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J A Winter Son?. Oh, summer has the roses ij-\ And the laughing li^rht south wind, f And the merry meadows lined With dewy, dancing posies ; But winter has the sprites And the witching frosty nights. Oh, summer has the splendor Of the corn-fields wide and deep, Where scarlet poppies sleep, And wary shadows wander; But winter fields are rare With diamonds everywhere. Oh, summer has the wild bees, And the ringing, singing note In the robin's tuneful throat, And the leaf-talk in the trees; But winter has tho chime Of the merry Christmas timo Oh Qrimmpf hna 4)ia liiefor Of the sunbeams warm and bright, And rains that fall nt night \Vhcro reods and lilies cluster; But deep in winter's snow The fires of Christmas <,rlow. A WISH FULFILLED. A pretty white cottage standing back from the road, within its large plot of garden, wherein clustered beds of sweet-scented Mowers, woodbine and clematis creeping about the porch. The window of t he little square parlor opened to the ground; seated in the window, darning a man's cotton sock, was a young girl with a pleasant face, smooth brown hair and dark gray eyes; and over all, shining and sparkling, the golden rays of the hot summer sun. It was a fair, peaceful picture. Eather too peaceful in its monotony for Katie Denison. She had been George l)enison*s wife nearly four months, and she found the home life in the cottage just a wee bit lonely, . especially to-day; for the little maid servant, Jane, had been sent lor to the next village at daybreak, her mother having been taken suddenly ill, and was not to be back before night. <m-n (incinifiti'nn I'll* in the ""-"'n1"' " " " ..v town, Kedland, oik* mile away. .Sometimes he got home to midday dinner, sometimes not; and though lie ought to have been at home every evening at six, it happened often that he was kept . an hour or two after it. A hard worked clerk was lie, not too well paid; but they were both young and healthy and buoyant, content to work on patiently and cheerfully for the days when money might be more plentiful. On this day George had not come to dinner, and Katie, maid as well as mistress for the time being, had taken her own in solitude, cleared things away, done .Jane's work generally and then sat down to her sock-mending. The bees hummed lazily in the ^outer air, the clock on the mantel ticked drowsily and the afternoon was passing. "Oh, dear, how dreary it all is!" groaned Katie, quite overcome by the monotony around. " Who would have -thought * that Jane's absence could make such a difference? It must be the consciousness of being alone that's telling upon me. Jane, shut up in her kitchen, is no more of a companion to me other days than she is to-day over at Bestly. I do wish something would happen! All days here are lonely enough, for that matter; so different from home, with the eight of us in it. It is onlv the same routine over and over again; the housework to be seen to, the bread to make and the meals to get, and then the sitting Ajwn in the afternoon to mend or make, or knit or ,-vfiet. Of course it is not George's fault; he would be with me always if he ^ could; but it is a shame of that wretched ollice not to let him come . home to dinner!" Here Katie paused to thread her " -leedle and the clock struck the half ^.hour. "Only half-past four. An hour and a half yet to teatime!. If Iliad only but a little bit of sociable life?many others have. Is it always the same with young wives I wonder? But I don't feel quite like this when Jane is ? in the house", She is a silly thing, though well meaning, but she is company. I wish we could go traveling, George and I. I wish some nice neighbors lived at the end of the garden. I ' wish a carriage would come along now and break down the opposite gate, and somebody be hurt and have to come in here and rest awhile. Xo chance of that, however, in this lonely, cross-cut * way. I wish it was a high-road ! If 4 only a beggar-woman came along it ".would be something." ?v Here Mistress Kate Denison looked ,,r*? f 1'Ai. n'Avlr +/-* (trn?iri r UJJ 11U11I IICl MU1A I " I am tired of the sunshine, there's so much of it." decided Kate. >" I am tired of the flowers, and the .-shrubs, and the hedge that hides the yw?l??pd of the green ga e. George fancies fhts ftmnc is perfection; hecause he was always in it he forgets its loneliness. I do wish something would '"* happen?good or had?yes, had!" * There was a curious hush all through ?-the little parlor; to Katie it never .' seemed so still before. Even the tick? iag of the clock had an ominous sound. "What a wish it was?something good . or tad! * 4?I have a great mind to move that rose bush," she cried presently, after * glancing about the garden. "I have been going to do it for ever so long? why not do it now ? I suppose it will bear transplanting, and grow here as * .well as there. Anyway, I'll risk it? .'^.aitd it will serve to pass away this '* JMortr nftprrmnn " HICtUJ ?iiwv?Mvv... Katie put on her garden hat, for the sun was blazing and burning, and got the spade and hoe. A lovely moss-rose bush, covered with sweetest buds and blossoms, bloomed in an obscure corner of the garden; she wished it to be before the window instead. She went to the corner and began her work. At last, with a great pull, up came the bush, and Katie stood to : take breath, flushed and triumphant. "I wonder if the rose bush has been wishing something to happen to it?" she thought, laughing. " It is goinp to be placed where it can see the world now; I'm smelt could not see it there." ; . , Pausing thus, and thinking what a great hole the taking it tip had made, 'Katie's eyes caught sight of something . that seemed to shine. She thought it must be her silver thimble dropped out '1 of her apron pocket, and she stoopet to pick it up. But it was not hei thimble; it was something that resistec * her grasp. Clearing away the earth fromarount it, she found at length that it was I box witli brass-bound corners?a ma hogany box or desk that had beer / buried there. "With the help of the Spade and some trouble Katie got il out of the ground. It was neither ven large nor very heavy, and she carrier it-into the house and placed it on th? . table, interposing newspapers to sav< the cloth from the mold. "What can it possibly be? Whc can have placed it there?" she won dered in excitement. " If I had but f key to fit the lock!*' But upon regarding the lock atten tively she saw that it was a very simple one .and that the fastenings coulc; easily be pushed back with a penknife, Another minute and the desk lay oper before her. Some silver teaspoon? 1 wrapped in wash-leather first met hei gaze; thev were antique and massive and discolored. Eleven of them and pair 01 sugur-vougs, un ununi-u ~i/. L Recollection Hashed tlirough Katie She had heard the story more than onci from George. Some years before, hi: Aunt Ann. his father's sister, wh< lived at the cottage here with tin family, took a sudden panic. She wa left in the house alone, her brother witl his wife and son being away on i week's visit, when there arose arumo of sundry burglaries in the neighbor * hood, iu one or two ciises accompanies '.- by violence. Miss Denison was ver much frightened, wrote word to lie brother, entreating him to return and adding that she had, mean while, hidden her property in ; . safe place. That same night the cot tage was broken into, and Ann Deni son was so terrified that she had i seizure. Already in failing health she never rallied from it; though sin lived for a long time, she did not re S cover proper speech or consciousness hex mind was gone. She drcd; am her will was opened ic\ wa HBn&at she bad left what propert: ^ fesessed to her nephew, Geo^gi But no property was to be found. It was supposed that she had, or ought to have had, over two hundred pounds, which she had always kept in the house with her, being afraid of banks and all other securities. It had disappeared, together with her silver spoons?on which she set much store ?her desk, and some personal ornaments. Either she had too cffect[ ually hidden it, or else the robbers had run away with it. (iradually the family came to the conclusion that the latter must have been the case. As Katie Denison opened her eyes on this wonderful treasure disinterred from the earth, she saw what it was? the lost desk and property. " Then Aunt Ann must have dug a hole, and put in the desk, and planted j a rosebush over it," said Katie to herself, her nimble lingers busy. "Eleven spoons?1 remember George said one 1 - ' 1 t v/.ori. j oi tnem nan oeeu u?l m swi >ui before; and how beautiful they are!" After the spoons, wrapped in more leather, two brooches came to light, and two pairs of earrings to match, the one set, real pearls and amethysts, the other, garnets set in gold. Beside them lay a beautiful necklace of pink coral. And the greatest treasure of all was in a drawer l?y itself?a packet of bank notes, securely folded in a waterproof case that kept them from the air. Katie Denison, after some hesitation, timidly ventured to count them; twenty-four notes of ten pounds each, making two hundred and forty pounds! Her breath came and went unevenly as she looked at them, lying on the table beside the jewels. Oh, what a ltoon it was. No more pinching for herself and George, no more looking at every sixpence before they dared to spend it, no more almost fifty per cent, interest to be paid on the hundred pounds borrowed