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ggr; The people of Ventura, Cal., are going to try a novel experiment in sprinkling the streets with crudc petroleum instead of water. It is thought that oil after two or three sprinkles will lay the dust for months. The experiment is looked for with much interest. During the last thirty years the aggregate of the personal estates sworn to as belonging to deceased bishops of the English church was $11,075,000. As forty have died during this period, the average wealth was $276,875. At the Eamc time there are thousands of brilliant and devoted men serving as curates, whose salaries are smaller than those of a lackey. The undertakers of Philadelphia have again invoked the aid of the clergy to put an end to Sunday funerals. It is well-known that the Roman Catholic clergy have strongly protested against the practice, and have to a large extent suceeded in breaking it up among their congregations; but ministers of the various protestant denominations have so far refrained from takiog similar action. A vermin exterminator of Boston recently ollered to clear a large brewery n vnzt. <1 nnntit.v r?f flics whirh had col. lected by the million in the beer hogsheads, for $230. The proprietor agreed to the terms and the man went to work. 41'Boll these barrels into the ice-room," he said. The barrels were rolled into the room where ice was made. "Freeze 'em!" said the vermin exterminator. The brewery men were surprised that they had not thought of that simple remedy. They tried it, and in a short time swept out countless numbers of fro: en flies. English sailors attempted to catch a fourteen-foot shark off Natal, South Africa, but the shark snapped their line in two, and sw.illowed bait, hook, and all. After losing several hooks, the anglers tried a piece of venison in which they had put a ball of gun-cotton. This was connectcd by wire with a boat's battery, and just as the shark was in the act of seizing the venison the charge was exploded. 'I here is a degree 01 perse~ - cation which even a shark cannot, endure, The jaws of the monster were shattered, and it rolled over upon its back and tank. jfe" ^ =============== There is a man in Italy who avers that he discovered in Africa a concoction of herbs which renders the human body in ensible to hunger or thiist or poison, without at the same time destroying life or injuring the body in any way. After taking a quantity of the concoction he entered upon a long period of fasting, taking into his stomach only four glasses of water daily. A number of physicians became interested in his case, and fol lowed it curiously. At last accounts the experimenter hal expre scd himself aa feeling very well, and was abouf; to take coison. fe&si ? Three years after date the floating Islands of pumice, thrown up and into the sea by the stupendous volcanic eruption af TCr.ikftt.oa- in the Java seas, are ??i* * ** ' ' found to have drifted along the Indian ocean in the last twelve months C?6 miles in a direction west by south from where they were one year ago, or about five miles a day. This accidental help to hydrographers and all who study ocean currents and drift is probably the best they ever had, because the origin of the pumice is well known, the lioating expanse of it so large that it cannot escape notice, and the dates and other particu& lars about it are all matters of record. !&/. Wr--: ?7? Hidden in the swamps of Livingston narish. Louisiana, is a hamlet with a population of 500 souls, "where until fifteen years ago not a word of English was spoken or understood. It is a settlement of Acadians who displaced the Spanish founders of the village, and today arc living in contcntmcnt far from any other habitation. The people are engaged in the lumber business, and despite the swampy an l malarial condition of the surrounding country, are a hardy and long-lived race. The younger villagers now use English to a greater degree among themselves, but their elder; cling to their mother tongue. Though isolated, the settlement is hospitable und a pleasant spot to visit. jy v A Chicago writer discusses the ques tion whether the man marries the woman or the womin mirries tho mr.n, and whether the marriage notice in the papei should read: "Mary Ann Jones to Samuel Smith," o* ' Samuel Smith to Man Ann Jones." The matter isn't of much consequence either way so long as thej arc happily married. However, the Syraiuse Standard fiuds enough in the question to say: '"The weight of testimony is all in favor of wedding the woman to the man. The Bible is on that side of the que tion, and so is the marriage service of the Episcopal Chuich. Usually, too, the husbanl objects to being married to the woman, unless she has money. He prefers the other form, and most of the ladi.s agree to it."' fe . ; . " An eminent German physicist recommends for the extinguishment of fire in closed places, where the use of water and other liquids would be likely to do great damage, a dry compound which, by its burning, absorbs the oxygen and quickly renders combustion impossible. The eomnound is composed of powdered nitrate of potash (saltpetre", fifty parts: powdered sulphur, thiity-ssx parts; powdered charcoal, four parts; colothar (brown red oxide of iron), one part. This preparation is one that can be cheaply made. It is recommended that it shill be, when thoroughly dried and mixed, put up in tight pasteboard boxes holding about five pounds each, with a quick fuse in the side of the box? protruding six inches, with four inches infiids?19 facilitate anjJ ins^rs lighting jt. ? i : : 1 England's new colonial acquisition,the Ellice Islands in the South Pacific, will prove of valuo principally as a naval ! 