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DEVOTED TO POLITIC8, MORALITY, EDUCATION AND TO THE- hRNRAL INTR UT OF T OT By D. F. BRADLEY & 00. PICKEN, S. Co, THURSDAY H1. NEWS GLEANINGS. Minnesota has made an assignment at fifty cents on the dollar. Thirty drumniers visited Natchez in February, and paid $75 privilege taxes. In the Cherokee nation there are 107 schools where the English language is taught. There are 220 students at the South Georgia Agricultural College, at Thom asville. The granite for the base of the Cow pens monument is arrrving at Spartan burg, S. C. It is alleged that the oysters found off the Texas coast are the largest and finest in the world. A license to sell liquor in Nebraska costs $1,000, which shows that their drinks are dear to them out there. Lizzie Crompton, aged seven, of Pat erson, N. J., jumped a rope 175 times, and then stopped a few minutes to die. Windom's home is in Minnesota, he was born in Ohio, married in Massachu setta, and lhe lives in Washington, A bill has been iled in Chancery con testing the title of lands covering a large part of the fifth ward of Cha.tanooga, Tenn. Strawberries cultivated near Charles ton, S. C., are expected to yield 1,000, 000 quarts for the Northern markets from 250 acres of land. Thomas Smith, of New York, who re cently coml)ellcd his young son to keep the track iN a walking match, was fined $100 ald sent to prison:for ten days. A bill has passed both houses of the Florida Legislature taking Sumter coun ty from the First Congressional district and transferring it to the Second. Kansas druggists, according to the ncw, absurd law, can not sell camphor, co logne or flavoring extracts into which alcohol enters without the prescription of a physician. The Prescott (Ark.) Dispatch say that there are seventy-five saw mills on the line of railroad between Little Rock and Texarkana, and timber enough for 750 more. Miss Mary Maury, of Milton, N. C., hovl was engaged to be married to Th os De-Jarnette, who is now under sentence of death for shooting his sister in a low house, has married a Mr. Charles Gor dIon, A correspondent of the Savannah (Ga.) News says that the largest tea plantation in the United States is located about fifteen miles from Fleming. Fleming is about twenty-four miles southwest of SaLva1nnah in Liberty county. Karl Gerha:dt, a Hartford draughts man, modeled so fine a figure of his wife -in clay that Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner have sent him to Europe for educationi in sculpture. The Money Order Superintendlent at New York says the M. 0. D~epartment is only sixteen years old. The smallest money order ever sent was one cent. Last year over $100,000,000 was sent] through the decpartment. Two of the Tlexas Congressmen tire1 Georgians. Olin Wellborn began his legal career in Atlanta, and moved to1 Texas in 1868. D. B. Culberson went from LaGrange to the army, and then to Texas as Adjutant General of that < State. Garfield kissed the Bible on the twen ty-first chapter of Proverbs, and the1 Verses he0 kissed were these: "Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord pondereth the hearts." "To do justice and judgment is more aic cepta~bls. t >the Lord than sacrifice." The Maine liquor law is still supposed to be in force in that State, and the Leg islature is still loyal to the prohibitory statute so long upon the Maine books; but for the refreshment of the inner man enga;;ed in thc Maine Legislature, liquor is made quite accessible to the capitol '. building in Augusta. The Texas Legislature is said to have passed a resolution requiring that women .t sall be employed in the State depart-. ments for every position that they are compttent to fill upon the same terms and cond~itions as men. The heads of departments, it appears, have hitherto declined to give the women any public emiploymen t. The Rev. Dr. Philip Schaff, Chairman of the Bible Revision Committee, an nlounces that the Revised New Testament will be published by the English Univer sity presses in May, in ditlerent sizes and styles of binding at corresponding prices. The new Bible is protected by copyright G England anud free ill this country. Wm. I. Johnson, caressingly called Buckshot Bill, Chief of United States Scouts, is authorized interpreter in four teen Indian tongues and speaks eleven more. Bill was once taken prisoner by Split Nose, a Comanche, and saw eleven of his comrades burned. He says he has 117 scalps hanging in the Smithsonian Institute taken by his own hands. Capt. Nelms says that there are now about 1,150 convicts at the various prison camps of Georgia. 