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ABBEVILLE PRESS AND BAOTERI BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JULY 11, 1883. NO. 4. VOLUME XXVIII. Jffp A CHARGE TO THE BEES. Go forth, Obees, at blush of prime, Go forth, 0 bees, and waste no time : Into the jeweled chnli-e climb Of every bloom, that opens fre*li this hour; And be ye sure ye find the apple flower. Oh, slight the violet, if ye will. And slight the green-gold daffodil, And hyacinth made sweeter still By soft caressings of the midnight shower; But see ye pass not by the apple flower. I could forgive ye, that ye missed The lilac tubes of amethyst. Lilies, th; t heaven's breath has ki>sed? And all the sweets in wildwood Flora's bower: But see ye pass not by the apple flcwer. 0 bees, though ye were now released To search the gardens of the east, I'll call ye home, amidst your feast; I charge you, bring me honey for my dower; Bring me the honey of the apple flower. LOVE IN ASHES. "Scant of nine, and the washing all out," mused thrifty Mrs. ("butter, as he scrubbed the porch. " Deacon, I'll get you to set the big tub down the cellar, if y.?u will." ' l'#?rtn:n ?il'o" rp^nnnrlnil fcho ilna. Cun from his c;i.t in the door yard. " There comes Kendall's new basket ^ wagon, with two women in it," pursued the lady, wringing her mop. ' Isn't that the horse that balks?" lieing in the critical act of emptying a four-g;ii:on bucket of soap the good man vouchsafed no reply. When the jellied mass had quivered and splashed into the barrel in waiting, he 1< oked up just in season to see the gay little pony shy at the cart and go tearing down the road. " They'll upset! they'll be killed ! Iiun after 'em! Do something!" shrieked Mrs. (/h utter. " Don't get excit-jd, wife; they're all right now. That girl drives like a man." And picking up his bucket the moderate dencon marched off for a Bficond supply of soap. But though the little incident had failed to shake his nerves, it did make him oblivious of his wife's washtub poised on the landing of the dim stairway, and as a natural consequence he put his fo:>t in it. The tub ro!levl, the deacon swayed like a pestle in a mortar; there was a lively succession of bumps, followed by a clatter and a thud, and deacon, tub and bucket strewed the cellar floor. "Adaband Alihu!" ejaculated the fallen saint, with sinful energy. "What's up, uncle?" cried* an anxious voice overhead. " I can tell you what's down," was the grim response. "Come and brace me while I try to step." The owner of the voi^e, a fine-lookIng youth of one-and-twenty, was al^^^ready groping his way among the H^Kiebris, his aunt in the rear with the camphor. Y The deacon's attempted locomotion resulted in a gro.-n. "I must have sprained my ankle, Ilarvev. If I'd postponed this tub race till after I'd been my rounds, 'twould have been better calculation." "Oh, 1 wouldn't worry about my rounds, uncle. "What's the hurry?" " My customers expect me to-day, that's the point. I hate masterly to break my word. Now there's the widow ('leaves waiting for me to take her ashes, so she can scrub after my with the boiling suds, and up at Kendall's they're clean out of soap." i i "And not clean without it, eh?'' laughed the young man. "See here, or. III1UIC f diiiuu y U"u aic u\j igu ou , uneasy about disappointing the people, why not send me in your stead?" "You, in your fine clothes! I should smile." mumbled Mrs. Chutter, with the stopper of the camphor bottle between her teeth. " Why can't my uncle's mantle fall upon me, auntie? I was intending to borrow the frock." " Well, if 1 do say it, you've got the Vance common sense. Some young men of your bringing up would be ashamed to drive a soap cart.'' " Humph! Some young men would be fools," s;iid the deacon, with warmth. "Nobody has any call to be ashamed to deliver such soap as I make. If you've a mind to run the team to-day, Harvey, I shall be obleeged _ to you." Fifteen minutes later the worthy deacon was extending his aching length upon the sitting-room lounge, and gazing through the open window after his youthful proxy, who, duly initiated into the mysteries of the casing, was driving away in the big blue cart. Behind jounced and creaked an empty ash-bin, flanked by two covere i barrels or soap; out tne swinging seat was clean and comfortable, commanding a fine view of the surrounding country. A half mile and more the road wound through his uncle's fertile acres, for Deacon Chutter was withal a farmer. Farming, indeed, was his chief vocation, soap-boiling being an accessory venture growing out of sundry extensive experiments in the use of leached ashes as a fertilizer. It was one of those tuneful mornings in early June when all nature joins in a glad doxology. The newly-arrived bobolinks, tipsy with glee, carroled in the meadows. The oriolts, hanging their hammocks in the elms, could scarcely work for singing. Gay breezes whispered love to the graceful young clover, then danced away to flirt with the coy hillfide birches. Everywhere were life and motion irradiated by the benignant sun. For Harvey Vance's studyweakened eyes there was too much glare, too much flutter. lie lost no * time in putting on his blue goggles. -1- ~-1-.. " >V 110 care.s J1 Uitjy uo uiane nieiuutv. like a frog?" mused he, as he settled them astride his aristocratic nose. " Thanks to them and to change of air, my pour optics are undoubtedly improving. I shall be back to college by fall. Ha ! ha ! if the fellows could only see me now !" And here, to the infinite surprise of staid Djbbin, his new master broke into a rollicking class song?a song abruptly ended as a turn in the road revealed a near farmhouse. "If I peddle soap, I'll peddle it with due decorum," soliloquized the youth, knocking upon the back door with the handle of his whip. To have seen the capable air with which ho measured ashes bushel by bushel, giving in exchange money, or gallons of soap, according to the customer's desire, one would have pronounced him bred to the soap business. Since his month's rustication at his Aunt Cliutter's he had made the ac' 1 ? ? - ^ ' > ? quamuuice ui uiust ui laiuicio a'ong the river, and these expressed their gratification at meeting "a judge's son that wasn't afraid to work," but outside the parish limits his triumphal march terminated. He was a stranger in a strange land. One man asked if he had bought out the deacon; a second hoped he wasn't proposing to run an opposition team; and the loyal widow Cleaves could hardly be persuaded to surrender her ashes, because, forsooth, she preferred to trade with Deacon Chutter. Obedient to his uncle's instructions, at her cottage the young man took a crossroad to Kendall's, a summer hotel, familiarly styled " The Eyrie." "You'll find it a long three miles," had been Mrs. Cleaves'parting remark. "Three miles, and not a neighbor I b tween here and there; I couldn't ' blame the widow if she should want to change her situation," mused the deacon's deputy, scanning the western horizon. "Shouldn't wonder if that * jluud yonder meant business. I thought the sun was too bright this morning. "Well, a little high-toned thunder will drown this everlasting racket." Facing about to wedge in position an empty soap barrel he observed two ladies driving up the hill in a basket phaeton. " That looks like Kendall's team that gave auntie such a panic this morning,'' thought lie. " Those ladies are ! some of his boarders, I suppose?Tom : Cavender's mother and sister, for aught I know. 1 have heard they were stopping a* the Eyrie. Goodness! j wouldn't it be a joke if I should fall in with them today !" Meanwhile the younger lady in the carriage was merrily commenting on j the quasi soap-man's active ligure, conspicuously and amply clad in the j deacon's canvas frock and overalls, j " I hope he isn't a perambulating ! maniac, mamma." " It's the very cart that frightened j the pony !" was the terrified response. I " Do let me get out. Lila! Oh ! oh !,? But .already (lie horse was backing down the hiil. Ilarvey sprang from the cart, and grasped the refractory animal by the bridle just in sfason to j prevent the < arriage from overturning in the ditch. "Thank you, sir- thank you very much," said the girlish driver, the] color rushing back to her face. " Now, | if you'll be kind enough to lead our | pony past your cart we shall be yet : more obl'ge 1." I "A pretty girl?stylish too, but j ' abominably patronizing." thought the ' young Sopliom r<*, stalking resentfully j at, the pony's head. " There, now your cart i:> behind us, j we shall have n > further trouble. I'm ; sorry to have detained you, sir. In- j finitely obliged." i In leaving the ladies Harvey me-, c-liani.