6tation. There are nine islands in the j group, all atolls, and some of the lagoong can be entered and afford excellent anchorage; th:it of Funatuti being ninety 8quare miles in extent with an average depth of fifty feet and two entrances deep enough for the largest ships of war. The population of the islands is not important in numbers, scarcely aggregating 9,000 but the people are physically and mentally among the finest specimens of the Maylayan race. The islands will be of strategical value to Great Britain in resisting attempts at further annexations by rival European Powers. Engineers pronounce the project ol ! tapping Niagara Kiver by means of a canal entirely practicable, and experts have declared that not elsewhere within the known world are there such natural advantages for the creation of a gigantic water-power, and that it can be delivered at I.ockport to the extent of 300,00C horse power, if so much shall be wanted, at a minimum of expense. Lake Eri< and all the great upper lakes would be the mill-pond for this power, the Niagara River the head race and Lake Ontario its tail racs. The supply of water can never be diminished by drouth; no spring floods nor freshets will tear away the dams, for there will be no dams. The supply of water will be uniform, uninterrupted and practically unlimited. A1 the ordinary capitalize 1 value of a horse power this would add about $200,000, 000 to the material resources of the country. John J. Morris, ex-Excise Commisl -vr? r?u.. i:?oe wnc( MUIll'I UI jluiiv vitjj ?itwo v/ii ?i vs Twenty-first street. Four years ago cats drove people from their homes in this | street by their midnight music. ComI missioner Morris owes the peace of his home to his son Wettmorc, who is an amateur electrician. He put a wide board on top of the back fence to better facilitate cat locomotion. He then ran sis bare telegraph wires along the top of this board, a very little distance apart. He connected these wires with the strong hattprv in the house, and a kev. within | easy reach, connected the battery with the wires on the fence. With darkness the cats came. When a few vigorous notes gave indication of a promisinglyloud concert Wettm.rc touched the key. One long, loud yell followed. Two cats were seen several feet above the fence pawicg the air, and all fell down into the yard quite paralyzed. One by one they got up, smelled off their paws, murmured a mew and quietly stole away. A peculiar accident recently occurred in Coxlod^e colliery, near Newcastle, in England. The "back shift" men, to the number of about a hundred, after having descended the shaft, were riding on tuba drawn by a wire rope, which was kept in position by "sheaves" hanging from the roof. These revolving sheaves are of metal, and about three feet in circumference. The rope is worked by the engines abevo ground, and is connected with the first of a line of tubs, and so hauls the tubs along to the vicinity of the "face" of the cosl, where the men work. A string of fifty tubs was in motion, ovor thirty of which contained three men each, in a sitting posture, when one of the sheaves under which the tubs were passing broke from its place in the roof, and came in contact with the head.of the men sitting in the tubs, which were going along with considerable speed. An a'arm was raised, but before it could be responded to the tubs had gone 200 yards further on. Thirteen of the men received injuries of a grave character about the head and face, and seven or eight others sustained hurts of a minor nature. A New Disease Among Children. Professor Lemaistre, of Limoges, describes a new disease which is at the ? j. 11^ +v,,. prUSCUl iiiuv ijuui; jnwaitub uiuuug niv school children of France. It is known among the common people as perleche, aud is contagious. It consists in an abrasion in the corners of the mouth, which become little ulcers and sometimes bleed; it lasts from two to four weeks. The description given of it corresponds to what is commoDly called in this country a "cold sore" or "fever blister." In the sore Lemai>tre has found a microbe which he calls streptococcus plicatilis. These have boon found in drinking water, and it is surmised that they have been transferred to the lips of a person, thence to the edge of a cup, and thus all who used the cup became affected, j Professor f craai?tre has examined the 5,500 children who attend the thirtytwo schools of Limoge>, and has found 312, or one in seventeen, affected with the disease. Although Professor Lemaistre is connected with the Ecole de Medicine, of Limoges, his explanation is to be acceptcd with a good deal of cauTt in li vt~/\l\nl vl/> fVio n nam HUH. JL t lO IIUIU1V [JIVUUU1V/ lUttb ?? UV>VT disease has been discovered, or that its method of propagation cau be so easily explained. The difficulties surrounding the demonstration of the connection between microbes anl the disease are sc gre it, and the men competent to trace the various step* in the process so few, that we sh ill feel compelled to wait for further evidence before we accept perleche as a new disease, and this variety of streptococcus as its germ.?Science. Children and Fire. The magazine Ba\ul<o d has something to si;y about emergencies, and fitting children to meet thein. We quote: "Children should be impressed with the fact that fire cannot burn without air, that ii bla^e-: more brightly in the wind, :11 ,i,,n ;e Willll' il >wu vtuii 14 t.iv an 13 away; they can be shown how a burning cloth or paper can be extinguished by being crashed in an old piccj of carpet or rag (siuce it is by illustration rather than by simple telling that such fa* ts can best be impressed on their minds', and stories can be told tlioni of persons who have saved their clothing from burning by such