'ihe largest number at any one place is at the Dade coal mines, where there are about 850. The decrease in the number of convicted criminals for the years 1878-9 is said to be about twelve and one-half per cent., and for the year 1880 about fifteen per cent. The Charleston banks refuse to take silver certificates at par. The certificates represent silver-coined dollars in the United States Treasury, and are receiva ble for customs dues; but the demand for silver to pay duties at Charleston is small, and the banks must charge aquar ter per cent. discount on the certificates to pay expressage on them to some city where a large amount of custom-house duties is paid. The Concho (Texas) Times says that Judge Pruesser describes El Paso as fol lows: "Imagine the main street of San Angela with the houses all flat-roofed, lnd about a thousand drunken men, rail road hands, gamblers and adventurers, all swaggering, fighting and yelling through the streets, and you have a pretty cor rect idea of El Paso as it is. That there will be a good town there some day, or probably further down the river, I have n1o doubt." Robert Collyer, Sunday, in the course A a lecture on George Eliot, said: "As to her after life, it isn't a question Af casting stones, but it is whether ihe did the best possible here with that fine spirit. I believe that her soul is at rest. in the boundless bliss of heaven [lone could such a soul find its place. Old Father Taylor, of Boston, once saisi to a Calvinist who was talking about Ralph Waldo Emerson's going to the bad place after he should die: "Well, if Emerson goes to hell, he will change the :limate." And so I say of George Eliot. The negros in Liberty county, Ga., are mid to be well behaved and industrious. Ihe Rev. J. T. H1. Waite, who located in Liberty in 1874, has done much toward t:heir moral and intellectuu advance rnent. ThV academy which he establish 2d at Midway several years since is in a prosperous condition, and numbers 250 pupils on its roll. The assistan t teachers ire young colored men, one of whom re ::eived his education at this academy. Another school has been startced recently it Dorchester b~y the Rev. Mr. Waite, w~ho is devoted to his roble mission. Speaking of the improvements which ire to madue at Athens, Ga., this sum mer, the Atlanta Constitution says: Athens is already one of the muost beau ful, aristocratic and progressive cities of ts size iln the Southrn States, with a population largely made up of the weal th est of Georgians. Its long; avenues, ined with stately old Southern mansions vith beautiful yards and shade trees, -em inds one vividly or the princely times >f ante-bellum days. Tihe colleges of Xthens arc numerous and of the highest >rdler, and from their halls have gone >ut men who have become honored and listinguished both in private and in pub ic life. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ What is Wino Made Of? As wine merchants are petitioning the F'renceh Gevernment to put a stop to the manmufacture of artificial wines, the pe Litioi'ers asserting that not one-third of the wiuie used in Pais is made of grapes, the namly Americans who turn up their niose: at the juice of our own grapes will uaif urally wonder what the spurious Fwench~ wviues are made of. An exchange miys that there are a number of large fac tories uear Paris in which wines are made from rotten ap~ples, damaged dried fruits vf all kinds, beets and spoiled molasses. But there are not enough of these materials to make as much wine as is required by foreign trade. Turnip juice has been worked over into wine, and American cider is the basis of mil lions of bottles of champagne, but good apples and turnips are too costly to be wasted on cheap wines, such as most Americans buy. Some of the temper ance societies might find the returns they are after by satisfying public curiosity about what wines are made of.