by (Jeorge's father, and which had kept the young |beginners down. The debt itself could be j paid ofT now. Katie lifted her heart and hands on high in thankfulness. But she was then interrupted. "Good-day, my lady, good-day !" Mrs. Denison started as though she had been shot. Turning to the window, whence the salutation came, she saw a dark, wiry man, with long wacK hair and keen eyes, standing there a box strapped upon his back. He was evidently a traveling peddler. Taking oft her black silk apron, she ilung it over the notes and the glistening ornaments, and shut down the lid of the desk, but leaving it exposed to \iew. The peddler coolly stepped inside the room, unstrapped his pack and began to open it. He did not glance at all toward the table, and Katie hoped he had not seen what was on it. Peddlers were not uncommon visitors in the rural districts, and she had never known them to be otherwise than honest and well behaved. Still, the shining jewels might be a temptation. | " The sun's very hot to-day, my! lady," he remarked sociably but respectfully ; "and we travelers get full benefit of it, especially with a load like this to toil under." "Yes, it is very warm indeed," civilly replied Katie. The pack was thrown open at last, displaying all kinds of things; buttons, sewing-silk, ribbons, imitation lace neck collars, handkerchiefs, cheap jewelry, scent bottles and many other articles calculated to take the eye of inexperienced country girls and women. " AY hat will you buy, lady?" "I do not want anything to-day, thank you," said Katie, politely, not daring to be otherwise. " Nay, but I'm sure a pretty young lady like you must need something. Look at these gloves?real French kid, and only fourteen pence a pair. Dirt cheap, my lady ; you'd pay three-andsixpence at the town draper's." 44 Not to-day, thank you. I have no money to spend. We are poor people." The peddler glanced at the pretty room, as much as to say that it seemed to be a contradiction to the last assertion. However, he only went on to laud his wares. 44 Any jewelry, lady ? See, 1 have in this case a few choice rings, bracelets and brooches, .look at tnese yeiiow topaz car pendants! Don't they sparkle in the sunlight? Only look, my lady." Katie advanced a step or two from the table, before which she had been standing, as if to guard it, and did look. Such pretty earrings as they were, long, shining pendants, flashing in the peddler's lingers; as pretty as those under her apron. But she wanted them not. The rings were lovely; being a daughter .of Eve, she would have liked some of them. "Thank you, I cannot buy," said she, slowly. " I have very little money in mv purse to-day; none to spend on pietty tilings." The peddler turned over his goods with undiminished cordiality. "I do not charge for showing my things, and ladies like to look at them although they may not want to buy. Look at these little bottles of perfume; cologne water, lavender, violet. And only sixpence each." rnr?nmalv nrpftr X III* UWLUCO ?UU VAUVIUV/IJ and Katie loved perfumes. Perhaps she might spare a sixpence for one of them. As she caught one up, the peddler took the glass stopper out of another, pouring sume of its contents on Katie's handkerchief, which lay on an easychair close by, and held it to her face. " Jessamine, my lad v. Do vou like it?" " Oh, it is delicious !" cried Katie, smiling at it. " Only sixpence, you say? I think I must have this." The peddler laughed pleasantly, and tossed back his long black hair from i his face. " 1 thought you'd be tempted by the scents, lady. AVhy, the beautiful little bottles alone are worth the money. ' Better take a pair of them. This one is rose." "Nothing more to-day," she answered, decisively, giving him the i sixpence. [ And the peddler made a comical feint of yielding in despair. Familiar t.imnrrh he seemed to be, his manner ??r>~" ? had not lost one atom of its respect. > " Then I conclude I may strap up my ' pack again," he said, beginning to put ' the things straight in it. "If you I would but be tempted to a knot of ribr bons or a pair of these delicate gloves! Stay, though; here's a rare perfume ?my lady has a love for perfumes, t I see." ' " Indeed I have," said Katie, who ( had not ceased to smell at her jassa, mine. " But I cannot buy any more." d " I don't ask you to buy this," lie anr swered, producing a larger bottle of I curiously carved glass, which appeared ? to be lilled with a colorless liquid. > "This is a rare and costly perfume, that I never offer for sale save to cus> tomers whose purses are as deep sis theii wishes. Has my lady ever heard of i the attar of roses from India, worth ji guinea a drop ?" Katie opened her eyes in surprise. "A guinea a drop! And is this at[ tar of roses ? " "No, this is not; but it is a perfume i as costly. Smell it, my lady; take ;i ; good deep breath of it. You've not - often smelled this." s He held the bottle under her nose, i and she, preparing for a pleasurable ' sensation, inhaled a long breath of it. . "Why, what a strange, sweet, penetrati ing odor it had. But not exactly an i agreeable one*, Katie thought; more of ) a sickening odor, it was so sweet. ii "I don't know whether I like it or u r\/\+ olio c?ul /Iaiilitincrlv ^ UU?, OUS?.IM,..V..MW..Bv. i " That's because you have not tried i it sufticiently," he said. " You Jinisl r smell it for a minute or two; you'll - like it then." I 80 Katie took another good snufT, y and then another. Then she began ti r experience a queer, faint sensation, 1, IIow strange things were looking - around her! Was this curious per1 fume too strong for her? IIad it gone - to her head? She felt confused and - dizzy, and did not seem to see anything i clearly save the peddler's great black ; eyes, fixed so keenly upon hers, lit e gently put her into the arm-chair, to u ward which she began to stagger. , " It is a beautiful scent," he said :1 the words sounding in her ear like t s faint murmur, " but it has been a litth 7- strong for your nerves, lady; but yoi 3. must take some! of it to reriv< ? .'itaMw i He poured some of it on "her handkerchief and held it to her face, and Katie Penison fell back in the large chair and lost her senses. She had been wishing something "would happen, bad or good, and it had happened with a vengeance. When she came to herself the sun had gone of! the window, the hands of the clock were approaching six ; her handkerchief, all crumpled together, lay on the carpet, and a neighbor who lived half a mile ofl: was standing over her. "Where am IV" exclaimed Katie, in confused bewilderment. " What is the matter?" " That is what I want to know? what the matter is," replied Miss Lake, a capable young woman with a merry tongue. 441 came down to take tea with you this evening, sans ceremonie, | for I know you are always glad to see ! me, and I walk in here at your open doors and lind you asleep, as I thought at first. But I could not awake you, Mrs. Denison." Katie's head was aching terribly; she put her hand up to her brow. What was it all?what ailed her?winwas she feeling so strange? Miss Lake gently pushed back Irer hair and began to fan her hot face. Recollection gradually returned to her. Where was the peddler?was he gone? And where? Katie started up with a cry and snatched her apron of! the table. Nothing was under it. No silver spoons were there, no jewels, no bank notes; even the desk was gone. Every individual tiling had been swept as clean away as if it had never had place in the room. "The peddler, the wicked peddler !" shrieked Katie. " He has taken it all!" Mary Lake thought her friend's head was wandering; that the intense heat had affected it. "Stay you quietly in the diair," she said, pushing her hark into it with j gentle l'orcev " You shall have a cup of tea directly. I'll go ai d help Jane to make some." " Mary, wait!" sobbed Katie, putting out her hands. " Uh, wait?listen ! .lane is not here to-day, and there's no one to get anything. And ! that dreadful man has gone off with the money and the silver. It was two hundred and forty pounds." "I'll get the tea myself, then, and have it in a jifTey," cheerfully answered Miss Lake, quite ignoring the other information. " You only sit still where you are." Bewildered yet, Katie sat still; she was not quite herself at present. In a short time George Penison came in, whistling gleefully, and much wanting his tea. But he found no tea-tray on the table, and Katie in the chair, sobbing as if her heart would break. "Halloa I Why, Katie, what's I amiss?" She stretched out her arms to him, and laid her wet face upon his shoulder, while she told him the tale. Miss Lake came in with the tea things at the time. She gave a side nod to George and a significant look, as much as to say, " her mind is wandering." He took the same view of it. "But indeed it is true," sobbed the young wife, when she detected their unbelief. "I only wanted to transplant the rose bush?George knows I have intended to do it?and I found the desk buried under it. Look at the mold upon the newspaper if you won't believe me. And I got it open, and it had Aunt Ann's spoons and jewels in it and two hundred pounds." The poor rose bush was lying on the ground, sure enough, and by its side was a huge hole. ' There must be something in it, after all," said George. " It may really be Aunt Ann's lost desk. A peddler ! 