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I Who Knows ? ! r > Why mn*t we, then, be sad, ! 1 | When Nature is so glad ? i ( Not half can utterance all her joy unfold, Though she runs o'er and o'er ' The strings tried long before, I j The body forth the life that's never old. j . i.,. 1 I Not for our sakes arrayed, \ Thoagh we would fain persuade ^ Our foolish hearts that she, in servant guise, j Spreads all her varied show , s Before us as we go, ^ To win approving glances from our eyes. Ah, no ! Though in broad glee r She laughs where all can see, t In leagues of .landelions all dewy wet, I: All to herself she smiles In far-off ocean isle*, i f And in dim nooks in shy blue violet. j ^ And though she dances still Along the sheer brown bill s In scarlet glow of swinging columbine, ! e In gentian she smiles Blow, ! \ As happy maid might go, ( i Who sings, "I love him, and his heart is ! t mine!" I ? I She wants no added bliss. n No praise for this, or this; Simply she is so glad bLo can not rest, j t Bat still mast evermore j t Id every way outponr ; t The exceeding bliss that stirs within her breast. , i ' No care for us has she ; | a And we, alas !?and we | j Can look bat sadly at her innocent play ; I ^ '}T^ .-> Shnt oat from Paradise, ; ( v V- We see with other eyes ; 11 I The flaming sword has rent all veils awsy. I c T L Is there then for as too ^ No life forever new ? j i Or is that life new bat in lying care, j j Till on His far-off throne : ^ Onr God mast hear aloae T I One cry of pain npriuing everywhere ? -* Yet had it better been We still had staid within, 1 Nor Ueted frnit that lets ns not forget ? j God knows if it be so? j TKfi A ax*a err\ r\n Vmlnnr I And overhead the stars, they riHO, they set. i t ?Harper's Magazine. ; t ' . = i 1 Peter and the Wolves. j? About thirty years ago, a Norwegian, I named Jan Jauseu, came to this conn- n try, and settled in the back woods of j t what was then old Virginia, clearing a ! s farm in the mountain wilderness near . b the Cheat rirer. j tj . These mountain fastnesses were then, ; i( sis, indeed, they are still, tenanted by f, the bear, the great gray wolf (not the j I comparatively harmless cayote of the West), and even the panther. j The Jansens were genial, kind-hearted | g folk, and counted everybody a neighbor ; a and a friend who lived within a circuit I of thirty miles. J a If Jan or his wife were needed in time j f; of sickne&B or other emergency, they I fl ' took Pefqr and Greta and set out, leav-j ing the cabin locked, and the,key bung ! b outside, according to the custom of the country. I "Some Christian soul," they said, s _^_^miglit need shelter or a meal, and the n beasts oould not unlock tie door. ^ a Fear of the wild beasts prevented t their leaviDg the children at home, c ciiougn, in lacs, neimer uear uur pun- z tier were ever known to approach a j tl house, and wolves only in case of ex o treme hanger. ti After living in the monntains for a n few years, the Jan sens became convinced c that" there was no danger, and grew y more careless. They frequently were a absent in the field all day,'leaving Peter : tl and Greta alone in the house. But they b took care never to let the night f all before their return. b The summer of 1850 was a hard one in t< that desolate region for man and beast. ! Orops of all kinds, even mast, failed. | s< As the fall passed and winter ap- ' ri proached, the deer actually came near b ' * the cabin in midday, driven by hunger. J * Bamors came from the far-off farms h that the wolves, gaunt and hunger b bitten, had attacked the cattle in the barns. n In early December, Jan was sent, to i ii John Supplee, a farmer living about ten j ii miles down the range. Supplee bad ' ft fallen and broken his leg, and Jan, who | had a good deal of medical skill, was | the only person who coold bandage it ; property. J "You will come with me, Maria," he said to his wife, "so that, in case I can- fV not come back before night, yon can 11 bring the cart and ox home." ? Maria kissed the children good-by. "I r* will be back before sundown," she said. 7? Too can have the supper ready, Greta, rj and Peter may milk the cow." 11 . The children spent the day quietly at 6C work in building a house for their hens. . j. The sun was going down before they | e thought it vl's noon. Peter ran to j W milk the cow, and Greta put the bacon i ^ to fry; and the coin-cake in the covered | ^ skillet among the hot ashes. G "Qaiet, quiet, good Spry 1" cried ! r Peter,patting the white spot in her fore- C; head. "Mother in coming, and I have ^ sot done my work." j> fcipry stoou still. The milk was strain- d ed and nut awav in the brown croclm i D The cake was baked, and waited, smok- J H ing by the fire, but mother had not! ? come. * j "What is that, Peter?" Greta grew j white as she canght his arm. It was a A rushing, roaring, hissing noise, which ? filled the whole air; then followed by a ^ deafening, prolonged crash, like thun- : j der. Then there was a silence. T The sky was blue, the setting sun was ; V warm. The birds were twittering their i 2 las! good-nights before the darkness fell. ! q The two children stood trembling in the l daprway. B "It is an evil spirit," said Peter, i H promptly; for the Jansens had brought ' E all their native superstitions with them, j "We have made him angry in some ! j way. Come in aud shut the door." iS The crash had brought more trouble ? to the children than oould any angry ! j spirit. It was a tornado which had j crossel the mountain* five miles to the : e south, tearing up gre*t oaks by the ; I roots, heaping the ravines with rocks * and fallen treas. It had crossed the < p roa 1 on which their mother on the cart j was slowly driving the ox. r rater wag n'ceen, ana a stout boy of \ his age. He sat now shivering and f whimpering in the corner like a soared ^ bt.by. ; ] 44 Mother is deal! He has killed |: her!" he cried. 1 44 Who would kill mother? I'll go and j find her. Cbme! Do something, ! , Peter!" said plucky little Greta, tag- i; ' giag at the latch with her shaking , i fingers* , "Do! What can anybody do when the spirits are out ?" He crouched on the floor and bid his j eyes?tben started up. 441 know what : I'll do. They are hungry. In Norway wdftl^aysset out a meal for them in j winter nights. My father never has done i it here." j' Therowns a haunch of vension hanging I to the rafter, but half-dried. The boy I' laid it in front, of the Are until it began 1m inrl V>iirn lrnolf nr> ( (U UXnWOAC ?u?4 f UfcUt V>4 VM? uu the hearth watcbiDg it. Sbe knew that this was (ho nay in whioh the angry spirits that filled the mountains of Nor- , way were appeased; but sbe thonght ; they bad left all those terrible creatures ; behind them. Peter took up the smoking meat, car- 1 ried it to the edge of the -woods, threw ! it down and ran back, hiB teeth chatter- I ipg with terror. 41 Come away from the window 1" he cried to Gretn* "It is death if you look at them." Ho threw himself flat on the bed. Bui presently the little girl crept to ' the window. "Surely mother is ooming. h And they cjan'fc see me, anyhow, through j this chink," she thought. Thrt moon had risen, and threw a snec- !' tral light over the opsa space and the 1 dark woods beyond. Little did the poor boy think that ] while appeasing the anger of imaginary spirits, he was whetting the appetites of 1 creatures far more formidable, , 36 What were these black, shadowy j shapes tearing at tbe meat ? The child's t blood grow cold in her veins. The spir? < its were indeed there' They left the z I IWM?i? neat. They orept stealthily to tl ions?. " Wolves! -wolves 1" sVe shrieks ' They are climbing in at the window "Wolves?" Peter, with one leap, reached the gxu le gave quick, convulsive shouts, as >oy is apt to do with great excitemen Yolves! He could kill a hundrt mlvps l A different thine from Roilitf He had just time to rloxe theliea? butter as the fierce boast reached tl rindow, The door was already s)m Jreta drew the great bar across it. Tl :itchen was full of the smoke of tl oasting meat, and the smell madderu he famished beaRfs, who each had taate >ut a morsel of the fieaK There was a window in the washshe* or wbich there was no shelter. "They will not find it," wliisper< }reta. " The bushes cover it." The children crept noiselessly if to tl hed, carrying tlie guns with them, the >yes fixed on the square open hole, f< rhich they had no defence. The bar) ng and yelping of the wolves were i he other end of the house. But suddenly a crash was heard amor he bushes, and one, two, a dozen heat ;ppeared at the open window. Peter fired. There wae a yelp fro: wo that were hit, and the pack retreal id for a moment. The next momen he whole pack, discovering the opei ng, rushed to that side of the housi Che window was full of gleaming eje ind fierce, open jaws. Again and agai he boy fired, his sister loading tl runs for him. But they were too slov )ne great gaunt wolf leaped throug he opening. The others tore at eac >ther in their fury to pass. Withoi ? ?? ? l>/vm1?n/w W\QOa ivus ?b uum lluwilu^ uimdoi " To the loft! To the loft 1" shrieke Peter, retreating, still flriDg, towarc he ladder. Brit Greta, gone mad wit error, as he thought, rushed past tl yolf, seizing a bos, in which she kej ler wax