--. Y. Heral KINGZET'r is inclined to believe tha ozone and hydrogen peroxide are pro duiced at ,the same time when atmost uhoric air is drawn over phosphorus par tially immersed in water. Tn thin a ili hyana.th. THE NEW CABINET. Biographical Sketches of its Members. Personal and Political Antecedents or Blaine, Windon, Xirkwood, Lincoln, Hunt, James and MAeVeagh. New York Herald. JAMES GILLESPIE BLAINE, SECRETARY OF STATE. Few public men in America are better known than Senator James G. Blaine, ex-Speaker of the House of Representa tives, and few are likely to maintain themselves so steadily in the forefront of the political battle field for many years to come. As Premier of the new ad ministration Mr. Blaine will share with President Garfield the chief responsibil ities of a policy which will be largely his own, at least to a degree unusual in the annals of recent governments. Mr. Blaine, as is well known, is a citizen of Maine and a native of Pennsylvania, but it is not so well understood that lie may be considered in a geographical sense as n "Ohio man," having been born in the center of the Ohio Valley, much nearer the "Beautiful River" than either Hayes or Sherman. He conies of Revolution ary stock, his grlat-grandfather, Col. Ephriam Blaine, a native of Scotland, having fought with prince Charley at Culloden in the '45, and afterward par ticipated in the American Revolution, as commlissionary general of the Middle de partment during the Revolutionary war. His maternal grandfather, James Gilles Pie, settled upon a large tract of land in the Monongahela Valley soon after the Revolution, that region being considered then a part of Virginia. His father, Ephriam L. Blaine. married a Miss Gil lespie, and James G. Blaine, one of seven children, was born Jan. 31, 1830, on hidian Hill farm, West Brownsville, Union township, on the Monongahela, in Washington county, Pa. The county seat was the thriving village of Wash ington-usually known as "Little Wash ington"-a town which has become prominent of late years by its cremation furnace and by the visits of Gen. Grant to the members of his familr who reside there. "Little Washington ' is also no ted as the seat of one of the oldest col leges of the Ohio Valley, and there, after preparation at a school in Lancas ter, 0., where he resided with his uncle, Senator Thomas Ewing, the future Premier graduated in 1847, with the highest honors of a class of thirty-three members, at the early age of seventeen years. In 1850 he went to Georgetown, Ky., as a teacher at a militaiy academy, an(d married, about 1853, a Miss Harriet Stanwood, a lady who taught an adjoin ing district school. She belonged to a prominent family of Maine, and this marriage was the occasion of the removi al of Mr. Blaine to that State. He had previously taught (1852) in the Penn sylvania Institution for the Blind at Philadelphia, at the same time studying law and writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He speedily became connected with the Kennebec Journal, published at Augusta, the State Capital, and was for a time editor of the Portland Advertiser, but soon returned to) his former p~ost at Augusta. In 1857 he waselected to the State Legislature, where he sat for five years, during two of which lhe served as Speaker. In 1862 he was elected to Congres4, to) which lie was regularly re elected until 1876, whben lie was chosen to the Senate in place of ex-Senator Lot M. Morrill. In D~ecember, 18(69, he was elected Speaker of the Forty-first Con gress, was re-electedl in 1871 and 1873 and was defeated in 1875 by hmis Demo eratic competitor, Michael C. Kerr, the D~emocrats having a clear majority ini that House. As every one knows, Mr. Blaine was brilliantly successful as a Speaker, having complete command of parliamentary rumles, andl po)ssessi ng that gift of personal magnetism wvhich marks the leaders of men. As an orator and legislator he was one of the notable fig uires of Congress long before lie became its presidhing oflicer, and began to be imentioned a~s a possible P~residenjt soon after his first election to the Speaker ship. A t Cincinnati in 1876 he narrow ly escaped the Repulhicanl nomination, aind at Chicago in 1880 was the leading c'andhidate until almost the last moment, when his followers threw their votes for James A bramn Garfield, thus securing his ntominaution, lie occu11pies a fine houmse at Washington, w'here h i- dispenses hospital it y; has six chiiren, two of his soins already practicing law, andi~ hais at mitural taste for (Iiplomacy, for whieb his chiaracter eminenctly fits hiim. He hals an imposing personmal prese'nce, a phenomnenal memory and1( a repu1t