-ally raised his hat, the deacon's { hat?alas ! yellowed and frayed by ' farm service. The touch set Hying the ashes upon its brim, giving our re- i ! ceding hi-ro the effect of being caught I away in a clo id. A little blinded, but i laughing behind his goggles, he went , back to old Dobbin and waited for the i ladies to go on in advance. Hut what ailed that surprising i pony? The young lady chirruped to j ' him; he would not budge. .She, 1 I snapped the whip; he stood as stiff as , the wooden horse of the Trojans. "Oh, daughter, daughter, he's balk- < ing!" cried the elder lady, who appeared to be an invalid. "If there is ] ; anything I'm afraid of, it's a balking ; horse.' < " Allow me, madame," said Harvey, again advancing. He twisted the animal's ear a mo- i' [ ment to divert his attention, then took ' him by the bit and led him several!1 ' paces. "See, mamma, the pony has got over j i his sulks. Thank you, sir." TIip vmiritr ladv resumed the reins: I the fractious quadruped promptly rei fused to stir. j "Let me get out, Lila; I won't go ' ' another step with him." " III- doesn't seem to be going,'' said the daughter, with a vexed laugh. ' i"You know you can't walk a rod. | j , You'll surely have a relapse, mamma, i' ' if you dm't sit still." I Again Ilarvey le.l the pony. Again i the tantalizing nag stitfenel in his j i j harness the instant Miss Lila t )ok the j ! reins. Many times was this farce re- j J peated, and many were the minutes j1 ; wasted. Meantime the sky had become j' ; overcast, and thunder was muttering 1 : in the distance. ! 1 "My mother has been very ill. If ; 1 she is caught in the shower she may l get her death," cried Miss Lila, in dis- ! < tress. "Oh, what shall we do?" j i | "If you will pardon the suggestion, | j I might drive you to the Eyrie, if that j i is your destination," said Ilarvey, with ; < a deprecatory glance at his masquer- j4 | ading costume. I} I " Oh, will you ? But there is your ; i horse and cart r" j " [ could come back for them." 11 " And with all mamma's shawls and j pillows the pha -ton is hardly wide 1 ' enough for us two." i " That is true; it is a lilliputian af- 1 fair." The youth was gravely testing 1 its light springs and bra es. " Is then- danger of breaking downy < Then you go with mamma, and I'll; i i drive the cart." ] " Lila Cavender! The idea 1" ex- j t postulated the invalid. 11 "Tom Cavender's mother and sister,! 1 by the ashes of my uncle ! What a 1 j scrape!" was the young soap merchant's inward ejaculations as he l awaited the ladieV pleasure. "What better can 1 do, mamma? j ! I shall ride famously. Unless you're ; afraid to trust me with your horse," , j the young lady added, with a glance | toward llarvey. . "Not in the least. He's far from . j being a tiery Bucephalus." I Struck with the incongruity of tlie j j remark from such a source Miss Lila ' ? I lost all control of her dimples. i \ j " That seat is suspended between the I j heavens and the earth, like Moham- j j ! med's coffin. mamma," she jested, by j ( i way of clocking her untimely mirth, j } i " One ought to be shot into it out of a < ! catapult." 11 To aid the young lady in \ j mounting, Harvey silently extended ! ^ ! a hand, whose exceeding smut- j \ ; tiness was intensifud by a seal ring j ( that glittered upon the little finger. : 1 ! Miss Lila glanced curiously at the fine [ ( i cameo w ith its quaint setting. Who ] \i*ne Miia nnnm.'ilnlis lifinrr who SDOfted ; 1 costly ornaments and quote.l from the 1 I classics ? And where, where had she ! seen that peculiar cameo befoie, or one J just like it? Ah ! now she recollected; j Tom had worn it home List vacation, : when he and his chum had exchange 1 j ! rings. But how had this soap-man bei come possessed of it ? Could it be that I he and Harvey Vance were identical ? ' Tom had said that Harvey was spending the summer in the neighborhood, j This must be he. Yes, she was sure of it. Obedient to the young man's will, that unaccountable pony darted away on the wings of the wind. Close bej hind, head down, tail up, followed old i Dobbin in a heavy canter which seemed ! to shake the very leaves on the trees. Charged upon by the empty soap bar! rel, Miss Lila slipped to the other side of the seat and clung to the ash-bin. ; A mile was passed, two miles. The j l gable-roofed Kyrie loomed in the dis| tance. On sped the pony; on lumbere'l old Dobbin ; on swooped the storincloud. A dozen guests crowded out < i upon the hotel piazza to witness the | exciting race. I "How white Mrs. Cavender looks !" cried one. " Where did she pick up that fantastic driver?" "Is that Miss Lila in the cart?"ex. claimed the gentleman addressed " Well, she's a girl of mettle ! Ha! IM ; liere comes me ram: I As the phavton dashed uplie rushed | I out with an open umbrella to escort I Mrs. Ca\ender into the house. In , mounting the steps she turned toward j Harvey. "You have done us a great service, [ sir. I assure you we are grateful. My daughter will see that you are recompensed for your time and trouble." " The dickens she will!" thought the deacon's indignant substitute. Standing beneath the dripping eaves, with rivulets of lye coursing down his cheeks, he assisted the moist young ! lady to alight. " I am?we are deeply j indebted to you," she stammered, blushingly. "My mother?" " lias taken no cold, I trust," said ' he, loftily. " Good-afternoon." j And horse, cart and driver disappeared kitchenward. In putting the cart to rights that evening Harold discovered a grimy object caught between the seat and the ash-bin. It proved to be a lady's pocket-handkerchief, bearing in one corner the name of "Lila Cavender." He handed it to his aunt for bleaching purposes, and received in return a letter from Tom. " My mother and sister have perched at the Eyrie, on Emden Hill," it ran. "My mother Is getting up from a fever, and is bound to get as high up as she ran. If you're anywhere near their secluded nest do peep in upon them. They'll be charmed to make your acquaintance." " I believe I'll take that handkerchief to Miss Cavender to-morrow, anntie, and have it off my mind," remarked Harvey, carelessly, as he folded the letter. " Well?or you might send it by the stage." But Harvey was deaf to the suggestion. The next evening, falsely attired, and minus spectacles, he presented himself at the Eyrie, and was cordially welcomed by both Mrs. Cavender and her daughter. Convinced that he was not recognized as squire of the soap cart, he saw no necessity for proclaiming himself such. In making his first call why should he introduce himself I as h clown y "You've mad.? quite a visit," was his aunt's salutation when Ilarvey enteied the sitting-room. "Was the girl gla 1 to get lier handkerchief?' " To tell the truth, auntie, I didn't give it to her." ''Humph! Strange how* a handsome young woman will weaken a chap's memory," observed the deacon, slyly, as his wife bandaged the oflending ankle. " 1 don't see but Harvey'll have to call again."' He did call again, and again, and again. Indeed, his rides to the Eyrie grew so frequent that his uncle one day teasingly counseled him to buy a second saddle-horse. " Or get a carriage that will hold two," amended his aunt. At which the youth flushed guiltily, confirming Mrs. Chutter in her private opinion that he was " very far gone." He went further yet that evening? even to the length of proposing to Miss Lila. The little cojuette only laughed, and bade him not to be absurd. AbuirdV lie would really like to know what she meant. Oh, they were both so young. Harvey looke.l hurt, and intimated that he, at least, was nearing the downhill of life. And he didn't know her well pnmirrh. ~ O The youth eagerly protested that he knew her well enough to love her. " Jteaide, I'm not sure but I like anather young man better." "Oh, if you care for somebody else, ivliv then?why, in that case?" Harvey found the English language terribly intri< ate, and rose with precipitation. " I met him first, you know," said Miss Lila, dropping her eyes apologetically, " and I am under great obligations to him." " Oh, it's all right. You're all right, [ mean; but I think Tom might have told me." " Told you what?'' " About this other fellow."' " There isn't much to tell," said Miss Lila, demurely. " He hasn't come forward." Harvey drew on his glove ivith a mystified air. " Jiut 1 am looking for him any day now, lor the Eyrie is nearly out of soap." " You bewitching little tease !" .Miss Lila's cheeks were eddying with dimples deep enough to drown a nan's heart. 