University of South Carolina Libraries
. ; - - : . _^_ I THE ABBEVILLE PRESS & BANNER. " "0 BY HUGH WILSON.- ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1876. VOLUME XXIV.-NO. 27. / The Fair Tambeurimst. With feet half naked and bare And drees all tattered and torn; With a penny here and a mockery there, And floods of deriBion and aoorn, She wanders the street, wherever her feet, ? Weary or willing, are borne, With an eye as bright and cheek as fair As the earliest blush of the morn. Wandering up and down, And driven from door to door, A jest for every idle clown And a bntt for every boor; While the velvet slippered, in satin and lace, Qo rustling by hrr side, With a chilling look and averted face, And a hp all^curled w ith pride. 80 beautiful?yet so frail; So willing, and yet bo weak; Oh, what if the heart should fail And a heavenly purpose break, And the dens and kennels of vice Another poor victim should hold ? A celestial spark be quenchod in the dark And an angel be bartered for gold V No wonder the heart should fail, And a heavenly purpose fade; The eye grow dim, and the oheek grow pale, When none stand ready to aid! No wonder the lairs ?Dd cradles of sin 80 many poor victims should hold, While the good are content to worship their God, And the rich to worehip their gold. Move patiently on, oh, earth ! 'Till mercy's wondering dove Shall fly to the rosy realm of its b'rth, And rest in the bosom of love. Move patiently on 'till the Crucified Shall gather His radiant crown From the lowly flowers and blooding hearts That the world has trampled down ! Reforming the Household. " Jmt what I have been expecting for abor.t Eeven yearp,"said Mies Pauline Wortbington, looking up from an open letter in her hand with a frowning brow. "Is not your Mter from Herbert, Lina?" questioned Mrs. Wortbington, a tiny.nilver haired old ludy, with a gentle expression. " Yes, mother, Essie is very ill with low, norvcus fever, and they want me to oome and stay till she is better. The carriage will be sent t?t< three o'clock, mother." Then, more emphatically: "I think it is about time Bert's tyranny over that little martyr was ended. He is' killing her." " Liqp ! He is your brother." " I mn see his faults if he is." " I never heard Essie complain." " She rever would. But look at her. Nine years ago, when she married, she was a living sunbeam, so bright and pretty. Now, paTe, quiet and reserved, her voioe is seldom heard, her smile seldom seen. A wintry shadow of her former summer brightness ! Now she has broken down. You have never seen her at home, but surely when she is here vou Ree the change ?" " Yfes, dear, she has changed; but family care3 "? "Has"Louie changed so? She has been twelve years married." Mrs. Wortbington was silent. Louie was her oldest child, and presided over the home in which her mother had been a crippled prisoner for fifteen years. Sbe took all the household cares, and had five children, and yet Louie had gained in beauty, and certainly in cheeiful hnppiuess, since her marriage, even if the merriment of girlhood was gone. " Henry appreciates Louie 1" said Lina; "there lies the difference between her happiness and Essie's direction. If there is any domestic trouble Henry and Louie sharo it, while Herbert shifts it all upon Essie. He is an habitual fault finder." "P.^rhap--, deor, Essie is not so good a housekeeper as Lonie. Herbert may have cp.u^e to find fault " " Ouce in ten times he may. I never saw a faultless honsn or housekeeper; bnt Essie and her h >U3e are the nearest app?oach to perfection I ever did see." "You never spoke so before, Lina." " Because Louie and I thought it better net to worry yon with a troublo beyond your help. I intend to give him a lessoD. I do, indeed. That is, if you can spare me to go ?" "You must go, dear. I shall get along nioely." So when Herbert Worthington sent his carriage, Lina was qnite ready lor the foarteen mile drive to her brother's houne. It was most unlike a house wherein any evil spirit of repining or fault fiodiDg should have found an abode. Spacious, handsomely furnish ed, with well trained servants, aud all comforts wealth could furnish, it seemed a perfect paradise on earth to visitors. But a very demon lurked there to poison all, and this demon Liua had come to exoroise. Fur the first fortnight E^sie took all her time and care, the gentle spirit hovering very near the portals of the eternal home. There was a baby, too, six mouths old, and its wants filled all the sparo moments. Herbert snarled and fretted ovi'r domestic shortcomings, but LiDa peremptorily forbade all mention of these in the sick-room, haviug the doctor's autLoritv for sayiuj? the pa tient's very life depended upon quiet. But when convalescence begun Lina sent Essie and the baby to visit old Mrs. Worthington, and took control of Herbert, the two oluer childieu aud the household, determined to show her brother how far he carried bis habit of absurd f*u!t finding. With all her severity, she did believe ho was himself unaware of the frequency of his querulous complaints nnd the exaggeration of his fitful statements. The first dinner saw lhe beginning of the lesson Lina meant to teacn. Herbert entered the dining-room, his handsome face disfigured bv its habitual frown. Harry and Louie were eeated. " ck>up," said Herbert, lifting the tureen oover; "perfectdish water!" " Susan," said Lina, sharply, to tho servant, before Herbert oould lift the ladle; " take that tureen to tho kitchen and tell Jane tne soup is not fit to eat." Su^au promptly obeyed. Herbert looked rather ruefully at the vanishing dial). He was especially fond of soup, and the savory fumes of the really delicious dish were tantalizing. Ail dinner time Lina kept up a ding-dong at Snsan about that abominable soup, till Herbert wished he had said nothing about it. But his imagination detecting a burnt flavor in the pudding, he oould not refrain from mentioning it, and before he could remonstrate, that dish had followed the soup. " I'll get thi3 house in some sort of order before I leave it," said Lina, emphatically. " Before you leave it," said Herbert, shaiply. " Do you suppose you are a better housekeeper than Essie ? Why, I have not a friend who does not envy me the exquisito order of my house and my dinner table." Herbert, you surprise me. Only yesterday I heard you say you did wish there was ever anything fit to eat on tne table." ' One doesn't expeot every word to be taken literally," said Herbert, rather sulkily. But not an hour later, finding a streak of dust in the sitting-room, he declared emphatically it ww^^^^^or a pig to live in. What "was the consequence? Coming into it the next morning, he found the curtains torn down, the carpets taken up, the floor littered with pails, soap and brushes, and Lina in a dismal dress, her hair tied up in a towel, directing two women, who were scrubbing vigorously. " Good gracious, Lina !" he cried, ' what are you doing ?" " Cleaning this room." " Why, Essie had the whole house cleaned only the other day," he added, contemptuously. "Well," said Lina, slowly, "I thought this room a marvel of neatness myself, but wben you said it was not fit for the pigo i supposed you wanted it cleaned." "The room was well enough," was the curt re; iy. "For meroy's sake don't turn aiy more of the house upside down." At breakfast a tiny tear in Ljuie's apron caught her father's eye, and, Dy has own angry statement, "she never had a decent stitch of clothes, and he did wish somebody would see to her." Two days after a formidable liren draper's bill was Bent to him, and Lina explained it in this wise : " You said, Herbert, that Louie hadn't a decent Btitch, and you wished somebody would see to her, so 1 bought her a complete outfit. I could not see any fault myself, but cf course I got more expensive articles, as you