1 * * V 4.1. ~ linn l woncier which uiu luuun u<ia gone?" " .Stay," cried Mary Lake, as he was turning to the garden gate. " I met a man looking like a peddler as I was coming here; he had a box on his back and carried something under his coat; he was on the path as if making for Bestley. A moment more, Mr. Denison," detaining his impatient steps; "call at the farm; I know the horses are in; get one saddled at once, and you will overtake him." (Jeorge Denison took one horse, and young Farmer Lake took another, and they rode away at full speed. Half way to Bestley, in a lonely part of the road, they came upon the man with the pack. Divining the errand of the horsemen, the peddler dropped the desk he had stolen, ran toward Bestley woods its fast as his pack would let him, anil disappeared. George Denison recognized his aunt's desk, undid the strap which had been put around it, saw that the contents were safe, including the money, and stopped pursuit. - And you never rode after him, you never took him !" cried Mary .Lake, breathlessly, when he got back. Mr. Denison shook his head. " You let the fellow escape?" " Why, yes, I did, Miss Mary. It was an almost irresistible temptation, you see, to which he had been exposed. Only fancy what it must be to a man of his caliber to come unsuspiciously in at the gate here, and see a lot of money and jewels set forth on the table with nobody, so to say, to guard them. I dare say it will have taught him a lesson; and 1 hope it has taught my wife one," turning to her with a nod; "not to display treasures right before an open window." " Oli, George! But what should we have done if lie had got clean off with the booty?" " Well, Katie, we should only have been where we were before." " And I dare say you would never have believed that I had dug up anything, or that it was your Aunt Ann's desk. One thing I can promise, George, and heartily, too?that I will never again, when 1 am dreary, wish anything to happen, good or bad. Bad enough this has been." " Xay, my little wife, I think it has been all good, barring your dose of ether?or whatever the stupefying stuff might be. And you must not let Jane go home again, to leave you alone, or you may have all the fraternity of pedlers paying you periodical visits." "The earrings are so beautiful, George, especially the blue ones. Shall you let me have both pairs?" ' They will look so pretty in my ears!" "Eve, l*>c!" cried George Denison. The Weaving of Carpets. 1 Karman, as every one knows, is fa mous for its manufacture of carpets. I went to see a factory reported to be the largest in the city, though employing less than thirty hands. The wretched weavers sat in two low rooms filled with a sour and sickening atmosphere. Most of them were palefaced, weakly children of ten or twelve years, who hardly looked up as I entered, but remained bent over tlitir i work, picking up the threads with their nails, which are Kept long ana notched Cor the purpose. The patterns are written out in pamphlets and painfully committed to memory, and the children are taught very young, the i younger the better. Their memories ; are quicker than those of grown-up folks. So far as I could understand , the patterns ihey seemed to lie written > in much the same style as those directions for knitting crochet which . one sometimes finds on a lady's table i ?"knit two, part one, thread over, ' knit two together." There was also a youth employed in reading one of the patterns aloud. * * * A carpet about sixteen feet by ten wide I can be purchased in Karman for forty , to lifty tomas, say i'Ki to ?20. Some [ carpets take a year to make, and a de cently good carpet will not be finished , in less than three months. Thus, al) though there are several hundred fac. tories in and about Karman, the outt turn of carpets is i;i no way alarming. . The Persians themselves prefer Man; Chester rugs, hideous tilings bearing [ the portraiture of a camel or a lion, r bay of Naples, leaning tower of Pisa : and the like.?" Six Months in Persia." The lion. Joseph Holt, President Buchanon's postmaster-general and afterward secretary of war and judge 1 advocate-general, lives in strict retireJ inent in Washington. He is a child1 less widower, and is seldom seen in 3 public. * 7 . -* SDMMARY OF HEE JGastern and Middle States. Ax Westerly, R. I., the jury in tho en83 of Chnffee against ex-Governor Sprague for the recovery of tho po.-se<sion of the Canonohet property, about which there ha? been so much trouble, rendered a verdict for the defendant. Habvkt Taylor, of Richfield Springs, N. Y., a retired farmer, aged about sixty-live years, killed his wife and mother-in-law and xi U.'tvtanlf Tin )?nrl aKnnm mnrtnd j UIBLL llUJ-iyVU IUU1.1V.U1. aav liKV* WMV.IM -?... ? symptoms of insanity. | Tub steamer Caniiun 'bound from St. Johns, Newfoundland, to New York, ran into tho brig Mariposa, at the eastern end i>f Long Island Sound, at 3 o'clock in the morning. The brig's crow got into a boat at once, but tho brig filled with great rapidity and tho boat was swamped as she went down. Of the eight men on board the brig only one?Charles Powers?was saved. A ftbe n a distillery near Bello Vernon, I'enn., destroyed the building with GG,(XX) gallons of whisky. The Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner, James A. Garfield, arrived home minus six of her crew, who had been lost while visiting U>eir trawls. New York city Germans have contributed 100,000 marks (about 000) for tho relief of the inundated pooplo of Germany. A orkat ico bridge has formed at Niagara Falls. The ice formed in tho gorge immediately below the falls, and the mass is two miles long and fifty feet high. Dr. Georok M. Heard, a prominent New York physician and frequent contributor to leading magazines?his subjects mainly being nervous diseases and kindred topicsdied a few days since, aged forty-four years. A bill has been introducoil in the Connecticut legislature requiring citizens to remove their hats when voting. Thirty-seven' students of the PennsylvaI .it f'hmfnr l'nnn.. who IUil lUJlilUi.) 411UV1VII1J UK attended a theatrical performance against orders, were suspended and commanded to go to their homes. Wilkes baiire, Penn., has been badly scared by the caving iu of a disused mine i under the second ward. The entire extont I of the break comprised a space of nearly i forty acres, most of which is covered with dwellings and other buildings. Largo fissures appeared in every direction, undermining the houses, and for a time the wildest excitement prevailed. The foundations of hundreds of dwellings were torn apart bywide seams, balconies removed from their bearings, ceilings destroyed, chimneys careened, sidewalks thrown over as though by an explosion, and many small .bridges wrecked. Most of the families endangered removed hastily to safer quarters. The damage to tho property of private individuals, many of them poor miners, is heavy. Boutn ana w eat. ViGil ants at Weeksville, Montana, cleared the vicinity of a lot of depredating roughs ind hanged two as a warning to tho rest. A colored man on trial for murder at Orange, Va., was tried bofore a jury composed entirely of colored men?an unusual event. Severely com weainer in ine west, is re ported. In Wyoming tho thermometer dropped to thirty-five degrees below zero, and even at Chicago it was twenty-three dei *rees below. Masked desperadoes ro! b^d a store at Gold Mountain,'-Nevada, killing tho proprietor and two Indians. Tho road agents then irent to n store at Silver Peak ahd robbed it, killing the proprietor and one clerk. Two of the robbers wero also kille J. About forty men, mostly Chinese, were killed by several successive explosions in tho Atlantic Giant powder works, near Oakland, Cal. Five white men and a largo number of Chinamen were at work at the time filling an order of twonty-Svo tons of tho powder. There are ten packing-houses, erected twenty foot apart. Tho first explosion occurred in the one on tho eastern end of the row, followed shortly afterward by five other explosions from packing and mixing houses, the latter containing large quantities of nitro-glycerine. Tho forco of the oxplosion was so great that many of tho men were blown into atom.'