ation for steadfast loyalty to political friends. WILITA M WINDOM, SEURET~ARY OF T~hE TREASURY. The second prize in the Garfield Cabi net falls to Senator William Windorn, of Minnesota, who had some following in the Chicago Convention of 1880 as a possible "dark h( rs ." Mr. Windom, like many other meritorious politicians, was origmnall y an "Obin man," having first sceu the, light May 10, 1827, in Be mont county, 0., almost on the banka of the "Beautiful River," near Wheeling, WVest Va., not fifty miles, "as the crow flies," from the birth place of James (G. Blaine. His parents were both from Virginia,. his paternal grand parents were from North Carolinm, and his ma ternal grand parents were Pennsylvania Quakers named Spencer. William Win dom was brought up on a farm. In clearing up~ the "claim," splitting rails andl chopping firewood, he wielded the ax with the same agility as our martyr President. H is early schooling was de fective, but he attended an academy at Moimt'fVernon, 0., for several terms when a youndmnan. studyime law at the same time, and was admitted to the bar at that place in 1850. Two years later he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Knox county, but in 1855 he settled at Winona, Minn., which has ever since been his residence. In 1858 he was elected to Congress as a Republican, and was continued in his seat for ten ears, serving on the committees on Public Lands and Public Expenditures and the special committee of thirty-three on the rebellious States, and acting during his last three terms as Chairman of the Committee on Indian Affairs. He was originally a Henry Clay Whig, and made his mark in Congress by his suc cessful championship of the munificent homestead law of 1862. He was always a tariff man, and gave special attention to the problems of interstate commerce, cheap transportation and the advance ment of agricultural interests. He was appointed Senator in July, 1870, to fill the unexpired term of Daniel S. Norton; was elected for the full term of 1871-77 and re-elected for the term expiring in 1883. As a Senator he has been promi nent in connection with his advocacy of Ca >t. Eads' Mississippi jetties, wrote an elabrate report as Chairman of a com mittee on transportation, was also Chair man of the important Committee on Ap propriations, was the proposer of the exodus investigation, and has quite re cently figured as the pronounced oppo nent of monopolies. SAMUEL. J. KIRKWOOD, SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. The third in importance of the Cabi net portfolios has been awarded to Sena tor and ex-Governor Samuel J. Kirk w-lod, of Iowa. Governor Kirkwood was born Dec. 20, 1818. in Hartford county. Maryland,near theSusq uehanna river and the iead of Chesapeake Bay, in a region noted for the number of eminent men it has produced. He is consequently sixty eighl years of age, being the oldest mem ber of the new administration and one of the oldest now in public life at Wash ington. His early education was chiefly received at the Federal capital in the academy taught by John MeLeod. His political guardian angel inspired him in 18"5 with the happy thought of becom ing an "Ohio man," and for twenty years thereafter he wag a citizen of Rich land county on the edge of the Western Reserve. He studied law, was in 1843 admitted to the bar at Mansfield, the home of the Shermans; was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Richland county in 1845 and 1847, and sat in 1860-51 in the convention which framed the present Constitution of Ohio. In 1855 lie settled in Johnson county, Iowa, where in the following year he was chosen Mtate Sena tor, was elected Governor in 1859 and again in 1861, being one of the remarka ble group of "War Governors" to whom was due so much of the glory of the sup pression of the rebellion. Iu 1863 lie declined the offered mission to Denmark, succeeded James Harlan as United States Senator for the period 1866-7, was again chosen Governor in 1875. and resigned that office in JTanuary, 1877, on his sec ond election to the United States Senate for the period ending in 1883. Governor Kirkwood has the reputation of being a "rough diamond"--a bluff, hearty, quaint genius in homespun, strongly resembling President Lincoln in height, general de nmeanor and indifference to outward ap pearances. lie is said to be "rich mn savinig common sense," and ill need