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The Anchor. An, many a time, within the zone of palm?, In beauteous haven of some Indian land, The voyager beholds, at noontide calms, His anchor biting in the golden sand, 'Mid stony aborescence submarine, Weeds, cowries, and the rare pearl-oysters j seen Distinctly through tho waters crystalline, 80 may wo?looking in our minds, rife With branchwork of the ever-building thought, With salt weeds, and the scattered thing that life, Or worthless shells or pearls of price, hath wrought? Perceive, when turbid passions have no breath, When God's high sunlight nothing shadow- j eth, Hope's anchor-hold on golden grounds of faith! ?William Gibson, in Harper's Magazine. IN A DENSE FOG. "Good-evening, Miss Seton!" "Good-evening, Miss Dade," said llene Seton, hanging her hat on its aecustomed peg and divesting herself ef her closely-litting jacket. The first speaker, who had come swiftly into the dressing-room with a glass of water in her hand, stood still, watching her from under her shock of gray hair, and then said with an odd smile: "Another new student!" " Is there?" said llene, indifferently, as she put on a business-like apron. "Yts; and he has taken your place." *Oh, Miss Dade, that is too bad! "Why did you let him?" "He was there before I came. "Wait till I get some fresh water. I want to see you dislodge him." Hene Seton did not see the force of this last suggestion. She left Miss Dade rinsing her glass and hurried away. There were only four students al reaav 111 me room wueu ?uw eu?eieu. One of these was a stranger?a young man of five-and-twenty or so, tall, with orisp dark hair and short dark beard. \ To her dismay she saw that he had plaped- his easel exactly, where her ""-"Hftrks chalked on the lloor showed that hers should stand, and that he was already embarked in a drawing from the very cast on which she was at present engaged. She fetched from a corner an easel bearing the initials II. *., and without hesitation came up behind him to say: " I beg your pardon, but I am afraid I must ask you to move." He rfeither turned his head nor made any reply. At this Miss <6eton looked embarrassed, for Miss Dade and the three other students were watching the proceedings. However, she tried again a little louder. " Excuse me, but this is my place." She had moved a little forwarder, and now he raised his head and showed a pair of rather sad-looking eyes, under eyebrows diawn together more by habit than by nature. He looked from her to the easel, and colored deeply. "Did you speak to me?" he asked. "I beg your pardon! Oh! I see. This is where you sit," and he rose hastily. "Peehaps," she began, looking with compunction at his skerch, "if you were 10 sit uciiinu iiu* you wouiu nave nearly the same view." Again he colored, and as soon as he had moved his belongings out of the way, said, in a low voice : "I have the misfortune to be perfectly deaf." " Oh ! I am so sorry," she said, in^ voluntarily; and then, recollecting thjft the words, were wasted, gave him a half-confused but pitying glance, and then set herself to her work. She was a daily governess, but had so much talent for drawing that she felt sure, with a certain amount of instruction, she could make a better inoome by giving drawing lessons and gelling her paintings than she could succeed in doing at present; therefore she attended these evening classes at an art school and was the most diligent of students. First one and then another came in, until about twenty were at work in the room. There was much talking in an undertone, and, as a general rule, very little work. Then the master entered and went round from one to another with words of correction and advice. Ilis deep, subdued voice ceased , as he came to the new student, for he ' was already acquainted with his misfortune. He took the piece of drawing-chareoal from the young man's hand and made a few alterations; then he turned fiom him to say : "Mr. Chapman, I wish you would look after this student, Mr. ?er? Reid, and give him a little assistance when you can. My hands are too full for me to spend long over him. He is deaf, you see." "Certainly, sir," said Mr. Chapman, a slight, smooth-shaven fellow, who, 1 on the strength of superior talent, took the position of a kind of pupilteacher. The master being gone, Mr. Chapman came up behind HeneSeton. "Very well indeed," he said, in a tone of commendation. "You will do, ... Miss Seton, if you go on as fast as this. Allow me to sit down, and 1 think I can?improve?this. Your crayon?thanks." Hene watched him touching on her drawing in silence, her golden-brown eyes a little troubled, and her hand nervously playing with her apron. RKo Via/I L'T^Aivn nf lofa fl.nt. Afnrb Chapman singled her out and bestowed upon her only a double quantity of his unwelcome assistance. In handing her back her pencil he would contrive to touch her hand, or in taking it would .absently take her fingers as well. Or he would draw her by the arm to a better position for viewing his improving touches on the work. The next night the deaf student, Gordon Reid, was there again?in short, he was as regular in his attendance as Hene herself. Mark Chapman had taken a dislike to him, which was fully returned, and used to amuse himself and certain of the most maliciously-disposed by the way in which he assisted him. " Look here, you great duffer!" lie would say, showing Reid his meaning with the pencil; " you are giving Ye- j nus a biceps that would do honor to j a gladiator! Too tall! Because you're | * about three yards long, you need not j make her the same! What do you j J. come here for? You'll never draw if j you live to a hundred!" On one occasion, after some such speech, Keid saw the smile that went j 1 -i. *- ? TT- i. 1 I round at nis t'ApeiiM'. jiu iiirueu 1 white with anger, and was about to speak when he saw Jlcne Seton had j turned and was confronting Mark! Chapman with flashing eyes. "If Mr. Chapman is so unmanly as ! to turn another's trouble into ridicule, j I should have thought you others | would have enough good feeling to take no notice!" she said, indignantly. She went on with her work the next minute, half ashamed of having spoken out so plainly. One or two of the others put in a word or two of approval, and Chapv man thought fit to leave early. TV hen Hene was putting together her pencils and drawing for departure i she found Cordon lie:d at her side. . "Thank you, Miss Seton," lie said, his dark eyes bent on her face with an expression that made her checks burn; j " I would give a great deal to know [ . what you said. My loss never seemed j so great before." i. It was useless to speak. She could but give him a glance for reply; but I what words could have said more than i those wet lashes? But that was the beginning of an acquaintance, the growth of which I " the young governess was too incU^-1 pendent and unconventional to check. Almost every evening she found him j ? near her for a few minutes in the intervals of work. }** Si,,~. I He told her how he was situated? that he had, through the loss of hearing, been compelled to relinquish the post he held of secretary to a public company ; and that the only career in which this loss would be no impedi V. ?r ment to success seeming to be that of an artist, he was now devoting all his time to the study of drawing. Bv-and-bye, too, she learned how disheartened he was at the comparison of his work with that of the other students' ; and being herself no mean artist, would strive to encourage, and even to help him, as far as she could. But an evening arrived before very long when Ilene's lirst look round failed to show her the figure of her friend. lie was not there, that was plain, and did not appear at all that evening. Ilene left with a dull sense of something wanting, and feeling more tired than usual. She had an uneasy conviction, too, that some one was following her at a distance ; and when she turned round at her own door to look back, she undoubtedly saw a dark figure vanish round the corner of the street. On the next night he was again absent, and again she felt sure she was followed. She was used to going here and there alone, but yet, once convinced that her fancy was correct, she grew rather nervous, and almost ehrank from the solitary walk home. But after four or live times the dark figure came no more. In these days Ilene discovered howstrong a hold her pity for poor Gordon Reid had taken upon her. lie was seldom out of her mind; and she tormented herself bv imagining every fearful thing that could have happened to him to account for his continued absence. It was more than a month since she had seen him, when one night, on entering the room where she worked earlier than usual, she became aware of his familiar figure seated before his easel and his back toward her. As yet no one else haJ arrived. She stood still in the doorway, astonished at her own agitation?even ashamed of it; and yet so thankful that she could have cried for joy. However, she quickly recovered her ?