. Largo boulders crashed through the windows of the adjoining boarding-houses and residences. A mass of human limbs was gathered together in a heap awaiting the fiction of tho coroner. The pecuniary damago is estimated at nearly $200,000. Fxve Chinamen were killed by an explosion of giant powder near Oakland, Cal. An overflow of tho Savannah river at Augusta, Ga., inundated portions of tho city. On the South Carolina side, opposite Augusta, the overflow covered a large tract of country. The completed search in tho ruins of the Newhall house, at Milwaukee, resulted in the finding of forty-eight charred bodies. Of 177 persons said to be in tho hotel at the time of tho fire 176 arc now accounted for, as follows: Identified, twenty-eight; nonidentified, forty-six; saved, 102. Thero is still one person missing, making the total 'os.s of life reveniv five. Recent elections to the United States Senate are: Congressman John E. Kenna (Democrat) from West Virginia; Richatd Coke ^emocrai.) re-eiecieu irom J.eia?; x-reaiou B. Plumb (Republican) re-elected from Kansas. Tub other day Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, was the only Senator present when the Senate was called to order. The Vice-President said, "The Senator from South Carolina will come to order," and after the prayer was delivered Mr. Butler moved a call of the Senate. The retirement of General Sherman fron the army in a few months will advance General Sheridan to the rank of general of the army, and probably General Hancock to the rank of lieutenant-general. Trouble of a serious character occurred at Opelika, Ala., between tho commissioners appointed by the legislature to take charge of the town's affairs and ex-Mayor Dunbar and followers. Dunbar is the old mayor, whose office was vacated by an act of the legislature vacating the town charter and appointing a commission of five citizens. He and his followers refused to recognize the commission, and resisted its authority. An attempt to arrest a man by the commission'? marshal led to a collision, and over 1,000 shots were fired. Troops from Montgomery restored order, and the rioters were arrested. Smallpox hnB been ravaging Salem, Va., creating great despondency in tho community and demoralizing business in the vicinity. A coal train.of about sixty cars was thrown down a steep embankment, near Cumberland, Md. An engineer, fireman and two brakemen were instantly killed and foui Other men injured. Frank James, tho noted Missouri outlaw, appeared in court at Kansas City to answer for tho Blue Cut train robbery, tho indictment for murder having been dismissedBail in ?3,COO was demanded and furnished. At Charleston, S. C., Princess Louise embarked on the British war steamer Dido, for Bermuda, West Indies. In the inquest on the Xewhall house fire at Milwaukee, Mr. Antisdel, the landlord, testi fied that tho house hud boon on lire thirty times since he lind been there. James Patkiok, Si:., the oldest journalist in Ohio, died a few days ago, in New Philadelphia, at the ago of ninety-one years. snkhiff Shenneman was shot dead while trying to arrest Charles Cobb, a desperado, at Udell Station, Kansas. Cobb was caught and hung to the nearest tree. Fouty-tiikee bodies of the victims of the Xewhali hotel fire were interred with impressive funeral ceremonies at Milwaukee. Tho service of tho Roman Catholic church was celebrated over twenty of the dead at St. John's cathedral and that of the Protestant church over tho remaining twenty-three in the Exposition building. The bun ting of a steam pipe at the Exposition building during the service cre ited a panic, but no ono was injured. The united funeral pr?Cv*ssion was more than two miles long. From WaoMnston The mortality in tho Forty-seventh Congress has been singularly large. M. 1'O'Connor, of the second South Carolina district, diod before tho Congress assembled. During the first session there died Mr. Allen, of Missouri, General Hawk, of Illinois, and Judge Smith, of Alabama, who was declared after Ids death to lrnvo been entitled to n soat by the unseating of Mr. Shelloy. Later, Mr. Lowe, of Alabama, and Senator Hill, of Georgia, died. Mr. Updegraff, of Ohio, died just boforo tho reassembling of Congress and ' was buried on tho opening day. Since then Mr. Orth, of Indiana, and Mr. Shackelford, ! of North Carolina, have followed, making nine in all, if Judge Smith is counted as a member. Mr. Herndon, of Alabama, is said to bo nearly if not quite in a dying condition with consumption. Chabuss Shaw, a colored boy, was hanged in the District jail for the murder of his sister, a married woman, whom he felled with a stone while out walking and then robbed. The Greenback members of Congress held a conference the other evoning. All agreed that the principles and organization of tho party should be preserved, as, in their opinion, all signs point to a financial panio in the near future, when the principles they advocate will be understood and appreciated by the people. This view of tho situation will constitute tho leading feature of an address to be issned at an early day. FuiiTnKK nominations by tho President; Thomas M. Dawson, of California, to be consul of tho United States at Barranquilla, Jiiul Marcclin A. Ledet, of Louisiana, to bo consul of the United States at Tuxpan. The compendium of the census, nearly ready, contains over 3,600 pages. The com pendium of the last census contained only f00 pages. The final census reports will contain between 15,000 and 10,000 pages, and will bo ready in about four months. Ixusi) IxntNK,' governor-general of Canada, Mid party, have been the guests of the British minister, and have been entertained at dinner by the President. Leading Senators of both political parties held caucuses relative to the pending tariff bill. The Republicans decided to use every effort to bring the bill to an issue before tho < u;l of tho session. The Democrats decided on the curtailment of Mio debate as far as possible, and tho avoidance of the appearance of filibustering. Tiik tariff bill, as presented in'the House, makes large additions to tho free list, and tho decreaso in revenue which it .would occasion is estimated at $20,8/55,70!). Foreien New*. A debater part of Kherson, South Russia, has boon destroyed by fire. Three succossivo explosions of gunpowder in a manufactory at Mniden, Holland, unroofed nearly all the houses in the town and seriously damaged buildings in neighboring towns and villages. Abont forty persons are in Vinxrn YirtrishfirL Feaes of a civil war in Franco aro aroused. A largo organization composed of legiti mists, Bonapartists and anarchists, who art opposod to tho republic and intend to ongage iu an uprising in tho west of France, is reported to be in active existenco. A dispatch from Paris says: "It is perfectlyjtrue that th? Baron do Charotte, aided by M. Bandry d'Asson, member of tho chamber of deputiej for La Vendee, and others, has organized from Finistoro to Tours thirty-two logatiom of 1,000 men each, and has begun to arm them." Piunce Frederick Charles Alexander, brother of tho emperor of Germany, died the other day in Berlin at tko ago of oightytwo. A DE?rEBATE battle has taken place near Tehuantepec, Mexico, between a battalion of Mexican troops and a largo band of Indians. Tho Indians lost eighty men killod and many wounded and were routed. Tho troops lost fifty men killed, including their lieutenantcolonel. * An Ottawa (Canada) dispatch says it is asserted on good authority that tho Princa of Wales and suite will visit Canada tho first week in March next, remaining in this coun. try until after tho meeting of tho Science association. It is also said that the party will visit the leading cities of tho United fctates. An international exhibition of fine artB has been openol in Rome by tho king and queen of Italy. At an examination of twenty-ono persons in Dublin, charged with conspiracy to murder officials, an informer named Farrell swore that there was in existence a secret society for tho assassination of men in office, and that a committeo of this society gave the orders whom to assassinate. Ho said further that it was through this committee that the assassinations of tho lord lieutenant of Ireland and his under secretary had been consummated, as well as moro recont at" tempts to murder prominent officials. The revelations were of a highly sensational order and created much excitement. Abtronomebs in Mexico report tho discovery of a new comet. Two men, Poff and Barrett, were hanged in Tralee, Ireland, for the murder of Thoma. Brown, near Castle Island. They protested their innocence until tho last moment. Deaths by starvation in the island of Innismnrray, off tho coast of Sligo, Ireland, are reported. Montbbal has had a week of festivities under 1 he title of a Winter Carnival. With the thermometer at six degrees below zero the city was thronged with visitors from all parts of Canada and tho United States. Flags were flying everywhere. On the opening day there was r. grand procession of sleighs, and hundreds or siuaenia went miirciuug mruujfii the streets singing popular airs. Tho greatest feature of tho carnival was an ice palace, built entirely of ico, capablo of holding a large number of people, and when illuminated presenting a magnificent appearance. Gostive DoRE.the eminent French painter and designer, is dead, in his fifty-second year. He was an extraordinarily productivo artist, the number of his works including about 4f>,000 designs. Tho works for which he is best known are illustrations for tho Bible, Milton, Rabelais, Dante's " Inferno," etc. His talent was universal. Ho was painter, engraver, designer, a sculptor and water color painter. Ho had such an astonishing ocular memory that ho never worked with a model or sketch. His studio, formerly a riding school, was a scene of indescribable disorder, full of immense scaffoldings, huge canvases, immense palettes, colors and brushes, all pell-mell, piles of drawings, statues, modeling clay, etchings, engravings, wood cuts, and in the midst a piano, and on the piano a valuable violin. He will live in history as one of tho most famous of French artists. Mb. O'Brien, tho indicted editor of the United Ireland, has been elected to the Brit '-1 fmm Mnnntv f!nrk over the 1S1I ? government candidate. Tiie whole central portion of the town of Nicolieff, Russia, containing 82,000 inhabitants, has been destroyed by fire, involving some loss of life. New Guinea savages murdered the seventeen men comprising the crew of a lost schooncr; and in retaliation the captain of a schooner searching for the missing men burned the native villages and destroyed all their canoas. Desouibinq the scenes at the time of the Cimbria disaster, a correspondent says: " One red Indian brandished his tomahawk before an officer of the steamer, and had to be disarmed. The tumult on board was indescribable. One married couple cut their own throats, in order that they might die together. The ship's surgeon encouraged those in the rigging to hold fast, telling them that tho Sultan would soon rescue them, but several became delirious and let go their hold. The surgeon subsequently leaped into the sea, tnying ho would 'make an end of it.' " The revolution in Ecuador continues, and the government has refused to become responsible for the safety of foreigners. The silver wedding of the crown prince of Germany and his wife, oldest daughter of Queen Victoria, was celebrated in Berlin, the royal pair receiving numerous visits of congratulation. Two prominent foreigners diei1. the other day?Baron Yon Flotow, the well-tnown rJi'rimm conitioser, at Wiesbaden, in his seventy-second year, aud Ivord Grovillo, exmemberof the British parliament, in Ireland, aged sixty-two years. FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS. Senate. _ In discussion on trio postoffico appropriation bill t!io amendment of tho committee changing tlio dnto wlien tho reduction of let< r postage to two cents should go into effect from January ], lxx.