means. Especially should they be charged not to run in case of their clothing catching fire, nor even t:> stand up. since ascending flames may burn face and eyes; but rather to lie down and cry for help, in the meantime extinguishing the flames in the way above described, if possible." NEWS SUMMARY Eastern and Middle State*. During his vacation in the Adirondack! tic President Cleveland went hunting and sue- hil ceeded in bringing down a deer. The head C0! and antlers will in time adorn the walls ol the President's country seat near Washington. fcx Dexter Brown, a boy preacher of the we Methodist Church, noted for his eloquence Ee and power as a revivalist, committed suicide at his home in Oneonta, N. Y. Cloctman & Bingham, sho3 manufacturers of Boston, have failed for about $1, "ve 000,000. Y't A fire in the Erie Railroad yard, Jersey tic City, N. J., destroyed property valued at _u , $125,000. Levi M. Brobst, a young bridegroom lllj 1 from Nebraska, committed suicide in presI ence of his bride by leaping from a train near Ei Reading, Penn. He was iusane. fl); Large labor demonstrations took place on \ the 6th in New York, Brooklyn, Boston, i Newark, N. J., and other cities. In New York the parade was participated in bv about I" i 15,000 men, and was reviewed by Mayor cli i Grace. , The trades unions of Connecticut have ?e 1 placed a full State ticket in the field for sup[ port at the coming election. 110 . Tbe Boston sloop Mayflower easily de- 'r( ' feated the English cutter Galatea in the first ' L of the series of international yacht races for a ) the America's cup, won last year by the Pu- R ritan from the English vessel Genesta The race was sailed in New York Bay, and the . American yacht came in twelve minutes in | ahead of her British contestant An im- ^ ! mense array of vessels, crowded with spe.-ta. tor.-;, witnessed the contest. Ill! "Colonel Tom" Plunket, of Hartford, ^ las fled with about $200,000 of th i funds be- Aj i longing to two manufacturing companies of which he was an officer. The Vermont election resulted in a vie- , ?ry for the Republican State ticket and 0 candidates for Congress. a:n South and West. un Another shock of earthquake was felt CU1 : ibout 11 o'clock on the night of the 3d all ^ ilong the Soathern Atlantic coast. It was aot attended by much damage, but it was V'JI I strong enough to cause a stampede from their tio instruments of the telegraph operators iu to$ uany of the cities. The shake was felt from r Jacksonville to "Washington. AtCharles?n, S. CM two more buildings fell, and a woman was killed. Consternation again pre- Ai vaileiL and the DeoDle fled from their houses on I ind camped in tha public squares. Two- '? , chirds of the bu liiugs in Charleston are iamaged beyond repair. Pr< California Democrats have nominated a if i iickct headed by Washington Bartlett, an. Mayor of San Francisco, for Ixovornor. for Monroe Chapman is in jail at Shelby, N. ^ . C., for arson, which is punishable by death. He admits the act and says he got a dollar an( for it. ha! An arme 1 mob visited tha jail at Green- til! i ville, Texas, and took therefrom John Smith, we a prisoner charged with the killing of Depu- . 1 tv Sheriff Adair, of that place, and hanged . him. W1 The Bliss Lumber Mills, at Milwaukee, Lu Wis., were destroyed by fire, with a loss ap- i i proximating $150,000. ^)r( ! Chief Geronimo and his band of murder- p ous Apaches have surrendered to Captain i T oYphnn nnrl Kpon rnnrATOil Rnwift AH- We zona. J ' jui The eastern end of the Northern Pacific t tunnel, under construction through the Ca>- ~a cade Mountafns, in Oregon, caved in and nine white men ware buried under the stones no' and earth with little chance of auy of them sul being rescued alive. ? w ] The Arkansas election bas resulted in the ^is successof the Democratic State ticket Large ., Prohibition gains are reported. A tier of flooring joists on a building at Indianapolis, Ind., gave way, buryin? twen- ' ty-one workmen in debris twenty feet below, to Four were fatally and three severely injured. i The election on the question of local option str in imieyviiie, Jexas, ieu 10 an anray id which three men were killed and seven 1 wounded. ?>- ?? eai Charleston was visited by three more Lo earthquake shocks on the 7th, but they did i no damage. A more hopeful feeling pre- . vailed throughout the city, and the people were preparing to go bravely to woHc to re- *ro pair tneir shattered fortunes. Contributions C poured in steadily from all parts of the to l country. the Washington. an' President Clevelad was sent the following dispatch by Queen Victoria: "I desire to express my profound sympathy with the sufferers by the lata earthquakes, and await with anxiety further intelligence, which 1 ge hope may show the effects to have been lea disastrous than reported." . The Ptetident has sent the following replj , to Queen Victoria's telegram of sympathy aet with the earthquake sufferers: "Your Ma- on jesty's expression of sympathy for the suffer- roa ers by the earthquake is warmly appreciated and awakes grateful response in American hearts." con of Foreign. mo ...f .V Dolfarf Too. : uiuiinu again uiuiku vuv m ho xiii land, on the 5th, and the rioters had to be put nu down by the military. livi Renewed earthquake shocks have occurred shf in Greece. 1 Prince Alexander has publicly an- ^.a< nounced his intention of abdicating. Hi says he cannot remain in Bulgaria on as- * ? count of the objections of the Czar. Before ".'