sign to designate his
placo of business, gives as his reason
for the omission, that all his old friends
know where to find him, and the balance
would either come for money or to get
credit, and as he has no desire to see
either of these classer, he prefers to re
main as he is, even though " a wicked
and perverse generation may seek for a
*ign,"
The Texas-Mexie&n Border,
What is generally kiown as the
Texas border, says the Ne w Orleans Bul
letin, extends from the city of Browns
ville to the Pecos mountains, a distance
of oyer five hundred miles by land, and
in a direct course. If, however, the dis
tance be measured along the tortuous
and winding Rio Grande, it would reach
fully three times that number of miles,
owing to the extreme irregularity of itc
course throughout the entire distance.
The river on both sides is lined by bluffc
ranging in height from twenty to thirty
five feet, and in order to facilitate the
crossing of cattle deep gullies have beer
cut in these bluffs by the Mexican raid
era, though when driving the cattle from
Texas it makes but little difference hoM
high these bluffs aro or whether there
be any pathways cutthrcugh or not; the
great thirst of the oattle, they being
kept from water for a long while, urget
Al- lio oV?al1nnr ofyAflrr
llLi111 l/U piUii^O 1UW vuo ouuuvn. umwmm,
below, through which they can easilj
wade to the opposite shore. Along the
entire border there is a road running or
the Texas side, into which the pathways
and roads from the interior all merge al
last; and, if this were perfectly patrolled;
the dangers which constantly threatei
the inhabitants of the interior would b<
greatly lessenecL As it ia now, it is un
safe for any person to travel uriaccom
panied by a strong escort; any travelei
met by tne raiders is liable to be mosl
brutally murdered,, and instances art
known where the innocent have beer
quartered and mutilated in the mosi
horrible manner, without any reason ex
oept the fear that they might mak<
known the whereabouts of the raiders
About one-quarter of the distance be
tween Brownsville and the Pecos moun
tains is situated Binggold barrack"
where the United States soldiers are a
present stationed under command o
Gen. Potter, who has immediate charg<
of the border; but these troops are s<
few in number that they afford little if
any protection against the treacheroui
and daring Mexicans. There are abou
five or six hundred men, equally dividec
between Brownsville and Ringgold bar
racks. The entire district of Texas ii
in command of Gen. Augur, whos*
headqtiifcrtera are San Antonio, fully 151
miles from the Rio Grande.
The Rio Grande /arely, if ever, reache;
a great-er depth than two and one-half o:
three feet, and therefore offors but littli
protection as a border line, and is no ob
struction whatever feo the crossing, o
cattle in any numbers or. at any time
The officers of the Rio Bravo have dis
covered the shallowness of this "grea
stream " in a very unsatisfactory man
ner?their vessel being now aground a
Brownsville in about three and one lial
feet of water. The country borderinj
on the river Lj covered for a long dis
tance inland by a species of vegetatioi
pcculiai to that country, known a
" chaparral," a very tough and prickl;
shrub, which grows to a height of be
tween eight and ten feet, aud offers ai
inesistible obstruction to travel ; th
cactus plant also grows there to abon
the same height, and is an eqnall;
troublesome impediment to man o
In order to rfeoli the rivei
roads have been eu% through this shrut
bery, and offer 4ho only means of intei
course with the interior. All the ranche
for some miles inland, are occupied b
Mexicans, who are unquestionably at
complices of the raidem, but who neve
allcw themselves to be ciinght in in
overt act of depredation, merely afford
ing a harbor of safety to the raidei
when occasion demands.