~.l nn_ CUIlipUMUt* Clttu 1UI Uiuu seen to pause a little distance behind his chair. Looking with critical eyes at his drawing, she sighed heavily. "Poor fellow!"she said, softly, ' he will never bean artist! Oh, Gordon! how I wish I could help you! What wouldn't I do for you?" She passed him to go to her place, and then catching his eye, turned back to laugh and nod her " Goodevening." His face wore an unusual expression, one whose meaning she could not fathom, as he replied. Presently Miss Dade came in and sauntered to her side. "IIow bright you look to-night, MissSeton! One would think that it \va.s because your protege has come back," she said, with a smile that turned the corners of her lips in a downward direction. " You have looked so pale and severe lately!" " Have IV 1 did not know." "You have been so solemn that your devoted cavalier, Mr. Chapman, has forsaken you for Miss Johnson;" and Miss Dade nut her head on one side antllooked meditatively at Hone's loose, waving masses of dark hair. u That is a comfort!" saia Hone, laugliing. " 1 hope Miss Johnson likes him." Miss Dade strolled to her own cor! ner on the opposite side of the room. As soon as she was gone caine a voice from behind?that of Gordon lieid. " Miss Seton!" She turned round an attentive face. "I am goingtogiveitup?the drawing. I hate it!" Her eyes expressed her astonishment. " Yuu are surprised; but can you wonder?" he w^nt on. "I see you, a mere girl?years younger than I?do what I cannot! You study in the evening only; while my working day and night leaves me far below you. I do not believe I should ever be far enough ad-vanced even to give lessons!" Hene raised her eyebrows with a look of surprise and dismay. " I shall conic for a few more times, just to finish this, and that will be the end of my artistic efforts." He looked so verv cheerful over it that slit* felt half angry. It seemed she had been wasting her compassion. And how easily he could give up this pleasant intercourse, that had been to her at least so very sweet! She tuned back hastily to her work, so that he might not see her disappointment, and all was agam silent. When the two hours were over, and she emerged into the gaslit street, she found him just outside the door. " May I see you home, Miss Seton V It is so foggy for you to walk alone!" A moment's hesitation, and she had given a sign of assent. They walked for some little distance in silence; but when they turned out of the bustle and noise of vehicles into a quiet square, Gordon lleid spoke : "I have to beg your pardon, Miss Seton, for a little piece of deception. I can hear perfectly well!" Hene drew back from him with a low exclamation. "I was afraid you would be a little hurt; but I could not resist the tempation. It was so?" She interrupted him with a gestur of disgust. - J. uu can nciii x un iuivu inrv t*r been deaf?" "(irout Heavens! yes. Don't misjudge ine to that extent. Hut I have undergone an oporat' in since I saw you last, and, thank heaven! 1 feel that I am a man again." "But to-night?you let me stand beside you, and say?Oh!" and her cheek burned witl. recollection. "Leavs me. No, I will not listen ! You need come no further;" and she hurried on at a swift pace. However, he was beside her with a few quick strides. "You must?you shall hear me?" he said, his voice low and determined. "I will not!" and she still hurried on. "I tell you you shall!" he exclaimed angrily, and laid his hand firmly on her arm. She tore it away, and before he was aware of her intention was speeding down a side street. Again he overtook her, and this time he caught her hand, und held it in a grasp from which she could not free it. " Miss Seton--Hone," he said, passionately, " what has come over you ? Are you mad?" " Let me go," she panted. " This is unmanly. Loose my hand or I will call for help !" " Call then ; what do I care ! Miss Scton, if you will not listen to me now, you will never see me again. There ! you are free. If you care nothing for me, go and leave me. I'll trouble you no more." " You coward !" she returned, indignantly. " Yo': think you can frighten me into hearing you." Slio U'tillrr.fl siviftlv :inil lirmlv JiWJiv? but in two minutes lie was once more by her .side. ' I was wrong," fie said, hurriedly. " I had no right to speak to you like that. Stop ! You will lose yourself in this fog. Look round you. Do you know where you are? " A quick glance from one side to the other was enough to show her that the street was unfamiliar. In her haste she had not looked to see where she was fjoing, and the fog had increased so fast that it was impossible to see any distance. She stood still. "You cannot call a cab, for there are none near," said Keid, more calmly. "You must either trust tome or try to find your way back, with me following, for I dare not leave you wandering by yourself." " I have no doubt I can find my way," she said, coldly. "Asyou like. If you cannot trust me pray lead on." Jlene took a few steps and ther. turned toward him. " I give it up. I have not the faintest idea where we are." A silence ensued, which he was the i first to break. "I know 1 lost my temper just now, I Miss Seton. My only excuse is that I j was so cruelly disappointed. You 1 were always so good to me?so gentle and sympathetic when I was deprived of hall'the enjoyment of life? that 1 was foolish enough to fancy you would rejoice with me, toj. Instead of that, you havq_ taken away the greater part of the pleasure I felt. My lirst thought, when I heard that cure was possible, was that I should lie able to hear your voice. May I go Oil ?" " I have no choice but to listen," said Hone, coldly. "You are very severe, but perhaps 1 deserve it. I will say no more." There was another pause, and then lie said: " This is not the first time I have had the pleasure of escorting you home." " I do not understand vou." "For the lirst few nights after I left off attending the art school I saw you safely to your door. Afterward I could not." " Why did you leave off attending?" " Do you want to know?" " Yes." " Because I felt that I could not stay near you without trying to win your love; and that would not have heen fair to you." Ilene stole a look at him. lie was evidently agitated. " I bog your pardon," she said, gently. He instantly stopped, for they were now almost at her door, and took one of her hands again. " It was a hard fight, Ilene. You were the first who had taken the trouble to try and talk to me. And tonight 1 thought 1 would hear your sweet voice before you knew the truth. 1 thought you would forgive me. "Was I mistaken? I did not come back till 1 had obtained a post similar to what 1 held before?till I could .ask you something; and now 1 have offended you." lie slowly let go her fingrs. They] stood there in thtr dense fog, each wait ing fur the other to speak. Then with a sudden movement Ilene slipped both her hands into his. " Tell me that something," she said. " I should like to hear it." Foolish Society Belles. A writer for a New York paper tells this curious story: Mr. Herbert Kelcey, as all my readers know, is leading heavy man at Wallack's theatre. Mr. Kelcey shows himself to be a very competent actor, and, jus viewed across the footlights, is not an unpleasant manto look upon. Xow, while Mr. Kelcey may not have received as many rhapsodies on delicately-tinted and delightfully-scented note paper as came to the lot of Charles Thome in his palmy days, or as overweighted the mail of the lamented Montague, Mr. Kelce, nevertheless h;is his share, and unconsciously, but none the less completely, has Captivated two social brilliants, as the following will show. A gentleman of my acquaintance was recently call'ng on two young ladies in a handsc-.ae house on Fifth avenue, the number of which I am not at liberty to give, and would not give if J were. After conversing awhile he noticed something in a further corner of the parlor, which, in the semi-obscurity of its position, resembled a shrine. His curiosity led him to look toward this object so often that one of the ladies finally said "i see, sir, mat you are curious tuucerning our deity, for, although you cannot see from where you sit, we have a deity enshrined in that corner. If you will promise not to say a word we will allow you a closer inspection.' The gentleman readily gave the required promise, and was led solemnly to the mysterious god. Before a handsomely-carved shrine incense was slowly burning, while upon it he observed, to his utter astonishment, a photograph of Mr. Herbert Kelcey. Both ladies clasped their hands and gazed rapturously and worshipfully upon the counterfeit of Mr. Kelcey's handsome features. Then they led the way, just as quietly and solemnly, back to their original positions. A Great Stable. The stalls of Mr. Bonner's stable in Fifty-fifth street, near Fifth avenue are now full, a number of the great flyers having been brought down from * ? 