-J leaving he will establish a regency. He wai *j'j enthusiastically received in Sofia, the Bulga- j riao capital, and issued an address to the noj officers of the army. Germany and Austria jnR are reportei to bo very iadignant at the ^ Czar's action in forcing Alexander's second (,Q abdication. rus A German warship has destroyed numer- lipi ous villages in thj New Hebrides Islands, wil and killed hundreds of the natives in retalia- a p tion for the murder of G?rman subject*. h A regency has been established in Bui- su" garia. Prince Alexander has taken farewell of l of his army and started for the frontier. for Andrew Carnegie, of Pittsburg, Penn., has presented tha city of Edinburg with f ' $*Ji0,U00 to found a public library. ? ing PROMINENT PEOPLE. ?, c Henry Ward Bekcher is to lecture in wei this country next winter on Ireland. the Cyrus Fillmore, the brother of President Millard Fillmore, is still living in Indiana. }va There are six poets in the British House of Lords, Tennysou, of course, heading the the M. Cheyrecl, the French scientist, has wii passed the centenary line and ha, been duly J nonored by his countrymen. bo< A New York paper says that Mrs. Langf- the try's marriage in New York next winter is otb now decidedly among posdbilit'es. by Senator Gorman, of Maryland, always a" wears a nutmeg tied about his neck to keep off the neuralgia. And he says it has been a 1!l' good thing. Mr. Kuraiiara, a native of Kizislrn, JaEan, is fitting himself for missionary work in is own country at the Baug'or (Me.) Theological School. * J Mrs. Cleveland is said to write on an average about twenty letters a day, most of them in reply to communications from en- I)e tire fctrangeif. "There goes one white man who never , lied to an Indian." This is the compliment ; paid to Bishop Whipple the oth?r day by an whi] untutor.d savage. cigl The King of Portugal, now en joying a woi holiday in Central Europo, his not been outside the limits of his little dominion before for the last twenty years. 1,11 Sarah Winnemucca, th;Iudian princes', tan can speak five tongues, threi Indiau dialects, of i English nnil Sninish. Khe is now a school ..i,? tea her and urges her popple to educate their jjjj' child) on. toU The deaths in rapid succession of so many fan old public leaders has turned attention to- wit ward the survivors, among whom is Tierce's uiin Postmaster-General, James Campbell, who don is still living in Pennsylvania. hal Dan Magonk, whi has become the New ^ York Collector, is the third one to assume woi that oflice fro.it St. Lawrence Countv, the others being Preston King and General Mer- pno ritt. King put shot into his pockets and hov jumped into the river from a New York ?' ' ferry-boat, tnrej months after his appoint- 'on ment l,t Chief Joii.v Smoke Johnson died at his one resideuce on the reserve at Brantford, Ont., to < recently. Dot-eased was !)4 years of age, bo- v.a' iug the oldest Indian of the'Mohawk Tribe, lies He fought in the Ameri an war of 1812. cob LATER NEffS. T. J. Lothrop for Governor heads 1 iket nominated by the Massachusetts P: bitionists in State Convention at W ster. The sea serpent has been seen again, t' oe in the Connecticut River, near Cro :1L The monster is described by eye-w sses as having a head "as large as a barr d being 100 feet long. At the Wisconsin Republican State C< ntion, held in Madison, Jeremiah M. Ri is renominated for Governor by acclan in. The platform says the liquor questi ould be settled by the communities acooi y In thn SAntiment nrovailinp' in them. The opening of the third annual Industr [position at St Louis has inaugural iti vities which will extend over twomootl Trichina has been discovered as t use of death of many hogs in Indians, a inois heretofore supposed to have died olera. John Enright and his young wii'ewly married couple, who had just sturt usekeeping?were smothered by coal, g >m their little stove in Chicago. rHE Texas Prohibitionists have nomirat full ticket headed by E. L. Dohony i >vernor. rHE Federation of Coal Miners, assembl convention at Indianapolis, after a loi bate unaoimously adopted a resolution ] ing to merge with the Knights of Ls.b< Further outrages by Mexicans upnerican citizens are reported from Toxj a.nother American fishing vessel has be zed by the Canadians for alleged violati the fishery laws. A. body cf 3,000 Yaqui Indians attack i defeated a column of 400 Mexicau troo der Colonel Torres. Nearly all the Me: is were killed. I'he Connecticut Republican State Co ition at Hartford resultel in the nomm u of Phineas C. Lounsbury for Governc jethar with a full ticket. L'he second race for the America's cup t eea the English cutter Galatea and t nerican sloop Mayflower occurred on t i. but was not finished within thstime lin seven hjurs, although enough was shown )vo the superiority of the American slot working to windward in a li^ht brce .1 a jump of a sea, conditions which heret e have been considered most favorable > cutter model. A heavy fog prevaile i the competing yachts went over on If the course. During the fog the vast fl a of ve sels which followed tin j-acl nt groping about blindly for hours on N< irk Bay, and one big s eamboat load th pas angers, and a yacht, went ashoi ickily no live? were lost rwo floors heavily loadel with wheat ai m gave way in a barn at W'estchestc i^*? PftvoM nnwi in f"Vio ciililo hftlri re crushed to death, and fifteen others i red. government physician sent to inves to the sickness at Bilcm, M^Si., says it t yellow fever, but o malarial fever i tiDg from imperfect sanitation. Mr. Mannix, the assignee of the late Arc hop Pun-ell, testified in a Cincinnati cou it he had lost ?200,000 of the trust fund 1 'filiating iu itocks. Skavy rains have caus?d great diseomfc the homeless people of Charleston, S. C. V revolution iu Mexico is daily gainir ength in various distr ict*. \n appeal for aid for the Charleston (f3.