did not I like those already provided. I am glad | you called my attention to the poor [ neglected child." "Poor neglected child I" echoed as-! tonished Herbert. "Why, Lina, Essie fairly slaves her life out over those children. I am sure I never see any better dressed or neater." Lina merely shrugged her shoulders. A month passed. Essi? gained strength in the genial atmosphere surrounding Louie and her mother, while Lina ruled Herbert's house with a rod of iron. Herbert begun to experience a sick longing for Essie gentle presence. Lina took him so very literally in all he said, and yet he coidd not rebuke her for doing exactly what he openly wished. An arm chair with a tinv snot of dirt being declared absolutely filthy, was upholstered and varnished at a cost of ten dollars. A dozen new shirts, Essie's last labor of love, being said to "set like meal bags," were bestowed upon the gardener, and a new set obtained. Every window was opened after a pettish declaration that the " room was as hot as an oven," and an hour later the grate wa<* fired up to smothering heat because he declared it " oold enough to freeze a polar bear." In short, with apparently an energetic attempt to correct all shortcomings, and put the housekeeping upon a perfect basi*, Lina in one month nearly doubled her brother's expenses, and drove him to the verge of distraction. But Essie, well and stroDg again, was coming home. On the day of her expected arrival Lina, with a solemn face, invited her brother into the sitting-room for a few moments of private conversation. "Herbert," she said, very gravely, " I have a proposition to make to you. You are my only brother, and I need not tell you I love you very dearly. It has really grieved me to the heart to see how much there is to find fault with in your beautiful home." Herbert twisted himself uneasily in his chair, but Lina con tinned: " You know that mother is very dependent upon me, Louie having the house and children to care for, but I think she would sacrifice her own comfort for yours. So if you wish, Herbert, I will come here permanently, to keep things in order for you." Here Lina was obliged to pause and strangle a laugh at Herbert's expression of utter horror and dismay. " You are very kind," he faltered, the instincts of a gentleman battling with the strong desire to tell Lina she would certainly drive him into a lunatic asylum by six months more of her model housekeeping. ' " Not at all. A man who has made an unfortuaate marriage certainly needs all the aid and sympathy his family can give him." The last straw was laid upon the camel's back. Herbert spoke hotly : " You are entirely mistaken, Lina. 1 w* (. <1 /-? r??i tmfAvfnnafa ry% o a rrn ujivc uub uiuuc au uuiuiuuuuvq uui4iiu^v? If ever a mau was blessed in a wife, 1 am that man." "You amaze me, Herbert 1" Linn cried, in well feigned astonishment. "I don't see why you should be surprised. Essie is gentle, loving, orderly, a model mother and a perfect home angel?God bless her I" *' Herbert, ia that true ?" " Certainly it is true." " I cannot believe it I" was tbe slow response. " Cannot believe it! Why ?" "Because"?and Lina dwelt impressively upon every word?"during the nine years of your married life, though visiting here frequently, I have never heard you speak one word of encouragement or praise to Eapie. I never saw one look of approbation or appreciation of any effort she made for your comfort upon your face. Continual fault finding, constant blamo, have changed her from a happy girl to a palg, careworn woman. Even her last illness was but the unspoken despair of a heart crushed under a load of daily censure and constant striving for tbe approbation never given. Aud you tell me now she has never failed in hor duty to you. There is a grave error somewhere, Herbert." The sadly earnest tone, the face of n > AT*AKTT TTAV/l uliuugljlu u1 gl UV H)V y oru 0 ttuui home to tho young man's heart. He spoke 110 word of self-defense as Lina slowly left the room. In the profound silence that followed conscience reviewed the past, and he knew that his Bister had spoken only the truth. " God help me," be whispered, " to conquer this fault. Essie shall hear no more fault finding, and if I see her drooping, I will send her to mother, and have Lina here to keep house." Never had wife and mother warmer welcome than greeted Essie. The childr?n were unchecked in their loudest demonstrations of delight. Bat Lina had to rash into the hall to hide her merry eyes when Herbert, kissing Essie, said : "We must let mother have Lina now, dear. She has been very kind and worked hard for my comfort; but there is no home fairy like my Essie." The quick, glad look in his wife's soft eyes told Herbert one step had been taken in tho right direction. Ab the days glided by, and Ecsie found appreciation meeting every effort to add to ! home comfort, a word of praise for every little trinmph of cookery or needlework, her pale face grew bright with happiness. and Herbert found his own heart lightened by the cheerful voice, the I sunny smile, the bright eyes of the | Essie he had wooed years before. And Lina, making a visit six months later, told her mother on her return : " Herbert learned his lesson by heart, mother. He appreciates Essie now at her value, and lets her know it." The Oektetnuij.?'The value of the Centennial buildings is put at 85,949.! 000, and of their oontent9, $104,820,340. A large portion of the exhibits, which are not taken into account, are not of intrinsic value, though probably they could not be purchased for all tnat the rest of the ExniMtion is worth. THE CENTENNIAL DOG SHOW. Ita Extent and Varlety?Value of Some Animal* Present?Cnrloaltlei to be Seen. Of all the international gatherings, conventions and oongresses, special exhibitions and side shows of this centennial year, the most curious is the dog show open at the live stock exhibition grounds at the Centennial, on Belmont avenue. For the accommodation of the canine wonders nine long sheds with double rows of stalls are provided. These stalls differ only from those ordinarily used for the exhibition of cattle at State or county fairs, in having their floors placed two or three feet above the ground. The dogs, singly, in pairs or families, are chained or tied in their places, and supplied with straw beds and plentv of biscuit and water. There are about six hundred of them here, of all kinds, from the rough bulldog and the common rat terrier to the thoroughbred English or Irish setter, and the slight and graceful Italian greyhound; and of all sizes, from the diminutive toy black-and-tan terrier to the massive Siberian bulldog and the mild eyed Newfoundlander. Long before the visitor reaches the show he is greeted with such a medley of dog voices as he has assuredly never heard before. From the deep bay of the fox hound to the sharp yelp of the terrier, from the full tone of the English mastiff to the uncertain squeak of the poodle, there are numerous gradations, with variations for each mood of the dog mind. The whining of some of the petted lap dogs exposed to the cool wind, as well as homesick, and perhaps hungering for the dainty food to which their fair owners have accustomed them, is really pitiful. Setters are more largely represented than any other variety of the dog race, and there are many fine, highly bred animals. There are some excellent red Irish setters, including a few that are valued at 200 guineas apieoe, and some black-and-tan Gordon setters so finely marked that they would form fine sub jects lor tne animal painter. Many English setters are exhibited, and some of tbem not only show the points of good dogs, but have pedigrees of remarkable extent. Most noticeable among the latter are two dogs recently imported from England, late the property of Edward Laverack, of Shropshire. They are