'P..? 'Phn lief ie LUC 1(11 111 lllr iiULKUIIll. J.11V/ 1WV i.J formidable: R&rus, record 2:13^; mile trial, 2:111, on a three-quarter track. Edwin Forrest, public exhibition at Hartford, in 2:141 ; mile trial 2:115, on three-quarter track, and 2:15$ to wagon, which is the fastest time ever made, either in public or private, to wagon. Lucy Cuylcr, trial 2:17;} to wagoi. and has repeatedly trotted quarters in 31 seconds to wagon. Pickard, record 2:18$ to sulky, *,:r . 2:251 to top wagon. Dexter, rocoril 2:17$, and trotted in 2:21$ to road wagon at Prospect Park. Keen Jim, Record 2:10, and was second to Ilattie "Woodward at Buffalo, when she made her record of 2:151. Manetta, trial 2:10^ to sulky, "and trotted two miles with running mate in 4:27$, the fastest time ever made for that distance. John Taylor, record 2:25, and has trotted a trial since then in 2:18$. In addition to these, Mr. Bonner h& at his farm: (Jrafton, trial at Cleveland, 2:155J May Bird, record 2:21; Music, record 2:21.1,; Molsev, record 2:213; Mamie B., trial 2:30; Joe Elliott, trial 2:15.V; Maud Macey, five-vear-old record 2:2?and trial mile in 2:17; Startle, public trial, four days before he was five years old, 2:19$; Pocahontas, lor which Mr. Bonner paid more money than was ever paid for a trotting horse, trial 2:173; Daisy Darling, trial 2:19J; Malice, trial 2:19|; Convoy, record 2:22?,, and two-mile trial 4:45^; Edie, four-year-old record 2:284; trial this year to wagon, 2:21. There are many others at theffarm, notably the young horse Eld ridge, but the list we have given is sufficient to stamp the collection the most wonderful in the country. In no other stable can half as much speed 'be found. Every horse owned by Mr. IJonncr was purchased for road work, and has been kept for private driving. A Story About "Wales." A London correspondent says: I was amused at the story of the Persian prince who, visiting London, met the Prince of "Wales at the Stafford house, the magnificent ievidence of the old Duke of Sutherland. Said the Persian to the Prince of Wales, " this duke has too line a house. In Persia we would think him too powerful. I advise you to cut off Ids head." The Persian was in earnest, but the English prinee is himself sometimes not averse to the humorous side of things. An American gentleman was describing to me the scenes and incidents of the queen's " drawing rooms," which is an entertainment or, more properly, an occasion when American and English and curious people generally make their bow to royalty, auer nit* aiiiioiiuijuiiifui oi uicir names in a loud voice some little distance away, lie told liie ol' Miss Ilessendeu, of Philadelphia, who went to(5ermany and spent- two years and three-quarters. She was, therefore, when she returned to London with her mother. Miss Von Hessenden. After some weeks close application to the instruction of a trainer in royal bows, and court etiquette, her presentation evening came and her name was next to he announced. The old man pompous who held the list could not read tin; name. In a hesitating, deliberating tone, he cried : " Miss Emily Miss ? Miss Emily Von ? Miss Emily i Von lies " ; but royalty stood in a I line at the other end of the room ; the Prince of Walw was first and he grew impatient; so giving the Duke of; Edinburgh a slight poke in the ribs,lie said, smiling and loud enough to be heard by the American, " Emily, Emily, come on Enrly ! Don t keep us waiting." The fish torpedo, which can do everything but speak, will lie cast into the shade by the mole torpedo, an engine of war just patented by an officer in the Austrian army. The new invention claims to be a miner of the most formidable description, which can burrow in the earth or under a wall, and then either explode at once or wait until ! ordered to do so by its master. A debating society will tackle tin, question* "Which is the most fun?to see a man try to thread a needle or a woman try to drive a nail?" 1 * r, - , THE GREATEST ROBBER. A Tbiof Who PInyeil MnrqHl?..\Vonclerfa l'atlenro anil Ingenuity. Jossas, the Italian robber, was better known as the Marquis de SaintArmand cle Faral. Jossas was an ignorant country boy, who, when very voting, became the valet of a wealthy colonel in the French aYmy. lie remained some years in this officer's service, traveling with him every where, and acquiring so well the manners of good society that lie found no difficulty afterward in passing himself off as a nobleman, lie was an extremely handsome man and dressed and lived in great splendor. While Paris was resounding with the news of one bold and skillful hank robbery after another, and the police were looking everywhere for the thief or thieves, the pretended marquis was leading society, dining with the beaux and llirting and dancing with the belles, lie was supposed to be a Cuban with almost fabulous wealth, and many of the oldest and most distinguished families in France offered him their daughters in marriage. If Jossas did not have the advantage of the science of this century to enable him to blow open safes, he had wonderful patience and ingenuity, lie meditated and prepared a robbery sometimes as long as a year beforehand. Operating principally by means of false keys, he began the task by first taking the impression of the lock of the outer door. That key made, he entered the tirst apartment, and, if stopped by another door, took another impression, and so on until lie gained the object of his plotting. lie lost much time in such a proceeding jus this, as lie was oniy auie io work during the absence of the occupant. Jle only had resource to this laborious expedient when he could not introduce himself into the house. When he could obtain admission on a social footing he soon got impressions of all the locks. When the keys were ready, he would invite the people he intended to rob to dine with him, and while they were making merry vwith him his .accomplices stripped their houses, from which he had also lured the servants, either by asking their employers to bring them to help wait at table, or by having his confederates make love to the women servants. J The porters saw nothing, for the robbers seldom took anything but jewelry and money. If any large parcel was to be removed, they wrapped it in solid linen and threw it out of the window to an accomplice in waiting with a washerwoman's cart. j Jossas, as the marquis, had the habit of engaging himself to be married to young girls with a large dowry. In the course of the many conversations he took care to have on the subject of the marriage portion, he would contr, lofirn wlifirp it, \v,1S flettosited. invariably carrying it off, and absconded at the time appointed for siting the marriage contract. lie made up his mind once to rob t? certain banker at Lyons, lie contrived to get acquainted with the ways of the establishment of banking a considerable sum, and, under the pretext of arranging accounts' and negotiations, took an impression of all the locks except that of the safe, of which a secret word rendered all his attempts unavailing. As the safe was built in the wall and cased with iron, to break it open was impossible. The cashier never parted with the key. In order to overcome this obstacle, Jossas inveigled himself into the good graces of the cashier, and one day invited him to take a drive into the country with him and dine at a rustic hotel. The cashier accepted and they set out. As they approached the bank of the river they saw a woman lying down, apparently dying, with tiie blood spouting from her nose and mouth. Beside her knelt a man in great distress. Jossas seemed much concerned, and getting out of the carriage, seemed anxious to aid the suffering woman. He said at length that a key applied to her back would stop the bleeding. The cashier offered that of his room, I %>/-x ti-CP,?