doll, h?r Sunday ribbons, a ler most sacred treasures. It was leavy box, but she lifted it and oarrie t to the ladder. The wolf sprang i he boy, but Peter had the strength < wo men that night. He dealt him itunning blow on the skull with th - 1 - r i_J_ A U?,l )UIC 6DU UI Ills &(AU> i.c:ovyULv he ladder before he recovered. By the time the children gained tfc oft, the kitchen was filled with a fur ?us, snarling pack, " If I could cut away the ladder ! ] had a hatchet or a knife 1" cried Pete; 1 There is no way to keep them down! le stood in the trap-door, dealing bio Iter blow with his gun. They had le he powder and shot below. The boy trength was going; the open-mouthe leasts were endeavoring, by means < be ladder, to leap into the loft. E aoked at Greta, who was kneeling b< ore her box, taking out her giit-claspe Jible. No wonder the child had gone mad. She sprang to her feet at last. Pete: eeing what she held in her hand, ga^ wild yell. The tireworke? the precious cracker - ? "? ' 3 ?Li.L 1L, na canmes, ana torpedoes, wuicu iue ather had bought from the pedler, I ire off on Christmas day ! "A match! Aoh, mein Gott, if iave no match !" But there was one in the depths < 'eter'B pocket, and the next minute mall red mass *as lowered into th aidst of the pack. They stopped to sni t it. Then was an explosion. The bi orpedoes went off like cannon. Tt rackers hissed and sputtered. A da: ling glare of red and blue lights fille tie room. Pop ! Bang! Bang 1 Yelj f terror from the wolves, shrieks of tr mph from Peter. In less than a mil te, the burned and frightened pack hn leared the window and halted in ti ard. Peter ran down the ladder, flue nother box of blazing crackers amon tiem, and followed it up by moi ullets. The children at last found means 1 arricade the window, and did not dai ? nnm it lintil the snn was no. Their father and mother returne oon after dawn. Maria, flnd/ng tL sad blocked by the fallen trees, ha een forced to go back to Sapplee'i an and she had walked home across th ills in the night, lull of anxious for* odings about the feldren. Peter Janeen is now a middle-age lan, who went throngh all the battlt 1 Virginia; but he is never tired of tel jg of the night when he and Grel >ught the evil spirits with flre-crackeri The Ages of Literary People. The death of Mr. Bryant at the goo Id age of eighty-four has raised a natui i curiosity as to the age of some note terary people still living, and that < hers who have " passed on." TL tllowing table gives a list of sixty wel nown names under each head. Tb jures may not be absolutely accural i every case, but they are substantiall >: Living. Deceased. icob Abbott 75|John 8. C. Abbott... dmond About. ...50 Agassiz ( 'illiam T. Adams. 56. Hans Andersen ' . B. Alcott 79:.\riosto i . B. Aldrich 42 i Jane Austen < erthold Auerbaoh..66 Francis Bacon ( eorge Bancroft 78jB?lzac I obert Browning 66'Joel Barlow ! arlyle 83i Albert Barnes. ' L. Clemens. 43 Iticbard Baxter ' . w. tjurt.8 04 rrancm Doaumout. ... . H. Daoa 91 Jag. Gordon Bennett.' arwin 60 Beranger 1 Israeli... 73 Boccaccio I epworth Dixon.... 57 James Boswell I , W. Draper. 67 Frederic a Bremer.... i merson 75'Charlotte Bronte.. , A. Froudo 60;Charles F. Browne...! r. E. Gladstone 69 Mrs. Browning sa Gray 68 Buckle ret Harte 39 Balwer . G. Holland 59, Banyan r. Hclmes 69 Burns alia Ward Howe.. .59 Lord Byron bomas Hughes....55 Calderon ictor Hugo 76 Campbell . H.Lewes 6liCbaucer . H. Huxley 53]Coleridge 1 eorge Eliot. 5ft Cooper ougfellow 71|Cowper euson J. Lossing. 65iDe Quincey lerman Melville.. ..59jDickens onald G. Mitchell..56|bryden lax Mailer 55 Daman ohn G. Palfrey....82 Miss Edgeworth ames P*rton 5fi Gibbon [ayne Reid 60 Goetbe lenan /...55 ' toldsmith '.iskm, 51? Horace Greeley ohn G. Saxe 62 Halleck Ira. 8towe 66'Hawthorne livard Taylor 531 Arthur Helps "ennyson 69(MrH. Hemans ititbony Trollope.. .63|Richard Hildreth.... i'hittier 71jWa8bington Irving.. '. W.Newman 73,-^amuel Johnson . H. Newman 77|Keats 'harles Rsade f>4|Charles Kingsley.... STilkie Collins 53 Cnarles Lamb I. 0 Swinburne... .41 jMacaulay Villiam Morris 44 Harriet Martineau... 5. C. Htedman 45 Thomaa Moor? 2d gar Fawcett 31U. 8. Mill Chomas Hardy 38! Milton (Villiam Black 37: Montaigne H. F. Tapper 68,Poe 3. D. Warner 4? Prescott w. D. Howells 41| Scott Misa Alcott 45 Sh&k-<peare Miss E. 8. Phelps...3*1 Thackeray Words of Wisdom. No person i3 either bo happy or so n bappy as he imagines. Flattery is like base coin ; it impov< ishes him who receives it. A man displeased with the world never satisfied with himself. Let us search ourselves in the fi: place, and afterwards the world. Don't tell unlikely and silly storii even if you know them to l>e true. The wise and prudent conquer di: culties by daring to attempt tbem. Knowledge and timber should not much used until they are seasoned. Be severe to yourself, indulgent others, and thus avoid resentment. TLose who are honest "as the b< ponoy, are nanway to Deng rogues. We are ruined, not by what we rea want, but by what we think we want. If you must speak upon a diffici point, be the last speaker, if you can. Let our lives be as pure as snow fielt where our footsteps leave a mark b not a stain. The best portion of a good man's 1 ?his little, nameless, unremember iiots of kindness and of love. A of intellect is lost unless nnitau pnprcrv nf rthflranter to intellei When we have the lantern of ^iogeri we mast bave his staff. Great, ever fruitful, profitable /or i jrool, for encouragement, for buildi ip in Manful purposes and works, a he words of those that in their day w? ie FIRM) GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD 3. Poultry Notes. ."| A correspondent of The Poultry i Fard "breaks up" a broody hen by . j placing her in a barrel in a cellar for a two days. * i Care in feeding and housing, especial!(* Iv in protecting from dampness^ is Very J' : important in the caso Of young turkeys, 7 j till they get a fall dress suit of feathers. ie i A poultry house overrun with " red * I mites " was speedily cleared by burning | in it two pounds of sulphur on a cod j, j fire in a hand furnace, the doors and ^ { windows being tightly closed. ' To rid yonng chicks of vermin The 3 j American Poxiltry Yard recommends ' : mopping the feathers and fluff of the >(] I mother hen in the evening with a sponge dipped in kerosene and squeezed ic dfyii According to The Farmer'8 Friend, a jr hen of any breed will yield only half as k- j many eggs the second as the first year it ( after she begins laying, and, therefore, i "all fowls keotafterthev are two years ig j old are kept at a loss." Is j There is nothing better, probably j nothing so good, for mixing with poultry m | droppings, as road dust gathered in oeat son and stored in r dry place for time of t, ! need. Put it. a barrel or box in altera nate layers, using about twice as much B. | dust as droppiDgs, and mix before using s, j by pounding the mass together in a n j kettle or on a tight floor. ie ! A successful English practice is to p. ! beep fowls in portable houses, which are :b | moved from field to field on tne farm, ih j whenever insect food or the waste of it! gathered crops is plenty. Mention is made of a gardener who has long, nar;d row, bottomless coops in each of which Is he places a hen or two, or a mother and ;h chickens, and sets them down between ie his rows of growing plants, and moveB at them from time to time. Insects are ' - *1 _ 3 3 II tnns captured, ana mere ib a goou ueui a of helpful scratching. ^ Household Uinta. *f A fresh cut watermelon i3 good for a fever. e j Ginger ale will relieve 6tomach cramps .J I and cholera. Carbolic acid or ammonia, in the foot le j bath, will cure perspiration of the feet. ] A bit of sandpaper in the house will1 : keep needleB sharp and save annoyance. ^ | Fresh cream is the best cure for sunm | burn. It draws the fire, soothes and I heals. ft J Furniture polish can now be had by >B the pint; applied with a cloth it makes 1(j i the furniture look like new. jf ; Powdered borax sprinkled around the ie | base-boards and on the shelves will drive 3- j cockroaches and ants away. d I A bottle of cement, a bucket of paint, \ with hammer and nails, will save to any - AI'V /mof omrtr ' ilUUBCUUAU ICU uaico luuu wow wtw*ji r> j year. e Branches of the elderbueh, hung in the dining-room of a house, will clear ?? the room of flies. There is an odor J1 which the insects detest. Kerosene lamps which are trimmed re daily rarely explode. The carelessness of the house-wife can be blamed for most of the lamp explosions. a Save your washing suds for the garie den; if they are poured over the roots of ff the plnm trees they will kill the curg culio; if turned at the roots of geraniie ums, roses, eta, they will enhance their 2- beauty tenfold. sd i To cure weak eyes, take rose leaves, ; the more the better, and put them into i-1 a little water; then boil; after this strain i- ; into a bottle and cork it tight. You will d | find this liquid very beneficial in reie ; moving redness and weakness from the g j eyes. g I Curing II ay. :e i A writer in the Utica Herald says : "If rain falls immediately after cutting | hay, no harm results, as the water i cannot be aosorDea dv me grass wmcn . 