descended from stock which Mr. Laverack obtained in 1825, and which it was supposed had been pure for thirtyfive years. He has kept a continuous strain of pure blood since that time. The Dediffree of the does for nine genera tions is shown, and the nnmber of names in it is adapted to givo a person an enlarged idea of the dimensions of the graveyard which might contain the bones of his ancestors. Some wag has burlesqued the pedigree mongers by issuing the prospectus of the full pedigree of a dog, giving its desoent from one of the Biblical dogs that licked Lazarus' sores. There are comparatively few pointers, but some are good animals. Some Irish terriers are shown of a' very high strain of blood, as may be judged from the price, 200 guineas in gold, asked for one or two of the best. Very curious in appearance are the Irish water spaniels, with loDg early topknots and shaggy ears. There are quite a number of dachshunds, a medium sized dog with singular crooked forelegs. Among the other canines are English fox terriers, used to unearth the fox -when the hounds have run him into his barrow; many Skye terriers, Scotch terriers, blaok-and-tan terriers, poodles and lnp dogs, Spitz dogs, Siberian bloodhounds, a tine English mastiff, English and Italian greyhounds, Chesapeake bay duck dogs, viciouB looking bull terriers, English pug dogs, sheep dogs, and two queer hairless Mexican hounds. JL Uis 18 me nrsi. extensive uug buuh over held in this country. Such shows have, however, been of pretty regular annua! occurrence in England and Franco for some tirno past. The Explosion at Hell Gate. General Newton hns recently stated that tho great explosion at Hell Gate will take place shortly. Tho excavations have been complete for some time past, but del ys in passing tho appropriation bill by Congress checked further operation", and for this reason the blow-up did not occur on the fourth of July, as for a long period was contemplated. Those who expect to witness a gigantic column hurled hundreds of feet, into the air, or look forward with some trepidation to the effects of fearful concussion on adjacent buildings, will hardly find their anticipations realized. The mine will be flooded previous to the explosion ; and with the possible exception of jets forced through seams in the rocks there is no reason to believe that auy very remarkable exhibition of the tre mendous force of the explosives will be manifest. From a scientific point of view the occasion will be of considerable interest, as the earth in the vicinity will bo shaken by the communicated vibrations, which are likely to travel over a long distance. An opportunity will thus bo afforded for measuring the velocity of sound waves through earth, ana prepiirauuii? aro utiuj^ maun uj scientific men to observe tue same at points at distances two hundred and three hundred miles away. The arrangements to guard against any possible danger are being perfected, in utter disregard of the desires both of those who hope to s?o the great blast, and those who aspire to profit pecuniarily through the popular curiosity. Steamboats and other craft will be warned away, so that a view from the river will be out of the question ; the authorities have been requested not to grant passes to would-be. spectators on Ward's island, the best point of observation ; and a bluff of earth and the buildings near the works prevent seeing the operation from the rear, so that the expectant populace will probably have to satisfy themselves with a distant view from the high land on the New York shore. How much powder, etc., will be burnt is noi yet definitely stated. An approximate idea of the quantity may be gathered from the fact that there about 4,000 drill holes, each three inches in diameter, and varying from seven to thirteen feet in depth. Each will be charged with a separate canister of dynamite, vulcan and rendrock powder, and the simultaneous explosion will be hv the current from a bitterv of 800 cells. About two pounds of powder aie used to one of dynamite, and the charges are inserted in the 172 piers of rook and in the roof supported thereby. It is estimated that 30,000 cubic feet of broken rock will be left under water, and this will have to be removed by dredging so as to secure a channel twenty-six feet in depth. The total length of tunnels, galleries, etc., excavated, is 7,425.67 feet. The amount thus far expended is 81,686,841.45.? Scientific American. ^ * a ? t_i I : ADAH J^ETINED.?A ooinuumuu, uuijjg examined by his minister, was asked : What kind of a man was Adam ?" " Ob, jist like ither folk." The minister insisted on having a more special description of the first man, and pressed for more explanation. " Weel," said the catechumen, "he was jist like Joe Simpson, the horse coaper." "How so?" asked the minister. " Weel, naebody got ony thing by him, and many lost" The Population of Turkey. The war in Turkey lias had the effect of discovering to the majority of newspaper readers their ignorance of its geography, history and population. Especially with regard to the raoes subject to the sultan and the inhabitants of tributary states included in maps as parts of the country does a general ignorance prevail. It may not, therefore, be presumptuous in us to present on this subject some recent and authentio information. The populatien of European Turkey, exclusive of tributary states, is 8,430,000. Adding to these the number of inhabitants in Servia, 1,840,000; Montenegro, 125,000; and Roumania, 4,600,000, the total population is 14,396,000, of whom about forty-two per oent. are Mohammedan. The Greeks, Alban ians and Roumanians are of the GrecoLatin race; and the Servians, Bulgarians and Russians, of the Sclavonic. Besides these are represented in smaller numbers Armenians, Jews, Gyspies, Circassians, Arabs, Magyars and foreigners; the Circassians, who are the most numerous of this group, only numbering 144,000. It is calculated that of the Greco-Latin race in Turkey the Greeks number 1,137,000; the Albanians, 1,011,000, and the Roumanians, 200,000; and of the Sclavs, the Servians, 1,388,000; the Bulgarians, 2,877,500, and the Russians, 10,000. To localize these numerous peoples is a work of considerable difficulty; but roughly it may be said the Turks are the majority in Constantinople, and in the sanjaks of Serayvo, Prizrend, Divro, Berat, Drama Ras'chuk, Tulcha and Varna. The Greeks, of whom many are I thought to be nothing but Grecized Sclavs, are stronger in the Epirua, Thessaly, Macedonia, Thrace, and along the shores of the Black sea. The Albanians, a fine, warlike race, live principally between the Epirus and Montenegro; 723,000 of them are Mohammedans, 200,000 Roman Catholics and 88,000 belong to the Greek chnrch. The Roumanians are of the bnlkof the population of Wallachia and Moldavia. Most of the Servians are members of the Greek ohurch, bnt a large number having turned Mohammedan to save their lands from confiscation, there are now about 463,000 Servian followers of the prophet. Over 60,000 are Roman Catholics. The Montenegrins and Herzegovinians are Sclavs. The Prevention of Crime. Mr. Angell, of Boston, spoke before the Social Science Association on "Tho Prevention of Crime." Mr. Angell begun by giving some instances and statistics showing tho rapid increase in tho number of criminals, and said there oould be no doubt that the remedy for many financial and moral crimes may be found in European habits of economy, a knowledge of domestio industry, and a reformed public opinion which shall make it more respectable to be married and livo in a small house than to remain single and board in a large one. Coming down to the practical details of tho question : "How shall we stop crime ?" Mr. Angell said: Tho iirst step, in my judgment, is to organize societies for the purpose. Let each of these in our