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4k4 $ IA 3 9A19 W gisH T Olis , Einaimm , mockrto m eUrrAL IJn er TEN OUUT. B00. PICKENS.78.LC. THUBDAY DECEMBER 22 1881 VOL. XI. NO.15. THE TOPICS OF 3A~vnr i THU deoithi t'h ill &ffdtig mobl, it seems. Hoos are bi >bust ,z t toQ- awfully Tua proofs ok Guiteau's sanity are eve**hehming. PartArnIaArk is dv4rruni with dfiaal beggai-s 4 8 Wq*! AR D K Hg ter bFFcE-sER make very litle h ad way with President Arthur. TiE oitizens of Montresi will give a dinner in honor of Mark Twain. Yues Presii6 AriUr is kery deliber ate,-ideas long drawn out, you know. . GENEBAL RGAN- will- robably vIsit the Atlanta Exposition before its close. IT Al ns that Pattl'is itbhig Ito ap pear before a Cincinnati audience. Okxq ioes not'ds, 6 6itn she does get 4m, r g ones. MAoKEY, the boninza king, gs ceting about. with a vieg tp buy4 a port4on TEim restriotions upon the importation of American pork to France are soon to be removed. Tau estimated expenses of the Govern nent for the year ending June 30, f883, are I40,46 2507 . P. T. BARNuM, who used to be a pro *iitionist,has coine out in fUvo of 4 limited license law. DAViD DAvis is again in the matri avonial market. What a fat take ho will sake for some woman. T.m Cabinet does not ap ar too be getting recoistructed very fast. Arthur is very deliberate in his acts. PHILADELPHIA may be a poky place, but still she has just eiterpis' enoigh tp light .up the entiro city wit4 electriqty. ,TuH main portion of the President's fessago was printed in the London pa pers the day following its delivery to OFlate it m i at~eitiOr weather ,, jedictions are -missing ottener.Ahan they hit., 'We shall lhave to erase his name1 from the~listprettygoppy a RtJwITBw in the Gvrment printing office are getting pretty par iqular. oUe rdorad sa~ r~I~ n ~ ~ Mns. GARFIELD has seen and ap~ove~ a~rdof 'Of t~' 64 j%-dirsptagd stamp, which bears upon Its face an ac. "Iourtte lieesof the late Presislent, testimony in the Guiteau case to prove that the prisoner, and all the other mem .bdra d the Guite'autai~j.'wer per fectly sane. TENu ye4xs of tife senteog .61, the OS'ihborne 'alainuent expired~eibei- 29, and by a continuance of good marks he will have three years and eight months more to serve befgre he-is free. JEFF. DAVIS, who has returned from Europe, aiid ekperianodd anost stiormy passage. will devote hirmself "hencnforth , to lis plantation in Tennessee, and the business growing out of the publication of his work, Tuns Diberal lia ,is l1 ',n up in' Texas. It is roposed to' Jahni ze t Siitt. Hon.' Ge." W. Jones. memb~ of Congress from Texas, will resign14 meat in the House to become the Liberil candidate for Go~vernor. ZkY, kmtrfmls sqtuidered *150,000 stockholders' money in experl menting *ithi hi. davatin, and by his repeated failure to fulfill his promises of suocess~ t4e stockholders now bring "IT is stated that *1,00,0O0 of the fqtoaL uona .has not ,been pre. thi amunthas ost or4 S stroyed, while maoug&f It has been ?lea away to be held as a reminiscenos. IT .is al tpy, ,tle indictment reads. A' ?nm man stole thirty charged hine with stepl~g.'t iin ~ses and a abep~ and ho, left the e neoerd400mi with all his' reputiloni re gA9r. ws4l, p .ror"es. ffl o gae *lli etgy 4,)expiu to th# G;venAin fat'ho ad an*x pensive mistress did with $150.000'Gov ernment money while his family were being neglected. Oh, but this country is full of rogues I . HALsTEAD of the Cincinnati Commer cial, wants Guitoau hanged forthwith. The assassin suf(e- frpm too much turkey Thanksgiving, and with Christ nas here at hand ?-why of course it ould be an outrage. Let the (hrist onas turkey be forestalled. AN AssOCIATION has reen rorme(i in DuIlin for the relief 9f widows and un rnarried ladies, annuitants and holders of mortgages on Irish estates, a iumber of whom are rendered destituto through the non-payment of rents. Lady Cow per was present and subscribed ?100. Tnz total number of land owners in Ireland is 68.758. of whom 86.144 are possessors of. Wes than ona acre eaeh, oronly about 9,066 acres all told. It !follows, then, that, with this relatively insignificant exception, the nearly 21, 000,000 acres of Irish soil are owned by 32,614 persons. G06ihAu hha experiencedanidre real en joyment and more solid satisfaction in the notoriety which his trial has given him than he had in all his life preceding that event. If left to choose, he doubt less would give the balance of his life in preference to a denial the pleasures his trial has affo'rded him. IT Is sincerely hoped that Congress will do something to facilitate the send ing by mail of fractional currency. Sil ver i tom avy to e,.eqin letter, and its gQ aj)A0io1 k uc means is questionable. This want is small, al though a common one, and should be promptly attended to. REVENGE is sweet. Windfield B. Cox, of Passaic County, N. J.. who was on posed for theppe .,of sheriff by a .nun ber of prominent men of Paterson, con sisting of insurance men, manufacturers, baners, otc., has placed them on his first petit jury lst to serve at $2 a day, te iVegept of their large business ines. . bsi'es ACCORDING to the tostimoney in the Guiteau trial, while Guiteau was pevriasti' I religious; in - 1875i 4Ae w .. 