1'erhaps they made Ilarkey's head swim. I can't say. I only know that he laid hold of the young lady's hands at that moment in the most giddy fashi on, and she seemed ji;ite willing to let him steady himself n this manner. " Well, Harvey, I expect to be on ny legs again to-morrow," observed ;he facetious deacon, at breakfast; ' and when I call at the Eyrie I guess rtuM l.ottor lit-. m<i orivp that, vouncr mvvi/v. -v. 0- - ? c v >man her handkerchief. "Thank you very much; I attended o that Lvt night." " it didn't seem just right to keep ler out of it so long, llarvey," renarked his aunt, dryly, as sh passed lis coffee. " You ought to have paid ler interest." " Humph! don't you he a mite concerned, wife," said the dea on, with a mischievous wink. 44 Depend upon it, (larvey has squared his accounts with ;hat young woman before this, and :aken her note of hand. He's driven msiness since that day I set him up in ;he cart."?Bazar. Care or the Hair. When not the consequence of old age aaldness is a disease, and it is a far more terrible enemy to overcome than white hair. No healthy person should uegin to he bald till after lifty years of age, and yet a general lamentation irises of young people, barely in their ;wenties, losing their hair. Ilere, therefore, must be some delect of con-LH...A.Z? JlllUMUll, 5UU1C UJSCa-tO UL wiu uau, ;hat should not exist. Headaches, ind indeed almost every kind of suffering, whether of the mind onjfbody, frequently cause the liair to fall. Too much study or thought or application )f any kind will have a similar effect. Women are less subject to baldness han their brothers. Man works more ivith his brains, generally speaking, ;han woman. He also indulges in lrink or other excesses more than ivomen, and, ;is a rule, k'*eps his head covered more than women do. An [talian proverb says that hats kill hair. Hygienic precautions may do much toward maintaining the hair thick. rh? writer knew of a man who kept lis hair thick, almost black, by never rearing a hat all his life. At eighty .le married a third wife and had a ;hird lainily of children. You must lot expe: t, however, that your hair rt-ill never fall, even in health, nor leed you be dismayed when you see :iair come off when brushing or coinbng. Ilair falls at certain se:isons as l,msl Inntrno -fVivm tfOOtf 1l?nL*0 mnm icau 1CUTCO IIUIU vw muuv .Vu..* tor new ones to grow. If, however, fou see too many come o!T and the fall ontinues too long, then cut the hair is you would cut a faded plant; it will ;row stronger, richer afterward. It' people cut their hair regularly liairIressers would have little to do, and wig-makers would be ruined. Kre]uent washing in cold salt water is dso recommended to prevent the hair from falling, and daily friction is good. How tlio tzar Looks. Alexander III., czar of Kussia, is six feet high and is deep-che;ted and broad-shouldered. His light gray eyes resemble those of his mother's relations at Hesse Darmstadt more than his father, the late emperor, who had dark blue eyes ^sucn as m<; r reaui call blue black) which are to be seen in the pictures of Alexandria 1., Paul and Peter the (Jreat. Jn figure and style lie is also like his uncle, the late grand duke of Hesse Darmstadt. The shape of his head, which is above the average size, like most of his family, is rather peculiar. His forehead is high. A small mouth with extremely good teeth, which he only shows when he laughs. His hair is auburn, and his complexion very fair. In St. Petersburg he is always attired in uniform, but when on a holiday lie weirs the black and white shepherd's plaid, s ieh a favorite with English noblemen, a black tie, white hat, but no gloves though he carries them, ring or watcii. That he has been no carpet soldier is evident from the frost bites on the third and fourth fingers on his left hand and a scar 011 his temple, where a Turkish bullet grazed his head. Spare Leers. A little girl was standing at the depot to see her father and a gentleman friend off, when she suddenly ob served to her father, referring to his friend, who was tall and lank, "If the cars run off the track and any legs must be broke, 1 hope they'll be Mr. IPs." "What's that for?" said the startled II. " Because," she added, artlessly, "Aunt Mary says you hav.> a pair of spare legs." Tho "Ail aboard 1" of the conductor pr ivente l, any explanation. ^ 2? FASHION NOTES. Young girls dress their hair close in braids or torsades looped up in the baek. The most fashionable stockings are of silk or lisle thread in plain colois or black. Flowers and lace inter more and more into the decorati ms of evening dressc<. The prevailing colors in furniture call for brass, mahogany and Louis XVI. styles. Colors are combined as much as possible in the ribbon decorations of white house dresses. One of the prettiest novelties in costume is the basket of flowers attached to the dress. Shoulder knots and trimmings are revived, but they are becoming to slender ligures only. I (rides' dr.-sses are dcmi-trained, high in the neck, and with half or threequarters long sleeve?. " Xeuralgia hood " is the appropriate name bestowed on a.soft black plush hood, lined inside and quilted. Xovelty trimmings of printed cotton sateen bands, with grounds of indigo blue and Turkey red, are used to trim i...re t J.nlnrr UIIIL 1 U??UIC ailxn, ?/wu Manila uuu? applique to the silk, with gold braid or cord. An exquisite toilet for a rosy brunette is of olive vigogne, with silk galloon trimmings in old gold, worn with an old gold straw hat, .pale gold feathers, and golden brown velvet lining in the hem. The Chine>e and Japanese styles of headdress are in high vogue among ultra-fashionable New York women, and the stars and heads of the pins they use to thrust through the topknots are often studded with diamonds, rubies and pearls of rare value. A new development of the jersey is an open lace work, tight-fitting bodice, made in all shades, for evening wear. It is without sleeves, and is intended to wear over another basque, buttoning up at the back, with a quantity of small silk buttons, jer.-ey style. Spun silk stockings of all colors, embroidered with guld-col .red silk, the favorite pattern being a cluster of wheat ears, which extends up the front of the stocking for nearly half a yard in length, are popular. Thread hose of all hues, exquisitely embroidered, thre.iten to supersede Balbriggan. iunong me most cusujr munus mi summer evening toilets are zephyr brocades and brocatelles, with brilliantly colored exotics on dark grounds; magnificent Indian tissues, woven with threads of gold or silver; heavy otto mans in all the new artistic shades; lam pas, with satin stripes figured with velvet (lowers and damasks, with huge ,single flowers or bouquets in clusters, raised on sheeny satin grounds of j rimrose, pineapple, cinnamon and golden brown, tearose, shrimp-pink, cameo, mauve and endless shades of green, A pretty and serviceable fabric for adorning summer dresses of white organdie, French muslin, and the like, is a new very sheer cambric, with a solid embroidery covering its entire surface from selvage to selvage, the embroidery being done in exquisite Swiss, Venetian, old Flemish and Irish point patterns. This material will be used lor jersey-cut bodices to be attached, to skirts covered with rulttes embroidered in a pattern to correspond, the joining of skirt and bodice being concealed by a sash drapery of extremely wide moire or satin ribbon. Children's entire costumes will be made of this elegant material. Many of the new parasols of silk and satin arc lined with Watteau-patterned foulards, with laced arranged on the outside in f.in plaitings. These are e-pecially designed for garden party use, coaching and like occasions, and not for the promenade. Other styles are of broche satin, edged with marabout, and all are large and coup-shape, witn the llaos on each gore arranged in the same way as last year, xuu prettiest sunshade seen thus far this season was one covered with biscuitcolored broche satin, wrought sparingly here and there with gold embroidery, and bordered with a wide band of leather trimming of the same color. It was lined with the new China blu", and made a perfect bit of color. Population of European Cities. The statistical researches of Behm and Wagner show the following