1 already has its fill of the juices. In this i condition it may lie for days on the J? spread and be safe. Had it been dried, , the case would have been entirely dif3* J ferent. With fair weather and the tcd16 j der, a few hours will draw off tho j outside water, and relieve the hay of , j much of its inside moisture, so that the d i juices are concentrated, and may thus, :s i with the hay, be put into a oock. This f" j is best done soon after the middle of the 'a : day, when the mass is hot, the heat ex| pelling the mo sture, and the hay curing : more effectually in its own Bhades. Hay : raked somewhat late in the afternoon is* ,d ! Bare to imbibe moisture from the dew, ! which begins to fall early, thoagh in-' d i sensibly, and has been OHe.of the lurk>f ing mittchiefs to hay. Instead of gatnl6 ering the hay then, the mower Bhould be 1. j basy. Cat any time from the middle e i afternoon till dark. The cat grass beiDg e J green, the dew will not hurt it, and if a - 1 fair dflv follows will soon be taken ud bv the sun, the tedder set to work, and by three or four o'clock be in cock. A few [2 days willcure it fit for the barn. "Where the hay is thin and there is no clover, with I? good drying weather it may be taken in 12 tte same day without first going into the >5 cock. I have known the whole hay crop 51 to go in this way in a drought. ' Glover ^ requires putting up and curing in the ig field ; this on account of its coarseness, 30 Keeping Rouen In Bloom. 77 77 j Mrs G. G. M. of Cooperstown, N. Y., 52 | desires information on keeping roses in 55 ! bloom. Our best hcrticulturists recom^ ; mend, as soon as roses have formed their as [ first flowers in the open ground, to 52 ; pinch off the end of the first shoot, and 10 . as soon as the rose is fully opened to jjjj 1 pick it off. No rose should* be left to 3^ ! fade upon the bush, as when so left it 38 ; exhausts the plant in the formation of B1 feed. As the plants grow pinch back G7 j the ends of the shoots when they have j grown six inches, rubbing out all puny 62 ! shoots, thus keeping the plants in a 69 j rounded, open bush form. If strong ? ! shoots alone are left to grow they will 58 | Boon control the strength of the plant, [j? | and the flowers will be few and often 82 ! imperfect. Should the season be hot 57 ! and dry a mulch of fine, fresh grass, or 83 i sawdust, or moss from the woods, should I be placed all over the soil, and at night ^ j watered thoroughly.?American Cultico j vator. 58 ! ' " 41 ' 58 The Sparrow in America* 76 75 : Dr. Elliott Oones, the ornithologists 25 ; lifts up his voice in The American Nat 5C ! turalist against the sparrows. He speakgjj I of them as a nuisance, as " pestilent 74 , famine-breeders," and as " the wretched 73 j interlopers whicU we have so thought67 j lessly introduced and played with, and 66 j cuddled, like a parcel of hysterical, slate-pencil-eating school girls." The 03 doctor asserts that the sparrows in the 61 country already number *' countless 52 millions," and he anticipates the terri52 I UIa lionAA 4-1?at? will /tnmmif in flia rrMi'n j Wio lUOJf YT A 44 WUiU4i? *** 5iMiu fields, orchards and kitchen gardens a ; few years hence, when they will have inn* : creased to "millions of millions." He ! brings a formidable list of charges jr- against the interlopers, and declares ; timt " prompt and stringent measures jB should be taken as a matter of national economy to check their increase." Dr. rst i ^'oueH won^d not wage against the spar| rows a war of extermination, but offers i these suggestions for keeping down their JBi j numbers: "I. Let the birds sbift for themselves; turn them looso and put ffi* 1 them on the same footing as other birds. ! That is, take down the boxes and be 1 an tne special contrivances for ehelj tering and petting tho birds; atop \ feeding them; stop supplying them i with building materials; let them take i oare of themselves. II. Abolish the | legal penalties for billing them. The 1 birds are now under the arm of the law, lly which protects them from most of the ' natural vicissitudes of bird-life. Let lit i the boys kill them if they wish; or let ! them be trapped and UBed as pigeons or 1 glass balls are now used, in_shooting Itl{. matches among sportsmen. Vast numbers of pigeons are destroyed in this .. way; there are even 1 sparrow-clubs' in V? various cities, whioh make a business of ^ practicing on various of our small birds, for which the European sparrows would he be an admirable substitute, answering all the conditions these marksmen oould '0s desire. In this way the birds might even be made a source of some little revenue, re- instead of a burden and a pest; they are og to be had in practicallv unlimited numre bers, and conld be sold by the oitv to re sue ji persons as might deeire to nae them nr 1 Egypt at the Paris Exposition. Egypt has a large place in the beautiful gardens of the Trocadero. I thint her exhibit here is much superior tc that which she had at Philadelphia, This is not remarkable, inasmuch asbotl France and England art) gteatly interested to have Egypt take nigh rank, commercially ahd'otherwise, fts they propose to seize her at no distant day, pei-haps. French interests in Egypt have led tc French collections of curiosities and almost priceless articles from the strange land of the Pharaohs, and any one who if at all pleased with Egyptian art may here feast the vision upon it. In the long ? i._ _n _ i.i. _ m 3 I semi-circular gaiienes iu me xroutiueri j Palace a vast space is given to the ethno' J graphy of Egypt; dhd id pictures illuS' j trative of the life of its varied and singU' lar peoples; and not tar from the Seine'f | bank is a palace, built in the style wit! | which every one has become so familiar, either from having seen it on the stage, I in imitation, or on the Nile in reality, j Within this palace are numerous cham j bers, where very practical subjeots art i treated, such as the growth and cultur< of Egyptian cotton; the constructor and management of the Suez canal; th< improvements made under the tule of thf present khedive, who, altbough a thor ough rascal in finance, is a benefactor t( his own land; and a room specilib adapted to the uses of the "Interna tional African Exploration Society.' This section has almost a pathetic inter est. Here the whole grand store ii told; here hang the maps and charti which represent the labors of successiv* explorers in the beginning of the cen tury to the present; the portraits o Cameron, Livingstone and Stanley hanj side by side here, and beneath them ar< the maps which tell the story of the grea work wnich Stanley finished for*Living stone and for the world. Nearly op posite these now universally famoui faces hang two well executed picture representing the horrors of the slavi j trade. The exhibition of Egyptian antiquitie i and of the works executed in that coun try, which the imperial governmen gathered on the Camp-de-Mars in 1867 was remarkable, but in no reBpect ai fine as this one. Here we have a hous< I contemporary with Abraham's grand father, if we may take the commission er's word for it, and Mariette-Bey, poet philosopher, Parisian viveur and a kinc of Layard also, has assembled the re suits of his researches for many yean around the ruins of old Egypt. Mari ette-Bey has divided his portion of thi j exhibition into three yarts, illustrative i of tho Egypt of the Pharaohs; the Egyp of the Caliphs and modern Egypt?thi ! country such as the dynasty of Meheme i Ali has left it. For Pharaoh's Egyp you mnst look in the galleries of th< retrospective arts. I have not yet beei able to take a single note here, as ;th< guardians object. They fancy ever one who has a note book and penci some agent of a prying publisher wh< wishes to make copies of the pricelesi antiquities, and they motion to him tc "move on." I The most remarkable series or worKi presented to the public by Mariette-Be; are tables representing the civilization of Egypt forty centuries before thi Christian era. Everything is herenavigation, construction of ships, agri culture, workers in ivory and marble hunters, fishermen, and toilers at pyra mids and temples of those times. Ii the gallery of retrospective arts th< walls are, for long distances, coverec with these curious tables, which holt popular attention much more readib than do the beautiful majolicas of Ital] or the tapestries of Spain. At interval are placed the sombre Egyptian deities with hands crossed upon their knees ant " 1 -i.? 4.U. i tueir eyes JooKiug birtwguij uu mw mi I centuries through which they seem t< I last, aB if they really were endowed witl : immortal life. Arab art is here repre i sented in a very large degree by richb I illuminated manuscripts, wonderfully [ ornamented lamps for mosqaes and deli i cately cut ivory work. The Egyptiai I government does not seem to have mad< i a school exhibit in Paris this year, a j least I have thus far been unable t< i find it. The French journals are fillet : with complaints against the Eng j lish just now, because the latter hav I seated themselves at the very door o ' Egypt and are now only waiting a gooi occasion to enter. Everything indicate that the movement for seizure may com j much sooner than has been generally ex I pected. The Egyptians seem to car i but little who is master, so long as the; i