< th ]uake sufferers ha? been issued by t rd Mayor of London. Dhocsands of persons have died )ler'a at Seoul, Ccrea. The deaths numb in 250 to COJ daily. Colonel Gilder, of New York, will ti find the North Pole. He has started f< Arctic region from Winnipeg, Manitoba 1 will use sledges drawn by doss. BURNED WHILE ASLEEP. vcn Hungarians Meet u Horrf.b Fate in Pennsylvania. L special from Hughesville, Penn., giv ails of a fearful disaster by fire at a shun the Williaraport and North Branch Ita id. The ruilroad is only complete I as f Sonestown, being beyond that point irse of construction. The terrible 1( life occurred at a place called Nort nd ,in Sullivan county, about twen les distant from Hughesville, where mber of Hungarian workmen have be< in?, twenty-two of them occupying tnty?a two story structure. ibout 10 or 11 o'clock r. m., after the m< i gone to bed and were fait asleep, fire i cook stove in a room beneath in son y ignited the floor, and the flames, cor inicating to the stairway, soon spread i second story, and in a few minutes tl ;ire building was wrapped in flames. ] Keeler, prominent merchant of Laport ;iced the flames from a distance,and haste ; to the scene witnessed a terrible sigh number of Hungarians, who gather* the spot, were panic stricken, ai bed hither and thither, uttering uuinU ible cries and with blanched fares point< dly to the building, where Mr. Keeler sa oor victim struggling to a window, whic reacnei oniy to sinic uown exnausteu ai [ocated, liis bead and arms hanging 01 the window, while he burned to death b e their eyes. As soon as the sleeping Hui ians awoke horror stricken they found tl ole floor full of smoke, and in their elFor iscane many of them plunged head'or vn the burning stairway, one man brea his arm. Thoy had not time to get the thiug and rushed naked through tt nes. )nly fifteen oat of the twenty-two wt re in the building escaped with their live other siven unfortunates perishing i flames. When the upper floor fell thei s a loud cry from within, and it is b red that some of the victims were st: vc and must have been buried and crush< ier the blazing rafters. Nine men ;av< lir lives by jumping out of a second stoi udow. tfter the fire the charred and blacken* lie3 of the victims were found. Homa i im wore burned to a crisp, tha bodies ier* indicating that death had been cau? suffocation, while still others had the lis an:l f-?et burned off. 'he Corouer held an. inquest and broug i verdict of accidental death. The bodi Lhe victims were removed to Sonest/jv 1 buried there. r UNCOMMON CHARACTER nth of a ICcmnrkablo Female Fai hut in ri ling iwuiiii. li-s 1'olly (iehris, of Washington Towi 1'enn.. who died a few (lays ago, age lity-four years, was the most remarkabl man in Eastern Pennsylvania. Slie wc nt!y bnilt, and pesse.-sed great strengtl many ways extremely ii:a;culino, slier ud nevertheless mail}* of tho best trni ivomunhood. She had a kind heart, wt .ritablo and had many warm friend ii u,'sixty years sli 3 chewed aud .smoke a to. She attended personally t> lie in work, doing even the heaviest of h her own hands, not excepting tli irrying of stone when that was to L le. It was nothing for her to slaughter t' dozen pigs before ltr? akfast. liss (ieliris had good bitsinesi ideas an rked as she did not because slie w? iged to, but because she like.l it. It wn of her delights to teach young wome v to become independent workers, and sli tended that women would live inue ger wnd be far happier if they would tak outdoor work. liss (.iehris wa< msver married. It wi : of her s-iyings tli:it she never had tini levote to love making. Heme sh-.; lievt ltetl a beau. Sha was louir one of th t horsewomen iii the district. She lean sidc-r.tble or au e.-tite. YACHT RACING. :he ro- The International Match at Nen York for the Cup. his Vivid Account of the First Race, eis Won by the Mayflower. )n- The series of races for the great yachting isk trophy, the America's cup, last year caused a la- lively revival of popular interest in this sport, on and the success of the American competitor rd- In the great contest in keeping the cup on this side of the ocean was so gratifying to na,'al tional pride that when the coming of the Ge?d nesta was followed by the challenge of Lieut hs. Henn of the royal English navy, owner of the he Galatea, a larger boat than the Genesta, the nd spirited yachtsmen of the Eastern cities deof termined to build new yachts with the special object of meeting the Galatea. The -a Mayflower, of Boston, and the Atlantic, of ad Brooklyn, are the new boats. The owner of the Puritan again asserted his ability to O- , THE AMERICA'S CCP. . me:t and beat all comers, and the Priscilla ' was altered and improved and again entered ly the lists. The preliminary trials of these o. yachts in the club regattas and the series of lts contests for the honor of upholding the supremacy of the American against hoi* 5W Scotch rivals have been among the noteed worthy events of the year to which the pubre. lie interest was most drawn, and the result ' has been, as last year, that a Boston ya-ht carried off the honor. The Mayflower defeated id her rivals in the preliminary trials, and was ir, selected as America's champion in the contest IW with the Englishman's yacht. The first of the series of races, sailed in n" New York bay, took place on the 7th, and was easily won by the Mayflower, the Amerti ican sloop coming in twelve minutes ahead g of the British cutter. The following vivid account of the race is taken from the New 'e- York World: At 10:45 o'clock the preDaratory signal was given and one had to search among a vast flotilla for the two competitors. All the irt craft the business of the city could spare had by assembled there; they formed a half circle several deep back of the starting line, the tugs on the inside and the sailing ves^ls