totals for the population of the great cities of Europe: Cities Population. London 3,K32,440 Paris 3,225,910 Berlin 1,222,;.00 Vienna 1,103,110 St. Petersburg 87U.570 Moscow (ill,970 Constantinople G00,0>3 Glasgow /WW),940 Liverpool 652,430 Naple; 493,110 ITauibarg 410,120 Birmingham 4CO,7CO Lyons 372,890 Madrid 367.280 Budapest 300,580 Marseilles 357,520 Manchester 341,510 Warsaw 339.340 ? **>i em Lille 177,1)40 Salford 17)5,2:50 Belfast 174,110 Florence H 9,000 Ri?n 1CS,?10 Stockholm 10N,770 Prague 102,320 Brussels 101,820 Kinyston-upon-Hull 154,.HO Valencia 151$,4G0 Antwerp 150,050 Adrianople 150,000 Leipzig 14!),0H0 Rotterdam 14^,000 Nowcastle-on-Tyne 145,180 Cologne : 144,710 Kcjeniirsberg 140, 910 Dundee 139,120 Mngdebourg 137,130 Frankfort-on-Main i:!G,H20 Toilonso 130,0:0 Venice 132,8 ? Wosthnm Kherson 12S.080 Portsmouth 127,950 Ghent 127,0*0 Kit f 127,250 Messina 120,;'0) Bremen 123,'i9'J B)lo?na 123,270 Hanover 122.840 Leicester 11-2,.'150 Nantes 121,900 Kaint-Etienno 120,120 Seville ll.s,8.)0 Stuttgart 1I7,:'01 S mderland 110,210 ijiejre The Hnirue na,4<'><> Kischinef 112,110 Olillmm Ill.:t41 l);mt/.i?r ios,:',to Brighton 107,^*50 (Ip)rto 10">.810 Ho I ton 105,21') Rouen l< 4,7;"jO Strasbourg 104,470 Hlaekburn 101,010 Havre 1)2,(110 Kharkow 101.170 Catania 100,2-10 There are in Europe, according to this cal illation, ninety-two cities the population of which exceeds 100,000 inhabitants, and four cities with a population of over-1,000,000. (Jre.it, Uritain heads the list in respe:t to the density of town population. The English sparrow has found his way into every city and town in tin South. SELECT SIFTINGS. The gauntlet was first introduced in 1225. Insects form an important food of the liantus, a tribe inhabiting Southeastern Africa. It is considered a disgrace for a Hindoo girl not to be married when she is eleven or twelve years old. The Indians, believing the noise made by telegraph wires is the voices of departed braves, never disturb them. Idolatry was revived in Britain by the Saxons about 47:3, but it gave way alter the eominir of Aucrustin. in 597, A California editor states that Chinamen freshen up stale llsh and eliminate their odor by dipping them in diluted uric acid. In probably no other place in the world but Strobeck, Germany, does chess form a regular course of study in the schools. An electric light about the size of a small bean has been constructed and used successfully in illuminating interior portions of the human body. One letter out of every 800 sent is unclaimed in the office to which it goes. One letter in 283 sent turns up at the dead letter oflice. One letter out of 3,100 sent is held for postage at the oflice of mailing, and this amounts to nearly 3( 0,000. The natives of Northern India have found light woolen clothing to be far more h althy and comfortable than the colt'jn which has I e?n worn from time immemorial. Inconsequence, themanufacture of light, cheap woolen goods has greatly increased there. A curious custom prevails along the seacoast of Massachusetts in regard to selling pools on fishermen?to see which one of them will catch the first fish while out on an excursion. In a number of the seaport towns regular exchanges are established, where this pool-selling goes on, and each man in every fishing excursion that goe3 out is bought up by the adventurous gamblers in the same manner that horse3 entered for a race are bought. These pools often run up as high as five or six hundred dollars each, according to the number of fishermen, and the first man that catches a fish is declared th? winner, and his backer takes the pot; the man who gets second place, however, takes some share. WISE WORDS. Be silent and safe; silence never betrays you. Ailliclion, like the iron smith, shapes as it strikes. It is a crime to consider any wickedness a sign of ability. If you boast of a contempt for the world, avoid getting into debt. It is giving to gnats the fang.s of vipers. The temperate are the most truly luxurious. By abstaining from most tilings, it is surprising how many things 1 we enjoy. j A loving act does more good than a i fiery exhortation. What mankind neids is not more good talkers, but more good Samaritans. Old age is the night of life, as night is the old age of the day. Still, nigh is full of magnificence, and for many it is more brilliant than the day. Aim high. You may not touch the J mark, but by a high aim you will come ne arer to it than by not trying at all. Then by making the effort many persons have come nearer to it than at first anticipated. Hope rises and falls by the accidents of war, as the mercury of the thermometer changes by the accidents of heat and cold. Let us rather t;ike for our symbol the sailor's barometer, | which faithfully forewarns him of the j tpirmnnt. ,'inrl fives him unerring nrom- i ALxiim Amsterdam 317,010 Dublin 314,GCO Leeds Ii0i).l;$0 Rome i'0.),470 Sheffield 2^4.410 Breslau 272,910 Turin 2:",2,81:0 Lisbon 240,^10 Oil |?fV\ l'alerino Copenhagen 234,850 Munich 2:50,020 Bucharest 221,800 Bordeaux 220, !>C0 Dresden 220.820 Barcelona 215,9 X) Edinburgh Hl/?, J/iO Bristol 200,500 Odessa liM.OlO Klberfield 180,480 Nottingham 18(5,<?G0 Bradford 18.i.0:(0 170.510 | 1 ' u ? , ise of serene skies and peaceful seas, j It is undeniable that tlio more fully we come to know the average man or woman, the more unexpected good we lind in t^iem, and the greater allowance we see ought to he made for their defects. One good rule, then, for securing justice in this matter would ba to speak no ill, and, a< far as possible, to think no ill, of strangers or enemies, simply because in the on-case we have | no adequate means of judging, and in j the other we are disqualified from doing j eo by our feelings. Not a Native. A man called on the secretary of state, and, drawing the high oflicial aside, said: j " 1 heard somebody say that er man what was born in a fureign country could not be gov'ner of the Xcwnited States; is tliar any truth in what I heered?" "No one who was born in a foreign country can be President of the Unite! States," replied the secretary. " Wall, tnat strikes me purty hard, fur I ain't ?,'Ot nigii s:ch encouragement ter go to the night school what I jined i-onie time ago. I don't say that 1 ever would'T been President, still I'd feel a heap better efl thought that the thing was in reach. Wall, sir, since I first heered that it bothered me powerful,' an' my wife is so pestered that slip's fallen away to a mere skeletoi.." " Where were you born?" asked the secretary. " Down here in Saline county." "Saline county is not foreign," re plied the secretary, with a smile. "Vou are a a native of tho United States, and are legible, so far as birth is conj cerivd, to the highest ollice in the I land." "(iimma your hand, pardner. I You've lifted a load as heavy as a \ horse-Mock oll'en my shoulders. I'll go right home an' tell my wife, an' then buy her a head of cabbage. Vase she ii'n't eat nothin' since, we heered the distractin' news. It'll be wuth a dollar to see that woman eat."?Ar- | kantnw Tract hr. A Chance for Inventors. In the heavy thunderstorms which cceurred in various parts of the country, says a New York Sun editorial, the lightning manifested its well-known 1 allinity for petroleum. Three large j * ?- a? r I oil tanks were su'iick. uuu ui tiii-iu was near Olean, in this Slate, anotlier at Muncy Station, I'enn , and the third | in the yard of tlie Standard Oil company at Com/iunipaw, X. .7. This last one had very little oil in it, and was not eonsuiiHd, but the others, with their contents, were burned. The a'tractive inlhienc9 exerted by ! petroleum, or its vapor, which renders these great oil tanks so liable to destruction by thunderbolts, does not : seem to be vi ry well understood. If I it was, we should hardly he without | any c.Ticient means of guarding such structures against lightning. The subjiHt is well worthy of attention and study on the part of men of science. At present the safeguards are so ina lequate that an o'l tank is not only very likely to be destroyed by any thunderstorm, but to act also as a firebrand to every building anywhere near it. The inventor who devises a method i which shall afford to oil tanks absolute ; protection against lightning, ought to be able to make a million of dollars by tho invention. A l'rcclse Witness. A witness in court, who had been cautioned to give a precise answer to very question, and not talk about what ho might think the question meant, was interrogated as follows: "You drive a wagon?" "No, sir, I do not." " Why, sir, did you not tell my learned friend so this moment V" " No, sir, I did not." " Now, sir, I put it to you on your oath: i^o you drive a wag m?" " No, sir." "What is your occupation, then?" "I drive a )W*" J,''3''- r ^ '/ ' - ' - - A . . .