are not disturbed more than usaal.! Edward King's Pari# Letter. A Novel Fox-Trap. i Tho cunning of the fox was used a ! an illurtration by writers long befori I the Christian era, and since that event I fal period Reynard has apparently los ; none of his sly characteristics. But ai | event recently came to our reporter' j knowledge which shows how one mem j ber of the fox family, in spite of his pre ! verbial slyness, was made to becomc i by an ingenious cantrivance, his ow; j executioner. In West Fryeburg, Me. lives a well-known farmer named T. J j Haley, whose coops had been visite j nightly by a hungry fox, and one ever j ing the rascal killed eleven half-grow j chickens, ten of which he ato or carrie I off, leaving one dead on the ground nea | the scene of slaughter. Mr. Haley wa ! considerably provoked, as would natui | ally bo expected, and resolved to set I novel trap for his foxship. So the nea j day he drove two stakes into the proun i a few rods from the coops, split ther Impartially open, and placed a loaded gu ! in the crevices, carefully pointed towar ! the hole under the nearest coop wher j the fox had crawled in to get hiB plur der, In this hole he placed the dea chicken, fastened by a cord to one en I of a niece of wood arraneed to plav foi ' word and back, like a whiffle-tree, an i to the other end of this stick he tied | rope, connected with the trigger of Ih I gun, held in position by the two stake; j as previously mentioned. He took pain ! to sight the gun abont as high as a i ordinary hat above the hole under th ! coop, also carefully adj listing the rop | bo that nothing could discharge the gu i unless the chicken in the hole was lai 1 hold of. The next morning, on visitin 1 the coop, there lay the misguided foj i dead as a door nail, with his head in th ! hole, and the fatal chicken in his stiffei: i ed paws. The plan worked to a charrc ! and makes, perhaps, the first ca90 o | record where one of the wiliest of th : animal kingdom was enticed into becorc | ing the instrument of his own destruc ! tion. A Brave Rescue. At the asylum for the insane in Oo] umbus, O., recently, a young lady pa 1 tientof blicht ficrure in some unacoount I able manner worked herself between th | iron bars, and when discovered wa | hanging on the outside of the window j sill, about fifty feet above the ground ' Charles Mardin, a young attendant I stripped off his coat and vest and at ; cended to the second story, and by th ; utmost nerve and strain succeeded i; j securing n hold of the window-fram j above. With one hand he clung to th i iron bars, and with the other graspei 1 the girl, just as she lost her hold of th j casing above, and placed her on th j window-sill. At, this crisis licr renso: i returned, and she begged her rescue 1 to save himself and let her drop to th ground, some fifty feet below. Bope were then passed to Mardin, whosecnrei them around the lady's waist, when sh was lowered to the ground. I ? A Probable Rcsnlt. j A. citizen who was doing some maketini yesterday bad his attention attracted t a boy about twelve yenrs of age wh i Beemed anxious to get hold of one of th j many big watermelons piled up in th ' Central Market. It seemed like a goo 1 * ' i i- 11.. 1 CtlRDCG TO HOW a seed lU Wiu 1?II n juiuu i and the citizen beckoned to the boy an queried: "My son, would yon like to steal on of those melons ?" " Yes, sir," was the prompt reply. " Yon would, eh ! I am sorry to hen that. Ii you should steal one of thos melons, my boy, do you know what th result might be ?" Theladsflfratohed his head, survey? the pile again and answered: "I 'specfc the plaguoy thing would b green all the way through I" A TRAVELING APIARY. | Two Bucm Containing SOO Hires of Bom Moving Alone the Mlaalaalppl trom Now 1 Orleans to 8t. Paul. Last May, Captain Perrine, of Louis1 iana, undertook to move a nnmber of J ' Swarms of bees np and dowb the Missis' flippi river, taking advantage of the j ! blooming of fldWers at different points. ( Of the result the St. Louis Globe-Demo- e ' crat says; S "Captain Perrine pnrohased two J * barges of ordinary length and the little f 5 stern-wheel steamer James A. Fraser. E ' Whatever of failure has attended the * ' enterprise is due to the inferior speed of ) the boat and a series of exasperating j " accidents to her machinery. The two ' barges were provided witn shelving, rind ' four hundred hives of bees were placed c } upon eaoh. All varieties of honey- t 1 makers were introduced, as the enter- t > prising captain desired to make his ex? periment as broad and thorough as i > possible. The hives were painted In 1 " contrasting colors, in order that the 5 little workers would return to the proper J 5 hive, the colors aiding each in distin- < 1 guishing his home by comparative loca- < 3 tion. < 5 " The intention was to start on April " 1, but accidents made a delay until May 1 } 13 unavoidable. This was unfortunate, j r as the bloom betfan to fade by thiB time. " Many persons who took a keen interest j in the venture were dubious as to its i tmnnflca art/3 o/lrricia/3 onroinaf. if. ViTlf. flftn- I s tain Perrine replied that he waa spend3 ing his own money, and on May 13 he J 3 steamed ont of the New Orleans harbor j ~f in the presence of a vast concourse of j * people, and soon struck the willowed 5 levees. A run of a day and a night 1 ? bronght him to a location in every way < 1 favorable. With a remembrance of the 1 croaking friends, who smiled at what j they supposed to be his credulity and ; 3 prophesied that he was simply present- I 8 ing the country at large with eight hnn- j 0 dred hives of valuable bees, Captain j Perrine ran np to a bank at a point ? oa?v?/\ t *yi ilrta aatifli r\4 VinlroKti DUX1AO 1UXVJ DVUVU ui i ivaouuig j " and released the busy buzzing inmates : of the hives. Like boya released from I the confinement of school, away they ' 3 sped to the willows and sought the j 0 depths of the fragrant blossoms. J Captain Perrine waited patiently and i was rewarded. The little ones began to ' ? come back, each with his sweet load, J and by sundown the success of the experi- j ment was assured. A very few of those j 3 released had wandered out into the " world, while now and then a belated loiterer arrived and entered his cell. 1 "Captain Perrine went to bed a happy 1 man that night, and dreamed of whole ] ? fleets of floating apiaries and great j F mountains of honey, the beauty of which I made his mouth water as he dreamed on. Tho next day but added to the success * of the preceding one. There was a 1 small loss in tho original number of the ' bees-eacu day, but it was more than < made np by the recruits of vagrant bees, i who had probably learned from the ; visitors of their happy and comfortable . position. This had been foreseen, and , sixty-five empty hives had been placed upon the boat for that purpose. 7 " The Fraser slowly towed the colony up the river, and all was going well, ! when, on an unlucky day, the shaft of 1 * the steamer broke, and the fleet was ' obliged to lay up at a point not particu larly favorable for horiey-making until i " messengers were sent to New Orleans < with the broken maohinery. Three j weeks were thus lost. The willow bloom { j died away, and the bees began to suffer and many of them (ied. When the ( ' machinery was again in order, all haste ' g was made up the stream day and night until the spring bloom was overtaken. J Good country had just been reached, ; ? and the bees fairly at work, when the 3 'doctor,' a most "important feature of 1 a boat'H machinery, -was hopelessly broken, and another wait of two weeks " was enforced, pending the necessary ra pairs. i _ " The spring bloom had moved fur- i 1 ther north, and the boat was making s such slow progress with the barges that Captain Perrine, in view of the further 3 fact that he bad started a month later, j j concluded to abandon the barges. The _ | beehives were transferred to the boat Q proper, and then, night and day, the { little steamer traveled up the river until j the blossoms were again overtaken 8 Every few days the boat would stop, the q hives be taken ashore and the bees re. leased, and when the vicinity was exe hausted the; would be reloaded and the y run made for another garden spot. _ "Even with this delaythe experiment has proved a success. The bees are all doing well, and are making the honey with a facility gratifying to their owner. The trip will be made through to St. s Paul, and then the bees will bo taken a South for the winter. Satisfied that he has struck a successful solution of the it problem of how to ensure the honey a supply, Captain Perrine will complete s his arrangements during the winter for i- an apiary on a still larger scale, and will i- leave New Orleans on April 1st, 1879, >, with two thousand hives, towed by a q boat of assured speed and po wer." 9 i ???. j Striking the Chord. i- The bootblack with his head shaved is n not always an object of veneration, no? d does the operation always enhance his i personal beauty. He feels this when ic s I is too late, and he makes it a point to J sit down beside his fellow-boot-black a i with long hair and nrge him to share his :t misery. Wicked Jack's shaven crown nodd ded with satisfaction as he caught sight q of Little English at the