|, ns proposed by the 1 louse, to July 1, lW-'.'S, was tigroid to and the iiill was then passed.... Mr. Ifollins introduced a hill granting a pension to Emma L'eLong, wife of the lost Jeannetto commander?Mr. Miller, by request, introduced a bill to amend the act to regulate emigration. A bill was passed to remove tho disabilities of Francis li. Smith, of Virginia....A bill was introduced to authorize the postmastergeneral to extend the freo delivery system ....Mr. l'lumb, from the committee on public lands, reported an original bill to prevent tho unlawful occupation of public lands Mr. Logan reported favorably the Senate bill for the regulation of telegraph and cablo companies.... Tho tariff bill was further discussed. Mr. Lapham introduced a bill toreimburso tho Stale of New York for money advanced to soldiers i 1 the war of 1812.... Mr. Garland introduced a bill to encourage the holding of a world's cotton exposition in 1K81. Tho bill provides that an exposition shall bo held, a time and place to be designated by the executive committee of tho National Cotton Growers' association, under tho management of a board of thirteen persons to be appointed by tho President on tho recommendation of tho association and tho subscribers to the expenses of the exposition, j who are to co-operate with a board of commissioners consisting of one from each State | and Territory, to bo appointed by the Presi- | dent on the recommendation of thegovernoi j of the State or Territory. 'Ihe title of tho j exhibition is t o bo " The World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition." ? Mr. Piatt introduced a bill providing for the establishment of tho free postal delivery system in e?*ery c ity of 10,(X)0 inhabitants and al ( such other points as the postmaster-general may designn'e. mewr--A pream bio and resolution was presented by Mr. Yoorhoes setting forth objections to recent legislative action npon questions affecting 1 ho revenue anil commercial relations with other nations.... Mr. Cockrell, from the committee 011 military affairs, reported adversely several joint resolutions granting condemned cannon to local military organizations, and explained that the secretary of war had reported that the supply of such cannon suitable for the ornamentation of graveyards was exhausted....The tariff bill was further considered. The chair formerly occupied by the late Senator Hill was draped in black and services in his honor were held. Eulogistic speeches were delivered by Messrs. Brown, Vest, Morgan, Sherman, Voo.hees, Edmunds, Jones and Barrow, at the conclusion of which resolutions of respect were passed, and then the Senate, as a further tribute to his memory, adjourned. IIonMe. Mr. Moore introduced a joint reso lution proposing a constitutional amendment granting Congress power to provido by legislation for the legal enforcement of the obligations of contracts entered into by any State of the Union. Referred to the committeo on the judiciary ...Mr. Anderson, chairman of the committeo on military affairs, reported the resolution directing that committeo to investigate the charges of mismanagement at the Hampton Soldiers' home. Adopted. Mr. McLane presented a petition of W. H. Perot and others, of Baltimore, asking for damages on account of the unlawful seizure and I'etontion of cargoes of sugar by the treasury department The naval Appropriation bill was discussed without action. Bills were introduced for tho relief of thj widow of Commander W. B. Cushing and for the suppression of the crimes of bigamy and polygamy A joint resolution was passed appropriating $200,000 to continuo the work in the census bureau....The naval appropriation bill was further considered... A bill for the granting of pension to the children of Christopher Carson, late lieutenant-colonel and brevet brigadier-general United States army, was introduced by Mr. Luna, of New Mexico. It is for the relief ol the sons and daughters of tho once famous "Kit" Carson, who are poor and now live in Las Vegas, Now Mexico. Mr. Butterworth introduced a bill to provide for a commission to investigate tho subject of railroad transportation. The bill provides for the appointment by tho I'resi. dent of seven commissioners, three of them experts upon the subject of railroad transportation, whoso duty it shall be to investi gate thoroughly all the questions relating to i.1 ??.l ,.f ran II1U t'niilUllMILllCilb UilU liituilll/'lliuivo VI 11(?* sonable and just inter-state transportation tariiF for passengers and freights by railroads or other modes of transportatior within the United States. A report to thf next Congress is also contemplated in th# bilL The Honse considered the naval appropriation bill in committee of* the whole; several amendments were adopted and the bill was reported to the House. The amendments were adopted in bulk, except that providing that chiefs of bureaus snail receive no additional pay, and that relating to the appropriation for torpedoes. The naval appropriation bill was passed by a vote of 185 yeas to 95 nays.... The tariff bill was considered in committee of the whole, and Mr. Kelley made a speech explanatory of its provisions. Ho said that in u country with a population rising 50,000,000, w;th continental dominions and unparalleled resources, there must in tariff legislation be a spirit of compromise which should control in the preparation and maturing of sucJi bills Speeches eulogistic of the late Senator Hill were delivered by Messrs. Hammond, Spier, Tucker, House, Kasson, Wellborn, Hooker, and Cox, of Now York, and resolutions of respect were passed. The Origin of Coffee. It is well known that the coffee plant is not indigenous to Arabia, but was imported from Abyssinia at a date which cannot be accurately given. The taste of coffee itself had a hard struggle at first to find a general welcome among the more select circles. Apart from tli/i nl/lacf Inrrnrwl (ifinpomillff Shilflpll's UIU V1UVOU vviivc* ? drink, the Medina Sheikh Abd el-Kader is the oldest historica ^authority on the use of the "blood-red-Kaweh," as the Tunisian Ibn "VVaki named the beverage. In the year 1857, not 300 years ago, he tells us that in Yemen people made use of a drink which so light ened the night -watches that the faithful of the place were able to sing the praises of God more fervently and cheerfully than could be done anywhere else. According to him, the Mufti Dhabani was the first to introduce the insignificant little lean on Arabian soil, having brought with them from Africa. Certain it is that the districts of Shoa, Euarara and Kaffa (whence the name), in the south of Abyssinian highlands, form the original home of the coffee plant. Dhabani was of a sickly nature, and since he belonged to the order of the Soli (Ultra-Pantheists), who believe that everything on earth and all being emanated from the Godhead, he regarded a means of excitement of this kind a providential gift. The Medineso and faithful Meccans hud their turbaned heads together in tiio nn]ilif? nLinps when thev first heard W,4V r x v the news; a pious sheik in Anen was the first to drink the "black juice" as a sort of public spectacle. In Mecca itself violent strife arose soon after its introduction as to the propriety of using it. There were great meetings of learned and pious men, who at last, probably after extreme pressure from the Mameluke governor, Khair Beg, declared that coll'ee "disturbed the brain and intoxicated like wine." But their opponents were of another opinion, and adduced the authority of the celebrated Bagdad physician, Avicenna, in their defense, which, however, did not prevent the transgressor of the edict forbidding the use of coffee from being publicly whipped. At the same time the zealots of the Iledjas proc'aimed that all ~ * .1 1.1 1 conee-urinKers wuiuu ujjpcui uctuic the All-Merciful on the resurrection day with black faces. "While the great anathema was being pronounced at Mecca, the brothers of the order at Cairo, the very Mamelukes themselves, were already reveling in the newlydiscovered luxury. A confirmation of the Mecca decree was, therefore, not to be expected from the sultan, and he, Ivanfu Alguris, quashed the ordinance of his governor and sent the latter into exile. Then many holy sheikins (for example, the