Retrenchment at West Point,
Mr. Hamilton (Dem.), of New Jersey
who has charge of the bill t.o cut dow
the expenditures for West Point, said i
the United States House that figure
and facts showed there was large rooi
for retrenchment. The estimates ser
in for the military academy amounted t
$437,000; but the committee on appr<
priations had cut them down to JWiy
041, and tho committee believed that r<
duction could be made without impai:
ing the utility of the institution to an
extent. It was a mere lopping off of e:
travagance. He asserted that the prei
eut compensation of the superint&ndei
of the academy was better than that <
any government officer except the Pres
dent, he receiving by direct pay and a
lowauces about $7,000 a year. The con
mandant of cadets would receive b
this bill S3,000 a year, with a furnishe
residence, which, with other incidental
was equal to SI,500 more. This offic<
now receives $G,000 a year, or somethic
like it. Four professors at the academ
receive $3,500, and lour orner proie
Hors, who are not army officers, recen
$ 4,000. This bill now proposed to gh
them $3,500, a furnished house, fuel an
light", equal to $5,000 a year. He oon
pared this compensation with thac of a
sist&nt secretaries of departments j
Washington, who received only 83,500
year, without r*.uy house or other alio;
ance, and with that of the governor <
New Jersey, who only got $5,000 a yei
without any residenoe or other co:
tingenciea. But ".he people of Ne
Jersey, don't know anything about e:
travagant modes of living, and that wi
the' reason their State was hot in deh
They had lived in something like the o
style of economy and prudence, not :
the hifalutin stylo of living that pr
vailed in Washington. This bill pr
posed that army officers stationed
West Point should have the same pi
and allowance as they had in the arm;
! As to the pay of cadets, he said 1
should be very sorry to destroy tl
utility of West Point. He was an adv
cato of that aavlemy, and he desired
see it upheld. Ho had a brother wl
graduated there, and he himself he
been on the board of examiners, so th
he knew something about the instit
tion. When his brother was there tl
pay of cadets was twenty-eight dolla
per month, and now this bill propose
to give them forty-five dollars. E
trance to the military academy w
eagerly sought for. It was the road
distinction. It was the road which 1<
Tnylor, and Jackson, and others, to tl
Presidency. He did not wonder th
the aspiring youth of the country soug
it by scores, and nobody could dou
that if it were allowed the acaden
i would be filled up without any charge
all to the country.
! Sixty-three Persons Burned to Deat
The Goloss, in an account of the t<
j rible railway accident near Odessa, Rt
| sia, says that the train was conveying 4
| recruits of Onmana and Qmiew frc
: Elisabethgrad to Odessa. Some ra
| had been removed from the lino whe
i it runs overa.high embankment, andt
I engine driver failed to notice the da
j ger signals. The train went off t
I rails, and the carriages rolled down t
| embankment. Piled one upon anoth
| they took fire, and though only thr
j persons had been killed on the spt
; sixty-three wero burned to death,
addition, fifty-four of the recruits we
badly burned or wounded, so the tol
number of victims was 120.
! Joking.?Mr. Holmau, in the Unit
1 States House, ridiculed the dispatch
of our ministers abroad. Mr. Monr
replied that if the foreign missions we
to be abolished because of some ridic
lous letters, the House of Represenl
tires should share the same fat? for soi
of the speeohes of its members. Tl
wm greatly enjoyed by the morabera.
1 BANK BOBBEBT.
Haw a Bank wom Robbed Tea Year* Ago.?
A Daring Burglary.
The burglary at the national bank of
Northampton, Masa., and the snooessfnl
flight of the thieves with nearly $1,000,
000 -vrorth of plunder, recalls to mind
the robbing of the Concord national
bank, of Concord, Mass., some ten years
ago. In some particulars the work of
the thieves was similar, bnt the annals of
crime will be searched in vain for a more
skillful or daring robbery than that of
the Concord bank, an outline of whioh
is given below. On the twenty-fifth of
September, 1865, the Conoord bank,
was entered in broad daylight, during
the absence of the cashier at dinner, and
robbed of $310,000 in United States
bonds, notes and securities, being the
entire luncis 01 ine inaanuion. xne
maDner in which the robbery was com
mitted for a long time remained a mys
tery, so adroitly was it oontrived, the
skill of the thieves being only equaled
by that of the detectives in tracking
them and finally recovering the greater
portion of the money. It subsequently
transpired that the thieves had watched
to "set" the bank for a long time, mak
ing oocasional trifling inquiries so that
they could noto the habits of the cashier,
the location of the vault and other items
necessay for the aooomplishment Of
their nefarious plans. They then turned
their attention to the street door, and
after working fifteen days and nights, off
and on, succeeded in fitting a key which
gave them access to the interior of the
, I building. 'JL'UlS, nowever, wua mo euiu- -
. est part of their labor, as, after getting *
. into the banking room, which "was jip *
t I stairs, they had seren more locks before f
11 they could reach the strong box or safe, ^
f in the inner recess of the vault. It 1
j seems almost incredible, but it is never
j theless on reoord that eighty nights were I
spent in the bank, and as an instance of J
3 their daring and the way they worked 1
t together, each took his turn sleeping on 6
1 the floor, while the others- worked. <
. They were inside the main vault twenty 1
3 or thirty times before they got into the I
3 safe which held the prize they, were la- <
) boring for, the lock oeing of a combina- i
tion pattern, and the slightest turn of 1
a the index after the removal of the key ?