cities establish an office, aud put into that office an enerrtUn* Vionrln/1 nvonlifiol man with gCLiU) L1CU1 UCOrUUU) ^IWVilVtu MMU) navu such assistance as he may need, whose duty it shall be first to aid, protect and advise the poor, and gather and publish information and promote plans calculated to benefit them; second, to see that proper laws fortlr*?)Wl6cti3^Bh the public health 't^TQ the security of property and lifti are not only enacted but enforced. Fo the present relief of the poor there should be in our cities and larger towns " temporary industrial homes," where any one can obtain a bowl of sonp and a clean bed, paying the value in money or labor, and where fuel can be bought in small quantities at low prices. For the permanent relief of poverty and prevention of orime two things are needed : First, constant remunerative labor; sccond, places where the poor and tho unemployed, and the inebriates who are trying to reform, can pass their evenings. He would have day or evening schools where the poor of both sexes can bo taught various trades and branches of industry to make them self-supporting. He would havo farms where young men can be taught agriculture, and places whero young women can be taught sewing and domestic industry, and how to nurse the sick and how to prevent sickness by observing sanitary laws. In answer to the question of how to provide labor for | the unemployed, he urged their colonization upon the cheap and fertile lands of tho West. Slminn Sagacity. The sagacious monkey, who, according to tho time honored story, used the reluctant paw of a cat to withdraw hot chestnuts from the Are, is outdone by the performance of another member of his tribe, which is recounted bya Frenoh resident of South Africa, in a letter to Lea Mondes. The writer is the possessor of a large coffee plantation, and his crops have suffered severely from the ravages of a large species of baboon, which greedily devours the fruit of a small tree which grows among the bushes. The beet eafegardf against the depredations are the wasps which make I in f lAnrav C\f fllfifln UUUU JUOOUO iU UUU ivnw* Vi vmwwv trees, for, of the fierce attack and painful stings of these insects, the baboons have a wholesome fear. One morning, a hideons chorus of yells and howls was heard from a portion of the plantation whera the wasps had most thickly congregated, and whero the fruit trees consequently were heavily laden. On searching for the cause, tho writer saw from afar a venerable and ancient baboon busily engaged in throwing infant monkeys at the trees. These living projectiles thus knocked down the nests and of course were objects of the keen attentions of the infuriate occupants. Meanwhile the baboon quietly made his way to the upper branches, gorged himself, and then added insult to injury to the badly stung monkeys by pelting them with the rinds and pits of his repast. Cotton Gunpowder. One of the most recent important dis ooverios is that of a new explosive, known as cotton gunpowder. The first process of its manufacture, which is carried on at Oare, in England, is to steep cotton in a mixture of nitrio and sulphuric acid. After the aoid has been pressed out, the cotton is dried and triturated (reduced to powder), and mixed with certain other chemicals. To show how safe it k, not to explode with fire or pressure, the following experiments were lately made. Two barrels of the powder were placed in the middle of a roaring bonfire. The barrels were consumed, and the powder blazed gway without exploding. Then an iron pile driver, weighing half ft ton, was allowed to fall fifteen feet on a box containing ten} ounds of the powder. The box was simply crushed, and tho powder soattered about. Exploded with a fuse, the cotton gunpowder broke four steel ingots, weighing several hundred -11 ... ... 3 weiglll, 1U pitJOOO, buu vruuu uiiuci neater, sent r<p a oolumn of water two hundred feet high. It was alBo made to explode when wet with twenty per ecnt. of water. Four quarts of milk are required to make one pound of oheese. 1 A Case of Female Roguery, Oelia Logan tells the following story of romanoe in a letter to the San Franoisoo Call : An instance of female duplicity has lately come to my knowledge whioh greatly resembles the New Magdalen story, with the advantage of being trne. A man?Wilkins we'll call him?of wealth and influence had a brother who immigrated to the West when voung, and whom he had never seen afterward. He (the brother) died, and also all his family, with the exception of a daughter, who came to New York to seek a home with her uncle. She was armed with facts of family history, letters, and every credential to prove her identity, which was not disputed. She was young, beautiful, amiable, and soon made herself beloved by the Wilkins family. She was surrounded by every luxury, introduced into societv. and soon married well?a rich society man, by whom she hag now two children. Her character is irreproachable, and her manners good. She is not, however, qnite as well educated as her nncle ooold wish, bnt she pleads as her excuse that her father was poor and kept her working on a bit of a farm when she should have been at school. And now, after four years pf happiness, another woman appears in the Wilkins' household, asserting that Bhe is the veritable nieoe, and the other is an impostor. Lydia, the new comer, tells a strange story. She says that when her parents died, ehe took what little money the farm was sold for and set out to find her rich unole in New York: that in a village on the road she was taken seriously siok and was oarried to a hospital. The young woman?the hired nurse of .Vint inqf.ifcntinn?was mtifih fthovfl h?r station in life, was Kind, attentive and sympathetic. Naturally she confided her history to her, also her letters, photographs and money to be taken care of nutil her recovery. She recovered her health partially, but her mind was found to be so unhiDged that she was removed to an insane asylum, where she had been all this time. At length she was discharged, cured. The hospital nurse had disappeared, aloDg with all the effeots intrusted to her care. The wronged woman managed to get to Ne\% York, only to find that her p'.ace had been usurped by the treacherous attendant. The first woman takes the matter very coolly, alleging that she was the one who fell sick on the road; that the other is the nurse, who got possession of her history, and is now trying to make capital out of it. The uncle unhesitatingly believes in the first woman, bnt the husband is much disturbed in mind, each story being so plausible and so well sustained that he ccnnot decide which is Wilkins' niece, and 'which is not; but his wife says: . "What does it matter, anvhow. whose niece I itm f I am your wife, that's certain, and the mother of your children." If an impostor, she has fixed herself very comfortably in life, while the defrauded woman wandeis about almost in beggary, for the Wilkins utterly refuse to countenance her. She has, however, appealed to several of their aristocratio friends, and bo the Btory got out.