/*f MHio wnninn rrrow UUt 11/ 11(111 liKJ UlCVl't HIV/ MVU.HU worse, and Itoe cashier hurriedly pulled out the other key he had about him? that of the safe. Jt stopped the effusion of blood, and the woman, with the assistance of her friend, said she thought she could get to her house. Jossas and the cashier drove on. Three days after, the robbery of the ban iv occasioned a wide sensation. The whole scene at the riverside jhad been planned by Jossas; a piece of modeling-wax was concealed in the back of the supposed dying woman, in order to take the impression of the key of the safe. SELECT SIFTIXGS. A strange bird has been captured in Williamson county, Tenn. It is of a navy blue color, with snow white beak. It has huge claws, measuring nearly six inches in length. It has a perfect antipathy to the human eye, a sight of which arouses all the anger of its ferocious nature. It Hies with great rapidity. A California blacksmith was paring down the hoofs of an old family nag, which had grown very long, leaving hollow grooves beneath their outer rims. On cutting away this hollow shell si* young living mice were found stowed away in the covered cavity. IIow they got there is more of a problem than how the apple got into the dumpling or the chicken into the pggThe Australian dog never barks; indeed Gardiner, in his "Music of Nature," states that dogs in a state of nature never bark; they simply whine, howl and growl; the explosive noise is only heard among those who are domesticated. Sonnini speaks of the shepherd dogs in the wilds of Egypt as not having this faculty, and Columbus found the dogs which he bad previously carried to America to have lost their propensity for barking. Hats in the Nevada mines are never killed. If they were their corpses would poison the air; they eat up remnants of food thrown away by the miners, and they can feel the trembling of the ground, which predicts a caving-in, before the miners themselves perceive it, and by scampering away give warning of the catastrophe. Hats coming into a new drift or "cross-cut is deemed a good omen, and an old miner would sooner kill a new one than have a new one kill a rat. A Fin in a Bad Placc. A letter from Lebanon, I'a., relates the following: .Mrs. Thomas Heckman, aged forty-eight years, residing in this borough, has been a sufferer for nearly a quarter of a century. Over twenty years ago, while engaged in sewing, and while having several pins in her mouth, she was seized witli a coughing spell. One oi the pins llew down her throat and lodged in the thorax, where it has remained ever since. She has been in the most terrible pain all these years. A number of physicians have given her case their attention, but without bringing her any relief. The pin is in just far enough down the woman's throat to be away from the reach of all instruments that have yet been used, and is supposed to be imbedded crosswise. At times Mrs. Ileckinan is unable to eat anything for days, when she suffers the most terrible pain. At no | time is she able to eat solid food or l?irrr*? ?in*l clw> funic timrn ...I*,*- ....... fortable if she partakes ol nothing but liquids. It should be supposed that ! the pin had wasted away by this time, but it is as irritable now as evtir. "WhenJthis strange accident happened to Mrs. lleekiuan she was a young, healthy and strong Jwonian; now she j is greatly wasti d away, and looks a great many years older than she really is. Always eat your food slowly, masticate well, sit down to your meal in good humor, as you go to bed smiling and peaceful. Keep good-natured and j never indulge in anger. This is the way to insure digestion, sound sleep ; and long life. Life is like a pack of errds. Childhood's best cards are hearts ; youth is won by diamonds ; middle age is conquered with a club, while old age is aked in by a spade. NEWS OF THE WEEK Eastern and Middle State" William and Jacob Rusk, twins, aged twenty-six years, were found drowned in a ?mall stream in Trenton, N. J. They had tied their hands and feet with a clothes-line and then jumped into the water. A few nights previous the two young men had fatally stabbed Policeman Jarvis while he was dispersing a crowd in Philadelphia. Oscar Wilde has returned to England. He said in a last interview that he had not been pleased with his reception in this country, but that he had made money. A few days previous to his departure Oscar fell into the clutches of some of the banco swindlers with which New York is infested, and tho "apostle of n'stheticism" gave tho thieves checks amounting to ?1,100, but stopped their payment before they could bo cashed. While a number of lads were playing on a.frozen pond near Boston, Mass., tho ice broke and three of the boys wore drowned. One of the last official aota of Mayor Grace, of New York, was the refusal of a license for tho production of the "Rwsion Play," or scones in the life of Christ. Elaborate preparations for the representation of the play had been made. Its production, however, was opposod by clergymen and others, and tho mayor refused to grant a license 011 the ground of the "impropriety of licensing a placo to bo used for such a purpose." The extensive dyeing and bleaching works of Byrne &, Smith, in Lodi, N. J., have been destroyed by fire. Tne loss is estimated at about &J59.1W0. Tue first message of Governor Grover Cleveland to the New York legislature bogins with an assurance that the State's finances are in a satisfactory condition, but refers to the apparent glaring defects in the taxation laws or in their execution. Tho governor opposes any enlargement of the canals or considerable alteration in them until the effect of the abolition of tolls has become apparent. He suggests the establish nient, in place or uie uoaru 01 cuum c?y praisers and the board of audit, of a tribunal to hear and determine all claims against the State, and favors the abolition of the office of auditor of the carfal department. He finds the educational interests of the State in a satisfactory condition, suggests compulsory examinations of the banks once or twice a year, and that steps be taken to make the insurance department more useful and less expensive, and trusts that legislation and administration affecting the reduced national guard will secure greater efficiency and discipline. The governor objects to the State's gniniug ft profit from convict laborThe message declares that the appointment und retention of civil servants should be based on fitness and efficiency, and that principle be embodied in legislative enactments, that citizens should have full responsibility for their own local government, and that the evils of the existing system of primary elections should be removed. The Pennsylvania legislature was organized in the senate by Republicans and in the house by the Democrats. T-" In of. vooi? fVtArA Trnm iK'H iVliV Cil/ 1H.7W J wiu WIV.W l.v.w 37,820 deaths, 27,321 birtlis, 11,085 marriages, and G7,GG1 arrests. The net funded debt of New York city is $90,141,948.58. A obkat crowd attended Goneral Butler's inaugural as governor in the state-house at Boston. In his long address to the legislature he arraigned the system of transacting business iu every department of the State government and proposed several reforms. South and West. Aruangehents have been completed &\ Cincinnati for the consolidation of the Commercial and Gazette newspapers. Is a harangue at Chicago Herr Most, tho Socialistic louder, openly advocated killing people, as well as tho breaking open of banks and stores until the Socialists gained their point. Ls the eight Alabama Congressional district General Joseph Wheeler (Democrat) has been elected to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Lowe (Greenback). As thirty convicis, mostly nogroes, and two white guards, engaged in a