celebrated Mohammed Ilarife, founder of one of four orthodox schools of Islam), took the side of the coffee-drinkers. Thus was the precious bean fully rehabilitated, in Western Arabia at least.?London Times. The Habit of Fainting-. Tlu*r? is not so much fainting in public as there was thirty years ago. .Sound health, which necessarily secures the lirm nerves and muscles, is the surest preventive of faintness. An exchange remarks that the majority of vigorous men go through all kinds of severe and painful experience without fainting, while delicate men and women swoon at trifles. American women, who used to faint continually ?in crowds at bad news, at scenes of distress?now faint comparatively seldom ; and the fact is ascribed to their relinquishment for the most part, of the habit of lacing, to their increased exercise in the open air, anil tlieir better physical conditions. Not one American woman faints to-day, where, thirty years ago, twenty-live women fainted and the dimunition of the disorder, always the result of direct abuses, is an unmistakable evidence, which other things corroborate, of the marked amelioration of the health of our highly organized, extremely sensitive but llcxible and enduring women of this complex race. Freaks of Electricity. In the midst of electricity we are in constant ni'W perils. The Elvctrichtn tells about tin' agent of a .Massachusetts cotton mill, who, when aliout to make a personal examination of some matters relative to the water power, had put on his rubber leggins, when the treasurer made his appearance and was escorted through the mills. After standing under a large belt for a few minutes, the agent touched the treasurer's shoulder and gave him an electric shock which nearly overturned the man of money. The rubber boots and the man inside of them formed a large Lcyden jar, whose discharge was very severe, especially to a person expecting nothing of the kind. Another story is told of a man with a dust-pan in his hand who was passing a dynamo machine, when the magnetism attracted the dust-pan so suddenly that the man's wrist was so severely wrenched that he was disabled for some time. (VDonovan Rossa's Opinion* O'Donovan llossa, speaking of Ihc | fireat (Jerman Remedy to a friend, said: "Mrs. llossa has been cured of a very severe attack of neinv.l^ia by St. Jacobs Oil, as she wil 1 gladly tell you, if you will call at my residence. 87'.) Bushivick avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y."?New York Graphic The "olive oil" sold in Salt Lake City is made of peanuts, and is exten ively used in the Mormon church for anointing the brethren. f ) CAPgtiTrOR APPREHENSION. RTlT Mysterious I'liynieal Troubles Arouse Hpcclnl Dread?A Professional Experience. Few things give more pain than dread 01 apprehension. Most people are able to face apparent danger heroically, but the sudden and unexpected coining of some indefinite calamity very naturally strikes terror to even the bravest For this reason lightning and tornadoes are considered terrible; thoir coming and goinc are so sudden, unannounced and unknown. For this same reason an unknown disense. some poison in the blood, some malady tnat is gradually undermining the life, is specially dreaded by nil thinking people. And, indeed, there are good reasons for such dread, for modern science has discovered that some virulent disorders show the least signs in their begint.ings, while they havo the worst possible symptoms. We know of many persons who have dull and uncertain pains in various portions of the body; who are unnaturally tired one day and apparently well the next; who have an enormous appetite at times and a loathing of food Boon thereafter. Such porsons are really in a dangerous condition, even though they may not realize it. The following state muni ui n IIIU.HL iiruixiiiieiiit iMiyoiuwiu, wnu ha.-' had unusual opportunities for investigation,is of so striking and important a nature that it will be read with interest by all: ASSOCIATED CHARITIES OF CINCINNATI. boabd of dibkct0b8. Joseph Anb, M. D. Julius Reis. Julius Balke, Jr. H. A. Smith, M. D. Mrs. M. F. Force. H. Miller. Mrs. George Hunert. Rev. Chas. W. Wendto. Frd'k Lunkenheimer. Daniel Wolf. J. B. Wilson. Office : No. 27>? West Eighth Stbeet, 1 0. Anderson, M. D., Superintendent. V Cincinnati, ?., Deo. 2, 1882. ) Messrs. Editors : I have, during my professional career of many years' practice, treated a large number of various disorders, of which, perhaps, none have given me mora trouble than the mysterious diseaso known as acute nephritis; and while it may seem strange, it is, nevertheless, true, that the physician is generally greatly annoyed by this mysterious trouble, especially when the case is of hereditary origin. It is, doubtless, the first stage of the well-known, but terrible Bright's disease, as the kidneys contain large quantities of albumen; and while children and young people are cspeciully liable to its attacks, it is prevalent with all classes, and usually continues until lato in life. One obstinate case which came under my observation, was that of a fireman of this wkft nnnliarl fa mcx 4r\r? TKo case was diagnosed parenchymatous nephritis. The man was twenty-four years of age: plethoric and light complected. .He stated that he had suffered from urinary trouble* from childhood, and that he had "doctored" a hundred times, each time improving some; after which, in a short while, he would relapse into his former state of misery. I prescribed the usual thorapeutics known to the profession with the Bame result that my colleagues had obtained. He got better for awhile and then worse again; in fact, so bad that he had to lay off for some time. He suffered intense pain; so much so that I confess I had to resort to hypodermic injections of morphia. My druggist, who knew how disgusted I was with the case, although not willing to desert the man, advised me to try a remedy from which he (the druggist) himself, had derived great benefit. As a drowning man catches at a straw, I prescribed this remedy, not letting my patient, however, know what I was giving him; and, although not a believer in nor a patron of "patent medicines," Imust confess thatafter my fireman had taken one bottle he grew much better. I made him continue its use for a period of two months, with the most gratifying results; it really worked wonders, and he owes his cure and present perfect health solely to the remarkable power of Warner's 8afe Kidney and Liver Cure, the remedy which I prescribed, and he used. Since the recovery of the man above mentioned, I have given considerable thonghtto the subjeet of acute nephritis, or kidney difficulty, and I find that its manifestations are most remarkable. It often appears without any Bpecial symptoms of its own, or possibly as a sequel to some other disease. It may 1)6 a sequoi 10 scariauua, uipmnena biiu other illnesses, and even arise from pregnancy. The first symptoms frequently show themselves in the form of high, fierce and intense pains in the lumbar region, "the small of the back," troublesome micturitions and frequent changes in the color of the urine, which at times diminishes perceptibly. If the urine is entirely suppressed, the case, probably, will terminate fatally in n very few days. Dropsy is a consequence of the suppression of urine, and the severeness of it is governed by the proportion of retention. The nervous system becomes prostrated with subsequent convulsions and irregular circulation of tho blood, which, in my estimation, eventually might cause a diseased heart to give out. As I have remarked, in many kidney diseases?yes,even in Bright'a disease itaelf?there is no perceptible pain in the back, and theso troubles often assert themselves in various symptoms?for instance, in troublesome diarrhea, blood poison, impaired eyesight, nausea, loss of appetite, disordered digestion, loss of consciousness, husky voice and many other complaints too numerous to mention. Indeed, thousands of people are suffering from the first stages of Bright's disease to-day,and they do not know it. In conclusion. I wonld like to state that I have, since my success with the fireman, repeatedly prescribed Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, and if my professional brothren could only be brought so far as to overcome their prejudice against propr jtary medicines they would, undoubt-nlly, find themselves recompensed for their supposed sacrifice of liberty, os well as by the gTeat benettts thnt woaiu nccrno to the worldMost sincerely, 0. ANDERSON, M. D.. Superintendent. Wit in Rhyme. The impromptu is a form of plear santry in which wit and humorists of all ages have more or less indulged. The Greeks and Romans were adepts in this species of humor, and they sometimes enlivened their domestic entertainments by contests in impromptu and other verse-making. On these occasions trifling prizes were given to the most skillful, and many notices of these wit-combats have been handed down to us in classical literature. Impromptu verse-making has also formed one of the principal amusements of certain modern literary societies. One of these associations, to which the well known writer, poet and oriental scholar, William Tennant, belonged, existed at one time at Anstruther, in Scotland, under the title of the Musomanik society. At its ordinary meetings rhymes were given to everv member present, which he was required to fill up immediately, on the spur of the moment. On