# After Sixteen Years. In the year 18G0, says an exohange, Mr. Joseph J^arts carried on the business of a bjtcher in the town of Guilford, Oonnstiout It was a successful business and earned for him a wide reputation. * One morning during the ttmaer ol the year referred to Mr. Evarta was making his usual round with a meat cnrt, when, on npproaohing a oitizen's residence, he was attacked by a savage dog of the mastiff species. During the encounter tho dog bit Mr. tvarts in the left leg, inflicting a serious flesh wound. Soon after the attending surgeons learned that their patient had been in contact with an animal suffering from the worst form of hydrophobia. All that skill and medicine could do was brought into requisition to drive the poisoned virus from Mr. Evarts' system. Ho ultimately recovered, deolared he felt no inoonvenience from the bite and went on attending to his business as usual. A few years later he removed to Branford and engaged in the meat busi _l i i?? ?rpi,? litttttt, wuoro no ntw uoca cvoi oiuuu. xuo adventure with the dog was forgotten aud never alluded to, from the fact that the condition of hia body and mind wore so nniformly natural until about six weeks ago, during the heated term, when his friends noticed peculiarities in his actions. He would suddenly appear agitated and moan as if suffering bodily pain. Again he would growl and snap liko a surly dispositioned dog and run wildly about as dogs do when first overtaken with rabieB. These manifestations lasted a half hour or so. whenthey passed off, and Mr. Evarts would bo himself again. But they increased in violence with each repetition, and ere long his friends wore compelled to accept the terrible reality that Mr. Evarts was a raving maniac. He grew worse and worse and soon had to be tied to his bed to prevent his biting those in attendance. Even then he would break loose, so great was the muscular power which the disease enabled him to exert, and at times the united strength of six men was insufficient to hold him. During a spasm he would tear the bedclothes and giuw the bedstead in a manner frightful to behold. The affliction is undoubtedly the result of thQ bite sixteen years ago, and the attendant physicians are of the opinion that it is a case of fully devel" ? ^ ' T t U /\ nn/Avfnnafa U|Jt3U Ilj'urupuuuiai XUO uui U1 vuuu vu man is thirty-five years of age, unmarried, and in his sane moments speaks of his wretched physical condition, gives directions as to his personal affairs and expresses himself as conscious that the end of all things, for him, draws near. Weighing a Beam of Light. Mr. Crookes' apparatus for weighing the beam of light is an exhausted glass chamber in the form of a horizontal cross, with arms of circular cross section. Inside the larger arm is a glass fiber maintained in a uniform state of tension by a spiral spring at one end, and by a glass stopper at the other end, which stopper is capable of rotation. The shorter arm of the cross contains in a like manner a stouter fiber beam of glass seonred at the point of crossing to the loDgitudinal or torsion fiber, and having at one extremity a pith surface of two eqnare inches area, and at the other end a little cup. Inside the cham Dor is a ir 086 particie 01 iron wtugmog 11-100 of a grain, and outside the stopper is a oounter reoording the number of torsions or tnrns the glass fiber makes. The method of procedure is as follows : The position of a dot of light from the little mirror plaoed at the intersection of the two glass fibers having been noted, the little iron weight is lifted by means of a magnet, and plaoed in the cup, which, when thus weighed, descends. Torsion is then applied to the glass fiber until the beam is lifted, and the dot of light returns to its forme* position. This may be called the zero of the machine. This exact amount of torsion having been determined and its equivalent in weight ascertained, the torsion is removed, and the ray of light is then made to fall on the disc, whioh causes a depression of the glass beam. Tho calculation of the absolute pressure of the sun's radiation on a square foot of the earth, when carried out to the square mile, gives a force of flfty-s^ven tons. A REMARKABLE STORY. H?w*B?m Tweed Arrived In Cuba. A Herald reporter, ascertaining that a merchant of New York city, well known in the Onban trade, had received letters from William M. Tweed, ' paid him a visit When questioned the merohant admitted that he had received a letter from John Secor, that Secor was Tweed, and that the letter had been written in Cuba under promise ' that his name would not be divulged* The gentleman gave the following in- ' teresting and graphic details of Tweed's movements in Cuba : Tweed was landed on a rocky promon- 1 tory about ten miles from Santiago de j Cuba, by a boat which took him ashore : from an American yacht. I have also ' ? a it-.A ii 1 ?i__ J _ J u: I nearu tuut we veuaei wiuuu uuiueu uuu on the Cuban coast was bound for Jamaica. This, however, is immaterial Here, much fatigued and ezbausted, Tweed was discovered by a fisherman, who volunteered to conduct him to Santiago de Cuba, and they marched along over the rooky paths leading to the oity. Tweed was accompanied by a man named Hunt, who, if I mistake not, was a coachman ior a long time in the service of Tweed, and was noted for his fidelity and honesty. Well, Tweed, owing to his heavy weight, had much difficulty in walking to the oity of Santiago. He was terribly sunburnt, his face being as brown as a berry and very muoh blistered, The fisherman who accompanied them received a gold "ounce" for his trouble, and led the wandering pair, not to a hotel, but to police headquarters. Had Tweed and his follower been discovered by the Spanish troops on the beach they would undoubtedly have been shot, after a dmmVioa^ /v-inrt mart.ml an Ampriwin filibusters just landed from Jamaica en route for " Cuba Libre." I cannot tell you what date this was, aa my letter does not give it. The police authorities not being satisfied with the fisherman's explanation, or Tweed's statement, naturally made in English, that he was an American oitizen, sent him and Hunt on board the Spanish man-of-war stationed in the harbor as prisoners. Tweed and Hunt were accordingly marched off to the vessel and there detained. While on board Tweed sent for the United States consul at Santiago de Cuba, Mr. Young, and demanded the protection due to an Ameri- j can citizen. Mr. Young, who is a very fine fellow, instantly interested himself j in the case, and took into his counsel ? Mr. Bamsden, the British consul, j Tweed's passport was found to be in order as "John Secor," likewise that of j his companion in exile, " Hunt." Their release was formally demanded and granted, and Tweed took up his residence at the Hotel de Shy, kept by Madame Adelia, under police surveillance. Here he lived very quietly. Meanwhile Consul General Hall entertained a suspicion that there was something wrong about " Secor," in spite of hia passport being en regie. Telegrams passed frequently between him and United States Consul General Hall at Havana. Tweed feeling that he was 1 looked upon with suspicion -was restless ^ to be off, and engaged a passage in the ^ bark Carmen, bound for Vigo and Bar- j celona. Tweed, through not having his pass- . port vised by the Spanish authorities on ? the twenty-second of July, canned the j Oarmen to be detained till the twenty- . sixth, he paying demurrage for the delay. The night before his departure Mr. Youiig telegraphed to Consul General Hall at Havana that it was William M. Tweed who was nsing the name of "Secor," but the dispatch arrived too late at Havana. Mr. Hall immediately took a carriage and went out of town for a distance nf eight mitea to find Captain General Jovellar to ask him to send an order to detain Tweed, alias Secor. The dispatch was sent but ar- j rived too late, the Carmen having Rail- j ed. The authorities, however, both at Santiago de Cuba and Havana wero < made acquainted with the facts in the j case and the news was consequently , telegraphed over to Madrid. The rest ( von know. , A Rise from the Griuc, Prof. Nixon had advertised in Charles ton, S. 0., that he would allow himself 1 to be placed in a coffin, screwed down, * and buried in a grave six feet deep. He was to remain there for one hour and a half, and then rise from the grave 1 through the soil. The grave was dug in 1 Belvidere, and he said that if he failed ' he hoped tho crowd would bo large ] enough to insure a respectable legacy to his wife and children. Upon