beyond. The flag of the ltoyal Northern Yacht Club was flying from the judges' boat as the ig two yachts struggled into the ring and stood out distinct to the ga:? of all. The starting signal was given and both came up to the line, the Mayflower well ahead and evidently he 1 THK MAYFLOWER. )S9 . prepared to sail so close to the judges1 ?" boat that the Galatea would have to pass bety hind her. But this was not to I e. By a a beautiful bit of close work aad very skillful 8n manoeuvring the cutter rushed up between a the Mayflower aud tne judges tug, gamingthe advantage of the windward position *n and passing over the line just one second jn ahead of her rival. They were close together ae and the wind that the Yankees thought they n. had for a certainty went to the Galatea, to She did not keep her advantage long. The he racers beaded over to Lon? Island, not far E distant When they tacked for a long leg q over k> Staten Island thi Mayflower had nL picked up more than she lost before and was it, in the lead. After that the Galatea had not sd chance. It was more interesting to watch 1(j the marine panorama. There was Coramo>1 dore Whiting, a hale old man of seventy, >d THE GALATEA. the first Commodore of the Brooklyn ? Yacht [Club, sittiug in his row-boat and u bending to his oars. He watches all the races that way and navigates down to Sandy Hook and back without thinking anylhingofit. There is a sound of melody and the big steamboat Columbia goes by j. with crowds on her three decks; the Priscilla j is soon staudiug down the Bay with all sails set; the tug !?torm King, all the way from Boston, passes on, and a jolly crowd are is raising glasses to their lips. Jay Gould, the , richest man in America, perhaps in the world, is watching it all from the bridge L of his m.iguihccnt stoainer Atalnnta. ts y0 is Elbridgu T. Gorrv, the Commodore is of tho club, from the bridge of h's steamer, s tho Klo.-tia. Other millionaires enjoy the j ihow rroin tho steam yachts 0. ean Gent, ' tta-lha, Corsair, Vision, Sappho, Stranger, jj. Ouei la, Wuuda, Tilli*, Vedett , Meteor, ie Ruby aud a whole arum la of sailing yachts. ie The verandus of the hotel at Fort Hama ilton are decorated with flags and black with people gazing at the mighty procession. (j Numerous steamboats with whistles screamLS ing, bunting waving and men aud women us hurrahing and shaking hats and handkeru chiefs, sweep on in a mighty procession. The |0 big schooner yachts Ambassadress, from jj Boston; Miranda, Montauk, Aetata, Sachem, 0 Wave Crest, Lancer and the old Dauntless follow, while sloops and cutters innumerable 1S fill up every space. 10 The ocean steamer Breakwater keeps on her way with the racers, turning neither to [0 right nor left. It is impossible to tell all the ,s tugs that were there. They were like gnats arouud a summer pond, Oa the laud a parade is orderly and moves regularly, bat ' on the sea the spectacle shifted every moment; it was a continual transformation scene, brilliant with color and motion, and must have astonished the poor emigrants on the steamer Italy as it came in from the ocean. They must have been struck with awe at the sight of this the first wonder of the great new world to which they had journeyed to make their fortune: it must have been to them a vision of boundless wealth and power, floating cities on the sea and spires and domes on shore, a vision which had never entered the most fantastic dreams of their narrow life at home. Perhaps there is too little written here about the racers and too much of the attendant vessels, but all the interest was in the latter. From the starting line oat to Sandy Hook it was simply a series of tacks, full, bellying sails in the sun for a long spin, wrinkled for a moment as the vessels went aboat, and again well-filled as they started off on the other tack. Down below the Narrows the steamboat St Johns cut across the bow of the Galatea and injured her chances a trifle but did not affect the result in the slightest, as the Mayflower kept drawing away. At the buoys inside Sandy Hook the whole concourse of sail and steam gathered and waited while the sloop and cutter swept by. It was a lit tie after 1 o'clock then, and the Mayflower was six minutes ahead ot the Galatea in parsing these marks. In distance she was half a mile in the lead. Out at sea, beyond the Hook, it was still Mayflower weather, a light wind and a smooth sea,with a scarcely perceptible swell. The Galatea did worse than in the harbor. The Mayflower took in her little jib-topsail as she prepared to go around the ugly red vessel that marks the wreck of the Scotland. As she passed and started homeward there was a flash of white from togmast to bowsprit end, and her great balloon jib swelled out, the mainsail was eased off a bit, and ] away she went with the raco already won if no accident happened. It was 2:35 o'clock when she turned and 2:44 when the Galatea 1 followed her example. Here the natty Brit- i ish sailors showed up to bad advantage, for they bungled terribly in the setting of their big jib. Once it was half-way up and had to 1 be hauled in again,and when it was finally set, j after the loss of valuable time, the Mayflower was two miles away. A stern chase is a long: one. Th3 Galatea found it so in- J < deed. The Mayflower passed the Southwest > spit at 3.34 o'clock. The Galatea was not timed. There the Mayflower got her spin- I naker boom ready, but did not break out the * immense sail for a long time. 1 No one paid any attention to the cutter after that. All were hurrying away to the j finishing line to watch the run in. The way ( of the world over again; the Galatea lonely and friendless, vanquished, the Mayflower > flattered with the presence of everybody, a host