f prevented the thieves from setting the 1
3 new key, and as this could only happen *
. by accident, the chances of ultimate t
f success were next to notiiing. Uaffled 1
. on the very verge of success, it was de- i
. termined to use gunpowder; but there
t was a man who slept in an adjoining *
. house, not twenty yards from the safe, 1
t so it was arranged to choose a bluster- t
f ing night when the equinoctial gales 1
j were blowing. The safe was to be ^
. wrapped in wet blankets and everything t
a done to smother the noise. But the 1
s gale did not blow, so it was determined f
y to carry the safe bodily away in broad <
i daylight. ]
With this end in view the habits of 1
the cashier were studied, and it was
found that he was absent from the bank
about two hours each day. According
ly on the twenty-fifth of September,
1865, everything being in readiness,
' after the cashier had locked the bank
: and gone homo one of the gang boldly
! walked up to the front door and, un
locking it, walked in. As he did so a
littlo girl camo up and asked for Mr.
Cheney, the cashier. He told her coolly
I that ho would not be back until two
j o'clock. He then went up stairs and
| shortly after a man camo to the door and
I knocked for some time. His accomplices,
! postcdin sight with the horse and wagon,
! became frightened, thinking the plan
! had been detected. The une in the
building found the key of the safe in the
vault, but the cashier had omitted to
move the index, which left the lock at
the mercy of the thief. Had the index
been set even the key would have been
useless. The work of plunder then
oommencod, tho daring thief remaining
within the vault nearly half an hour,
during which time he actually
gathered together everything of value
" * * " - V_ 4 TT ? i.V?
in the keeping 01 tne Dans. - no weu
took bis departure, locking all the doors
behind him oxcept the street door. He
was met on the road a few miles away
out by his confederates, and they ail
drove off, leaving absolutely no trace be
hind them. As soon as the loss was dis
covered the chiof of police of Boston
sent several detectives to Concord, who,
after making a thorough examination,
reported what little they had been able
to gather to Superintendent of Police
Kennedy, of New York. It was the im
pression at first, so cleanly had the work
been done, that the thieves were in col
lusion with some official or employ of
the bank. The case was then put in the
hands of Chief Detective John Young
and Captain Jourdan, of New York.
Captain Jourdan, whoso experience
with criminals was very exensive, came
to the conclusion that the robbery had
been committed by some one known for
a long time to the police, and that the
sf ! thieves must have an agent to negotiate
' the stolen bonds. Captain Jourdan
caused the arrest of a known criminal
There was proof upon which ho could
have been convicted of counterfeiting.
He offered, if he should not be prose
cuted, to do anything in his power for
Jourdan. He was set at work on the
Concord case, and soon found a man
who agreed to furnish him with $20,
nn/i n+ ooTTi>nfTT-fW/i ?ar r?*nt. of
V/VU Hi UUUUO (Mil TO?WU.J M(V ?
their par valne on the following Satur
day. Carofnl watching of and skillful
diplomaoy with this man with a prudent
use of threats, induce:! him at length to
divulge the name and the hiding place
o- of the robber tho police wanted. He
was taken in a little cottage on tho
banks of the Delaware river near Cam
den. Having arrested him the detec
tives nearly tore the house and barn to
pieoesinthe vain endeavor to find the
lost securities. Finally Captain Jourdan
by digging found a glass jar containing
$100,000 in United States bonds and in
the sandy bank of the river a box with
7ft nrm n*n Hnnrln ptn. The whole
y |U|VUV
amount of $199,331 was thus reoovered,
a triumph of detective genius such as
has rarely been equaled.?New York
Herald.