approaohing the grave Nixon was seen on a plat- I form performing juggling tricks. He 1 was dressed in a bright yellow coat, pink ( trousers (short), and about eleven bro- 1 gans. Mr. Nixon claims to be an Egyp tian. If the Egyptians ordinarily dress * in that costume, Moses was justified in * getting out of the country at all hazards. ' An Egyptian taskmaster with a brogan 1 like Nixon's must have been able to ad- 1 minister a fearful kiok. Nixon soon ap- * proaohed the grave, and made earnest I appeals to the crowd to get away from < it. The coffin was brought forward, * and a committee wae selected to seo < that there was no deception. Nixon now pulled off his shoes, and stood on the coffin, holding in oaoh hand a vial. His voice assumed unnatural solemnity. t He said that he wantid silence for a while; that this was a life and death matter; his voice became husky, and _ perspiration began to start upon his brow. He paused a moment. A look of grave determination settled upon his face, and with a tremuious sigh he hastily swallowed the contents of the vial. In a few minutes his face assumed a deathly pallor, ancj^dark rims appeared beneath his eyes. The spectators thought he was going to die. He lay in the coffin and the lid was screwed down. The coffin was rapidly lowered into the grave, and the earth shoveled in. The excitement increased as the time for whioh the professor was to remain under ground (thirty minutes) passed. At twenty-oight minutes the exoitement communicated itself to the judges, and they issued orders for the horn to be blown, which was to summon the buried man forth. As the first note of the instrument rung out the assembly became frantic. Soon a scream rose as the earth began to crack, and Nixon came up into sight with a load of dirt on his head. Then a howl was caused by the discovery that the professor's appearance had been made through a neatly covered chamber, which was divided only by a thin partition from the head of the grave. He had burst the head out of the coffin, crent into the shaft. ?nd emerged from it at the sound of the i horn. lie bowed his thanks and with- I drew. i j Servians Mutilating Themselves j A speoial dispatch from Belgrade to ] the London Times says: Before the publication of the order rendering sol- i diers mutilating themselves, to escape 1 service in the army, liable to the penalty i of death or imprisonment for life, many 1 Servians had already been executed for : that offense. On ono oocaaioQ as many : as forty in a batch were executed. I have been told that there are hospitals in which more than half the patients are of this class. The Bottom of the Sea. Professor Huxley, speaking at a dinner in Edinburgh of the result of the : Challenger expedition, sent out to ob- ! tain more accurate information of the J physical characteristics of the sea and 1 of the animal life in it, gave the follow- 1 ing interesting facts as examples of what i has been discovered: < Some of the discoveries whioh have been made by the Challenger are un- 1 doubtedly such as to make ufl all form i new ideas of the operation of natural i causes in the sea. Take, for example, ! title very remaritaDie iaoc mat ac great, depths the Ujmperatoreof the sea always sinks down pretty much to that of freezing fresh water. This is a very strange fact in itself?a fact which ooold not bare been anticipated a priori. Take, again, the marvelous discovery that over large areas of the sea the bottom is covsred with a kind of chalk, a substance made up entirely of the shells of minute creatures. The fact has been known for \ long time, and we were greatly puzsled to know how these things got to be ihere. But the researches of the Challenger have proved beyond question, as far as I can see, that the remains in question are the shells of organisms tvhich live at the surface and not at the bottom, and that this deposit, which is if the same nature as the ancient chalk, lifflm'no in anm? minnr rwmflnifl. hnfc essentially the same, is absolutely form- 1 3d by a rain of skeletons. These orea- s lures all live within one hundred fath3ms of the surface, and, being subject (o the fate of all living things, they sooner or later die. and when they die ;heir skeletons are rained down in one continual shower, falling through a nile or conple of miles of sea water. Sow long they take about it imagination ? 'ails one in sapposing, but at least they ?et to the bottom, and there, piled up, ;bey form a great stratum of a substance ivhich, if upheaved, would be exactly ike chalk. Here we have a possible node of construction of the rocks which jompose the earth of which we had previously no conception. Bat this is by 10 means the most wonderful thing. 5Vhen they got to depths of 8.000 and 1,000 fathoms, and to 4,400 fathoms, or ibout five miles, whioh was the greatest lepth at whioh the Challenger fished Lnvr.hinc from the bottom, thev found s ihat, while the surface of the -water f night be full of those calcareous organ- t sms, the bottom was not. There they t 'ound red clay. This red clay is a great i Duzzle, a great mystery; how it comes i ihere, what it arises from, whether it is, j is the director has suggested, the ash of c 'oraminiferse; whether it is decomposed t :umice stone, vomited out by volcanoes a ind scattered over the surface; or ^ whether, lastly, it has something to do a rith that meteorio dust whioh is being a sontinually rained upon us /rom the ipaces of the universe. Which of these t saases may be at the bottom of the phe- t lomenon it is very hard to say; it is one a )f those points on whioh we shall have c nformation by-and-bye. The Fashions. ( Brown, slate, dark blue and cardinal 1 ed are the most fashionable colors in c he new hosiery. When stripes appear c hey are formed by th& ribbing only, or ? n hair lines of contrasting color. 1 The new French coiffure, consisting 1 )f pnffs of hair on the baok of the head, ind a water wave held in a catogan loop ' jy a silk braid net which covers all the t 5uffs and the loop, is to be seen. ? Ball and evening dresses are out low 1 n the front and back, and given a square c meet oy oroaa snouiaer straps, which i lo duty as sleeves, coming high on the i shoulder, and hanging like an epaulette t )ver the upper part of the arm. r ] The new pookets on polonaises are c placed low down and far back on either 1 side according to the caprioe of the r. nearer, aDd they are 0/ all dorta of fannful shapes: funnel and fan formed, 1 lalberd shaped, square, triangular and lexagonal. Elegant and reasonable priced opera, Saratoga and Newport shawls are shown n stripes of repped silk, alternating ? with raw silk natte. They come in all 1 jolors and pure white. They look f Oriental, but aie French. < In America and England the right ( aand is no longer useful to ladies, it be- : iag required to hold np their dresses. J [n Paris this is thought economical, and 1 therefore base, and the train is allowed ] bo sweep the street like a broom. American women refuse to follow 1 French styles in the arrangement of the 1 hair. In Paris a great deal of false | hair is necessary in the composition of < the present style of coiffure. Here the I neat, compact but severe fashion of "the 1 Frenoh twist prevails for this moment. ] The range of fanoy in hosiery is < greater this season than ever. Some of < these faocy silk stockings are literally ] covered with vines, leaves, butterflies, I Bowers, bees, trueiovers' xnois, anu Dther devices in colored embroidery that extend all over the Btooking, from the rise of the instep to the knee; others bave the sandal straps and bands aroond she ankle defined in flowers and vines, while others are embroidered in self or contrasting color of any kind, on grounds of black, white, and all shades )f every color of the rainbow. And all ;hese are imitated marvelonsly