railroad tunnel in Jackson county, N. C., wore crossing the Tuckaseegt't* river on a flat it began to leak and a panic ensued. Tho men all rushed to ol?j end of tho flat, bearing it down, and it immediately filled and sank. Eighteen of the convicts were drowned. Two young men who had been friends for nany years quarreled at Cotton Spring", I Toms, find blioi/ each ether dead. Tiibee colored laborers pat Bome .wet dynamite to dry in a stove at Winchester, Ky. An explosion followed, nnd two of the men were blown to pieceB and tho third was seriously injured. Twenty thousand men aro about to be thrown out of employment in Chicago by the closing of iron and steel mills. St. Mauy'h Episcopal academy for young ladies at Kuoxville, 111., has beeu destroyed by fire; loss, about $120,000. Many of the 100 pupils had to escape down ladders, two of them receiving severe injuries. At Chicago, the other night, a large meteor, resembling an electric light in brilliancy and color, lighting tho entire heavens, shot from a point forty-five degrees above the horizon in the southeast, and, moving downward and westward, was suddenly extinguished in the southwest about ten degrees above the horizon. A dark red light remained in the sky at the point from which the meteor started for several minutes afterward. Foua men wore killed and four others injured by tho explosion of the boiler of a box factory at Muskegon, nich. By boiler explosions on tho same day ..iree men were killed at Black Horse Landing, W. Va., and three at Fillmore Centre, Mich. Govkrnob Cbixtknukx, of Missouri, in his message to the legislature, reports tho State free from tho robber bands which have heroic it E. J. Baldwin, well-known ns "Lucky Baldwin," and ono of the woalthiost men in California, was shot in the arm in the corridor of Baldwin's hotel, San Francisco, by Miss Fannie Baldwin, who claims to be his cousin, and charges that he criminally assaulted her while she was teaching school on his ranch in Los Angeles county. Baldwin denies the charge. Prom Washington. The coinage of silver last year amounted to ?27,(X/J,000. itonmrC. Campbell's nomination to be United States consul at Monterey has been confirmed. The socret service agents have arrested two men at l'arkersburg, Va. Tliey are the last of a gang of eleven counterfeiters, who, I with thu implements of their trade, are now in custody. The annual report of the chief of the bureau of statistics upon our foreign commerce shows that in the last fiscal yrar our exports of merchandise fell off ?1 ?1,000,000, while our imports increased nearly ?3-',000,OtK). The excess of exports over imports for the last fiscal year was a little less than 000,000, or almost exactly one-tenth of the excess of exports for tlie previous year. The tolal value of imports and exports of merchandise and specie fell oil $107,000,000. The decrease of more than $l.!i0,000,000 in the value of the exports of domestic merchandise was due, says the report, almost entirely to ilie falling off in tho exports of cottons and of breadstulTs and provisions. Payments from tho treasury during Decemher were as follows: Civil and miscellaneous, Sr?,!?7!),War, $'2,!)0;!,47">; Nnvyf *1,1!i7,.7.):?: Interior, Indians, Intorior, pensions, !?.js,s;n?: total, ?10,Ml,H0S. The total emigration to the United States for 1KS2, at all ports, was about 751;",0(K). Tho total emigration at all ports for ISM was a little over 710,001), showing an increase of about 10.000 in the past year. The count rics from which t he emigrants came and the number contributed by each were ns follows: Germany, 2:52,000; England ani ki ftOi- Trn'nnd. 70.<X)0: Scotland. 17,000: Sweden, flSP.OOO; Norway, 27,00'); Canada. M) 000; all oilier countries, 1(10,000. Tiikjee were new postoffices created in IN*. Hkckipts of tho patent office last year were :?1,'<0:MSi; ami its net revenue s:._'"i,0 K). The reduction of tlin j>nl?!ic debt during December amounted to $1/5, !]:!,The total debt was on tho 1st, ^l.lW.aW, and tho cash in the treasury, $.'ilL',!)24,01(>.47. Drruso December tho government receipts were: Customs, J<14,D18,7/>1; internal revenue, sl'.M l'.'.7">7; miscellaneous, $3,88.V ().",!I; total, ?:?,-tHVr'77. The total coinage of tho various United States minis in December consisted of8,i)!)0,. ;i2<) pieces, worth 7(11 Last year tha United St itos mints cuined gold to tho value of $(?">,8S7,OSS: silver to the value of ?27,'.?7U,0X>; minor coinage to tho value of ft'.MJO. 100; total coinage, iJ'.M,S20.1'JO. Thk so'/rotary of (he navy has sent a commmiicnt'on to tho Seinte recommending the construction of four steel cruisers, one iron dispatch boat nml one cruising torpedo boat. <, Foreign News. A NtTMBEB of persona were killed by the explosion of a factory at Dison, Belgium. Pobtions of France, like Germany, have Buffered heavily from floods. Streets in Lyons have been submerged. Cktewayo, deposed king of the Zulus, | and John Dunn are to divide ZuluUnd between them. Frvs hundred houses were destroyed in the villages around Worms by the floods. At Vienna all traoes of the quays and banks oi the Danube were lost. From Mnyenct downward on the Rhine the entire plain between Mannheim and Worms was an immense lake. While several bailiffs were going fox prisoners in county Tipperary, Ireland, they were attacked by peasants and a straggle ensued. The bailiffs killed a peasant named Gieason, and wounded others. Five of the attacking party were arrested. At Little Rideau, Quebec, a hired man murdered Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Cooke, also their eldest daughter and one of their sons. Another son had his thigh broken,and another daughter was severely wounded by the murderer, who escaped. Advices from Cape Town, South Africa, state that within two months 9,000 people there have been affected with smallpox and 2,400 people have died. A fajimeb has been shot dead in county Clare, Ireland, and an ex-suspect who had been recently evicted was found murdered near Ballinamore. Fbedebick Mans, who murdered the Cooke family at Little Rideau, Quebec, was arrested. lie was bom in England, and is only seventeen years of agft. Fubtiieb details from the flooded districts of Europe confirm previous reports -of immense damage dotip. At Badenheim seventy houses fell, and at Ucxlicim, Morsch and Oppau eighty houses in each place were destroyed by the rising waters. AU of the town of Robstadt, executing a few houses, was submerged. At Frankenthal, Bavaria, G.000 persons abandoned their homes. Part of Vienna wa? flooded. A large portion of North Brabant, Holland, was submerged. Ten thousand persons in the villages near Worms were rendered homeless. Many lives were lost by the floods in Germany. Geeat privation exists in parts of Ireland. Twenty families in ono parish were found without a morsel of food. Immense crowd? viewed Gambetta's body as it lay in state at the Palais Bourbon in Paris. Piuvate letters from St. Petersburg state that the czar found in his bedroom a letter from the revolutionary committee demanding the commencement of the promised reforms, and adding that the committee possess power to forcibly obtain concessions. A Berlin dispatch says: "In well in formed circles a story is now circulating to the effect that Emperor Wilholm, on th? 22d of March, which is his eighty-sixth birthday, will abdicate in favor of the crown prince." 