1 A bout, Afflicted with a loathsome disease and squander ing monefondIewJ@Mid thA this wife was earning as. an. employe in a hotel. It seems to have been more a case of gmoral depraftd hap of religidus insan Suity-e.s tobe raging in all quarteYrs, atid If the greatest -precaution is axpt takei ,to reNit its spread, the probabilities are that during the present. witer the death rate from that cause will -be something alarming. In every instance where there is a patient af Iiq~ted with the dread dissase a yellow flag shpuld be 'hofsted t prevent others from unecessarily coin g in eontact AN ELEoTBXO wire'oame incontact with a te~I')hone' wire, in Cincinnati, anid the lightning traveled both, ways on' th~e telo phone. -Fortunately -no one had the telephone trumnpet to isa ear, or there is no telling whiit t'e' efect of tlle flame that biurst forth fromi the trumpet A' dis tance of six Inches, would have been. Wires in large cities are getting to be entirely tdo plentifal for the enjoyment of first-class health. . Ier past two months have been un pleasant ones to those who have been to sea. The great steaarers have been ar ri'fing at New York days and even weeks behind time, and some have been comn pelgedtoputbewitp rokn machinery. 'the oflcers of one ok the arivals enltoh as a significant fact of their stormy voyage that they ifid Liotsee a sailing vosatel during tube voyage. .It is only, too prob able JtL w ore than one bark of this class will never be heard from. ARule That' Works Both Wys. - -"TThat must be a false rule," says the Interior ." requiring virtue, oleanliness and igo temper and conduct in women, while .many men may go on to any length almo-t and, society one and all wit' inot blik, at our faults. What ever degrdea ta woman also degrades a nienl. Take some of the vioes anid hab of the da 4 ansmokesa filthy of abeda hal aa ounce of liki? ekand' -ydt expects a eldan muduth anid a a i Again, a young man ant to s~Send the eveidig with his adored Evelina. Should he find her not w lkohy~ .wuk below. ,,evl,,and yeVt.'.ha ja an himself 4w a daily visitr to6 , aloon4 d' bges IKahlitetane - Vieination, Primitive, and Modern. Neatly a century-bas elapsed since the disoovery of Dr. Jenner that vacine virus was an antidote fox smamilpox so moved the gratitude of the British Gov erpment that it gave him nearly half as mvh ioney'As our o*r people raised for -Mrs. Garfield. When he died a splendid monument was erected to his mihory, and he is ranked everywhere among the benefactors of humanty. Yet it is only fair to say that the experi ence of' late years has not sustained all the h6pesi at first entertained. We have h4en: told by an aged physician, whose st'idieu began while vaccination was still a novelty, that his instrugtor advised him not to waste much time in reading about smallpox, as it would soon disap pear from among men.. The failure of this prediction has arisen in part from the neglect of vaccination, and in part, also, from the fact that what is recognized as virus has been weakened by transmission through a long )ine of human subjects.. It has-also been more than once combined w*ith diseases far worse* than that which it was intended to keep off. People who have been more than once vaccinated, or who have su)posed that they were, have been at tacked with smallpox in severe, and p rha'ps fatal forms, while others have ' en mado wretched invalids for life. These factin have led to an organized opposition to vaccination, which has its headquarters in England, though its ramifications extend to other conhtries, our own among the number. It publishes trabts and reports, helps poor people to fight the agents of compulsory vaccina tiun, and boldly asserts that unmodified smallpox is preferable to that which may come after vaccination, pethaps with deplorable accompaniments. Of course this is exaggeration and.absurdity. One has only to glance at the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth ce'nturies to find abundant evidence of the fearful ravages of varioia, and of the terror which it inspired in palace and in hovel. Still, it may be questioned whether much of what passes for vaccine virus is really such. If long humanized it may have become inert, if not impure. Recognizing this possibility, it has be come the fashion to take virus directly from the cow and 'the severity of the symptoms following vacoination from this source has