in the jotton and raw silk hosieries. An Accomodating Man. Some carpenters who were repairing i bnilding in Detroit called upon a pelestrian to help hoist a long pole which was to form a scaffold support. When fc was up he was asked to steady the oole, and, unknown to him, it was made , 'ast at the top with a rope. The carpen:ers went out on the other side of the ^ Duildiug, going to dinner, and said < nothing" to the accommodating man in , 'ront. Ho thought they were a good vhile getting ready, but he kept his , araco against the pole for a long half lour, fearing each moment that it would 1 )verpower him and fall across the street. J it length a boy came along, saw how , Hinom -wfirfl nnd cried out: " You can't steal that pole unless you j intie the rope at the top." The accommodating man stepped j jack, realized his position, and the way ie kicked a bunch of shingles to pieoes orced the boy to exclaim : J " Well, now, I've seen a good many . nen get mad, bnt I never saw a mad nan's teeth hang out as his do." Novel Treatment of Obesity. The Paris Medicale discussea the treat- ( iient of obesity by the administration of ( sea water combined with a residence at j ;he seaside. Sea water, taken internally, , icts like a diuretio and purgative salts, a , remarkable fact being that the diuretio , iffect increases when the purgative di- , uinishes. The water should be ob- , ;ained, when possible, from some depth, . md far from the shore. It is then to be ' eft to settle for from six tc twelve hours , md filtered. It is to be taken three ] iimes a dav in doses of a small tumbler- , Fix], or in half that quantity at a time, . (vith fresh water or milk. It is stated as { \ fact that sea wate? thus used facilitates , the oxygenation of the blood, and that it hastens the elimination of effete materials. In combination with this treatment sea -water baths are to be taken, free exeroiae is to be carried out, *md at the same time fattening foods are id be avoided. It is said that oases which have resisted other measures have been known to yield to this treatment. The Case of Dr. Helmbold. Dr. Helmbold, the onoe famous buchu man, escaped from the insane asylum at Philadelphia to New York, where old friends took him in charge, under the belief that he was not insane. " The first idea that the public should have of bhis affair," said Judge Ourtiss, his counsel, to a Sun reporter, " is that Dr. Helmbold has been kept in a madhouse that somebody else might enjoy his estate. About five years ago he was doing a very large drug and chemical business. He enoountered financial embarrassments, and went to Europe with his family, returning in 1875. He wished bo resume oharge of his own business, but was put eff with a fair speech about his health. Thirty-six hours afterward, in Philadelphia, he was arrested, accused }f being drank and disorderly. Instead it being given a hearing before a magistrate, he was taken to the Kirkbridge isylum for the insane, the authority being two physicians' certificates that he eras insane. One was a young physician, imv/uIv anH f.VlA nfchflr h.ld lever seen Dr. Helmbold. They were jaid generous fees. Friends freed Dr. ffelmbold with a writ of habeas corpus. Se went to Long Branch, but was recaptured and taken back to the Kirk)ridge asylum. Then his wife procured lis release- legally. He came to New Fork, fearing to remain in Philadelphia, )ut he was arrested here as a lunatic ind committed to the Bloomingdale leylum. He tried to recover his freelom by appealing to the supreme court, >ut that tribunal held that, as the. comnitment was regular, it could not go belindit" "Iliad no counsel," interposed Dr. ETelmbold, who had all along aided rudge Ourtiss' memory, "to urge my ause." " A short time after this ineffectual efort to regain liberty," resumed Mr. Jurtifls, "the superintendent of the iloomingdaie asylum, JL'r. tfrown, one >f the foremost authorities in the world, ,nd the directors united in giving Dr. lelmbold a certificate of perfect sanity, ,nd discharged him. He went to Fhilalelphia to join his family, and was ar> ested on the original certificate of the wo Philadelphia physicians, and taken >ack to the Kirkbndge asylum. Oounel got him before Judge Briggs on a prit of habeas corpus. His honor said hat, although individually satisfied of he sanity of Dr. Helmbold, he would lot take the responsibility of dischargng him, but would send him before a ory. From the jury, we claim, a verLict was irregularly secured. * Dr. Helm>old was imprisoned in the Kirkbndge isylum. In July last he escaped, and (rent to Long Branch, where he was eized, beaten, gagged and dragged everal hundred yards to a oonveyanoe." " Here are the marks of their ruffianly reatmenc," said Dr. Helmbold, showing he little finger of his right hand, icarred, misshapen, and a deep, livid dcatrice below his left elbow. "Dr. Helmbold," continued Judge Jurtiss, " was again immured in the lirkbridge asylum. He made his escape and came here. He proposes to ive here, and begin at once legal proseedings to get possession of his propsrty. He cannot be taken back to the isylum, in my opinion, by process of aw, and he shall not be by foroe. His riends here intend to guard him well." "My brother," said Dr. Helmbo)d, < knows that I am as sane as any man hat walks. I have certificates of my lanity from eminent physicians of New Pork city, and can produce before any sonrt the evidence of those who knew ma altmaai> 4-k?*a?ir?ti/yrif tyitt V\noir>oca />a_ HO ttJLUiUOU ViUVUQUVUV UAJ uimuuwdo v? eer. I confess that I hare been eccenrio; I am of a lively temperament. If [ had not been, conld I have bnilt np so luiokly a great trade ? .1 wag barbarousy treated in the Kirkbridge asylum. They used me even as an advertisement. L'he intention is to keep me in a private nadhoose until I become mad indeed." The Age ot Ihe Earth. Sir Charles Lyell was inclined to aslign the glaoial period of the earth's listory to a date one million of years igo. Remarking upon this, Mr. James Droll eays: If the beginning of the jlacial epooh be carried back a million rears, then it is probable, as Sir Charles Lyell concludes, that the beginning of ;he Cambrian period will require to be placed 240,000,000 of years back. But It is very probable that the length of iime embraced by the pre-Cambrian iges of geological history may be as great as that which has elapsed sinoethe dose of the Cambrian period, and if this be so, then we shall be compelled to idmit that nearly 500,000,000 years have passed away since the beginning of the earth's geological history. But we have avidence of a physical nature which Droves that it is absolutely impossible ihat the existing order of things, as regards our globe, can date so far baok as in\thing like 600,000,000 years. The irguments to which I refer are those vhich have been advanced by Professor 3ir William Thomson at various times. These arguments are well known, and to ill who have really given due attention io them must be felt.'to De conclusive. It vould be superfluous to state them here. [ shall, however, for reasons whioh will oresently appear, refer briefly to one of ihem, and that one which seems to be ;he most conclusive of all, viz.: the argument derived from the limit to the ige of the sun's heat. A Sign of the Times. A recent report from the department )f buildings, of the city of New York, ihows that the estimated cost of new >uildings erected in this city in 1870 ?as, in round numbers, thirty-eight nillion six hundred thousand dollars; in 1871, thirty-seven million five hundred housand dollars, and in 1875, only eightsen million two hundred thousand dolars. This is a good illustration of the iepressed condition of business, and exjlains the scarcity of labor. Twenty nillion dollars more were expended on abor and materials in 1870 and in 1871 han in 1875. Real estate has been so leavuy loaded witn taxation and so jaralyzed by the shrinkage of valnes and ihs general depression that it has been mpossible to take advantage of the decreased cost of bnilding. Yet the city ;axation w.ll be as heavy next year as t is this year.?New York Herald. How She Pat Them Up. " What exqnisite preserves, Mrs. Smoothly: how do yon have such splenlid lnck with everything yon put np ?" jomplimented one of the ladies at the \ea table. " What are they, by the way ?" Mrs. Smoothly is taken by surprise, but recovers herself and calls the Servant. "I have not tasted them yet," she said, "and have really forgotten what I ordered the girl to pnt on for yon. Bridget, what are these preserves ?" 