post-office, and n generously dividing his quid of gum d with the smaller boy, Jack said: e "If you had them hair shaved off i- you'd never havS the headache. If you d keep it on you'll have the worst time d next fall*you ever endured." r- "I may be dead before next fall," was d , the solemn reply. a | "If you was fightin', and a boy grabe j bed them hair, you'd be a gonner," conj tinned Jack. ? "T aIImx lAAwna V* AO rl D flf o | X UJiUO jcarco UIJ ucnu 411 m Ukv*v Q j when I fight," replied English, as he e i turned over his gum. ej "If you was stealin' apples from a n tree you might hung to the limbs by d them very same hair. I've known of g hundreds of jist such cases, and it went :, bad with every one of 'em." e "I never eat apples?hate the sight of l- | 'em," was the answer. i, j " 'Sposen yer mam get hold of thom n j hair?" e | " She's off on a visit." i-| ' Bat how you'd look goin' to a fune> | ral." "Never goes to funerals?hain't no J handkerchiefs to wipe my eyes with." "Looks like more hot weather, nnd j how you will suffer." ' [ "1 likes hot weather." l" j Wicked Jack sighed in despair, seemed | to fall asleep for a few minutes, and fine I ?11? oniVI. UlAJ OUtM. 5 i " Well, when yon see me 'an thirteen 7 j olhei shaved headH leadin' fourteen ele' phantrf in the circus procession next week, and all the public cheerin' us and '* whoopin' up the lemonade and gnm6 drops, don't say I didn't come to ye as a Q friend." e "Elephants!" echoed English. 0 "Yes?reg'lar ole elephants." ^ | "And wo lead 'em all around and git e J tickets for Hie show ?" 6 | "That's what we do." n I ' - * in ?- e o" u | "Ana mere b olio ior mo i r [ "There in 0110 for thee?big feller with e j white eyes and an awful swing to his ? ; hind legs." * | Little English rose up without another 0 I word and made for a barber shop, and i J/ick softlv closed his eyes and mur j mured: "If ye can't strike the right chord with j love or money, try elephants."?Detroit 8 \ Free. Presn. <* ' I ,M A Lesson in Economy, 0 Hy thrift ho had become a millionaire ii | and ho hud a splendid St. Bernard dog !, : which ho was very prond of. One day d | the Hurvant camo to him terror-stricken. i "Master, master, Crasar in?" e i "Ir what ?" "Mad, I'm afraid. He won't touch water any more, and there's ib ich 1 foam about his month as if he was .he o sea in one of Swinburne's poems. e "Great heavens, it ib lucky yon discovered it in time. Wb must not lose a d minute. Take the animal, at once, before he has bitten any one--" e "Yob, sir." "And sell him' ' ' V SUMMARY OF NEWS. I [J ffi astern and MlddleState* { John H. Raymond, president of Vassar En Jollege, died at Poughkeepsie, the other day, it ,ged sixty-four yours. pen The Connecticut Greenbackers met at New lav tin afcd ncfmln&ted a State tioket headed by olt lhaHes Atwater for govttndr; The platform 861 sserts that all the financial legislation of Con- on rress daring the past seventeen years has been ?0: n the interests of bankers and usurers, calls ] or the payment of bonds in absolute money, tio or the repeal ofithe resumption act, for postal re< lavings banks, for an income tax, and for State St knd national labor bureaus. thi Kearney, the California agitator, is stump- cn ng Massachusetts, making open-air addresses o the workingmen. The tugboat E. Henderson, of New York, , ?hi!o near Weist Brighton, Staten Island, was lemolished by an explosion of her boiler. The *Ja taptain and engineer were fatally scalded, and ba wo of the crew received severe burns. Prof. Baxter, professor of elocution at Harrard College, was drowned at Cape May, N. J., P6 vhile swimming out beyond his aepth. de Seven stesru became excited and unmanagejle In New York city, the other day, and ran ^ trough tho streets, frightening women and :hildren and scattering pedestrians in every pr " "? * -?r\t ru>rann? Wflrrt knocked fit iirecuuu. a uuuiuci v* w town and one man was severely gored. ov At the Silver Lake (Mass.) regatta the pro- fo 'esaional raoo was won by Johnson, a colored te jareman, the expected winner, Courtney. show- at ng symptoms of sickness and coming in last. hi The Neshannock Iron Works, of Sharon, P8 Pa., has filed a petition in bankruptcy, with a re ichedule of liabilities amounting to nearly 12,000,000. oi Timothy McOarty and Dennis Sullivan, niddle?aged men, were suffocated in a well prbich they were deepening at Jenckaville, ol Mass., by the' ftunes from a blast of nitrojlycerine that had just been fired. ^ John ?. Leet, the New Orleans reporter who H had been testifying before the HonBe Presi- bi iential election investigation in New Tork, was arrested at the Astor House for acting in a p manner that betokened insanity. He rang the bell of his room violently and when hotel employees responded Leet fired several shots through the door, all the time cursing violently ?nd declaring that somebody was following d< him and that he wanted protection. When ec Tnnf nnrronrtnffid himself. Miiivu During a violent thnnderstorm the powder pi magazine of Weldy & Co., on the outskirts of G Pottaville, Fa., was struck by lightning, and a g< terrible explosion followed, 1,100 kegs of pow- tli 3er having been fired and spreading death and devastation around. By the force of the ex- jj, plosion a gap fifty feet wide was made in q( adjoining woods where a picnio party was gathered. Three personB were killed?one boy being beheaded by a flying stone?several cc. were severely injured and many cattle were 01 killed. A number of houses were demolished, !? ind the explosion was heard plainly eleven H! miles distant and caused groat excitement in Ti the town. 8enator Blaine and family, while out driving ct aear Mt. Vernca, Me., were overtaken by a 11 thunder storm, during which the horses became ?c unmanageable and dashed the carriage against i tree, throwing out the occupants and wreck- J* ing the vehicle. All escaped injury save Sena- tr tor Blaine, who received painful bruises. M Ini answer to appeals from yellow fever p, itricaen cities of the South, contributions for the relief of the suffering people have been p] raised and forwarded from New York city. The mayor of Memphis sent the following dispatch 4, to the mayor of New York: " We are sadly w iffliotod. Our people are in great distress, and we are unable to meet their wants. Can New ^ ?ork help us?" A similar dispatch was sent to j, the mayor of Boston, and measures to'aid the ifflioted oity were at once taken in both places. Western and Southern States. T TT /it-mj-... ?%*<?< % dnnlro 0/?fo ttO 1 YY11HUU V^iUiUrOBD) gmnuniu AsaiAmoj vw^wtv Lauve, and Aaron Carter, all colored, were hanged at Donaldsonville, La., for the murder R in aged white storekeeper, named Narcisse te Aniens, in 1876. the motive of the crime being If robbery. All except Lauve, who showed abject tl Pear, met their fate with firmness and proteated ss their innocence to the last. gi Up to the fifteenth 700 cases of yellow fever &nd 194 deaths from the terrible scourge Lad P' been reported in New Orleans. The Michigan Prohibitionists have held a e lonvention at Detroit and pat a State ticket in w the field. The Colorado Greenback State contention n< was held at Denver. A ticket was nominated A with IS. O. Buckingham for governor at the o< bead. The platform adopted calls for an v< " absolute paper money," the repeal of the re- SI sumption act, and income tax and the enact- hi ment of a law by Congress prohibiting the ss further issue of bonds. tt The Nebraska Greonbackers, in convention 111 at Lincoln, nominated L. G. Todd for governor ai and a full ticket, and adopted a platform SI which demands that all government money lfi shall be legal tender for all debts, that the bi national bauking law be repealed, etc. The Tennessee Democratic convention at c( Nashville nominated a State ticket and adopted di a platform which charges the Republican party h with being the cause of all the ills from whioh P the country suffers, demands tho repeal of the S resumption act and the payment of govern- r< ment bonds in Bilver. c< On the sixteenth 108 new oases of yellow fever were reported at New Orleans ; at MemEhis there were sixty-four cases and nearly alf the population had left the city. The Hifrnntinn e.t Grenada. Miss., was described &b P appalling. Only the physicians and nurses and M the families of those stricken with the fever were p left; the rest of the population had fled in terror. ~~ The panto extended to all the towns in Missis- ? sippi on the Memphis and Jackson railroads, ? and the trains were orowded with refngees. All the trains that passed through Grenada re- fj fused to stop after the disease became prevalent, and many who desire to leave were left at 0 the depot, making vain signals to express their desire to be taken from the scenes of horror. At all the places liable to the ravages of the disease vigorous quarantine regulations were imposed against the fever-stricken towns, o Money packages sent from New Orleans to s Washington were thoroughly disinfected before ^ being placed in the hands of clerks to be counted, q One of the boldest robberies over perpetra- _ ted in Chicago was committed there the other day. While a traveler for a New York jewelry c firm was at dinner at the Palmer House, thieves c entered his room by way of the transom window a and stole samples from his baggage valued at ? 