it all if he is to make a success of his in cumnbency of that graveyard of reputa tions, the Interior D)epartment. He knows all about the land question and the Indian question, has' views of his own about agriculture, and will heartily sec ond the intenitions of President Garfield with reference to the education -of the freedman and the honest supervision of the Patent, Pension andl other bureaus which make up his important depart ment. ROBERT TOD)D LINCOLN, SECRETARY OF The personal history of the new Secre tary of War is a brief one, except in so far as it falls within that of his father, the martyr President. Descended pater nally from one of the four Thomais in colnis, who were at the same time pioneer emigrants from Hingham, England, to) Hlingham, Mass., and a grand nephew of D)amel Boone, the pioneer of Kentneky, he was born at Sprmngfield, Ill., in 1844, being the eldest and now the only sur viving son of Abraham Lincoln. He re cei vedl a good education at the schools of that city and at Exeter A cademy, N. H1.; graduated at Harvard College and re sided at the White House during much of the eventful period when it was the center of the nationi's destinies. After the assassination of his father he settled in Ciceago, Ill., where he studied and has sinIce. practicedl law, and hans acq aired an enviale reputation as a good citizen and successful lawyer. lie nmarriedl the only daughter of ox-Secretary James Harlan, of Iowa, and owes his present appoJintment primarily to the two Sena tors from llinois, (GeneralI Logan and David Davis, who, douhtless, reflect the sentiments of a vast public which ar dently desires that the son of such a father may achieve the highesit p)olitical success. WILIJAM 11. IIUNT, SEORETARY OF TrilE NAVY. Judge William H. Hunt, of the Court of Claims, the new Secretary of the Navy, is a native of South Carolina and settled in Louisiana in early life. He v as educated at Yale College, studdied and practiced law in New Orleans, gpaining a brilliant position at the Louisiana Bar, and, like his brothers, Rarndall and Dr. Thomas Hunt, .mnd all, his famniy, was uncomiproimismng in his loyalty to the 'Union ca ve He gained a large p rac tice in enAfmerciatl maratime an~d amL miraltY law. He was a thoroughly trained criminal lawyer, an able solicitor in Chancery, and for some years pro fessor of commercial and criminal law and the law of evidence in the New Or leans Law School. He was a ready and able writer, was a valued adviser to Gens. Butler and Banks in Louisiana, was an old.Whig before the war and a moderate Democrat for several subsequent years, but ultimately joined the Republican party and was elected Attorney General in 1676 on the Packard ticket. In 1877 he settled at Washington as a lawyer. In 1878 he was urge<1 for the post of Collector of New Orleans, but was given instead a Judgship in the Court of Claims. He was recently recom mended by the Bar of Louisiana, with eut distinction of Party, for a seat on the Supreme Bench i-i place of Justice Strong, but the prize was awarded to Judge Woods. His decisions in the Court of Claims for the past two years show him to be a dilligent, learned and upright magistrate. Judge Hunt is related by marriage to the Livingston family of Louisiana, originally f rom New York, and has a sum mer residence in this State on the banks of the Hudson. He will have no diffi culty in ruling all that there is of Uncle Sam's navee, and has a fine opportunity to distinguish himself by supplying a "long felt want" in that direction. THOMAS L. JAMES, POSTMASTER GEN ERAL. A univermal chorus of applause salutes the elevation to the Postmaster General ship of Thomas L. James, the most pop ular and efficient Postmaster New York city has ever possessed. Mr. James is a native of Utica, Oneida county, N. Y., a city not wholly unknown in connee tion with the distribution of political honors-in short, the Ohio of the Em pire State. He was born in 1831, and when fifteen years old was apprenticed to learn the printing business in office of the Liberty Press at Utica, under the veteran abolitionist, Wealey Bailey. Five years later he, in partner-hil) with Francis B. Fisher, purchased and edited the Madison County Journal at Hlamil ton, N. Y., and he continued to publish that periodical for nearly ten years, first as a Whig and afterward as a Republi can organ. Hamilton was a Democratic