11 Thim, ma'am ? Thirty-five cents a oan; sora the nickle less wud the grocer take, and thim big green things in the dish beyant is fifty cents fur a little glass jar." Tableau of silence, and a good hearted, honest giti out of a job ? u??. ^n^ |y A nephew of Mr. Bagges, in explaining the mysteries of -a -teakettle, de* scribes the benefits of the application of 8team to useful pufjiSbses. For all of which," remarked Mr. Bagges, " we haTaiMtincioallv to thank?what was his natoBr* - "Watt was his nime, I beHere^'taiole," replied the boy. , ? 4 A Terse by Tfhlttler. Whittier sent this little verse^to an * autograph collector in'England : AMERICA AND ENGLAND. Thicker than water in one rill, * > Through centuries of story, Oar Saxon blood has flowed, and still We share with you the good and ill, > The shadow and the glory. Items of Interest* ; The bank deposits in California exceed 8117,000,000, and the capital is over 836,000,000. It is determined by actual oonnt that Philadelphia has 125,000 rooms to lef to Centennial visitors. A society has been formed in England for " united prayer for the protection of animals irom cruelty." Maoon, Ga., expects to receive daring the coming season 76,000 bales of cotton, against 54,000 last year, and Columbus will have 65,000, against 52,000. English correspondents criticise the American taste which permits a young lady at a boat raoe to chat with a young man who has only a breach cloth opu " Madam, a good many persons were very muoh disturbed at the concert last night by the crying of your baby." "Well, I do wonder such people will go to concerts I" " < A Chicago Chinaman says that he looks around M alle iiime" and never puts his money into a bank that baa marble desks or dashing young officers with diamond pins. A French doctor claims that life during the act of drowning remains longest in the intestines, and that by heroic treat ment they may be so stimulated that the heart will resume it action. About 12,000 inhabitants of the city and suburbs of Damascus ware carried off by cholera in three months. Most of them vere Mohammedans, only about 500 being Jews and Christians. In a little Breton churoh the beadle takes up the collection with a plate in ?~ iionj on^ a mnff.hnT in the other. VUU uauu HUM ? _ ^ from which he gives a pinch to every one who contribute to the poor fond. " Much dissatisfaction has been created at tiie Chatham dockyard by the British admiralty having resolved to break up the useless vessels of war, which are now rotting there, by the labor of convicts. Since the beginning of the year 1,220 miles of railroad have been constructed in the United States. This is more than twice the mileage reported in 1875, and a third more than in the corresponding portion of 1874. A Lille court has decided that a person divorced in a country where divorce is allowed oannot enter into a matrimonial engagement in France during the lifetime of the person from whom he or she has been divorced. The czar of Russia, recently addressing the offioersof the Faulowsly guards, said he had been able hitherto to spare the blood of his soldiers, but the time might soon come when he should have to call npon their loyalty and valor. A Paiis letter says: False hair will be a drug in the market when frost comes. Short curls and natural hair, such as the pictures of Mme. Becamier and Queen Hortenee have made familiar to everybody, will be all th& fashion. William S. Mercer, a prisoner in the Nebraska State prison, has succeeded in getting for that institution the best library in the State. Many well known writers have at his urgent request sent complete sets of their works, and the principal publishing houses have made generons donations. A Chicago schoolgirl, of tender years, thus writes to her bosom friend : " Dear Sasie, I shan't attend school agin until i Get some knew cuffs, kollers and Jewelry?dear mamma agrees with me that It is my Duty to take the shine out of that Upbtart Mammy Jonee, and I'll do n it if i never learn nothing." Not long ago a man was tried for murder in the usual oourse. In the usual course he was found guilty and condemned, and in the usual oourse the jurors were applied to to sign the petition for a commutation of his sentence. One wiser than his fallows did so with the postscript: " Oil condition thatf he hangs himself." Young Foe dick was a member of a wealthy Cincinnati family. When drunk in a street car he insulted Miss Goshorn, and her brother, whose family is not wealthy, boxed his ears. Fosdick stagnnfc to the olatform, fell off, and the wheel killed him by passing over his neck Goehorn was arrested and accused of killing Fosdick, bob finally j> acquitted. A Tn?n, one-eighth colored, married a white girl at Newport, having convinced her?that he was a Spaniard. Upon learning of the deception, she wished to be freed. A Rhode Island law declares the marriage of a white person to a "negro or mulatto " void, and upon that ground a lawyer is trying to have this bond of wedlock broken. The hnsband, however, answers that he is not a mulatto, but an octoroon. A woman got into a Baltimore street car, took a peat, and carefully examined a loaded revolver which she took from her pocket. Then she told the conductor to let her out at John Kevins' honse. A friend of Nevins' heard the remark, and, getting out of the car ahead of her, ran into the endangered man's residence and warned him to fly. The woman was crazy, and she intended to kill Nevins, against whom she had a grudge. In Spain the heat has been so great this summer that the thermometer rose to 166 degrees in the sun at Cadiz. Tallow candles melted and became useless at night, hundreds of>'< people dropped dead in the streets, and field laborers refused to work in the torching sun. Owing to the recent disbandment of 200,000 soldiers, the labor market was so glutted that many workmen could only obtain about fifteen cents daily for twelve hours' work.1' Meteors In Sweden. * A fall of meteorites took place on fhe twenty-eighth of June, between eleven and twelve a. m., near Stalldalen. Several fell on the ground and some into a lake. Two were found, one about the size of the fiat and weighing four and one-half pounds, the other smaller. Eye-witnesses say that a loud whistling was first heard in the air from weet to VV cast, and a light was plainly distingmsnable, although the sky was clear and cloudless; thereafter two very sharp reports were heard, the second succeeding the first after a momentary interval, followed by several others less sharp, resembling thunder, after which the falling stones were observed by eight or ten persons; and, finally, there was seen in the air a whirling smoke, not very high up. A meteor was observed simultaneously at Stockholm and at other places. Puustjring.?Vicar (to old lady who is returning from a funeral): " Weil, Martha, I'm afraid you've had a sad afternoon; it has been a long walk, too, for you." Martha : " Snrely 'tis, sir ! Ah, sir, 'taint much pleasure now for me to go to funerals. I be tco 6ld and full o' rheumatiz. It was very different J wh?n wa waayonng, that 'twtr!"