47TH CONGRESS-SECOND SESSION * (Senate. The Edmunds bill to prevent officers or employes of the United States from collecting from or paying to each other money for political objects was passed by a unanimous vote The Fitz John Porter relief bill wa3 taken up. After further discussion Mr. Pendleton's civil service bill was passed, with amendments, by thirty-nine yeas to five nays, as follows: Yeas ? Aldrich, Allison, Anthony, Bayard, Cameron, of Pennsylvania: Cameron, of Wisconsin; Chilcott, Cockrell, Coke, Conger, Davis, of Illinois: Davis, of West Virginia: Edmunds, Fry, Garland, George, Gorman, Groome, Harrison, Hawley, Hill, Hoar, Jackson, Jones, af Florida: Jones, of Nevada: Lamar, Lapham, Logan, Miller, of California: Miller, of New York; Morrill, Pendleton. Piatt, Plumb. Rollins, Sewoll, Vest, Windom, Walker. Total, thirty-nine. Nays?Brown. Call, Jonas, McPherson, Morgan. Toial, live. The bill appropriating $10,000 for a monument to Baron DeKalb, in Annapolis, Md., was passed... .The bill to regulate the Presidential succession was discussed Mr. Loiran addressed the Senate in opposition to the bill for the relief of Fitz John Porter. Mr, Miller, of New York, presented a petition of underwriters and masters of vessels for the stationing of a lightship outside of Cape Hatteras....Mr. Pendleton presented memorials of tho Cincinnati chamber of commerce and board of trade and transportation in favor of the passage of the pending bonded whisky bill....An amendment to the sundry ci'il appropriation bill, making tho United States consul at Tangier a consul-general, and the House bill respecting the administration of justice in Tunis, were reported favorably from the committee on foreign relations....The report of the Mississippi river commission v?as rejected../.Mr. Logan continued his speech against the bill for the rolief of General Fitz John Porter. Mv. Logan concluded his speech against the uill for the relief of General Fitz John Porter. Messrs. Sewell and McPherson spoke in favor of and Mr. Calkins against tne bill. Mr. Halo moved an indefinite postponement of tho bill, which was lost by a vote of 20 to 28....Petitions for the immediate passage of tho pending whisky bill were presented from the Peoria board of trade, the Cincinnati chamber of commerce, New Orleans merchants and liquor dealers and the St. Louis merchants' exchange.... Mr. Miller, of Now York, presented a petition from dealers in and packers of canned goods of Oneida county, New York, asking the abolition of duties on tin plates. The West Point Military Academy appropriation bill was passed....Mr. Sherman's bill for the extension of the bonded period for whisky, after three hours' discussion, was parsed by a voto of twenty-three yeas to twenty nays. House. A few private bills were passed, and Mr. Steele, from the committee on military affairs, reported a bill to increase the efficiency of tho inspcctor-general's department, which increases tho number of inspectorgenerals from five to ten. Mr. Robinson, of New York, introduced a resolntion directing the secretaries of war and navy to inform the House whether any officer of the army or navy has been detailed to wait on representatives or relatives of monarchs traveling through tho country.... Bills wore introduced to transfer the administration of tho revenue marine service to tho navy department and to establish a bureau of mercantile marine in the navy department ; providing a limitation for the presentation of claims to executivo departments ; granting homesteads to soldiers, sailors and marines 011 residence of 0110 year, and to restore to inmates of soldiers' homes pension money retained from them as fines. A memorial was presented from the American Social Science association, asking Congress to distribute such moneys as it may seo fit amonc the several States for the education of the people; referred?The District of Columbia appropriation bill was reported and referred to tha committee of tho whole. The bill appropriates about ij?S,350,0{)0, a decrease of $30,000 from the appropriation of the current year?During consideration of the army appropriation bill i warm political dobate took place, the participants being Messrs. Blonnt, Hiscock, Atkins. Randall, Robeson and Reed. The Pendleton civil service reform bill passed the House exactly as it cam 3 from the Senate by a vote of 155 yeas to forly-seven nays. Of tho 155 affirmative votes on the passage of the bill, 10.S wore cast by Republicans und forty-seven by Democrats. Seven Republicans and forty Democrats vo'od in the negative....The army appropriation bill was considered in committee and was afterward passed by tho House, h contains the provision for the gradual abolition of the pay ci/rj-s of tho army. A \nvon Sinnm* Tilings really distant appear quite close, writes ;i traveler in Norway, so that one can see, for instance, the movement of a man or horse distinctly, and at the same time hear no sound. A weird feeling takes possession of one, when all around are signs of life, and yet the stillness is death-like. The present scene (Bredevadgen) was one of great beauty ; the majestic gray mountains, their outlines carved against the cloudless blue sky; the vivid green sward, so closely embraced by the still waters that it was well nigh impossible to t'-ll where the reality ended and the rellection began ; the motionless horses standing with drooping heads, as the barge slowly wended its way across the calm lake, nought breaking the stillness save the regular and distant thud of the oars in the owloeks, and the tinkle of the bells on the cows, goats and sheep scattered on the surrounding hills. As the keel of the boat grated on the pebbles immediately below.us, the horses roused themselves and slowly and leisurely stepped out, as they had entered some - 1 ..e "41 I11I11 III (*?S IH'HTIMUI UK' PIIUIVI The whole scene stands O'.it with vivid distinctness from the many glorious pictures in that land of beauty. Wood lor Minding'. An Englishman has introduced a novelty in bookbinding?the substitution of walnut, maple, mahogany, sycamore and cedar for the covers of reading-eases, music-books and large volumes, in place of the usual leathers, muslins or papers. The examples submitted in (Jothic binding of this kind are said to contrast very favorably, both in cost and appearance, with the ordinary leather, ami so far as can be discerned without absolute trial, seem likely io be well received for table-books, folios and alhunw. The several woods, which take a High degree of polish, are prepared to resist stains and damp, and the cost, it is said, does not exceed that of leather binding. Leon Gambetta. Leon Gambetta, whose death, after a sickness of some weeks, removed from life the leading man in all France, was born Oetober 30,1838, in Cahors, the capital city of the department of Lot, in Southern France. He entered upon the study of law, and in 18i>9 was admitted to the Paris bar. It has been related of him, as illustrative of the intriguing disposition which was united to his wonderful executive mind, that he several times purloined briefs of important trials from the office of the old lawyer with whom he studied, mastered their contents, and when the time for the argument was at hand called his employer's attention to them. Despairing of mastering the case in so short a time, the old lawyer would place the brief in Gambetta's hand, whd need the opportunity with Bignal effect to forward his own interests by making a powerful argument. He soon became famous as a lawyer, and appeared in several important political causes, both in Paris and the provinces. Himself a man of tho people, he was bold in expressing opinions of the most ultra republican order, and became popular with the Parisian masses. In 18G8 ho publicly denounced tho arbitrary measures of Louis Napoleon, and in 1SG.) defended the Emancipation newspaper in Toulouse, and was given an enthusiastic reception through the south of Franco. In the same year he was elected deputy by the "irreconcilables" for both Paris and Marseilles, but decided to take his Tn 1fi7rt tvtnfla nn fit OUUW iUl A?4 CVi .iWiliUj, *** AVI V UW tack on tho OHivier ministry, and declared that the day would conic when a republic should exist in France. He was one of the first to proclaim tho republic after Louis Napoleon's surrender at Sedan on September 4 of the same year, was foremost in the organization of the provisional government, and became minister of the interior. A misunderstanding arose between tho delegate government at Tours and the national defense committee in Paris witn regard to the contemplated election of the deputies. He left Paris on October 7 in the balloon "Armand-Barbes," accompanied by A secretary and an aeronaut, passed the Prussian lines, and reached Rouen in the evening. Thence he proceeded to Tours, organized a government in the provinces which were uninvaded by the Germans, and raised an army. He advocated resistance to th'e bitter end, but when his soldiers wero defeated and articles of peace were signed the members of the Paris government reversed his decrees, and censured him. He resigned, and passed several months in seclusion in Spain. Suddenly he reappeared as a delegate in the assembly, and was socn the acknowledged leader of the radical wing of tho Republican party. During the exciting period which followed he was alternately worshiped | and maligned by his