The White Hoosf.
The debate on the proposed constitu
tional amendment limiting the United
States Presidential term was closed by
Mr. Knott, chairman of the judiciary
committee, who, in the course of his
remarks, thus pictured the allurements
of the Presidential office:
A salary of 850,000, a mansion sus
tained in a style of luxury that few per
sons dreamed of, fnrnished, repaired
aud heated at an annual expense of
825,000, with the very air breathedthere
perfumed by rare exotics, propagated in
a $55,000 garden house, maintained at
an annual expense of $5,000; a private
secretary at $3,000 a year to do the
PrQoi/iAtif.'si wrilini?; two assistant secre
taries, at 82,500 a year, to do the work
of tho private secretary; two clerks at
$2,250 to do tho work of the assistant
secretaries; a steward at $2,000 to supply
the President's table with the choicest
wines and the richest viands that could
tempt or satiato his appetite; with
$6,000 a year for books, periodicals, sta
tionery, telegrams and other contingen
cies. If the children of Israel sighed
for the fleshpots of Egypt, what must
be tho anguish of a sensitive soul when
taking a last long farewell of such salary
and luxuries.
The bill was defeated by a vote of 144
yecifl to 106 w-ys,
1 MICHIGAN GIAST,
owerfal In Mnacle bnt Weak In IMIid?
Remarkable Feata of Strength.
Charley Freeman, along back in the
airties, says a Michigan paper, appeared
3r the first time among a gang of labor
rs on the Flat Bock and Gibraltar canal,
nd he moved among men like a son of
Jiak. He looked eight feet high, at
jast, and three feet across the shoulders,
[is arms sprang from his chest as large
s any middle sized man's body, and
ipered down to a hand three inches
hick, and when donbled into a fist, as
tig and hard as a rail-splitter's mauL
le gave ont his age as seventeen, and he
ras growing. He hired for the wages
nd work of an ordinary man, but when
.e seized a shovel it wont through the
lay like a breaking-up plow, and the
an die soon came off if the blade held.
L? n?i1irow ftT TTOJI hnf. ft fpftthflr in hlB
.and. It sank to the eye in the wood,
nd the helve splintered. He dealt out
trength by the wholesale, and he could
iot weigh ont his foroe in the measure
f ordinary men.
When hw stood among the gang of la
lorers the contrast made them look like
hildren. The strolling Indians would
tare in amazement a few moments, and
hen with a deep "ugh!" get cut of
ight of hidfcas fast as their dignity
rould let them. He was put to do the
rork of three pair of oxen. That was
emoving the trunks of trees cut in ten
>r twelve foot leDgths, ont of the way of
he diggers, not Hitched to them like
>xen to snake them away, but with his
ight hand under the end, raising it
rom the ground, then balancing it aaross
ds left forearm, he shot the sawlogs far
o one side with all the ease that a skill
til workman piles his split oordwood.
Lnd thus day after day the giant moved
mtil the canal was bruit.
He appeared again in the boats that
>lied along the Huron river, Michigan.
Is was engine end tackle to handle
leavy freight. What others could not I
ihove or roil, he could pickup and oarry |
>r toBS. When the heavily freighted
>oat struck on the ripples he just step
)ed out of the stern and boosted her
>ver. Nobody would have felt surprised
f he had taken the whole boat and cargo
'ight under his arms, as a woman carries
i dough tray, and marohed across by
and, when they came to long bends ifi
he river. Nobody ever said he did
his, because they never wanted to ex
iggerate his feats any moro than we do
low.
But navigation did not pay, and that
itopped, too. Some of the "fancy"
leard of the uncelebrated giant, and
ook the notion that there was money in
lim. He was as simple as a child.
Lny one could lead him. It never got
hronffli his skull that he was remarka
)le. The sharpers meant to keep liim
to and speculate on his prodigious pow
jr. They coaxed him off eastward. At
Buffalo they sent him into a dock saloon
ivith a sixteen-hundred-pound anchor
inder his left arm, just as a chopper car
ries his ax, to pawn it for drinks, and
ihe keeper was glad to treat him for
carrying it out again. Thus he and his
friends traveled on his muscle to the
sea coast and acroas to England. They
intended to get a soft thing on somj
English champion. They had too much
of a good thing. A friendly sparring,
as an experiment, with a professional
boxer showed that a match with any liv
incr pusrilist was impossible. The giant's
face could not be effectually reached.