been thought to prove the wisdom of the step. Yet it does not follow that every pustule found on a cow is identical with that observed and ex perinented from by Jenner. It is cer tainly true that while in the tearly days of vaccination one operation was thought enough to protect one during life, it is now held that repeated vaccinations are essential-that the process should be gone through with at least as often as smallpox threatens to became epidemic. This may be a conclusion established by more careful observation, but it seems to indicate that the qpality of the virus has been impaired. We have been told of a man who was vaccinated iii theA early years of this century b~ matter brought direct from.Jior, ~en his arm was well, to test te -Nalue of the process, he was inoculated with smallpox virus. He went to a pest house to await results. He did not have varioloid, even in its mfldest form. Could as much be hoped from much of the vaccination of the present day ?-Exchange. A Japanese Hotel. Ini imiagining a Japanese hotel, good reader, p~lease dismiss all architectural ideas, derived from the 'Contincrital or Fifth Avenue. Our hotels in- Japan, outwardlly, at least, are wooden struct ures, two stories high, often but one. Their roofs aire usually thatched, thiough the city caravansaries are tiledt. They are entirely open on the front ground floor,, and about six feet from thep pil or threshold rises a platform about a foot and a hialf high, upon which raay be seen the proprietor, seated on his heels, busy with his account books. I it is winter, he is engaged in that absorbing occupa tion of all Japanese -tradesmen at .that time of -the year, warming his hlads'over a charcoal lire in a low 'brazier. The kitchen is usually just next to the front room, often sep~arated from the street by only a latticed partition. In evolving a Japanese kitchen out of his or her imag ination the reader must cast away the rising conception of Bridget's realm. Blissful, indeed, is thef thought as we enter the Japanese hotel that neither the typical servant girl nor the American -hotel clerk is to be found here. The landlord comes to meet us, falling on kiis hands aind knees, bows his heads to the floor. TOne or two of The prettygiris out of thie bevy usually seen in the Japaese hotels'comes to assist us and tae our traps. Welcomes, invitations akad pien-. ty of fun greet~ us as we sit down to take off our shoes, as all -good Japanese do, and as those fithy foreigkers don't, who tramp on the clean mats with mudldy boots. . We stand up unshod, and are led by the laughing. girls along the *nmooth corridors, across an arolaed bridge which spans an open space In which is a rookery, gren and pond stocked 'with goldfish, turtles and ma rine plants. The room which our fair guides choose for us is at the rear end of the house, overlooking the grana scen er for which Kanozan is justly noted all .the empire. Ninety-nine yelley, are said to be visible from the menntt top on which the hotel is situated, and we suspect that multiplication by ten would scarcely be an exaggeration. A world of blue water and pines, and the detailed loveliness of the rolling land, form a picture which. I lack power to paint with words. The water seemed the type of repose, the earth of motion. --Limwinott. Hu who can heroically endure adver. sity will bear prosperity with equal greatness of soult Roffenstein's Prie Brogan. Hofpsteiu was busily engaged mark ing the selling price on some olothing whioh had *jst arrived, when suddenly stopping in his work he turned to the olerk and said: ''1 H .I had forgot if ye soll and il Uf d ov pk Joan bants vat yas dam aged. Vas any more af dem in do adore yet?" "Yes, Misder Hoffenstein. I diuk dere vas dree bairs left. I hat been dry lng to sell dem but do beople say dey don't vant to go around de adreet mit bants on vat makes dem look like a cir ous brocession. Dere vas yellow spots all ofer do bants, you know." "Vell, subbose dey haf got spots on dem, vas you going to let de beople dink dey vas damaged? My gr-r-acious, Herman, do longer you vas in de pisness do more you don't learn noding. Vy, von a man comes in do sdore und dells me dot dose bants vas damaged I dells him he vas misdaken und I asks him if he know a biece uf quadruple, vox finish, needle point, hand dwisted vool from a biecoe vat vas von ply, cotton stitched and mit a beveled edge. Von I ask him dot he don't can say noding. Den I dell him dot do bants vas not damaged, und dot dey vas made uf vot vas called in do old vorld Spanish spot vool, do best ardicle made dere. In a gouple uf minutes afdor I dalk to do gustomer he buys de bants, und I half sell nine bairs in dot vay." Hoffenstein had scarcely finished speaking when a negro with a bundle in his hand and considerably excited en tered the store. " Vell, my