countrymen. But, right or wrong, in one thing he was consistent; he was always for the definitive establishment of the republic. In 1872 he made a "progress" through the south of woo with fhA hnnnra firm X' IttlitO) UiiU TT C?U UVltlVW *..? to royalty. In 1877 he had a conference at Rome with the leading statesmen of Italy. A few weeks later the eleventh correctional tribunal of Paris sentenced him to three months' imprisonment and a fine of 2,000 francs. This was dno to his remark at a private meeting that after the next elections President McManon must submit or resign. In November, 1878, ho fought a duel with Plessis Piquet, whom ho had called a liar during a discussion in the chamber. The encounter was harmless, and it was claimed that the seconds loaded the pistols with blank cartridges. In 1875), when Grevy became president of the republic, Gambetta was elected president of the chamber of deputies. The two foremost-Republicans held the two foremost positions; Gambetta was re-elected in 1880 and 1881. He has been much criticised for the war in Tunis in 1881, whose success wa3 generally considered as bad as a defeat would have been. On November 14 he became the head of Grevy's cabinet, himself taking the portfolio of minister of foreign affairs. On January 14,1882, he made his speech on proposed changes in the French constitution. On January 26 his measure was overwhelmingly defeated by 305 to 117, and he resigned his portfolio. Making the Best of It. There is nothine so cheering To him who has trouble As to stick a bright pin in The obstinate bubble. He'll find life half sunshine; And, as to the rest of it, That may be lightened By making the best of it. You're sighing and brooding, My neighbor, that's certainQuick! Let in the daylight By lifting tho curtain. Now toss off tho burden And have a light breast of it? But, if you must bear it, Why, then, make the best of it. At door, or at window, Go out on thought's pinions, Forget your surroundings? Enlarge your dominions. Your neighbors have sorrow Who are not in quest of it, And many, full many, Are making tho best of it. You meet with a friend, He seems gay?even jolly; You know he has care,. Yon are shocked at his folly. Why, man, though he suffers, He'll not tell his guest of itHe's breasting the billow? He's making the best of it. There's nothing that maKeth, When woe drains his vitals, The face so transcendent As patience through trials. It makes the heart better, And this is a test of it, That patience brings faith When we're making the best of it. ?Mrs. M. A. Kidder. HUMOR OF THE DAY. An enormous swell ?A balloon. Two kinds of people to avoid?People whom you owe money to and people who wish to borrow. A young woman in Oil City possesses a bass voice with a compass to D Hat on the bass cleff. "When she sees a rat the neighbors know it.? Boston Post. Grabbing at a fortune is very much like grabbing at a strange cat?that cat doesn't always seem to be where she was when you started the grabbing?Puck. New Yorkers seem fairly to worship wealth. They have elected to their legislature two bankers, five journalists and one plumber.?Philadelphia News. " Yes," said the fair but false young vocalist to Bumbleton, " that is an old English song with a refrain." "Ah," replied the crusty critic, " that just suits me. Refrain from singing it." A bright little girl, noticing amoYig the company at her father's residence, on a certain occasion, a gentleman whose face was considerably pockmarked, seemed much struck with his appearance, and after the company retired inquired who the "moth-eaten gentleman" was. Illinois is worrying over the question, "Who .shall step into Davjd Davis' shoes?" The next senator may step into David's shoes, but by the great American desert he'd better keep ouc of the old man's trousers if he wants to be found in time to draw any pay.?IfawJ: eye. THE DELICACIES OF TIIE SEASON. Ice-cream is gone, but, pshaw! who cares. Just think of oyster stew. Why mourn for lemonade ami pop AVI 01 pancakes loom in view ? Don't spare-ribs beat asparagus ? Can't mushrooms discount greenvt Don't rutiled grouse lay out corned beef, And quail beat pork and beans V " Well, old man, what's the matter with you?" " Oh! I have gut the fever and ague." "Do you shake much?" "Shake! well, 1 should say so; you should see me about 4 o'clock in the afternoon if you want to see some hard shnkinc." "All right, I'll come around i at that time, anil perhaps you will shake out that ten-dollar hill you owe me."?Rochester Kxpress. Ho Hadn't Ihe Goods. ' Hello," said a "fresh" drmumer, going into an old merchant's store, "Ilowdv? I'd like to sell vou a bill today." " Well, replied the old man, quietly. "I'm in the market, if you've got what I want." " Well. I'm with you. I can sell you anything you want. I'm a new man on the road, but I told the boys when I started out that I could teach 'em a i few tricks, and I'm here to do it. I'm | bound to sell if it takes the hair off. What do you want ?" " Well. I want some music from a hat band, a keg of nails from the lin| gers of scorn, a hunch of hair from the [ ' head of a river, a side of leather from i j a Wall street bull, a bundle of shingles I j from the roof of your mouth, a grind- j ' M"' ^ V i /",co I stone 11 uiii tin* iu? iv m u % ??.n/ i?t j i shoes for the foot of 111 y back stairs, a | I nest of collins for the dead stock on j I tl?o shelves, a?" Unt the young man hail slipped out | j and the old one chuckled to himself i | and sent in an order l>y mail.?The j i Drummer. It is estimatetl that 2,500,0001 ' watches and 4,0(10,000 clocks areturned i out yearly in the various parts of the ; ' world. ; Fourteen persons have died in Xew i I York city since last .Tilly of "blowing j | out the gas" r-^uiH^oing to bed. | Tiie Hudson Hirer Ttmnol. A New York correspondent says: Trenor W. Park is dead; and so, too one would judge, 3 .1 that great project of which he was the mainstay and hope, the North River tunnel, from Jersey City to New York. It has been constructed some six or more hundred feet under the river on the .Jersey siue, ana a guuu atari, muuc uu the New York side. But for a month or more no work has been done, nor is there any prospect that any will in future be done. I asked one of the engineers who had worked in it what was the reason of its abandonment. " Nothing simpler," said he; " the bottom lias fallen out." "How?" Why, you see, the tunnel was to j be cut, not through the river bed, but through the silt, the mud and settlings at the bottom of the stream. The tunnel was to be just a big brick and iron tube buried in the river mud. Now, it was all right when we started, for then the bottom of the tunnel was on the bed rock and had a good foundation. But when we got further out the river bed grew deeper, and to run the tunnel anywhere near level we had to keep rising above the bed rock, or rather let it decline away from us. At last we got to a point where there was silt above; silt on each side, and several feet of silt below, between the bottom of the tunnel and the solid rock. Having thus nothing stable to rest upon, the big tube could not be kept from settling and cracking, and, of course, the further we went on the worse it grew; so the whole job had to be given up." " What has it cost, so far?" " Nearly h.ilf a million dollars. It was expected that it would be finished in 1888, and cost about five millions." " Will anything more be done at it?" " Not on the old lines of procedure. A Chicago firm has offered to take a contract to do the job by the caisson system, the only plan that can ever succeed. But now that Mr. Park, the financial backer of the scheme, is dead, it may be a long time before anything more is done. The East River bridge will be finished first, I guess." A penny perfume is not always worth a scent. The Age of Suspicion. Truly, this is an age of suspicion. Nevertheless, Captain F. M. Howes, of the steamer William Crane, Merchants' and Miners' Transportation Line between Boston and Baltimore, who suffered severely from rheumatism, caused by the exposure incident to his profocainn nirprl hv St. Jacobs Oil. Thi3 is no suspicion.?Boston Globe. A number of vessels of the German navy are being armed with the new ; bronze torpedoes, the experiment with them having turned out very successful. The British government has also ordered a considerable number of these terrible engines of warfare. pttee cod-liyeb on,, from selected livers, on the seashore, by Caswell, Hazards Co., N. Y. Absolutely pure and sweet. Patients who have once taken it prefer it to all others. Physicians declare it superior _to nil other oils. Chapped hands, face, pimples and rough skin cured by using Juniper Tar Soap, made by Caswell, Jlazard & Co.. New York. The Frazer Axle Grease Is the best in the market. It is the moat economical and cheapest, one box lasting as long as two of any other. One greasing will last two weeks. It received first premium at the Centennial and Paris Expositions, also medals at various State fairs. Buy no other. "Hongh on Rats." Clears out rata, mice, flies, roaches, bed-bug*, ants, vermin. 