Blows on the body might as well have
been planted on a sandbag. "When his
unskilled maul came down it csme with
the force of a pile driver, and no matter
what it met the obstacle went to the
earth. By the ruse of representing him
as large and strong, but green, they
made a match of science and skill
against power with a noted pugilist.
The parties came on tho ground, but at
first sight of him, his opponent turned
awaysaying: "I cameto fight with a large
man, not with a mountain." Seconds,
referees, and all hands declared the
match fairly "off."j Finding nothing
could be made ont of him, his sharp at
tendants deserted him. From Michigan
to Liverpool the route had been one of
continued dissipation, and he contracted
the seeds of disease. Deserted in a
strange land, ho was uncared for; an
ohject of awe and curiosity, useless to
anybody else, and helpless to care for
himself, he soon died of consumption,
and was buried in a pauper's grave.
Thus Derished perhaps the' most mag
niflcent specimen of physical manhood
that the United States ever produced.
He never learned a lotter, he never felt
a refining influence, he never had a
real friend.
The Dynamite Fiend.
A report presenting the results of
their investigation into the Bremerhaven
explosion has been published by the
Bremen authorities, who intend it to
rectify false rumors and stimulate fur
ther inquiries. It states that, according
to his o vn deposition, the name of the
perpetrator was William King Thom
son. He was born in Brooklyn in 1830.
His parents, who originally immigrated
from Hamburg to America, are now liv
ing in Virginia. Thomson was taken
pris^per when running the blockade
during the late war in the United State i.
He escaped and fled to the South, where
he passed under the name of Thomas.
He mentioned one Midlers Skidmore, of
New York, as an accomplice. With the
above exceptions he made no reference
to his former crimes or accomplices.
His wife supposed his name was Alex
ander. He had a tattooed arm. There
is no evidence that he entered into rela
tions with the underwriters or plotted
against the safety of vessels previous to
1875. Nor is there any evidence except
an insurance of 3,000 marks on the bar
rel which exploded that he insured any
goods to be shipped by the Mosel- or
Deutschland. Observations made by
Thomson point to the conclusion that
he intended to hand a small box to the
officers of the Mosel, declaring it con
tained greenbacks, and that he intended
to have this box insured. In June,
1875, Thomson insured goods on the
steamer Rhein, which had started from
Bremen for New York, for ?9,000,
through the Barings of London. His
wife's evidence shows that previous to
his departure in November. 1875, Thom
son anxiously waited for a letter from
England, which he concealed when it
arrived.
Percales, Cambrics, Etc.
All kinds of wash Roods will be used
this summer for street suits, a fashion
journal says. The foulard percales are
brought out in cheviot (twilled) stripes,
checks, blocks, and irregular plaids of
one oolor on a white ground. Giugham
patterns are especially liked in the fine
cambrics that are sold for forty-five
cents a yard. Blue and gray " gingham
plaids," and all the quaint old oolors,
browns, snuff-color, and blue and white
cottons, worn by our grandmothers, are
reproduced. Cream color is especially
liked in cambrics, French jaconets, and
percales. There are also many "lace
bordered" cambrics; thus cream colored
grounds have figures representing blaok
laoe for borders. The dark solid colored
glazed percales also reappear in navy
blue, brown, and gray, to which are
added cardinal red and myrtle green.
The latter are warranted to wash, but
will scarcely be liked for dresses, though
they will be nseful as pipings ?wd
ing9,
THE CUBAN YOLUiTliSHiW.
rhe Men ?vho Leave 8paln to Serve la the
Army In Cuba.
A correspondent writing from Spain
3ays: The system of recruiting for the
army of Cuba is as follows: Each volun
teer receives, on enlistment, $50, he en
listing for one or two years' service; if,
at the end of one year, he likes to en
gage for another, he receives another
850. When the lad in bright Cadis City
receives this sum, knowing that he has
to embark within a fortnight, and hav
ing no care, no definite love of home
and parents, he goes to the bad forthree
days. You see a cab rattling down the
narrow streets of Cadiz, and lo! five
Cuban volunteers (peasant lads of
eighteen years) are its occupants; you
t o Af\rr&n nf
enter a wine tmup uuu w>u ? ^?
these boys come in and buy their tum
bler of Moutilla or sherry. In three
days they have spent, what with cabs,
wine, women and sweets, every sixpenoe
of their $60. They are amazingly proud,
even before they are habited as soldiers.