**'; ' ?. ....... . NEWS OF THE WEEK. Eastern and Middle States A biot among Italian railroad laborers at Esorus, N. Y., caused by exhilaration resulting from prolonged drinking, ended in the death of two men and injuries to many others. Amono the applicants for admission to the West Point military nc:idemy who have paBsed tho examination is John H. Alexander, a young colored man from Ohio. Eight men were arraigned in the criminal court at Wilkesbarre, Penn., charged with riot and with participating in the murder of William Briggs, a merchant, in Shickshinny on February 10. Each prisoner demanded a separate trial, which the court granted. A dam covering several acres in the outskirts of Wilkesbarre, Pa., gave way, nnd the water rushed into several mine openings, washing out the props and causing the earth to sink for half an acre. One house and many gardens were engulfed, and, as it takes from three to six months to pump out an overflowed mine, the damage done may amount to millions. TnE Pennsylvania senate has adopted a Republican congressional apportionment, | and the house a Democratic legislative apportionment. Dn. Isaac J. Hathyway, in the cellar of whose residence in Philadelphia the remains of a number of infants were recently found buried, was convicted of criminal malpractice, and wns sentenced to pay a fine of $f>C0 and undergo an imprisonment of seven years?the fullest extont of tho law. A cargo of ten whicli reached rsow lorK a few days ago was examine! by a tea appraiser, in conformity with the law recent!;/ passed by Congress. Of the cargo 3,100 packages, having a retail valne of $22,030, were rejected. These were green teas, and under analysis showed an adulteration with sand, grave!, exhiusted leaver., nnd oven dirt and raste artistically molded. Maud Lennox, the young daughter of John Lonnon, of Lockport, New York, died the other morning in convulsions from blood poisoning, caused by a prick of a tack in her forehead received the previous week. The case is a very unusual one. The Harvard college crew easily defeated the Yale college crew in the annaal fourtaile, eight-oared boat race, at New London, Conn. A VIOOEOU8 war against the trade dollar has been inaugurated in New York, all classes now refusing to take it, and unfortunate holders of the coin being unable to get rid of it except at a reduction of ten or fifteen oents on its face value. Sout'i and Weit By the floods on the Illinois side of the Mississippi river six villages were inundated, from 2.C00 to 15,000 lamiues ariven irom meir homes, hundreds of thousands of bushels of grain ready for the reaper wero destroyed, and more than U,OOU head of cattle were drowned. The receiver for McGeoch, Everingham & Co., the suspended Chicago lard speculators, Enys their liabilities are over ?f5,000,0u0. The Planters' Cottonseed Oil works at Algiers, La., was struck by lightning during a thunder-storm, set on firo and entirely destroyed. This was the largest cottonseed oil mill in existence. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. Colonel B. L. Fabintiolt, of Essox county, Ya , 1 caring of throats made by a blacksmith with whom he had some trouble, went to his shop armed with a five-pound weight; bat before ho could US3 it, his opponent assaulted him with a hnmnier and crushed his skull, killing him instantly. A cyclone which passed over Elberton, Ga., killed a colored man named Bell and blew down sixteen buildings, including three churches. General James Connebs, ex-attorneygeneral of South Carolina, and one of the toost prominent lawyers in the State, died the other morning at Richmond, Va. A gravel train, with about one hundred Chinamen on board, ran into a wood train near Missoula, Montana, instantly killing eighteen Chinamen and wounding about twenty-five others. The engineer of the gravel train was killed and the fireman badly hurt. A dispute about the boundary line of adjoining property occurred at Collinsvilb, Ala., between A. B. Hall and so.i on one Fide and Bob and John Mullens on the other. Pistols wore draw.i, and thres of the inen were killed mid the fourth mortally wounde.1. Ax the Iowa Republican Slate convention in Des Moines the present Slate oilicers, headed by Governor Shorinan, were renominated by ncclamatioa, and a prohibition, lariff-proteclion, civil service platform was adopted witlio.it dissent. Great excitement prevails in Bates couutj-, Mo., over the discovery of petroleum, a *ell which had Leon sunk GOO feet producing what was pronounced by experts to be crude oil in its purest state. Wells are being sunk in every direction, anu property nus rapiuiy udvanced in value. G.)veuno? Huiiuakd, of Minnesota, has been renominated at the Republican State convention. A life-size recumbent statue of General Robert E. Lee was unveiled at his tomb in Lexington, Va., in presence of 0,000 persons. General Jubal A. Early presided, Major John W. Daniel delivered the oration, and a poem by Father Ryan was read. Aftzj? a seven days' te3t a Baltimore cow Is doclared the champion butter producerThe cow was milked at intervals of eight hours, yielding :5:-7 pounds of milk, from which was produced twenty-five pounds and t,vo and eleven-twelfths ounces of butter. The cow was bred in New Jersey, and was purchased last fall by her present owners for ?2,0.'0. She is pronounced the best butter, producing cow in the United States. Mrs. 1'ope, of Milan, Tenn., was stung on the nose by a bee and died in live minutes. While C. II. Ross, a successful merchant of Lampasas, Texas, was at table with his fam'ly, his wife, who w is in delicate health, shot and killed herself in her room. Mr. Ross rushed out, alarmed the neighbors, re (timed and shot himself denu over ms wue s body. Prom Washington. The Rov. \V. H. Egleston, of Williamslown, Mas?., has been appointed chief of tho forestry division of the department of agriculture. Pbkbident Abtiiub has issued an order reducing the number of internal revenue districts from ll'G to eighty-two. Secbetaby Folger has directed Collector Robertson, of New York, to co-operate with the New York emigration board in keeping out pauper emigrants. Those emigrants at Castle Garden who prove to bo paupers, the "secretary says, must be sent back to Great iritain. Fob mit/appropriating the funds intrusted to his charge Paymaster Wnsson has been sentenced to dismissal and to hard labor for eighteen months in some prison. pottafasteb-GENERAi. Gbksham has ordered an investigation of charges against Panrcnn. nf New York, made by the special agent of the department, who alleges that Mr. Pearson was a lending director of a private postoflice. It is sought to be established that Mr. Pearson is or was personally interested in the private delivery of letters in New York to the detriment of the city's postoflice revenues. Foreign News. Gold coinage has been resumed in tho ' English mint, after two years without any. Owing to the rapid iucroase of emigration, the Canadian government has decided to mnko no further grants to colonization and railway companies in the Northwest for the J pre-ent. A number of warehouses used for storing herrings and cotton situated on an island in tho mouth of tho Neva, Russia, together with several mills and factories, .1,000 bales of cotton and four or live vessels, were destroyed by firo, cnusing a total estimated loss of 1/03,000 rubles. A gambmno dispute at Curragh, Ireland, between Dublin and North Mayo militiamen, resulted in a bloody fight, which was only quelled after tho officers threatened to firo upon the men, seventeen of whom were so verely injured. Advices from Bolivia, South America, 6tato that groat lawlessness prevails in the department of Beni, where Indians of both sexes are being stolen in great numbers and io droves as slaves to work either in the vicinity or on plantations in the heart of Brazil. Eight persons were killed and many mora injured by a railroad collision in Cuba. An officer was recently sent from Manzanilla to Santiago, Cuba, with $14,0C0 in gold belonging to the administration. While the officer was leaning over the rail of thq steamei the strap of the satchel which contained the money broke, and the money dropped into the sea. At a woman's rights