815,000. I Tho Bank of Millersburg, at Millersburg, c Ohio, haB failed. , Eureka and Austin, Nev., have been visited i by freshets which carried away every thing J ?L'" J 4rv a ViAflW AT* 1 DiUYaUlU UUU UOUXagou uyvi iv h uw j vtent. Charles W. Angell, secretary of the Pollman Palace Car Company at Chicago, has proved a defaulter intheBumof $120,000. Angell had been in the company's employ for a long time and was implicity trusted. Recently ho fell into disreputable associations and suddenly disappeared. When his accounts were examined it was found they were short the amount named. Einstein Brothers, boot a id shoe manufacturers of San Francisco, have failed for about $800,000. | Joseph P. Colcord, at one time a prominent j lawyer of St. Louis and an ex member of the I Legislature, shot an? hilled his mistress at a , hotel and then blew his brains out. Jealousy and drink are thought to have caused the act. On the nineteenth only seventy-five white persons remained in Grenada, Itliss., the rost of tho population having fled in terror from the yellow fever scourge, which waB raging ?... n>r.rn I wnq uuautueu vuuiuuwu. jluu cim..,,..,.. was described as frightful in the extreme. No j ( one oonld be scon in tbo streets except nnder- I j takers, physicians and nnrscs, going about on j . their ghastly errands. In almost every house . ]p.y one or more bodies, awaiting burial. Whole j 1 families were swopt off in a day. Tho mayor 1 of the city, who had faced tho pestilence, sue- < cumbed at last to its violence. Six of the ' \ small force of nurses in the town were also j taken down and died ; and tho colored people, who had thtretoforo onjoyed immunity from |1 the disease and had been usoful in attending j 1 the nick and burying the dead, beg m to loave ! tho place when they heard that one of tbeir nnmber had been prostrated. Thus tho con- j dition of affairs was appalling, and it seemed 1 as though the fow remaining whites were given | g up to destruction. In all the neighboring 1 ^ towns and villages the one subject of conver- f , s*tion was tho fever, and anxiety prevailed j J everywhere. In Now Orloani there wore 129 ' I now casos and forty-two deaths. ; ] While seven yonng 8wedea wero sailing ou | c the river fivo miles above Davenport, la., the j j boat capsized and four of tho occupanta wero : ^ drowned. ' , Tho Quincy Savings Bank, and tho First Na- I tional Bank, both of Quincy, III., havo closed j their doors in order to bo ablo to pay up thoir ; creditors in full. This action was oauaed by i c tho ineolvency of a largo manufacturing houne I 1 of the city. " j c E. B. Martindale, of tho Indianapolis Journal, j * -- 1 L -ir* KanlfMinfrtP ! uah men a vuiiuumj |Jouuuii His liabilities aggregate #815,000. The bodies of John Tynans and William F Doran, both of them day-laborers in a stono ' r quarry, were fouud near Pacific Jnnotion, Ja., ! C hterall7 riddled with shot. Doran was known ,t to liavo $100 on his person when he quitted I f work. John McCroary, another workman at i the quurry, was arrested on suapicion. From Washington. jc The August returns to tho department of ' a agricnlturo show an avorage condition of tho j cotton crop, in the ten cotton States, of ninety- j five per cent.; a dccline of four per cent. ' Attornoy-Ooneral Doveus has sent to the j T ooxvntara nf tim interior an imnortant opinion i p ill a certain case to the offect that when fetters t patent for moohan cal invention havo been e applied for and taken out jointly in the names | E of several individuals, they aro void if, as a ; matter of fact, only ono of them was tho j invonter. In such a case, the ktters patent ; 1 oaunot bo made valid by any act of tho in- j t dividnals or of tho patent office. j fc Tho acting sooretary of the treasury is over- 1 run with applications from all parts of the ] country, asking for financial statistics, such as v tho volume of the currency, date of finance f; laws, etc. ? Tho number of entries made upon the publio * lands, under the homostead and timber culture v acts, since 1862, aggregates 381,848. i Foreign News. An important bill to suppress Socialism has been submitted to the German Federal Couneil at the inntanoe of Princ9 Bismarck. It makes * perial authority supraae,- establishes a new reau, and prescribes stringent regulations t f&rding the press and pnblio meetings. Tioit opposition to tMbill is anticipated. i Since the attempted assassination of the aperor William by Dr. Nobiling, on Jane 3d, is reported there have been 663 arrests of rsons in Germany for insulting the emperor, j this number 621 have been convioted, in- ? iding 81 women.* The average length of the j itenoes of imprisonment imposed is about ( e and a half years. Five of the accused . mihitted suicide before trial. ( [n the award of prizes at the Paris Eipcai- i >n, the United States agricultural elhibit has < :eived a diploma of honor, and the United i ites ednoatlonal exhibit a gold medal. Of | 9 eleven objects of art offered by the Agri- < ltural Society of France for exceptional i srit in agricultural maohinery in the recent i Id trials, eight have been awarded American i mentions. j The Austrian army of occap&tion in Bosnia 1 s been defeated by the insurgents, after a ' ttle which lasted twelve hoofs. Emil Hoedel, "the tinsmith from Leipzig," 10 attempted the assassination of the Einror 'William on May 11, in the Avenue Unter n Linden, as tbe emperor w&a returning num irivo with hia daughter, the Grand Duchess Baden, was beheaded at an early hoar, in e courtyard of the new prison. Hoodel was iont twenty-one years old. On the trial he otested that he had not intended to take the e of the emperor, bnt sought to sacrifice his m life in & pnblio manner to create sympathy r the soffering people. Bat many witnesses stifled that Hoedel levelled his weapon direct the emperor. Hoedel, when informed that a execution was fixed upon, became deathly de. He wished to plead for pardon, bat soon covered composure when told that this was leless. He asked for wine for enpper, and ank to the Commune and the leader of the icial Democracy. When the sentence waa ad on the scaffold, he spat disdainfally, and ied " Bravo 1" He repulsed the ministrations ' the chaplain, declaring them useless, as it ould take years to convert him. It required it a single stroke of the ax to decapitate oedeL The remains were immediately iried. Qneen Victoria has prorogued the British arliament until November 2, 1878. A large namber of houses have been deroy by a fire at Kisaingen, Germany. *? - r\?ImoflMn rAnrflsontative. HI r. UIUUOUDVQ, umv.iv? r . slivered an address on silver at the monetary inference in Paris. A man named Lazzarette, who has been reaching a new religion in the province of rossetto, Italy, wae killed in a conflict with indarmes, who interfered because his parBans raised cries for a republic. Cottam, Morton <fc Co., West India merchants, J ive failed with liabilities estimated at $1,500,- , X). An international congress of industry and j immerce met atTaris, under the presidency j ' the president of the Paris chamber of comerce. Deligates from England, the United ! ates, Belgium and Russia were appointed j ce-presidentB. The city of Seragevo in Bosnia has been , .ptufed by the Austrian army of occupation j 'ter a desperate conflict. General Phillipovicb, i immander of the Austrian foroes, says ; i Fighting of the most horrible kind ensued, 1 hicn lasted until half-past one, p. m. The i oope were fired upon from overy door-way id window. Even women and the sick and j ounded insurgents in the military hospitals irticipated in inoredible scenes of wildest fan- ! icism. It was only owing to the good disci-! ine of the troops that the town was not more imaged. As it was some houses were plunged and burned. Our losses unfortunately, ero not inconsiderable. The insurgents fled i all directions, especially toward Qorasda and ogatica. At the close of the fighting the nperial flag was hoisted and saluted amid the ie?rs of the Christian population." he Heme Presidential Election IivenUmtlon. After concluding the examination of Colonel oberts, of New Orleans, in relation to his inirview with Govenor Hayes at Columbus in 176, John E. Leete, a writer on the staff of to New Orleans Times, was called. Witness iid he bad lived in New Orleans since 1870 and ive a history of bis experience there as officeDlder and detailed at length the condition of )litical affairs; but nothing of importance saring directly upon the investigation was icited by his testimony. Adjourned. The second day's examination of Leete, the ew Orleans editor brought out further paroulars of Louisiana methods in Dolitics. Witass described an interview he had had with nderson, during which the following scene icurred : "He (Anderson) pulled out an enjlope and Baid, 'I have a letter from John German, and contrary to all what you may say; 9 showed it to me?only the lower part?and l 1J a~ l* T n,.. T nnl* aars ilU liU WUIUU UM LUV Ik X noo gvvu, * ww*? te words, 'As soon after the 4th of March as ay bfl practicable' and he read them to me, id I saw the words of the signature, "John uerman;' I thought he was lying and that the tter was not specific, as it has