greeting the victor. On the way up all j me scnooners spread cut gigantic staysails | and became great drifting, foamy cloud -. The , ( schooner Sarah Craig, on which a number of x ladies were drowned off Sandy Hook a short time ago, was passed with another group of ladies, headless of the fate cf their sisters, on t her deck. As Fcrt Wadsworth is neared the ' Mayflower shakes out her spinnaker and all I _ the vessels gather at the line. Prom the city )" there had come d )wn another Meet while the I vessels were out at sea, and it, too,was wait- I ing under the shadow of the green bluffs. f e Some said there were 100,000 people on sea . and shore; some put it at half that number. .1 But whatever the exa-'t -count may have | been, sea and shore were peopled. For half ? a mile the Mayflower passed through a lane . of vessels three and four deep on each side, i She crossed the line at about 4:23 o'clock and c one loud, Ion > cry of exultation went up from every throat and every steam whistle, while < the guns of the yacht boomed o it and were | . answered by a cannon from the fortification. 1 Twelve minutes later the Galatea passed by 1 an 1 there was a similar demonstration in honor of the Englishman who had come . 3,000 miles to get the old America's Cup. THE NATIONAL GAME. Four of the Louisville* have made over 1 100 base hits. I E The new grand stand of the Philadelphia , Club will cost $30,000. I, In New England thej ring chestnut bells i on batsmen who strike out Ten pitchers have been under contract ' 1 with the Washington Club. < The Det: oits are fast attaining the name < of being the worst of kickers. ( Richardson, of the Detroits, has twice this season made two home runsiz one game* j Almost half the games between St. Loui* , and Pittsburg have been shut outs on one . side or the other. J The American Association now has two 1 doctors in its ranks, viz., Drs. A1 Bushong and J. Lee Richmond. j Kekfe, the young Washington pitrher, { gives promise of being a strong rival of Keefe, the New York pitcher. | The demand for good pitchers is greater ( this season than ever before, and a first-class one can command a big salary. ] Morgan Murphy, of the Boston Bluea, la i declared to be doing better work than any j other New England League catcher. Hikes, the Washington's heavy batter, has made nine home runs this season, whicn J is more than any other in the country baa accomplished. ( Pittsburg will make the most money this I year in the American Association. New I i York, as usual, will top the League clubs in I this particular. : Anson, Denny, Rowe and Hardie Richard- J wn are the only Leaguers who have made I two home runs in one game. Richardson has perfonnod the feat twice. s Anson, of the Chi.agos, has the largest t batting total for a single League game this ,1 season?viz.: live hits with a total of twelve . ? bases in four tihies at bat 9 No League pitcher has yet succeeded this 11 season in disposing of au opposing team ' I without a hit,and but one American Associa- 1 c tion pitcher?Atkisson?has accomplished / ~ the feat The second base play of Buffalo's colored lad, Grant, is described as wonderfuL Some of his stops and catches are said to be phenomenal, and withal he plays a steady game, I keeping his good work up day by day. a The Detroit club fined Pitcher Getzein r $300 for insolence and profanity addressed * to Captain Hanlon, who had censured him for listless playing. This makes a total of 8 $400 assessed against Getzein in the last t month in the shape of fines. c The Bostons made an offer of $10,000 for \ the release of five St. Louis players,and were c offered the whole team for $15,000, provided they would also give a bond to run the nine the whole of the season. Five thousand dol- ^ lars were offered for Glasscock and Myerg. t The Eastern League Clubs will n9ver con- t sent to the Western Clubs playing Sunday c games just because it may bouefit one or two i ^ clubs. i're.ident Day, of the New York ! f Club, and Praident Spalding, of the Chicago Club, say that no Sunday game* will be * played by League clubs as long as they have \ anything to say. I national league record. j Won Lost. , Won Lost. Detroit.......C-S 27 | Philadelphia..55 i5 Chicago 70 24 j Boston 42 50 * New York...61 3i Washington..15 7o v St. Louis 35 CO | Kansas City..24 66 s american association record. f iron Lost. Won I/vL y ? - - .in i fit 4f> i St. LOUIS.OU j Uiwuuio ? G Brooklyn....59 49 j Cincinnati...53 59 Athletic 47 59 Louisville.. ..Oil 49 * Baltimore. ..3>j 71 | Metropolitan.-IS 04 Q eastern league record. Won Lost. Won Lost. Bridgeport. ..23 40 Watorbury...44 23 Hartford 30 34 Newark. Oo 21 Jersey City... 39 3 i t international league record. d Ifrnil Lost. Won Lo*t, t Utica 50 29 I Hamilton.... 41 37 -i I Toronto 47 35 J Buffalo 45 39 Rochester ...49 31 Binghamton .29 54 Syracuse... 40 43 | Oswego 23 GO a NEWSY C-LEANINGS. < i f j 0 The entire assessment of Dakota Territory > is f 130,c0j,iju0. - - 1 Fire's Peak, Col., lias been elimled by J 1,250 persons this season. r A Mexican* village is to be exhibited in s Horticultural Hall, Bostou, in October. 1 J] Tuis year's wheat crop in Great Britain is estimated at GO,(KM,0J0 bushels, from 2,2tS(i,- 1 000 acres. * The farmers of Manitowoc County, Wis., 11 cut down trees that their cattle may feeJ ou t the green tors. p It is estimated that the proncsod bri Ige 1 across the Hudsou liiver at roughkeepsie v will cost $10,000,000. j South Bsnd, Indiana, is supplied with ( irater from sixteen artesian wells, with a | capacity of 10,000^00 gallons daiijr. j ti ' : /'" . *: ** . / ' '' .