stronghold, but Mr. James was largely instrumental in 1856 in carrying the Republican county ticket against the powerful Know Nothing combination lie became a general favorite in Hamil ton society, took an active- part in pro moting all local interests, was influential in the management of political cani paigns in the county, and filled for sev eral years the local office of Collector of Canal Tolls. He was well known as a life-long advocate of the temperance and abolition causes, and enjoyed the warni friendship of his neighbor, the venerable philanthropist, Gerritt Smith. In 1861, through the influence, as is believed, of Mr. Thurlow 'Weed, he exchanged the quietude of ai country town for the po)st of an insp~etor of customs in this city, uinder the collectorship) of Hiram Bar ney. In 1864 he was promoted without solicitation to the position of weigher, and in 1860 to that of Deputy Collector in charge of the third division (ware housing department,) the most res >onsi b~le post in the collectorial of1ice. .fbree years later, in 1872, he was strongly urgedl for the Surveyorship of -this port, then vacated b~y Alonzo Ii. Cornell, but to his own surprs and that of his friends President Grant sent in his name as postmaster, upon the resignation of Gen. P. H. Jones. Several of the most eminent citizens (of New York, including Thurlow Weed, E. D. Morgan, A. H. Cornell, Thomas Murphy and A bram Wakeman, volunteered to become his sureties in the large sum of .$1,200,000 required as a qualification for that re sponsible otlice. Of his administration of his great trust it is enough toisay that he has tbeen an ideal postaster, and that every citizen of New York, while rejoicing in his well-earned promotion, will regret the necessity of his severance from the office he has filled( so well. WAYNE MACvEAOIH, ATTORNEY G('.N ER{AL. The new Attorney General, Wayne MacVengh, of P'entuyl vania, has long enjoyed a repu tation as lawyv er, orator, scholar. dliplomatist and1( civil service re former, which could only be faintly suir mnised from the record of the few public oflices he has filled. Born in Ph~enix ville, Chester county, Pam., A pril 19', 1833, he prepatredl for college at Freelan~d Seminary, Montgomery county, Pa., anid was one of the prominent members of the famous clas of 1 853 at Yale College, where lie greatly distinguished himsel f as an orator iri the Linonian Society. Admitted to the bar of West Chester, P'a., in A pril, 1856, after studying in the oflice of Mr. Joseph L. Lewis, of that town, whose dlaughiter he married, he was elected D~istrict A ttorney a year or two later, entered the Union army in September, 1862, as Captain of a cavalry company, in the -emergency of the threatened invasion of the State, andl~ in 18613 was for a short time Major on the staff of Gen. Darius N. Couch, i~e early distinguished himself in the arid field of Pennsyl van in politics, becoming in 18613 Chairman of the Republican Central Committee, married in 1867 as his second wife a daughter of Senator Simon Cameron, and attaiunedl a lucrative and important legal practice. In 1872 he was appointed by President Grant Minister to Constantinople, but he re signed that post the following year. In Octoiber, 1873,h having become a citizen of flarrisburg, he was chosen a delegate to the convenion for revising the State constitution, was a member of the Com mittee on the Judiciary. nde Chman of that in the Legislature. He was prominently mentioned for the post of Secretary of the Interior In 1875, and hW the following year removed his law office to Philadelphia and his residence to a fine farm in Lower Merion township, Montgomery county, Pa., near Consho shocken. He then formed a law part nership with Mr. Tucker Bispham, and became counsel for the Northern Central and Pennsylvania railroad companies. In March, 1877, he was sent to Louisiana as the leading member of the so-called "MacVeagh Commission"-composed of Geus. Hawley and Harlan, Gov. John C. Brown and Judge C. B. Lawrence to investigate the state of political affairs. His report was influential in securing the withdrawal of Federal recognition from the "carpet-bag' government and this fact naturally made him a mar for the bitter indignation of Gen. B. F. But ler and other Republican "stalwarts" of that time. In 1877 he was mentioned for the post of Minister to England, but the two Cainerons successfully