meeting in London addresses were delivered by Miss Snsan B. Anthony and Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the well-known American woman suffragists. Six fishermen were drowned at Trepassy, Newfoundland, by the swamping of their boat in a heavy sea. Recent British operations against Chief Gbpowe, in Sierra Leone, Africa, were attended with great atrocities on the part of native allies, who butchered nnl ~ritihted , all tho male persons taken prisoners, xno I allies loss over 100 men killed daring the at, 1 tack upon the main fort, which was captured. Eighty-two of the enemy were killed by a single shell. Deaths from yellow fever at the rr^of fifteen a day are reported from Vera Crnz, Mexico. General Sib Edwabd Sabine, president of the British Royal society, is dead in his ninety-sixth year. The Paris city council have appropriated $4,000 to send a delegation of workmen to Boston next year to attend the foreign exhibition. The American riQe team arrived safely in Qaeenstown, and were all in excellent health and spirits after their ocam voyage. From Qaeenstown they proceeded to Liverpool, accompanied by Sir Henry Halford and Mr. Waller, of the British team. At Liverpool a waim reception was given the team by a committee of citizens headed by the mayor. An Alexandria dispatch states that a panic prevails over the prevalence of cholera in Eg* pt, and many Europeans are fleeing from the city. All the cabinet ministers have been recalled to Cairo, and the festivals usually held on the anniversary of the khedive's accession to the throne will be stopped. Demetbio Ozabio, an officer in the Yucatan army, was arrested at Leziruen for assaulting a young lady. He bribed the guard, and, with a party of desperadoes, attacked the authorities, murdering the political chief, Senor Rosaro, his brother, Mayor Espito, and Pedro Navrez, and wounding othe-s. Cabey, Ihe informer and ex-member of the Dublin council, whose testimony caused the conviction and execution of the men who killed Lord Cavendish and Mr. Burke, has left Dublin for America, it is believed. POLITICAL MATTERS. Iowa ItcimbMrnii State Convention. The Iowa Republican State convention at Des Moines was the largest ever held of the rarty, the number of delegates present being 844. The Hon. John A. Kasson was called to the chair as temporary presiding officer. At the afternoon session Colonel D. B. Henderson, of Dubuque, was chosen permanent chairman. Buren G. Sherman was renominated for governor by acclamation. The present lieutenant-governor, 0. H. Manning, nnl the present State 5uperin(e:;dent of schools. John Akers, we:e nlso renominated by acclamation. Judge J. G. Reed, of Couucil Bluffs, was nominated on tho first formal ballot for judge of the supreme court. The platform ad >pted reaffirms the Republican platform of 1 -10 and insists on its enforcement in its re'ation to ihe revenue affairs of the nation, and demands that ample 1 rotection be afforded to American citizens. Polygamy i* denounced, 'lho prohibitory constitution-d amendment is supported, i t being declared that the Republican party of [own acc3i.ts the result of the vote on that amendment as final. It is also stated that Repaid.cans recognize the moral nnd political obligation which requires the next geneial assembly to again pass the amendment. Railroad discrimination is denounced, and a law again >t railroad passes is favored. The Democratic pa;ty is e!o:;ounced for "its persistent efforts to so change the customs laws as to establish f>ee trade'': and the declaration ismade that the Repaid cans of Iowa "insist npon such revenue laws as win encour.vge a nenean indu-trio; and proteit American labor in order that the American workinginan shall have a fair day's wages for a fair day's work." The pa.-s.igo of revenue leformand civil service reform laws by Congress is praised. A more favored pension law is favored and an amendme: t of the criminal laws of the State is suggested. The Slate administration is praised for low taxes. The last plank of the platform states ''that the wise and conservative administration of President Arthur meets with the hearty approval of the Republicans of Iowa, and we co dially approve tho promise given by him to the delegation appointed by the Philadelphia convention of Irish-American citizens that the sul)j ct grievance contained in the r; solution of said bo ly presented to him should have thorough i nd exhaustive investigation and such action as our government may lawfully take." FRIHIITFCL DISASTER. Forty-acvcn Persons Burned nt a Puppet Show in Italy. Intelligence of a frightful calamity at a place of amusement in the town of Dorvio on the shoro of tho Lake of Como, Italy, has been received. Tho advices of tho d.paster state that while a performance was in progress at a puppet theatre at that placo tho structure took fire and was entirely destroyed. Forty-seven persons lost their lives nnd twelve oiners were mjureu. The show was held in a large hall over a tavern. There were ninety persons in the hall. A Bengal light was used to represent fire, and sparks from this set fire to a quantity of straw and firewood stored in an adjacent room. On perceiving the flames the showman shouted "Fire!" but tho spectators thought the cry was merely a realistic detail of the show and remained seated. Cries of fire were soon raised outsido the hall. The audience, thinking an affray had arisen in the street, barred with a heavy table j the door leading from the hall. They did i not discovor their mistake until the flames burst into the room. After the fire was extingnished forty-seven charred corpses were found near the table, includingtho bodiesof the showman and his wife. A large portion of the dead bodies were those ot women and children. The wounded | were hurt by loaping through the windows. A child was flung out of a window by its mother and fell upon a pile of straw. This is the only one of the-spectators in the hall that was not hurt. FOWL FREAKS. Mr. P. B. Powell, residing about a mile northeast of Troy, Ala., has a chicken with four legs?three on the right and one on the left side?that is two woeks old and thriving I as well as the remainder of the brood. The Rome (Ga.) Courier says: Mr. James D. Kirkpatrick, of Kirk's Grove, Alabama who makes a specialty of raising line game chickens, has a fine game hen that is quite a curi sity in that she growls or barks like a j dog.^ ^ 4 "'???? folia Imw o vf?+nrnn I .V ??UMCIU liua niUi,T tvtin nun i. ? v?w.M.. , sitter hatched out three well-formed bird?, j representing n cross between a chicken and i a duck. They were web-footed, with bills somewhat flat, but not so much so as a genuine duck's. The Milton < X. C.) C/ico?n'c/fdeclares that I Solomon Merritt, of Leasburg, has a hen that had her lirst brood of chickens the ee.'- | onl year of the war. To day the same hen is the mother of a brood of eleven little chickens that follow her, and she is still lively and active. The St. Johns (Fla.) UVeMj/saysMr. A. L Ximanies has a duck a few days old which has three distinct legs well formed. Two are in their proper places and the third one i-; attached to the hip and projects over the wing. The duck walks about and appears to be strong and healthy. The Nebraska City (Kan.) News says: Mr Prank McCartney, 1'epaty county clerk, informs us to-dny that at his home near Wyoming there is an olJ hen that has hatched out a three-legged chicken that is perfectly forme.l and well developed. The little chick uses all three legs in navigation. In November last a Montreal lady Ios'? a gold ring which had beon sent to her by a son in California, and after looking for it for a time gave up all hope.i of ever feeing it again. Recently she opened the gizzard of a chicken she was dressing for dinner, when out popped the missing ring. The Dahlonega (Ga.) Si(i>ial says that Phil Bvrd, of that place, sold a duck to little Ben j Wnivir. Bon's mother killed it for culinary | purposes, and found in its gizzard n fchIo of gold nearly as large as a urain of corn, though not so thick. Mr. Byrd has more of these gold-bearing ducks, but the probability is that the price of ducks in Dahlonega has advanced. i The Albia (Iowa) Union says: Mr. Milton Hanks, two miles east of Albia, has left cn our table a curiosity indeed?a hen egg, the main body of which is about the rizo of a quail's egg, alittleover an inch in diameter, two and a quarter inches in^ength. It is in shape about like the old-fashioned gourds in use with our grandfathers