* DID YOU BVBft. Did yon ever wake to conadonsBMi Of bliss! When the maiden fair was willing To bestow the pleasure thrilling, In a moment's taste of heaven called A kiss? Did yon ever urge a maiden To confess? When the coy, evasive glances Held the sweetest of romances? Every sigh and every quiver A caress? - - - ; ;:5? Did you ever feel the terror Of a doubt? And the subsequent beguiling Whon ncmiran/VMa rsf cmilinur Put the peace-disturbing traitor* All to route? Did you ever meet an obstacle So sad? When the angel sweetly heeding The existence of your pleading Supplemented?you had better Call on dad? ?Texas Sifting4 PITH m_ POINT. I The tramp is a man of many ties-* railroad ties.?St. Paul Journal. Great doublers of population?Cucumbers and green apples.?Clinton Bugle. The poorest kind of a brass band?the ring on cheap Jack's finger.?Waterloo* Ohserter. A man of exalted berth?the fellow who has the upper bunk ia a steame.-.-* Detroit Free Press. A "crank" is an individual that you ;an't turn over to your view of the case. ?St. Albans Messenger. It is a good time now to resolve to bo i better business man and to secure trade ay advertising.?Neio Orleans Picayune* "Would you believe it? I have had hat idea in my head these six months. 'How lone'y it must have been!"?Tidr Bits. Some men are so m:ghty penurious 7, .L.i. xl ? xL! il A 1 1J ,nai tuey seep evervioiDg iney gei doiu )f?except the ten commandments.-? " . Blizzard. - - S?? Mamma?'Trankie, are you eating ;hose green apples again?" Frankie? s 'No, mamma; I'm eating some others.'r ?Harper's Ycung People. Job had do great causc to brag about lis patiencc. It isn't recorded that be iver had to wait while his wife put on lcr bonnet.?Fall Jiicer Adtance. You take a baseball ground and a corn* ield, side by side, and the corn-field i* nuch the hotter, yet the same sun shines >n both. Curious, isn't it??Puck. Inebriated Party?I shay, mister, how ur is it to Canal Street? Citizen?Tweny minutes' walk. Inebriated Party? l?'or you or?hie? fo' mcl?Siftinvs. Jim Haskins says the only real good Dutter that has been in town for the past ireek was a mountain sheep, ar.d he wasn't artificial either.?Moscow Mirror; Brown?"See those two ladies over here. They seem be enjoying themiclves." Fogg?"Yes; I wonder which ){ their dear friends they are gossiping ibout."?Boston Post. ,.... Some Americans are about to start * lational banking system in the Honlurag. The venture will probably fai^ >wing to the great distance between Canada and the ^Honduras.?Life. Tobacco blindness is said to be on the crease; still we never found any friend >f ours to be afflicted with it when we lave incautiously left a choice segar exjosed in our vest pocket.?Si/tings. The phrase, "lightning rapidity^" waa jrobably first made use of by a man who hoaghtlessly p'cced the hot end of a ugar in his mouth, and forgot just how juick he pulled it out again.?Puclc. A doctor of good repute says that thenost healthful position to lie in is with he head to the north. Boys will renember, when they return from a fishing sxcusion, to lie in that direction.?Carl Pretzel's Weekly. I1DTa?a T)?11 4a1fa 4li?o Aan/llo on/1 XiCiCj xjiiLj ianc tuio Viuuiw uuu uv ifter some coal," remarked a South side ivoman to her hopeful son. "Never 'ear, mother, I can follow the trail by noonlight," replied Bill, who had beeo eading "The" Bloody Avenger."?Pitts>urff Chronicle. "You sit on your horse like a butcher," ;aid a pert young German officer wholappened to be of royal blood to a veterin general who was somewhat bent from ige. "It is highly probable," responded he old warrior with a gritn smile, "It is jecause all my life I've been leading :alves to the slaughter." How to Drink Water. The leading medical journal of Franc? tas published a pamphlet protesting gainst the extravagant use of artificial nineral waters, which, it sets forth, do ? he double damage of chilling the stom,ch, thus laying the foundation for ga?ric catarrh, while the limestone held in leposit in the carbonated waters finds its ray to the kidneys and eventually proluces Bright's disease. The pamphlet ilso protests against ice water as a provocative of catarrh in the stoma:h. It urther says: "Water snouia De aranjt :ool, but not iced, with the juice of a |uarter or half a lemon in it. Mineral vater should also be diank with a dasb ?f lemon. Water should always be swalowed slowly. It is not the stomach fhich is dry, but the mouth and throat, f you toss off a drink of water you throw t through your mouth into your stomch, without doing: the former any Cfood, ?h lc you injure the latter by loading it rith what it doe. not re .uife. Drink lowly, and keep the water in your mouth or a moment whea you begin. If you rork in a hot room in hot weather, tie a lamp cloth around your temples, and you rill not experience half the craving for [rink you otherwise would." Married in Two States. A whimsical marriage took place in he Eastern part of the State last Satur!ay, during an excursion from Lafayette o Dayt n. Ohio, over the Lake Erie and Ycstcrn Railway. While the train was rossing the dividing line between Inaina and Ohio it was stopped by an acommodnting conductor, and David .'lark, residing near Mu I berry, candidate or Sherilf of Clinton County, assisted If the cirs a lady named Mis. Mary law kin-, of Lafayette. The gentleman slaced himself on the Indiana side of the !nc and the lady on the Ohio side. A ninister in attendance for the purpose traddlcd the dividing line and soon prolounccd the couple man and wife. The liiole^O passengers on the train then ormcd a circle around the ctntral figircs in this singular marriage and gave hem three cheer-, the ever present ihotographer secured a negative, the tand played, and the train started up kith everybody happy.?Indianapolis roumal. In hats the novelty consists in having he crown different from the brim.