exerted their influence against him, notwith standing his connection by marriage with the family. Last year he was one of the organizers of the National Re pub lican League and exerted himself at Chicago against the Canerons and the nomination of Gen. Grant. Subsequently he visited Russia for the business inter ests of Mr. Wharton Borker, of Piila delphia. He was proposed e4 i craudi date for United St4tes Senator during the recent deadlock in Pennsylvanin, but (lid not seriously enter the field. Mr. McVeagh is an eminent authority on railway law, a brilliant, Liarned and effective orator, it forcible writer and i representative of the reform e!enient in American politics. ENTERTAINNG PARAGRAPHS. TwENTv years ago an iron theatro was shipped to Australia, from England, in convlenint sections, so as to be put up easily nii arrival thero. A woMAN at West Cornwall, Conn., failing to induce her htvsbaiid to move out of at house which she did not like, deliberately destroyed it by lire. LET us not despiso homiely persons. They serve to remaiid u8 that a but slight Viutio n inl our facial lines WoUld have iie-mediably narred ouur beauty. A wm ln dn dogs says that every one given to sedent4ry pursuits ouglit to keep a dog, its the neces-ity of giving exercise to the (log will exercise the mani. T11 follwiiig is an 4-pitapli from at toAlmb iear Versiallets: " 'Except in 1859, during withi for several days he took lessons on the piano, her life was without a latail. "I wmsn," says Dr. Sehllinuimn, "that I could have proved Honer to have been an evo-witness of the Trojan wiarI Alas, I caii not do it." Still the doctor has not lived in vain. .linNo the reign of Napoleon 1. a book of birds for childrnm wits iullressed becauseo it 'onltained the( p~hrase: "Trhe cock is rather the tyrant than chieftain of the farm-yard.'' EvEur' shell fired by) an army during siege operations costs, with the powder with which the nmortaLr is clutrged, the stum of eighti dollars-enoutgh to supp)ort a poor fmaily foIr at fortnight. O i: of the~. modes of punishmnut iu China is toJ compe~tl a erimimad to) die of sleeplessnessI, by keeping him awake ai wee, nghtand dayi. Ten danys is sure to prove fatal and is terrible agony for Athfiiald retnrn puatts the feminine "'models" in Paris amt 675. Th'le pay for a sitting is fronm 50 cenlts to) $10. Most of the models atre Italian; thirty are American; 145 have beena in the hatnds of the police. TLm~irus is a man in Newark, N. J., so (close that when he attends church he occupies the pew fatrthest from the pulpit to saive the inte'rest on his muoney while the collectors are passing the pl1ate~ for contributions. TmIF staLges and theatres of the G4reeks and Romuans were so) immuiensue that the act.ors, to be hearnid, were ol iged to have~ :ecouirse to maetallie masks. conitrivedi svitha great months, to tuigmuent the natural s4ound of the vo( ice. A (ITN'r1i-:MAN iln lUekinghamn Connty, sa., has1. amiong his domi~estic animnals a~ large rat, which ws caught twelve months atgo~ by at (at; but, instead of devoutrinig it, the ('at nursed and fed it, and1( they now platy an d sleep together, like eait and( kitten. A HAl) story is related( by the Pittsyl vania (VaL.) Tri/nmew. A younag mani in that county b oughat a hiouse, fitted it up from garret to cellar and purchased his wedding outfit. B~ut the wedding didn't take place. Ont lhe day fIxed the br..e marrwed anuothe~r fellow. TuxE Milwaukee Sani speaks of a per 50)n who "turned ats 1pale as the ace of spfadles."' We always supposed the ace of spades1C was red, an1d was htardl to distin tiungnish from thue jack of.-diamnonds, 1a. we believe that cardl is called where the fi gure wears a crown.-Noirridow~n 11er'/ (/i/. ANOTRriER of the Blue Laws in ye olden time was: "No one shall run ozj the Sabbath day, or walk in his gardena or elsewhere, except reverentially to anil from mneeting. No one shall travel, cook vietuals, make beds, sweep htousec, cut hair or shave on the Sabbath day. No womfan shall kiss her child on the Sab bath or fasting doay." IT is a melancholy fact that crystal palaces do not pay. That at S'yden ham haa been a financial failure, and now the Alexandria Palace, on the northern heights of London, wuith its beautiful park of four hundrd and seventy acres. 1s announced for s'he. The expense of keeping up these places is so lare as to abbcorb all the omita,