one occasion " pen, scuffle, men, ruffle," were given. In a few minutes lines were produced by the whole party, one set being as ollows: One would suppose a silly pen A shabby weapon in a scuffle ; But yet the pen of critic men A very hero's soul would ruffle. On another occasion the very un couth rhymes, "bubble, jig, stubble, whirligig," were utilized thus: What is life? Asmoke, a bubble; Iu this gay world a foolish jig; A joyless Held of barren stubble. And what is man? A whirligig. Queen Elizabeth has been credited with an impromptu which, if not the composition of her majesty, smacks very much of that bluffness which she is said to have inherited from her father. It is said that when the queen wiis passing through Coventry on one occasion the mayor and corporation persistently stood in the way to present a loyal address, which ran somewhat in this fashion: Wo men of Covcntreo Aro very ?Iad to see Your gracious majestie. My Lord, how fair you be ! To which her majesty at once replied: Her gracious majestie Is very wroth to see Ye men of C'oventrce. Good Lord, what fools ye be ! Washington Sharpers. Strangers in Washington have long sufit-red l'roni the frauds of a gang of pretended guides and monte men who, curiously enough, make their head quarters ahout tne otuer uoors ol me capitol building. Here they watch the crowd of visitors for such as they judge from appearances may prove unsophisticated enough for their purposes. The crowd can be seen every day about the entrances, openly accosting strangers and offering to j show them the sights. Their freedom ! from arrest seems a mystery. It is said, however, that it follows from the fact that the city police have no jurisdiction within the capitol grounds, and the capitol police confine their labors to the inside of the building and give no attention to the grounds. This gives these sharpers a good and safe lield for operations upon a neverending succession of visitors. While, it is undoubtedly some one's duty tc. i drive them out, that somebody lias ! not yet made his appearance, though ,! this condition of affairs is one of long I standing. One of the tricks of this set, none of whose members are al-1 lowed inside the capitol, is to sell ad missions to the building. They offer j ;it times what tliev call annual sea- ' son tickets (the price of which they give as from $10 to $12) for fifty cents, on condition that they shall he returned when those; holding them come out of the building. Flounced moreen watered underskirts are made up for wearing instead of crinolettes, under dresses. They are complete petticoats, plain in front, plaited round the edge, and with boxplaited ilounccs up the back to the waist. Wonderful Ice Cares. One of the greatest natural wonders of Europe is the Hungarian ice cave. At the foot of the highest group of the Carpathian chain lies the Comitar of Gomar, a district of singular beauty and variety, in which are mountains on whose summit grows the Arctic lichen and the pine, while at their base tobacco, Indian corn and melons flourish. It is in this country, within a few miles of the town of Dobsham?that the newly-discovered ice caverns are situated. The existence of these extraordinary caves was well known, but although situated at the low elevation of three thousand five hundred feet, where snow rests only in winter, it was left to a youth named Rufiiny to explore these secret recesses of the earth. Having provided himself with everything that could be imagined necessary for such an expedition, ne eniereu me cnasm,ana working his way over blocks of ice and a chaos of debris, which in the course or ages had accumulated there, he became lost for a time in the darkness of a new world. With infinite difficulty he reached what appeared to him a frozen lake, and returned to his point of departure. Ilis companions now joined him, and penetrated still further into these icy solitudes. Not alone do these caves contain pillars and waterfalls of ice, but their walls are studded " with thousands of ice structures, hexangular in form, from a half to one'inch in diameter, which, clustered together, resembled anemones and other flowers scintillating like diamonds in the magnesium light." Amsterdam's "Aan Spraaker." One of the queer characters to be met in the cities of Holland is described by a writer in Harper's Magazine : The "Aan Spraaker" is, to the innocent stranger, more of an object of amusement than his grewsome and serious office intended him for. lie is a quick-moving individual, rushing from house to house, bearing tidings of deaths and births. He is clad in! black cloth citizen's costume of the last century, cocked hat, white streamer behind flying in the wind if his message is of birth (some subtle submeaning also conveyed of sex as well, I fancy), a black streamer if of death. Ilis knee-breeches, black stockings, and shoes with great silver buckles make him rather a striking figure as he cuts along the streets on his momentous errands. lie always struck me as having left something important behind him at home, and as hurrying back for it with all his might. As a picturesque object, or as an expression by means of outward show of his serious mission, he struck us as being somewhat of a failure. At the three vegetarian restaurants n London an average of 1,550 dinners re served daily. . That I! iis'iititd of iMIno a three times the man lie wns before he be(iin using Wells' Heullli Ronewer. $1. Don't Bik in tuk H- misk. "Rough on Rats.' Clears out rats, mice, tclies, bea-bugs. 15c. A.S you baid? Carboline, a deodorized extract of petroleum, the only cure for baldness, has been improved, so that it is now the most delightful dressing in tlie world, xne inly natural real hair restorer ever produced. Lion's Patent Metallic Hed Stiileners keep new boots and shoes from running over. Sold by shoe and hardware dealers. Are yoa Bilious ( iry the remedy that sureJ Mrs. Clement, of Franklin, N. H.? rfood's SarsaparilJa, mado in Lowell, Mass. What is called the biggest and richest copper minein the world has been discovered in Nevada. THE STUBBORN, Obstinate affection known as Scrofula Is a taint hi ths blood resulting from deficient nutrition. It Is a power* fal disorder, outliving its victim by appearance in do. icendants. Fow in any community are froo from thi< corruption, which attacks different organs nnder differ;nt names, and at different times in different person*. To moot so desperate a loo requires a medicine of positive, urgent, forcible qualities. Such is IIOOD'S KAILMAPA tlllJ.A, whoso most wonderful cures prove it tho most reliaclo'remedy. FOR TWENTY-ONE YEARS Thomas Bennett, 6 Coventry street, Boston, carried a scrofulous lump on his leg. It itchod intolerably the last four years; booaine a sore so troublesome that ho rants*! to cut out the lump with his knife. He thought to carry this torment to his crave. Two bottles of Hood's Snranparllla oared the Inmp. TWELVE PftLY ULCERS Below the knee of the little son of Henry T. Curtis, of Frankfort, Me., resultod from injudicious swimming in summer water. They discharged bone as well as matter Ha took Hood's Ma.rn*.nfirillil one season. threw rvway his crutches, which* he had used tliroe rears, and now walks a mile t? school. RIKTIT-BORN SCROFULA, * H. J. Steams, Willimantic, Ct., waa afflicted from infancy. Loet mother, sister, brother by it. Toole several bottle* of Hood's StvrsRparilia, and is the ole survivor of his family. HOOD'S SABSAI'ARILLA Sold by rtruusrist*. SI; six for $*. Propsred only by C.I. HOOO A' CO., Apoilii'onr.o*. LowoH, Mum. Nothing Like It. No medicine has ever been known ho effectual in the cure of all thoeo diseases arising from an impure condition of the blood as Scovill's Sarsapariila or Blood and Liver Synip for the cure of Scrofula, White 8we!lings, Rheumatism, Pimples, Blotches, Eruptions, Venereal Sores and Diseases, Consumption, Goitre, Boils, Caneon, and all kindrud diseases. It purifies the system, brings color to the cheeks and restores the suflerer to* normal condition of health and vigor. It is asserted that tho 0r.lU1.1r7 cosmetics nsod by ladies are productive of great mischief. We beliove this is so, and that a better means of securing a beautiful complexion is to use ? jmo g xxl blood msdicine like Scovill's Blood and Liver Syrup which cleanses the blood and gives permanent beauty to the skin. THE GREAT GERMAN yF ?? REMEDY ("AD DA III i?*1 run miii. 3 Relievo and cures ill 731 rheumatism, Neuralgia, i Mr*_"*"jl| Sciatica, Lumbago, BACKACHE, mm'" HEADACHE, TOOTHACHE, I i S0RE THR0ATj ^WP" QUINSY, SWELLINGS, 8 | MPBAINS. ! 8 ^BnnBscsS^nH Soreness, Cult, Bruises, j|sj! 'SQfflP ^ FROSTBITES, MB LTak. ,fl| Dinvs, KCAI.DS, J, Anil *11 otlu?r bodily aches j dMjfflpJ FIFTY CENTS A BOTTLE. I ; ^DlPectfor.s lu 11 r timr j<flSIISlIk B! The Char,es A- Vogeler Co. |j 'nljixi' W IHMcaim ts 4, VOQKUKI CO-) |)?^ ^SBmSSSsSA lUltlmor*, SdM C. 8. A. KT W P?4 atepta&f'ffSl'fcfri Hostottor's Stomach ^fn\| ?1 I mD'A Bitters gives Bto.idiurr.l flow of bile, pre- | t ion of a well-hal'^ BW ^ STOMACH ^ r anced condition of >11 ^flW the animal powers. olrVrH^ For !,,llr h>' " 1 R 0 fc. |1 Druitsihtu r.nd DealV (I H BBS ere Konerally. wsurpTiofir 1 haro a posit We remedy for tlio nb'jvo dlaoaao; by Ita uw tbooaanda of caaes of tho wont kind and of long standing hava been cured. Indeed, eo Btroos: la my faith lu lta efficacy, that I will pond TWO B0TTLE3 FKEB. toEsther with a VALL'4B1.K TKi:v"ISi: on tlila dU?aso, to anyaufferor. tllvo Express and I*. 