16c. Motheb Swan's Worm Syuui*, for feverishness, restlessness, worms. Tasteless. 25o. Petbolia, Pa., January 5,1879. Messrs. Kennedy & Co.:?My hair is growing out so fast that I can almost see it growing myseif, through the use of your Carboline. D. Nixon. ]Jid you read how Josiah Pitkin, of Chelsea, Vt., was cured of a terrible sore leg by Hood's Sarsaparilla, the blood purifier ? Correct your habit's of crooked walking by j using Lyon's Patent Metallic Heel Stiffeners. ins American urewcnes iui caucuu m ui pnoity those of Germany, and one in Stv Loeis mites 280,G89*foarre!s .1 year, '"at"'?8 plus a barrel, which sells in Mexico at Mon terey for thirty-seven cents a pint. THE THANSFKB Of public confidence from othor preparations of Barsaparilla and othor Blood Purifiers of whatever name to llood's Sarsapnrilla is the signal triumph of a meritorious article. The people aro quick to reoo.-nize trut merit, and this is why tiie sale of llood's Sarsaparilla far excoeds all similar preparations. On* hundred doses $1 can only be applied to Hood's Sarsaparilla, and Is an unanswerable argument as to medicinal strength and economy. CATARRH. Wo beliove that nino-tcnths of all casus of catarrh are constitutional. We also beliovo that a reliable constitutional remedy like Hood's Sarsaparilla, that strikes t the very root of tho disease, will euro a very larg? proportion of all cases. In confirmation of this beliel wo offer evidence showing tho elfecti of Hood's Samparilla upon this disease. A mother says: "My boy^ud catarrh so badly that I could hardly keep him in clean handkerchiefs; he has taken one bottle of Hood's Sar saparillu, and that terriblo amount of discharge hat stopped." Another writes: "I havo had catarrh four years. Last April tho dropping in my throat became so troublesome that I became alarmed, as it affected my right lung. I took two bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla and it cured me. My appctito, which was variable before, is first rate uo-.r." Charles H. g blf fix, Lowell, Mass. nOOD'S SARSAPARILLA. Sold by Druggists. "*51. six for $5. Made only by C. 1. HOOt) ?fc CO., Apothecarios. Lowell, Mass. ~Tbti Tiagffiirrt cnxe-worn look of the Nervoui Snfferpr diMnoears as he regains power and virile force. through the "influence of Allen'8 Brain Food. At druggists and at Allen's Pharmacy ^318 lat Ave.. N. Y. A Cure of Pneumonia. Mr. D. H. Barnaby, of Owogo, Now York, sa*? that hla daughter wis taKen with a violent cold which terminated with pneumonia, and all the best physician! gave the caeo up and said she could not Hve but a few hours at most. She was in this condition when a friend f recommended Dr. Wm. Hall'* Balsam for the Lung* and advised her to try it. She accopted it as a laat resort, and was surprised to find that it produced marked change for the better, and by persevering in it* obo a permanent euro was effected. Mothers, .Attention! Charles Jones, of Elizabeth, Sponcer county, Ind., I ays : "I have dea'.t in medicine a number of years, and J will say that Dr. Roger's Vegetable Worm Syrup is the J most val inble tnodicino i ever sold. t5sBS! FOR PAIN. CURES. ? . . t Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Sciatica, Lumbago, Backache. Headache. Toothache, .Sore Tli ront, Swelling*. Npritln*, Braliei, liuniN. KriiNU. t'roil Illlm. AND Al.L OTJIi:? IIUIIII.Y I'AISS AM) ACHES. SolJby Drugs'"*'11"' I"'a!t,r*everr? hcr?. Fifty C*aua bottlo. l)lr"cil?m hi 11 (.cnguiget. 13 THE CHAKI.KS A. VOGEI.EIt CO, (SuDMnori 10 A. VOtiUEit1 CO.) HaUlraoir, 31.1., C. S. A, x y x~r ~ 3 7" ?5* ft* Hoatcrter'n Stumnch ??flSS ? Est?*i ti.in <i( a wiJ.|.h&'i IW. STOMACH jticul condition of all IJ k^ ? n3 W (In animal powers. M flV.CSnPEaPlS F'T ?aN l.y all Bgfi I I Hj 03 TO" Dnirfgistit and Deal J1 "* ers genorally. ^ WEBSTER'S UNABRIDGED. : Mont accoiitahlp to 1'iiNtor, I'nrent. Teacher. Child or I' rloml as a HOLIDAY GSFT. G. A C. 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[From the Bo?ton CHotx.] Uttsrn, Edttora .? Tho above is * good likeness of Mrs. tydia E. Pin3c? ham, of Lynn, Mas3,, who above all other hacian being! may bo truthfully called tho "'Dear Friend of VTomaa,as tome of her correspondents love to coll her. 6oo Is zealously devoted to her work, which i3 the outcome of ft life-study, and 13 obliged to keep si:: L-uly assistants, to help her answer the largo correspondence which doily pours in upon her, each bearing its spccial burden of suffering, or Joy at release from It. Her Vegetable Compound Is a medicine for good and not evil purposes. I havo personally Investigated it and am satisfied of tho truth of this. On account of its proven merits. It ii rccommcndcd and prescribed by the best physicians in tho country. One says: "It worm into a cuanu uiiu pain. It will euro entirely the worst form o? falling of tho uterus, Leucorrboea, Irregular and painful Menstruation, all Ovarian Trouble*, Inflammation and Ulceration, Floodings, all Displacements and the consequent spinal weakness, and is especially adapted t'. the Change of Life." It permeates every portion of tho system, and gives new life and vigor. It removes faintness, flatalcncy, destroys all craving for stimulants, and relieves weakness of tho stomach. It cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration, General Debility, Slceplcesness, Depression and Indigestion. That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, rreight pud Lackacho, is always permanently cured by its uso. It will?tall times, and under all circumstances, act In harmony with the law that governs tho female system. It costs only $1. per bottle or six for $3., and Is sold by druggists. Any advice required as to special eases, and tho names of many who have been restored to ported health by the use of the Vcgctoblo Compound, can bo obtained by addressing Mrs. P., with stamp for reply, at her home in Lynn, Mags. For Kidney Complaint ot either sex this compound Is unsurpassed as abundant testimonials show. "Mrs. Plnkham's Liver Pills," says one writer, "are the best in fAs 1corld for the cure of Constipation, Biliousness and Torpidity of tho liver. Her Blood PuriCcr works wonders in its special line and bids fair to equal the Compound in its popularity. Ail must rcspcct her a3 an Angel of Mercy who3o solo ambition is to do good to others. Philadelphia. Pa. (2) Mrs. A. M. D. mmmmm \ FOR THE PERMANENT CURE CF (' j CONSTIPATION, j L No other disease if 50 prevalent in eons- ] | try as Constipation, and no remedy hns ever ( , )f equalled tho celebrated KEDNEY-WOET as a? ' euro, Whatever wo cause, auwovu uuuuuw ? I tb.? caao, this remedy will ovcroomo it. Q Dll FA T?ix3dlstrorains complaint fl I fc&CT. la very apt to bo complicatod 3 with constipation. Kidney-Wort strjs^them . the weakened parts and qgiokly cures all kinds I 1 of Piles even when phyrrirlr.ns end modidnes . have before fldled. RHEUMATISM to'aWON^jL I DEEFUTj CURB, as It ia for ALL tho painful disease* of the KldneyOt Liver and Bowels. It cleanses the system of the acrid poison tLat| 1 cauicp the dreadful suffering which enly the. vlflt<Tniyrt^rViAWTTraHifm nnfl iimf i 1 THOU8AND8 OP CASES < , ofthe worst flams of this terrible disease hnv a bsoa quickly relieved, sad In a short time f I PERFEOTLV CURED. 5 . tyltelf se?) Strengthens and elves Hew c 1 life to all the Important organs of the body. 3 ' The natural action of the Kidneys Is restored. <4 f THe liver Is cleansed cf all dlseaso, ana tho Bowels move freely and healthfully. J I t3TIt Acts at the same time on tho EXDITETS, i LTVSH AND BOWELS.JEJ SOU) by DRI'UCISTS. 4 tl. LIQUID or-DRY. Dry can be sent by mall. ? 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