I saw four of them?boys of eighteen or
twenty?sitting on the Cadiz wharf the
other day. A gray-haired, courtly
Spanish gentleman passed, and said:
" Are you conscripts I "No," said the
spokesman, who had a soldier's cap, "we
are militaires." Of the four, one was
barefooted; one only had a military
badge?a blue, red tasseled cap. These
lads are, almost without exception, from
the interior of Andalosia. They teannot
get work; $50 is a heaven upon earth;
they have no idea what Ouban life is;
they volunteer, go, and only twenty of
every hundred return at the end of
the two years. The rest die of vomito
and fever. If one comes back minus a
leg or arm no must uwg iujl uu uiw
hood ; for pensions there are none, save
for those who have served for twenty
four years. The ?0vernment pays, $20
-for the passage and food of each private
soldier, and the boats generally carry 800
men each, and make-the passage to Cuba
in sixteen or twenty days. On board
thev are not badly treated. Two day? in
each week they have bacon or pork, and
during the rest rancho?t. e., pottage of
beans, rice and dried chick peas. They
sleep in the hold on a long row -of
sloping planks, each man having a rag
nrwl a Viarfl nillnw At seven A- M. flll
are summoned upon deck. At sundown
all are ordered below, and at eight P. il
the order is passed along the dark and
reeking hold: "Silence?not a word."
The volunteer in Cuba { enerally suc
cumbs to the climate?twp jty per cent
only (it ie calculated) return; yet, during
this and last month, no lees than twenty
five thousand have been drafted off to
Cuba. It is wrong to say that the Cuban
volunteer is ill-treated. The treatment
is not bad. These fellows are well fed.
It is the climate which kills them.
Among the ranks of these men are found
faces and men of the worst and lowest
criminal type?men who have enlisted
simply because they do not care whether
they live or die, but only want the
flffv ilnllftramen who. the moment
they can get into the hold of some ves
sel bound for New Orleans, escape to a
free State. Bat the mass, the majority,
of the Cuban volunteers are idle or un
fortunate peasant lads, who, spurred on
by the scarcity of work, and tempted by
the promising bait of $50 down, a year's
service, and at the end of that $50 more
gratuity if they chose to re-enlist, or a
free passage home, give in their namee
and go to Cuba, to be turned into in
human and wicked brutes; to be hard:
ened by gazing upon tortures and hor
rors which would make their mothers'
blood ourdle; and then to go into the
teeming swamp-beset military hospita]
Spring1 Goods.
i The first importations of spring goods
received at the wholesale houses, a New
York fashion journal tells as, are soft
woolen do beges, arranged, as most naw
fabrics will be, to show three different
patterns in a costume, viz.: plain
grounds, graduated stripes, and plaids.
The natural beige brown is the popular
color among there goods, and is shown
in the plain part of the costume. The
' a j
I stripes consist or tnree ioqw UX UUXI/l ?
\ dark, medium, and light?and are of
graduated width. Merchants eay that
these graduated stripes of three tones
are conspicuous features repeated in ah
the various kinds of materials for spring
suite, from silk down to cambric. The
plaid part of the beig: costume shows
the same tones arranged in cross bars.
The French costumers make the
sieeves, lower skirt, and flounces of ihe
plain stuff; the stripe forms bias bands
on the flounces and on the overdresses ;
| while the plaid is used for the overdress
j entirely. Black and gray shades are
also much used in these costumes.
I tionrfomriA units for -the earlv
spring the choicest materials are the
damask figures wrought by the Jacquard
loom as rich and heavy looking as the
brocaded Iampas used by upholsterers:
These will be used for habits, polonaises,
and other overdresses with skirts of silk
or velvet. The best colors are cream,
faded looking pale blue, darker gray
blue, French gray, and the rich dark
blue that Ohina collectors know and
like to call " old blue." Cream colored
damask is imported in larger quantities
than any other shade ; there are also a
great many cases of cafe-aulait
damasks.