for drinking water at the spring. It has a handle like a gourd. THE NATIONAL GAME. The Cincinnati and Columbus clubs have pfopped playing championship games in their cities on Sunday. Thf. Boston club has engaged Smith, of the Holyoke team, who last season played as change catcher for the Yale nine. MaKaofb Fehouson, of the Philadelphia club, visited New Haven to try and indnce Messrs. Jones and Hubbard, of thechampion Yalcs, to become professionals for the next ten weeks, but ho failed in his mission. Ath inuing game played at St. Louis b3tween the St. Louis club and the Metropolitans, of New York, was stubbornly contested throughout and resulted as follows: Metropolitan.. .0 10200021 1?7 St. Louiu 0 00023010 3?8 A joint stock baseball association 1 as been organized at Richmond, Va., to be known as the Virginia Baseball association. The association will apply at once for a charter, and will make arrangements to secure a Ftrong nine to play matches with Northern nnd Western professional clubs. The baseball excitement is running high at Richmond. Fiintnrfl nt ronant cramps bv the Amflri can association was that between the St. Louis and Metropolitans at the former city, which the New Yorkers won after a game of thirteen innings. The following is the fft?Loui3 1 00000000000 0?1 Metropolitan. ..0 0 0 1 00 0 00 0 0 0 X?2 Base hits?St. Louis. 11; Metropolitan, 8. Errors?St Louis, 4; Metropolitan, 2. Pitchers?Keefe and McGinms. LEAGUE CLUB BECOBD. The ofBcinl record of the league championship games pluyed up to the 24th is as follows: CLUB. . | ? t | |j? a ? |ll gl;2 -? tj S'S 15 2 g ? 2j? 3, 'g 11 a I ? a '2 '.2 o' ? -3 2 IM n jo O Q;? * Pi o,o BoBton - 3 2 3 5 1 6 0 2036 Buffalo 2?| 2 3 1 3 4 1 1633 Chicago 4 0,? 0 3 4 6 2i 19 36 Cleveland 4 3; 1- 2355 22 35 Detroit 2 0 3 1- 3 5 2 16 ?7 New York 4 2 3 2 4?01 1635 Philadelphia.... 031220? 0838 Providence 0 6 5 2 4 6 5|? 2738 Games lost.... 1617 17 1321 19 3011 ? AMEB1CAN ABSQOIAnOS HEOOBD. | ' .1 cira- ? d ill. ? ? N J.llllig'9 8 8 ta ? ? 5 o< * >-5 a a = 3|.a-3^j|u ss < < a o o a 2 ? o o Allegheny ? 0 4 1 3 2 iil 1 13 34 Athletio 5? 633 161 2334 Baltimore 2 1 ? 1 2 ll 2; 0 9 ?5 Cincinnati 342? 6 2143133 Columbus 4 1 1 1? 2 0 2 11 ?5 Eclipse 1 2 6 2 4?I 4 3 22;33 Metropolitan ....4 1 4 2 3 0,? 1 15]34 St. Louis 2 2 4 2 4 3 6 ? 22|34 ? Games lost.... 2l!ll 26 12 24 llll912?!?' COLLEGE CHAMPIONSHIP BEOOBD. The champion Yales sustained one defeat, losinp thoir last game with the Princetons, played on the Polo grounds in New York, by a score of 3 to 2. This game, however, did not affect the championship, which had already been won by Yale. The result of this series of game gives Yale the championship of the American College association for another year. Princeton takes second place, Amherst third, Harvard fourth, and Brown last. The complete record of the season's work follows: F" ~'t n a 2;?i'5 Clot. g g! a d: S i S ? c'-s i: g gig * "C;8 8 2 :?!? M no o Yale ! - 1! 2 2 2 7| 8 Princeton ! 1?} 1{ 2 2, fi, 8 Amherst 0 1?,12 4 8 Harvaid 0 0 1? j 12 8 Brown [?( 0 0( 1? 1! 8 Gam63 lost I II 2: 4 6; 7 | MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, Tom Karl, the tenor, will summer at Worcester, Mas*. Mlle. Modjeska, Mr. Earrett and Mt Wyndham are in San Francisco. A New York paper pays M. B. Cnrti9 has made $140,0C0 with " Sam'l of Po.?en." Mary Anlerson lias crashed Oscar Wilde by refusing the new drama which he wrote. James Collier will have four companies on the road next season playing "The Lights o' London." Fanny Davenport is of opinion that the general acting in America is quite as good as in England. The Metropolitan Opera-house, New York, will have a seating capacity of 3,050, and will cost $1,000,000. Bjobsstkrne Bjornson, the well-known author, has been writing a three-act comedy called "The Glove." Gertrude Griswold, the A merican singer, has signed an engagement at Brussels, and will make her debut there as Ophelia in August. Boom's handsome thefttro in New York hns been torn down. The granite fronts, which originally cost $15,000, were sold foi $1,000. Lotta intends traveling through Asia, as that climate is considered very beneficial for thiojt diseases. She will be accompanied by lier pnysician. The theatre which is to be built for George Edgar in New York city will cost, it is said, ^.'.00,000. It will be constructed of iron, Philadelphia pressed brick and oak. It will not bo opened until the fall of 1885. Tue queen of Roumnnia, writing under the name of Carmen Silvia, has invited the Swedish composer, Hallstroem, to compose the music for a new opera written by her, and of which the action is laid in Roumania. Madame Nilsson writes from London that she will leave for America on August 18. Prior to her depaiture she will spend the time at various watering places. She emphatically declares it to be a "downright fib" that Mr. Gyo has gained any suit against her. The Brooklyn Eagle says that indications of an overwhelming Shakesperean revival next year grow apace. In the first place, the two greatest Shakespearean actors in the English tongue will be cleverly played against one another. Henry Irving, who comes ovor to this country with a magnificent company,will be brought out by Abb?y at the Star theatre, in New York, on the first of November. About the same time Edwin Booth will appear in New York as a counter attraction. About the same time that these two men are playing against each other in New York, John McCullough will appear in Brooklyn, and Lawrence Barrett will play at the Grand Opera-house, Janauschek vjiH do hiavy tragedy, and Modjeska, Mrs. Latrgtry, Rhea, and probably one or two aspirants will do tho lightor Shakespearean roles elsewnere. Then George Edgar, with his company headed by Sara Jewett, will keep up the excitement. Lovers of Shakespeare will hardly get time to eat ASSISTED EMIGRATION. A Delegation of Lending Irishmen Protect to ibe 1'rmiilcnt. A deputation of representative Irishmen, headed by Alexander Sullivan, president of the Irish National league, waited upon the President aud presented to bim the resolulution concerning "assisted emigration," adopted at the recent convention in Philadelphia. Mr. Sullivan addressed the President, reciting the resolution of the Philadelphia convention, which protested against "that 1 olicy of the English government in first reducing the Irish peasantry to abject poverty and then sending them penniless to the United States, dependents upon American charity," aud instructed a committee to urge upon the President "that it is tho duty of tho government of the United States to decline to support paupers whose pauperism began under and is the rosult of English mi-government, and to demand of England that she send no more of her paupers to these shores to become a burden to tho American people." Mr. Sullivan, in his speech, suggested that "intho absence of legislation on the subject, the President of the Uni ed States make official protest to the government of Great Hritain against the fnrther deposit on the territory of the United States of persons reduced by misrale to pauperism in Ireland," etc., H. L. Hoaget, prasident of the Irish Emigrant savings bank of New York, and James I.vnch. of New York, president of the Irish Emigrant society, also addressed the President, urging him to take action in the matter. The President, who paid careful attention to each speaker in turn, replied to the addresses as follows: "Tha subject you present will receive my careful consideration. It has already been under consideration by_ the secretary of sta'e. Correspondence in regard to it has 1 ecu had with our diplomatic and consul;! r ] epre-sentatives, and an investigation into the f.icts is now being made by them. It is, of course, proper that this government should ascertain whether any nation with which it holds amicable relations is violating any obligation of international friendship before calling attention to any such matter.