turned out to a; I had no more talk with Anderson."' A telegram from Senator Kellogg was reiived, dated Chicagp, contradicting the evienco of Leet that no had requested him to { lanufacture affidavits, and defying Leet to j roduce any evidence implicating him (the ! enator) in any improper act General Butler's I solution that Senator Matthews' failure to | imply with the mandate of the committee to i ppear as a witness be reported to the House I r Representatives for its action war oassed, I fter which the committee adjourned. Major ?. A. Burke, a prominent NewOrleana olitioian, testified at length concerning mature in Louisiana previous to and after the eleoon. Witness testified that the Returning oard threw out about 10,000 votes, that in hia pinion Tilden and Nicholls received a majority f the votes in the State, but were counted out v the action of the Returning Board. Witness I bo detailed his Interviews with Senator Matlews and otllers in regard to the recognition f the Nicholls government. Selecting Their Husbands. A Turkish slave ship was captured the ther day by an English vessel, and the laves it contained, consisting of seventy romen and ten men, were liberated. Dhe men volunteered into the Egyptian jrmy, but it was more difficult to dispose ?f the women. Under the treaty coniluded between the British government aid the Khedive the importation and ex>ortation of slaves ore forbidden; but he detention and sale of slaves in the lountry are permitted for about six years onger in Egypt, and eleven years in ihe Soudan. Several officers accordingy came to the Pasha of the district with ififers to buy some of the female slaves, 3ut the Pasha declared he would not jart with them unless they got married. Be then announced that any soldi ar or sivilian wishing to marry one of the ilaves would have to pay six thalers for ler dowry, but that the women would so allowed to choose their husbands rom among thoae who should present ;hemsolves for the purpose. A great number of men, chiefly soldiers, assembled on the day appointed for the selec ;ien. The women were so shytnat tney " huddled together like a flock of sheep,1' md could not be induced to move. At ast one of them, taking courage, advanced slowly to an Egyptian sergeant, tvho was anything but young or hand?ome, and put her hand on his shoulder is a sign that he was the man she wished ;o marry. Her example was instantly 'ollowed by the other women, who rush3d forward to choose their husbands aa f they feared to be too late. It was now ;ho men's turn to say whether they acsepted the selection. All were satisfied jut five, and even the live women who vere consequently obliged to choose igain were ultimately provided with msbauds. Queer Place for a Worm. Henry R. Funk of Allentown, has for ionic- time been the victim of a disease vhich ho believed to be consumption. Jo wasted away uuder his besetting ualady until there was hardly anything eft on his bodily frame save the skin, md ho had about made up Lis mind that t ?vould be best for him to prepare for he inevitable. He had for a considerate time experieuced at intervals queer lensations in his windpipe, as if there pas some creeping thing in it, ana frelueutly remarked these experiences to lis family, but was as often talked out >f it as being the natural results of his lickness or mere imagination. On a re* 'onf. ilnv wIiiIa Kpfited in a rocker the sen intion again presented itself. It felt exactly, lie Hays, as if some reptile was mdeavoring to crawl up and ont of his rnchea, and boiug about the same time aken with a never* o?ughing fit he, to lis great surprise, as well as to the utter i3tonishment of his family, expelled a mrions worm abouttwo inches in length md thick in its middle as a straw s:om. t was of a whitish color, and so trans mrent tutu ruo oiooa in its virus, una ehicli it had absorbed from its victim, iould be clearly discerned. The worm's lead was sharp as a needle and its hindir part flat and stumpy. It was renarkably active aud worked its head rith great energy. How it came to the nan or in what manner it originated is a hing altogether inexplicable,his dootor, o whom the worm was given, and who ias it preserved in alcohol, never having leard of a like case' before. The man ias since experienced a change for the tetter, and feels so much improved that le is inspired with confidence that he rill soon again be a well man.?Reading Eagle. The novelties in ladies' handkerchiefs ire of fine oambriq.with oolored borders ind exceedingly small. Mr. Bobert Bonnor, of New York, is laid to be worth $10,000,000. He has spent in advertising over a million dollars. ^A, Healthy Body tada CI?uHMd. :orment the body, the Ee*d cannot be dear, rbese diflordera react upon the brain most a artfully, and produce a cloudiness in the jrgan of thought not experienced by a healthy man. Happily these brain-oppressins^mala3iea may be entirely dispelled Dy that peerless alterative, Hoetetter's Stoiaaoh Bitters, which sheers, refreshes and invigorates the brain and nerves, while it regulates the organs of digestion, assimilation and bilious secretion. It axpels the morbid humors which poison the system through the bowels and urin&rv passages, and exerts a powerfully invigorating in~? fiuence as well Its cathortio action Is never Irritating, violent or painful, but even, natural and progressive. As an appetizer and sleep promoter the Bitters is unrivalled; it mitigates the infirmities of ago, relieves the ailments peculiar to the gentler sex, arrests premature decay, and buildB up and enfeebled physique. Malignant and subtle indeed is the poison of Scrofula, and terrible are its ravages in th ? system. They may, however, be permanently stayed and the destructive virus expelled from the-circulation with Soovtti's Blooa and Liver Syrup, a potent vegetable detergent which eradicates all skin diseases, leaving no vestige of them behind. White swelling, salt rheum, tetter, abscesses, liver complaint, and erruptions of every descriptions are invariably oonquered by it. Drnggista sell it. Palate and Stomach; T# nnnlil V?<>TrA nrniv Vi{<u?ri(ta Kraad vnllo Ai, JVU TIUU1VI UBID JUUl WiWUitUy V4Uin*| .VUWf corn-bread, cake ? in short, all articles prepared from flour, thoroughly enjoyable and digestible, use Dooley's Yeast Powder, whioh is not only free from adulteration, bat wholesome, and cakes food very nutritions, This Baking Powder is used by the most eminent chemists and physicians. Buy it only in cans, never loose or in bulk. For upwards of thirty years Mrs. WINSL0W8 SOOTHING 8YBUP haa been used for children with never-failing success. It oorreots acidity of the stomach, relieves wind colic, regulates the bowels, cures dysentery and diarrhoea, whether arising from teething or other causes. An old and well-tried remedy. 25 eta. a bottle. A Fbietd in Need.?Grace's Salve is a friend in deed. Who has not found it such in curing Cuts, Barns, Bruises, Scalds, Felons, Boils, and even the most obstinate old Ulcers, and othei Sores ? it i* a wonderful compound, suited alike to the skin of the child and of the adult CHEW The Celebrated ' jjfatchles8" Wood Tag Plug tobacco. The Pionezb Tobacco Company, New York, Boston, and Chicago. War, famine and pestilence all combined dc not produce the evil oonsequences toanatioi which result from impure blood in our veins Parsons' Pargativo Pills make new rich blooc and prevent ail manner of diseases. We offer no apology for frequently callinj attention ro Johnson's Anodyne Liniment, as i is the moat valuable remedy that has ever beei produoed. It is a sure cure far diarrhoea, dys entery and cholera morbus. To cleanse and whiten the teeth, to sweetei the breatb, use Brown's Camphorated Sapona ceoos Dentifrice. Twenty-five cents a bottle IMPORTANT NOTICK.-Farmer*, Faml. lies and Other* can purchaaeno Remedy equal to Di TOBIAS' VENETIAN LINIMENT for the cure o Cholera, Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Croup, Colio and Sea ticknes*, taken internally?(it U perfectly harmless ee oath accompanying each bottle) and externally to Chronic Khenmatinn, Headache, Toothache,* Son Throat, Oa tr, Burns, Swellings, Bruise#, Moaqniu Bitee, Old Soree, Pame In limb*, Back and Che^t. Thi VENETIAN LINIMENT was introduced in mt, an< no one who has u?ed it but oontinaee to do *o. man; statin*, if it waa Ten Dollar* a Bottle ther would no be without it. Thousand* of Certificate* can be aeen t. the Depot, apiakini; of ft* wonderful curative properties Soli by the Dru?cl*U at 40 CU. Depot 42 Murray,St New York. The JHartets. H*W YOU. 08 0 09* Texaa and Cherokee.. Off 0 10 Milch Co 88 00 ?<8 00 0*H9 04* SttBMd 04 ? 00 Sheep 03K<? Clf oSX& 06 Oottin?" lUi& Wi Flour?Western?Good to Choice... 4 88 0 7 00 State?Fair to Choice i 38 @ 8 00 Buckwheat, per owt 1 28 0 1 81 Wheat?Red Westers 1 00 $10* Ho. 9 Milwaukee 93 0 1 10 Byo?State.*.**?# ? ? 68 @ 69 Btrley?8tit? 78 0 71 ** /a on Barley MsJt.. 5 Buckwheat .............. 80 0 !0 Date?Mixed Weatern Wlf? 83* Oorn?Mix** Wo?t6rn?? ? <5 0 <9 Hay, percwt 46 0 f? Straw, per ewi 80 0 85 Hope?Good to Prime 08 9 I3J Port-Mew ~.ll 00 011 87* Lard?City Steam ............ 07X0 07 Flab?Mackerel, No. 1, new 18 00 010 00 ? No. a, new U 00 018 CO Dry Ood, per owt...M....M? 4 8? 