Cream ooJor will be even more abun
dantly used next season than it is at
present. Importers show three shades
of cream color in fine tissues, grenadines,
and damasks. The first and lightest is
Str,r ivnrv f.hfl next, a tint deeper.
?fV/' ?VJ j ? , ? ? - - k
ia ?>fe vertf, like half ripe wheat; and
the third is ble mur, or ripe wheat.
Machinery Sail.
. The civilized nations of the world
were informed that the machinery hall
on the Centennial grounds had in round
numbers 400,000 square feet, and they
wero requested to say what space thoy
wonld require for the display of theii
machines, and of the machinery pro
cesses used in any of their industries.
Great Britain demanded 37,225 feet;
Germany, 10,874 feet; France, 10.13S
feet; Belgium, 9,375 feet; Canada, 4,80(
feet; Brazil, 4,000 feet; Sweden, 3,166
| feet; Spain, 2,448 feet; Austria, 1,53?
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| feet; Italy, 585 feet. And the great re
! mainder of 314,265 square feet is de
| voted to the youngest nation of then
I all, the United States. At the present
1 writing 1,150 applicants, exclusive o
i foreigners, have applied for space.
| The foreign exhibitors have beer
given the position of honor at the east
ern end, where the grand entrance is
England, that furnishes from one-thir<
to one-half of the whole foreign display
oconpies very naturally the most im
portant place in the center, and on th
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I Brazil and Russia.
A Wicked Joke.
At Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a few even
; ings ago, Robert Wilson, ten years o
j age, was left alone while bis mother al
: tended a wake in a neighboring resi
j dence. Suddenly the door was opene
I by a masked lad, who rushed wildly in
raised a stick, and threSened to ki]
Robert. The littb boy received such
Bhock that ha fell senseless to the flow
and remained unconscious throughou
' the night. He has since reoovered ?ufE
; dently to explain the cause of his frigh<
i but is ?tlll in a rery critic#! conditio*!.
It is claimed that sauerkraut is really
a tonic. Yes, it's Teutonic.
Tom Paine's birthday was celebrated
by the different associations bearing his
name in the United States.
Laborers in the Michigan woods are
working for their board. That's what
the -woods are for, we believe.
An exchange wants to know, since
w-o-r-k is pronounced wirk, why pork.'
should not be pronounced pirk ?
She asked him if her new drees wasn't
as sweet as a spring rose, and the brnte
said it was, even to the miner attraction
of still having a little due on it.
When a man dies nowadays worth
$1,000,000, the first question everybody
asks is: " How many wives does he
leave ?"
The recent death of a Canadian judge
makes it neoeesary for forty cases which
h? had taken into consideration to be
tried over again.
The Carthaginian inscriptions, to the
number of 2,084, which went do*n in the
Magenta, have been all safely recovered
by the divers.
In act has been introduced in th4
Pennsylvannia Legislature to protect
minors, learning useful trades, against' *
the tyranny of onions.
The governor of Virginia pardoned *
criminal on condition that he shall never,
use ardent spirits, wine, or any other in
toxicating beverage.
The saying that " there is more pleas
ure in giving than receiving " is sup-i
posed to refer chiefly to kicks, medicine*
and advioe.
"Will you take something?"said a
teetotaller to a friend, while standing
near a tavern. ** I don't care if I do,
was the reply. " Well, then let us take
a walk." '
It was John Tan Bur en who, being
sfcnrmed bv highwaymen one night,
said: " Gentlemen, 1 haven't got any
money, bat 111 give you my note for
three months." .
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Statistics of insanity show thai ewes
of mental derangement are more numer
ous, in proportion to population, in Her.
vada and California than in any other:
States in the Union. t
A justice of the peace at Green Bar, -
Wis., charges $10 for marrying a eeuplo
and $2.60 for divorcing them. He
writes ''misrepresentatioBacross the'
faoe of the license, and the thing is
done.
Now pick almanacs: They are dead
ripe, and are wprth about ' two* "and a
half cents a pound, rag measure; None
carmine unless branded " 1876." Ask '
your druggist for that kind, and take no,
other.