- In the meautime, the law now provides that the officers of the treasury shall examine.into the condition of the passengers arriving as einigrunts at any port of tho United State?, nnd if there should be found any convict, Innatic, idiot or any person unable to take care of himself without becoming a public charge, they shall report tho same in writing to the collector of such port, and snch person will not be pormitted to land. The investigation will be thorough and exhaustive on this side of the Atlantic and on tho other, and in the meantime tho law will bo strictly enforced " Each of the delegates was then introduced to the President by Mr. Sullivan, and tho conference was cloeed. i Aff EXGINEEK'S DEROfSM. Bow He Hared a Tra.'n C'onta'nfnj ISO Ptr? ' feengrra nt the Expense of Ills Own Lllc. ; The fa-t express train from Sommerville, S. G., when throe miles from Charleston, the Hf&l other morniDg, was turned from the main track to a siding by a misplaced 6witch and same in collision with t ro loaded cirs which '' 'jpgf ivere standing on the siding. The engineer, gsb J. 8. Smith, was instantly killed, pnd the colored fireman, Paul Washington, received injnries from which ha died later in ^ the c'ay. The engine was demolished, and tho engineer's be dy cut'completely in two. ' There were about 150 passengers on the train, jS^H none of whom was hurt. They owo tiieii SgHM lives to the heroism of the engineer who, inatead of jumping from the engine after the W&m (rain left the main track, occupied himself H during the run of seven:y-five yards to the SWg scene of tha collision in reversing the engine find nnttinc on the air brakes. The accident was caasedf by the carelessness of a sectioa jSSM master, who was repairing the switch at th6 time. The coroner's jury in their verdict placed all the blrnm on tl e section master, H. G. Stewart He was arrested end committed to jail in default of $2,0C0 bail. IMPOttTANT CABISEF MEETING. '- "'Wm Pnnpera Whi) Have Been Amtnted to Em> - ;^jMg| grate to Thli Country to be .Dent Back. At a regular cabinet meeting, attended by all the members except Secretaries Frelinghujsan and Teller, who were both out of the ^ city, the principal question considered was in relation to tho alleged shipment of pauper Emigrants to this country from Ireland by the British authorities. Tho result of the de- . liberations on this subject was shown in the subsequent action of the secretary of :-5a8 the treasury, who telegraphed Inst ructions to the collector of customs of New ( 'a York to co-operate with the commissioners Hrafl of emigration at that port to prevent the landiug of all emigrants found to be vJgQ^: paupers within the meaning of the law. In '"ajgHS tho event that such pauper emigrants may H| have already landed, the collector is instrncted to take all practicable measures to jgijjSMj have them reshipped to the port whence they came. j^^KSS CTPIT urnTTY. $8m WAV V Wretched Condition of the'Indlana at Stand- KSjfflB log Rock Agency* ^wBsH The Sioux on the Standing Bock reservo- BraaSM tion are reported by Sorgaant Ham, of the ^^shU| Seventh cavalry, stationed at Fort Yates, to HjO|a? be in a wretched condition and dying off at flgsgHK a frightful rate. " The principal cause," he Hh eay3, " is pulmonary disease, caused by exposure and aggravated by irregular habits of eating and sleeping, lnck of nourishing fooi .^9 and warm clothing. They eat until overything at hand is gone, and then go without food for several days, perhaps- Five yards flftHH of calico furnishes a full suit for a squaw, H?K9 and when a new piece is received it is put ou aPgfjBB over the old one, until the accumulations M 8| reach four or five. When pieces of cloth are H&aHfl wanted, the under or oldest garment is re- S| mm sorted to until it is thus used up. They eat SagM the refuse of a carcass half cooked, with equal relish as the choicest parts." Ocean Etiquette. ' Eighty thousand Americans annu- SB ally visit Europe. Of this number B&B 50,000 sail from the port of New York. ' They spend upon an average while Hj|f9 abroad $2,500 apiece. The greater ?3fB number are ladies. Such is the state- Bp|B | ment made by a Broadway (New lorKj i raveling cum mission nrm to a www reporter, The importance of these annual pilgrimages, which are increasing {WSn year by year, has developed a system of H&fl ocean etiquette that governs the con- MaH duct of what may be termed the best. B&5BH circles of " maritime society." Nowadays the captain of a crack ocean flKgKH steamer must not only be a first-class - 'BraSS sailor, but he must also be a man of infinite tact and method, with a thorough knowledge of what "society" requires at his hands. " ;~r To sit at the " right of the captain " at table at once accords to the occupants of that distinguished honor the highest place in the social scale on board ship, and the position is com- 9 peted for with an amount of anxiety that is very amusing. The senior sur- M geon and his assistant (when two are carried) act as deputies, and rank so- ' 'gBiA cially next in importance to the captain ^ himself. How to accommodate the var I rious claims for this coveted distinction is a matter of serious moment. The personnel of the passenger list is closely searched at least forty-eight hours before the vessel sails. Very often the purser is called into consul- , tation, and the difficulty is finally settled by placing a card bearing the passenger's name upon his or her plate. ti From this decision there is no appeal. It frequently happens, however, that uxW one or more persons may consider themselves slighted, and where it is * probable that the imaginary slight will disturb the social harmony the captain , t>Qpnr>p<t hvt.alrintf hi?j rnpftl? in hi<* nwn ' room.?Boston Traveler. Clay Pipes. The red clay pipe is made at the rate . v-#$g of about two million a year, worth five or ten cents apiece, or ten or twenty thousand dollars. The clay comes from Martha's Vineyard, Governor's Island, $ New York, and Lake Michigan. Three hundred tons are used in a year. The y:y4B three kinds of clay are mixed or ground together. A workman with a pile of clay beside him makes from it single rolls of clay, each large enough places the clay in pipe mold, runs a ^^**1 wire into the stem part, puts it under a 'jpS lever and makes the bowl. Fifteen hundred a day are molded by one man. The molds may be of various designs to form the decorated bowl. After the molding process the pipes , are laid away to dry or drain until the water is well out of them. They are then put in fire-clay receivers, one hundred and ninety in each, and placed in the furnace kiln to be burned. They are then heated to a white heat. The red clay pipe has a wooden stem and a silver band. The stems are made from maple by machinery for the purpose. They are* made black by the process of enameling. The band is made from a ',%& circular piece of brass, that is to say, a circular piece of brass without break HHRlra or seam is turned into a cylinder about an inch in length. Some of the pipes are stained, while others are left in the color of the clay, to be stained or colored by the smoker. A New Industry of Sew England. ^ Not a small part of Central and pe , ~1|8| Southern New England, no longer profitable for agriculture, is now growing up with white pine, and this white j pine, if it can only be protected, will j?|| ! in a few years, it is safe to predict, ex- SjEMtaa i ceed in value the net profit all the New England farms can produce during the JqS next fifty years. In some parts of Vow F.norlanri this second crnwth of , ^ " ??o o~ - - in 1,TTBM pine has been growing for a considerabie time, and has already given rise | to large and profitable industries. The value of logs cut in Massachusetts dur- jftg xzSM I ing the census year reached nearly r' j $2,000,000; at least one-half were sec1 ond growth white pine. More than 100,000,000 feet of second growth & white pine were sawed during the same year in Vermont and New Hampshire, and nearly if not quite as much more in Maine. The manufacture of wooilen ware, an important and growj ing Massachusetts industry depending [ upon this second growth of pine, has made "Winchendon, Worcester county, nnnfnti nf fV%io Knoinnaa in thp l/UU giuau V/CUVCl Ul bllio UUOIUCOO lu vuv . -H S United States, if not in the world. I These young forests of pine are al- - |1 ready of great value in New England; I at no distant day they must become I one of the most important factors in I its prosperity.?Boston Herald. B According to the I'nited States com missioner of education, $61,475,000 has I been given by private individuals for ^ 1 educational purposes in this country I ! within ten years. This does not inelude the recent gift of Slater and I I others, amounting to $8,000,000. "'Ml It is now the season when the young I I man buys a city map, marks on it with a blue pencil the places in the legality I of his girl's residence where ice cream and soda water are sold, and carefully I studies it to avoid them in his moon- 9 t light ramblinga with her,?Fu c/c, 1