0. addroas. PR. 1'. A. aLOCUM. 1811'uuriau, New Tort. CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. S Beat Cotwh Syrup. Tastes pood. 3 Use In tlmt>. Sold by drugglata. S "cHROUTHiON COM.AltS AND CUKES: Handsome, Durable, Water proof, Superi.-r to Linen, Paper or ('elluloid. S?'.J hj Diail. Eor circular aeml po.-tal card to Box 91H, New* buryp<-rt, Momi. I fh (fft Neuralgia nml (Mirmic Dlorrhea, or any jvk H y Hag iSouel Complaint. Why sutfer wliena cer* wBlUwtnhuurefor either maybe obtained for Fiieent*; or both f<ir>fcl. I'm"!neestampstaken. Address II. K. lvSOWI.K8, Roxiii, Ottawa. I'ntnmn Co.. Ohio, VnUWfi b??M ,'<,arn telegraphy lieru and we will I UnIiIU mull i;ire you a situation. Circulars free. VAl.K.N I'INK IlitOS., .laitcovillc. \VN. _ per day at home. S.imiiJ-tsworth$? free. $d 1 v ii?tJ Address Stinkon A Co , Portland, Mo. flj P BIV A Make money selling onr Family Med. HlwPRfl I ^icines. No capital n-quiivil. St.ind. HUnll I Ward Cure Co., I!)7 Pearl St., N. Y. ms&zsM&vsnBi wmmiLUsmrn THE AULTMAN ? TAYLOK CO., Mansfield. Ohic. djCC a week in your own town. Terms and outfit $0u free. Addresali. HallkttACo., Portland, Me. AVnrHrd for tho Uert and Fastest-selling Pictorial Books and Bible*. Piici* reduced St per cent. National Puiimriiing Co.. Philadelphia, Pa. / 1 "li / 1 COLEMAN BUSINESS COLLEGE,' V t I J? vNewark, N. J. Write for Catalogue. 670 A WEEK, $12 a day at home easily made. Coetly 0 I * outfit free. Address Tltt'K A Co., Augusta, Me. 100 STYLESy $^,$30,$5^$72J $7 MASON ^HAMLIN ? BQST QH,/S4-TBEMMST, NEW YCjj| A NOTED BUT UNTITLED WOMAN. T-- pfrom tha Borton Globe.] Nam. Editors The abore ii a grood Ifkenen of Hr*. Lydla E. Pink, ham, of Lynn, Hun, who above all other human bclngt may be truthfnlly called the "Dear Friend of Woman," as torn* of her correspondent* love to call her. Bh# IB SC&lOUSiy UCYOWU tu ucr wui niutu 10 mv uuivuura of a life-study, and la obliged to keep tlx lady assistants, to help her answer the largo correspondence which dally poors In upon her, each bearing Its special burden of suffering, or Joy at release from It. Her Vegetable Compound Is a medicine for good and not errtl purposes. I hare personally Investigated It and am catlstled of the truth of this. On account of Its proven merits. It Is recommended and prescribed by the best physicians In the country. . Ono says t " It worki like a charm and saves much polo. It will core entirely tho wont form of falling of the uterus, Leucorrhcea, Irregular and painful Menstruation, all Ovarian Troubles, Inflammation and Ulceration, Floodlngs, all Displacements and tho consequent spinal weakness, and Is cape dally Adapted to the Change of Life." It permeate# every portion of tho system, and gives oew life and vigor. It removes falntnees, flatulency, destroys all craving for stimulants, and relieves weakness of the stomach. It cures Bloating, Headaches, Nervous Prostration, General Debility, Sleeplessness, Depression and Indigestion. That feeling of bearing down, causing pain, weight and backache, Is always permanently cured by its uso. It will at all times, and under all circumstance*, act in harmony with the law that governs the female system. It costs only fL per bottle or sis for $5., and is sold by druggists. Any advice required as to special eases, and tho names of many who have been restored to perfect health by the use of the Vegetablo.Com pound, can be obtained by addressing Sirs. P., with stomp for reply, at her home In Lynn, Mass. For Kidney Complaint of either sez this compound Is unsurpassed as abundant testimonials show. "Mrs. Plnkham's Liver 1*111 a," says one writer, "aro the best in the icorld for the cure of Constipation, Biliousness and Torpidity of the liver. Her Blood Purifier works wonders In Its special line and bids fair to equal the Compound In Its popularity. All must respect her as an Angel of Mercy whose sole ambition Is to do good to others. Philadelphia, Pa. CO Mrs. A. M. D. 31 Tho SUREST CURE for KIDNEY DISEASES. | Docs a lamo back or a disordered urino lndi. I cat# that you are a victim? THEN DO NOT HESITATE; use KIin<r2rr-WOBT at onoe, I (druggists recommend It) and It will epeodily ' overcome the disease and rwtoro healthy action. 1 1 It Is a 8URECURBfor all DISEASES of the LIVER, j It has spedflo action on this moot Important organ, enabling ttto throw off torpidity and In* , action, stimulating tho healthy accretion of the 1 Bile, and by keeping the bowels lnfieocondl. ticn, effecting its regular disch&rje. j Uolovla If youarosuflbrlngfrom 5IWlCllCiriCl? malaria, have tho chill*, I are bilious, dyspeptic, or oonstipated, Xldney| WortwillBncolyrsllevoondQulchlyccro. In the Spring, to cleonaa tho System, every 1 I one ohould take a thr rough course of it r I nfljng Forcomplaints pccnliarto / IiWUIWi yoru-.ci, ruchcs pain and P I weaknesses, KIDITET-WOST la uzaurpasxxJ, a aa it will act promptly and safely. T Either Bex. Incontiucnce, retention ct talc t, E I brick duster ropy dcpoelto, and dull dragging W pains, all speedily yield to 1U emotive poorer. >, I t^71t Acts at tho name tlso cn the mDinTTS, A UVEIl AZTD BOWELa^Cl Tar Cosatlnaticn, F Piles, or ?icumaUsm it 1j c. permanent csro. * If i W01 i Sp i gp i jpTii i w i mi'rmr 9BHHipi|HREanHnBnBn i A NEW DISCOVERY. iffTor several years we have futnished the Dairymen of America with an excellent arti-, ? * - * -? M tKat ! Ill I PDCUU COiOTlOTOUVwrj owiuuwwuww , with great success everywhere rccetrlnff the highest and only prizes at both International, Dairy Fain. 1 tJTBut by patient and sclcntiflc chemical research we hare Improved in wsvernl points, and I now offer this new color as the bett in the world. It Will Wot Color the Buttermilk. It I Will Wot Turn Ranold. It lathe J atrongeit. Brightest and Afojpest Color Wade, I ' OTAnd, while prepared In oil, Issocomponnded that It Is Impossible for It to become randd. I I ty BE WARE of all Imitations, and ot all other oil colors, for tliey aro liable to become; randdand spoil the batter. I yoa cannot get the "Improved" write as t? know whero and bow to get it without extra I '[ ] lexpebMu (?) :t V WZLUJ, BTCHiBDSO^ k CO., Corfintfoo, Tl, | . It >: gy^pj XUetrfs Appllueu v% wai oa SO Ctrl' T:U1, TO MEN ONLY, YOUNG OR OLD, WHO art ?offering from Nkrvocs Deeilitt, LO&T vfcajljtt, lacx or nuvk fottcx amd VlOOB, watltso wzakmz88s8, and nit klndrrd disease*. Speedy relief and complet e restoration of Health, vigor and Manhood Guaraxtkkd. The grandest discovery of the Nineteenth Century. Send at once for Illustrated Pamphlet free. Address VOLTAIC BELT CO., MARSHALL, MICH. ? 1 Ditto 18 anfaUin8an<1 fcnfalll-* # AnLAffH FJ fefc ble lp curing Epileptic y'Br, ***?? S?a, Spasms, ConvulV OIHCI AND M ^st. Vitus Dance, A Alcohol ii-m. Opium Eat- , mV -* log, Scrofula and all Nervous and Bluod Diaease*. To Clergymen, VIB Lawyers, Literary Men. . Merchant*. Hankers, Indies and all whose sedentary employment / causes Nervous Prostra. I jon. Irregularities ol / tt* blood, stomach, *1 bowels or Kidneys, or . J . who require a nerve biBM tonic. appetir.flr or V ^^HH5?3 stimulant. SAMAItlTAN NERVINE is in? valuablo. Thooaanll Mk. NEVER EAILt. proclaim, it ^the most A?^wonUcrtui inngorani. IV Ifni VIU got that ever sn?tained the .^L P? m# I P*.einking syxtem. For W E" wie by all Dnirowt*. THE DR. 8. A. RICHMOND MEDICAL CO Sola Proprietors, St Joseph. 31o. ADD T01IING0ME OIiiIm offer* the direst means of msfciiK riviilar mouiliiy p ro tits Iromiii vc*tmef tsof fin lo|iouu or more deftllticlu GRAIN. PROVISIONS & STOCKS Each member Kcrnilie Isem'tUnf combined capital of iittClub. Import* nent weekly. Dividends paid monthly. Club 13 paid shareholders back their money in pro/lb in past tbrer months, still leaving original Amount making money In Club, or returned on demand. bhares, till cadi Explanatory clrculursscnt Tree. 1 tollable Corre#|>oiidcnt? wanted everywhere. Add ring u. e. Kkmmll <fc Co. 'otii'ii Mclita.. 177 & I'D La Snlle St.. Ciiicaqo. III. Cheap Farms NEAR MARKETS. The state of Michigan has more than -1,000 milosof railroad and l,6"j miles of lako transportation, schools Ind churches in evo;y county, oubliu buildings all t>aid for and no del t. Its soil anil climate combine to produco large crop*, ami it is the best fruit t>Uf.> in the tiortbwfist. Several milium acres 01 iicoccupinu una fertile lands are yet in the market at low prices. The Itate has iH*ut?1 n pamphlet i o.it linng a m*pnnd <1?nciiptinnx of its ?:il, crops ?nd Keneral reaonrc**, which may ho h?<1 tree of charge bv writing to tha COMMISSIONER OF IMMIGRATION*, Detroit, Mich. |-p-r [ ' nvai 27STW ELASTIC TRUSS Hai Fx! difllirlac froa *11 otbe^ ^^KSBrmlaauStarP c?p?h?p?? with 8?]f-Ad]?Unj Ballla ccdUt, liiptillMlrtotl WTSENSIRLr sf roiilkjot of fit, wbll* tb? ? M Oi-HJIPLLgg tut 1>n tbono #?*?>??butIU Hfc V TRU89 M latacUMin).itutnnnitt Vv with Ui? Plaj~c. Wllb Ufht ?? fraunthtlbralabbaldMcunlv Iniad aifhL ?o4 ? radical con otruln. Itli ntj, dtuiili 51 ltiii| SalbyatU. ClrenUn (m. KfiGLESTOS TBUSS CO.. Chicago. IH Sawing Made Easy. /I The New Improved JJ a y mm LisBTsiss ?Wfea?IU--SX 7? ' leibc cktaput wd bfti, A) V toy flxtf*n years oM lUJrj- Im ttt ja^r logV'J" w-6 vw rJt-TX .>-rU on If -t trtnl * ials nnd full particulars. AGENTS WANTED Monarch LightningS-iurOo., ln.'l Randolph St..Chicago FHAZEB AXLE GREASE Hem in tlie wnrM. ( ctthrgpni Iiip. 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