9 4 80 Herring, Scaled,per box..... .18 0 JO rfetroleum?Crude.......O8X0O?X Beflned....l0/ Woo'-California Fleeoe.. .......... 31 0 38 Texas " ? 0 Australian " 88 0 43 State 8a 0 44 Sutter?State 14 0 16 Western?Choice 18 0 33 Western?F air]to Prime.. 16 0 33 Weatern?FlrklM 14 0 38 UbM???State Factory.... 06X0 08 State Sktcunod* ?. > 09 0 C6 Western.. 05X0 091 Bgga ?State and Pennsylvania.... . 17 0 IV KUrWkLO. Flour 4 36 0 4 76 Wheat?No. 1 Milwaukee 1 C8 0 1 18J Corn-Mixed 43 0 44 Oatfl 84 0 84 By 68 0 68 Barley 80 0 85 Barley Malt 80 0 90 FHnjLDXLPHlA. | Beef Cattle?Extra 08 0 083 ; Sheep 08^0 06] . Hoge?Dreoed W 0 13 Flour?Pennsylvania Extra 6 00 0 5 60 ' ? 1 00 0 1 14 VTLIUat?ftOU rr UUIVI ?... - - Eye 48 0 47 Corn--Yellow 49 0 61 Mixed 48 0 43J Oats?Mixed 38 0 37 j Patroletun?Orude 08X?C9X BeHn?l....ll ! Wool?Colorado 30 0 38 Texas 18 0 80 California. 30 0 80 BOBTOB. Beef Cattle 08 # 03. ; Sheep OSitf? OS. ! Hog8.......... 06X8 01. Flour?Wisconsin and Minnesota.. 6 00 0 8 00 ! Corn?Mixed 81 0 88 ; Oats? " 82 0 88 < Wool?Ohio and Pennsylvania XX.. M 0 88 California Fall 30 0 80 viTKurovrx, tOJS. ! Beef Catt!??Poor toCboic*..,...-. 80 0 I 80 ; Sheep ..........mm 7 00 0 / I fjTh? i no ? > /* SSAPQmFiEP Is the Old B?liable Concentrated Lye | FOR FAMILY SOAP MAKING Direction* acoompaaxini eaoh ban for making Uar 1 Soft and Toilet Soap quickly. IT IS FULL WEIOET AND STRENGTH. The market la flooded with (so-called) Concentrat< : Lie, which la adulterated with salt and rosin, and ?c<w ! ptajfc# 9onp, SAVE HO NET, AND BUY THE SaponifieR MADE BY THE Pennsylvania Salt Manufg Co., PHILADELPHIA. !-min tftmnn Investedin Wall St. Stocks mak< ! AlU IU cMUUU 'ortanes every rnuaiu. . ~ free explaining everything. Address BAXTER A CO.. Bankers, 17 Wal'st.W.l I ll^ulMHHUA|yJiR| h -A V BHH " R Jj k| H B B B I i H mknj HOW TO QET THEM In the b?t partof thutat*. fl.000,00 aerti for ulr. Cor > copr of lb* "Kinua Paclflo llomi _?tead," k34.-?m 3. J. Cllmor?, L?ml Com'r, 3?Jin?. Kui> ISTOI TMEBIPT Daily and Weekly, Quarto, UoHton, Mass. | Tlia L?i??at, Cheapest and Best Family Xewspapt In Now England. K<liled with special reference to tt varied tastes and requiremonM of tho homo circle. A . the foreign and local r.ews published promptly. ' Daily Transcript, S ] 0 per aonnm in advance. I Weokly " : ' (6 copies to one address,) 87.30 pi annum in advance. SEND FOB SAMPLE COPY, K rrrd ro Mr111 How u Ilomo rnn be Mecorrd. ' THE F LOU ! DA LA XI* CO.1I PA\] i (Charterpd by the State and Endorsed by its Officers; ; Offer the choice of OOOtOUO Arrm, located on tli Trenail R. R., which extends trora Kernandina to Ceda i Keys, for the Very Low Prlcc of 91.!?5 v>er Acre I FOIITV ACltRN FOR S50. i H> nho oj/rr the rhoire of T'n Million Arret of Slai I lanrf.1 (in retry rounty), /or (h? tame loir prire. Lands bifrb, dry; best m the State. Climate super and very healthful. (Jares Rheumatism, Catarrh, an - --** tuna 1 r\r-? Lung disease* Overi.uw noruwrnim> ?d. Oran#e rroves yield a profit of juu to f Iw?"{* ! Aero, according to age of *??" , ^,]e ?$?, Tobacco. Cotton, Kim, rto., T BMP? lion, mod* fn transportation. KR^LNLKI) X. hMlll A CO.. 32 Park Kow. New Vor*. PENSIONS i ABE PAID every tidier disable*^toillne A of duty, by Accident or otterwwfjA Cfl j ; WOCSD of anyMnd. to* of***- JK| OEK, TOB or CTE. BCPTTBK, MUU 1 if but slight, or DImom of IiBl* ws. EBETs BOIJSTV?IMscbargeforWoMd,Injmp- BM lea or Kupture, give* Jfflf ZrfMt llortf, Ofllcers' Acc?ont? and all War fclnlin* Kfc- HH| JECTED CLAIMS BEOPEXED. OH Send 23 cents for i Copy of Acta<M?M on PENSIOHS, BOCSTY A?P?Mb1 IiAND CIiAIMS. Send itamp fori? TO CIrdLlAMo , n^M WB, F. CEKKIHCIN A CO., ffikll a & CLAIM AGTSaod PATENT ATTTS, HHl Box WO,WMlilngtoK V8W F^?--?VVS&$?i%g.rs2!: " * $9grrsa^ssr. $7 ^^esssb^KS** yl P. O. VIOggBY A?iM*i.B>fn> 08GAISSS1BM?? 4 P'JSJT.^TS'wfflx&v&Sgiffi < Principal. Limited to 36 bojs. Tumi ootoita. CLOCKS HBBHI CHAPMAN'S CHOLERA SYRUP OnrM Dysentery, Diarrhcna ud Summer Compiling ofCh.lMr.rr PriojflOc. OBOEOK MOOBB, MroprWtor, Great Falla, If. H. Bold brail DrnjatUU. ! gjgss-gessig SIMPLE, EASY, PROF:TABLE. EVERYBODY HIS OWN PRINTER -A 8end?c. forhandwrnecetaJofue. NAXiOHXffOTt Oo., Philadelphia, Pa. larput auonrntnt. iMcutprUM, tk. S the utmost importance to Olar&moB, Pbyaiciaaa, Teiehen, and all clacaea of mtei, especially Afaatv and Canraasera. PEABODY * GO., PcbhaUn, 236 Broadway. New fork. rriTTI 4 Q ?The otaoiOMt (a Uw world?Imperials JL JCiJ3LOe prioae . Turret Company in America? Maple article?pleuee ererybodr?Trace oonttauUiy increaaiac?Acenta wanted omywhara?b?t induce- ^ mer.ta?don't traate Hrae""eerd for Circular to H ROBT WBLL8.43 Veeey BC. g.Y., P. O.JBo* H8T. ^ $10 g $25 STAni-rSi NoveHkw Oatalogne' A Outfit Free ~ A FARM 9=HOME - - - zuujft uwa ip: j to?ss.eai4fpwS^jSrS term.. 6r^B?|riMlnHproTM F?M ft* the PUnutrU Ouidt, a new book with turn man, mob freeererywhere. O.F. DiTii, Wkbit?b SsrptB. ISO gartuun St.. Om>h*. Heo. _ I PEOF. SCHEITB Illustrated EI8T0BT <U & raiH i The War in the East, ; or ooufliot between Rm?IA?nd TPBXXT> the U*t boofc 1 asas "/ ^^g.8V550P8PKED'*00..?wr Tork. Paints Ready for Use For Farmer and MOT?flw>tttiw? in un*JI o*aa of one to fire yooBd?. Send yar mmu <wd ehowtog diffftrpnt shades, y. W^pEVOB * 00* 1 cor. Falton and WUhwn 8U . Wew Tort. ? lYlllnilni t I I I jMilBBRQKK i I I i VV^ 1 aVd H.W ? Cures Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Sick Headache. Mwm hhm ; uuauii o diuivu i - ; Joirernxxx, Mich., Dm. V, 1MT. M?rt. jbw&: I' r aent roa SO eta. for two boxea of Graoe'a fifth*. I him 1 luil tirn ?ni1 titTenanl thnm nn an nlner nri nvrfrintliM ' ) It is almost welL Reepectfally roars, a J.VAKflSt Price 26 ocnts > box st all draifMs. t* sart by tsfl f on rtoeipt of 36 oenta. Fnpmd oj SETH W. : c t FOW lJl & HO NB, 86Barrf?o-i Are., Boston, If aaa. oi Alphabet. <.?Hj ( While we bollere that ear' combined liar* of Kewe* papers offer facilities of ft thereof btr sapetlor order to > sesryclcaaof adrartiaera, there tre oeitaio articles end , lines of boaineea whioh aaeni to be eapeoiall/In neadet 1 aerricea ausb as we ars obla to afford. I Afll BUD I can make known hia boataeaa, or ?ln 4 :'i H world-wide repatation, by jadlcioua idrertUInc in mm oar Iiat of papora. UflnlUlill} can locreate their correspoadeata and n add moner to their ooffera bj ooantrjr nearapaew; ^ S HARPJAGE-MAKERS win nod tiut la idfurtuinf in oarLUU willMtu? m?rwdmiIn ? " maltipljrin* their baaineie. s ||HUuuiuTu oan find no bettor or cheaper oedlam II than oar Lista for adreruaiog aay new medioka *~ "" oraptcialty. "PNGINE BUILDERS cu in? n??at < ?y D?* II a agin* or improrament through oar MMriyspv { lUte At a trifling coat. 4 * . x rAnlhtlD wiahing to diapoee of their tarns caa I find a purchaser by inaerting a abort adrartlae mast in oar List*. ' ; v."-f PliUuhHu deairona of aelling off their atoek or boaiV U Liita Ctn flnd * P<ircha-ser by adrertiatng la oar K Uat*' - - IJAlliJWAlUj manufacturer* oao in trod ace erery II new artiole to the trade, cheaply, by idrertiaing j with aa. " "i VHPflRTERS ? amnA their card to Jibbers and j I dealer* throughout the West by pttrorrzicf oar i"3agi List*. ; * \ TEWELEHS oan distribnte their " Prioe Ll?ts " to |l the trade by placing ta adrertlsement in oar 11*1 v Ot country papers. Kerosene goods, lampe and lanterns, oan be ad- J vertiied to the dea.era and com amen is ear Westjrn Lifts. T UMBER DEALERS oan p!a<* their boaisee* 11 card* before the eyee of both dealer* and consum* ere by oar plan of newspaper advertising. * ' ' X- ' f MWiCTOEflSo, any new artloU wfllflad oar LUta to be exoellent mediants to reach all *. B lumors, *j V9BQD7 who is aane upon tbe sa^Jeet ot >d?? | II tiling can find fault with oar Lists or priOML i nuiiill . ? j UIIUIU1, jjeioieon IDU rum ???.. - Lists to pay better than u; other (or tiute but* I MS. * * -BMP MAKERS cab herald their towftM ta j ! ? evrrj farmer in tbs Weitern World by adTsruiaf p. in our Lists. I Questions re! tire to the coetof anadrertteeaMOt j in either separate or the oombined LUu, will r?ceira oar prompt attention. Hoofers. ?The InbabttanU under nmrtf arary root in the Weft can be reached by an 'ad" la oar Lists. 0 h \ bAllbu, Safw, Saw and Sewin* Machine manufao J turers patronize onr Lists liberally, and And it ? ? profitable inreeUnentl J ' ' } fk, Coffee and Sploe Dealers can reach ore* 3,000,000 oonanmera weekly by an adrertieement in oar Country Lista. ir r ' 11 ifPHOLSTEREHS can let their waree be kaown la II no better way than br extensile and jndioioM W advsrtisin* in our popular List*. r J - VINEGAR Maker* an refnlar sdrertlsin* patrons . I If of oar List*, and will testify to their intriaaS * merits. UfliE Merchants and Liquor Dealers adnrtist n their specialties in oor GsU, and arotaappf. I' YTLOGRAPHERS can make a short cat to prospyrt j > A tjr by azhibibnt a specimen of their own work la e * tueee lists. IT I. ybAbl and Baklnc Powder Manafaotaren |a> b I crease their sales by patronising oar plan of adT?*> d tisin*. tir ; liiOTB or tb? hlcbMt point of *UMMa la euub j I #1 enterpriies eu only be atUlnad bj jadlotoai IM - I M libaril Newspaper adrertiilnc. i I For farther partieulut, or ciUlori* 4ddr?a DFITQ 9 rncfTD DliAiilJ a lUUllMIr, GENERAL AGENTS, 10 Spruce Street, New York. h RTHO ?4