Punch once told a droll story of a man
who, being suddenly raised to riohes, *
exclaimed, in the fullness of bis satisfac
tion: " Oh, that I could stand in th? >
road and see myself ride by in my car
riage."
Recent statistics show that on the en-.,
tire globe there are 3,704,000 Methodists i
in full membership, and 23,707 Metho
dist ministers. The number of Metho
t'-i- _ -n?x qk/i nrn anA nt
OlStS Hi VTrCUii-i^l ittttU. *a ' ui/vjuvv| n
preachers 13,000.
A Salt Lake Mormon Iwritten to
the Centennial committee proposing to
exhibit hi:3 nine wives at Philadelphia,
"to illustrate one of the social phases of
American life." He adds that his wives
are anxioun to go..
The conductors of the San Francisco
lying in hospital have petitioned the
country authorities for an increased al
lowance oil the ground of the unusually
great number of applications, " especi
ally by young girls.' I ;
Prof. Toury of Baltimore bought sam
rtlAR of the kerosene sold in the scores,
and found by experiment that more
than half of the stuff was very danger
ous, giving off inflammable vapor at a
very low temperature.
It was iuciden tally stated at the Lon
don bankruptcy court that tho strin
gency with which the provisions of tho
new adulteration act have been carried
into effect has caused a number of fail
ures in the milk trade.
Among the New York lawyers it is
said that David Dudley Field's income
is 8375,000 ; Samuel G. Courtney's,
8200,000; Brown, Hall & Vanderpool's
8225,000; E. W. Stoughton's, 8200,000,
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Charlie Rosa* father has received from
some philanthropist a few mysterious
words which he is to repeat at midnight
while he walks areund the four quarters
of a freshly-killed and cut-up pullet, the
reward being the immediate return of hi
son.
The Independent says : We had it
from Vice-President Wilson's own lips
that about a year before his death he
advised Gen. W. T. Sherman to be care
ful in his public utterances, as he was
very likely to be the next Republican
candidate for President.
A singular death took place the other
day at Lincoln, England. A grocer
named Picker, who keeps fowls, was re
cently feeding them, when a bantam
sparred him in the left thumb. Mortifi
cation set in, and all efforts to save the
unfortunate man's life proved unavail
ing.
The French do not bury in single
graves, like their English brethren.
They buy or hire a plot of ground four
or five or nine or ten feet, squnre, if they
1 are rich, and there dig one grave deep
enough for all the family. Over this
1 they build a little house in stone?a
chapel?in the sides of which, are writ
ten the names of the dead below.
A Detroiter who didn't exactly know
how to get a letter registered, sent some
money away the other day, and wrote on
the envelope:'' Registered with a two dol
lar bill inside." Fearing that this might
not be strcmg enough, one of his friends
wrote: "I'll swear that 1 saw Jim pnt
two dollars in this." The man who
fools with that letter will get into
trouble.
A little boy, when picking the dram
stiok of a chicken, swallowed one of the
tendons whioh are so numerous in the
legs of a fowl, and was very nearly
choked. The tendon was, however, ex
tracted with great difficulty from the lit
tle fellow's throat, when he exclaimed :
44 Oh, mamma, it wasn't the chickabid
dy's fault; it was because cook forgot to
take off its garters.
Nearly a century ago Old Port Royal
disappeared beneath the waves in an
earthquake, and now, in calm and clear
weather, you may look down into fifteen
fathoms of water and see submerged
houses, towers, and churches, with
sharks swimming quietly in and out of
the open windows of their belfries. An
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American diving company buuutiu.?.
to rescue treasures of untold value, but
succeeded only iu bringing up a bell,
covered with puzzling inscriptions, which
they gave to the museum.
Pork is high and hogs are scarce.
This has been the case lor two years.
For want of care thousands of hogs have
been lost in the Western States by var
ious fatal diseases, "Where they are well
cared for, there is no cholera or other
diseases. In general, disease is simply
the result of the most inexcusable
neglect or. bad treatment. When well
cared for, no stock pays better or in
creases faster than swine, and no other
pays better for care in breeding, and
well selecting breeding animxui'. A4
ptMKsnt prices pork payi.