front, vat can I do for you?" said Hoffenstein, advancing toward him and smiling Vleasantly. "You can t do anything fur me," re plied the negro, angrily, " but I want yer to gib' me back my money what I paid fut des hyar shoes or I'ae gwine to take de matter fore do law. I gib four dollars for dem shoes an' I nebber wore dem but six days fore do soles drapped off, an' when I 'zamined dem dar warn't a God's blessed ting dar but paper. re bin cheated, and when a man thinks he can come miratin' around me an' I ain't wne to say nuffin' he's apt to find hisse in de nine hole." "My front," said Hoffenstein, quietly, "did you fina anyding in do soles uf dem shoes ?" "No sah," replied the negro. "Vel, dot vas a biece ut hard luck, my front. Do shoes vat you buy vas de Louisiana brize shoe, und von you dake a bair uf dem you vas liable at any mo ment to find a dwenty dollar gold biooe in do soles uf dem. If de soles uf do brize shoes vas made uf hard lodder, dey vouldn't year out, and do gonsequence vould be you don't can find de dwenty dollar biece, und dot vas de reason de soles vas made of baper so dot dey vill year oud soon, und let do beople know if dey git a brize, you know." "Is dose hyar shoes do regerler prize shoes ?" inquired the negro, greatly in terested. "Veil, my front, if ye see a man vat come in do oder day mnd show me a gouple uf dwendy dollar bieces vet ho got oud uf dem shoes, you vould say dey vas a geld mine." "If d. shoes is do regerler prize algoes, I'll take 'er nudder pair." "Certainly, my front. Herman, wrap do sheutleman up a bair uf dose Louisi ana brize shoes, and dake dose vat you dink do money vas in." When the shoes had been paid for and the negro had gone, Hoffenstein said : " Herman, did you see how I york off dose old star brogans ?" "Yes, Misder Hoffenstein." "Vell, von efer a gustomer comes in do sdore', reogolleck dot dey vas do Lou isiana brize shoe mit a dwenty dollar gold bicgoe in de sole nf dem. I think I vill learn you someding about de busi ness yet."-New Orleans Timee. The Pleasures of the. Table. The simplest food will not suffice to maintain a community in mental and physical health, and to produce the highest form of efforts. A people who li'e ou rice 'will usually be found unfit to do anything better than grow rice. Monotony in food, as in other things, begets dullness. For all classes there must be something in life to look for ward to if men are not to become soured ; and, constituted as we are at present, the pleasures of the table must continue to form an important element ameng the pleasures avaiable for man. But if the use of luxurous food be defensible on these grounds, absolute waste of food, at any rate, p reduoes the ill effect piedout, without any compensating advantage. The dinner at every glut tonous city feast contributes his quota to the already existing distress in some othest part of the communit. So does the guest at 'a charity dinner. The money he subscribe. to the charity is merely a transfer of wealth which leaves the world neither rich nor poorer ; the dinner he eats or leaves increases the poverty of his neighbor.-Thae Ibrt-. nightlv Review. AN~ Edinburgh ~professor has discov ered that an ammal struck by lightning or by an electric shock, under scientiflo direction, is rendered delightfnUy ten der in a moment. Read this ph out at -supper in presence of te assem bled boarders.,I may startle the land lady, cause her to invest in an electrio battery, and change the hard and stony hearted beefsteak fromn "a thing of duty and a chaw forever" into a soft and ten der-hearted dream of Mary's little lamb. -New York Commercial Advertiger. Tu revised edition of the New Testa mont failed to catch the popular favor that was expected. Copies of the work are offered for sale in the East at greatly radnnd prwices. Praylg, Workmen of Coastaatinople. In the bazas of Stamboul the work men and salesmen (there are no women employed in these bazars-Turkish pphi ion will not permit it) are of the male sex only. Euchs are not iifrequent, and are easily recognized at a .glance from other black men, but, are, nevqr other than harem servants or managers of the housebol. As one loiteis through these bazars some queer thiugi are seen. The bazars, properly so called, are nar row streets of shops, oovered from rain by arched roofs, and continuous for miles one with another, so that without umbrella (for sunshine or rain) one can go through them rotected.' The floors are damp stones or packed clay-they are dark and one goes up and down steps from one to another so that pro ession is unpleasant. The personal solicitation of the salesmen is something painful and very annoying-until one learns, as he soon does, to pay not the slightest at tention to any one, but to look around him, apparently indifferent and unob servant of the remarks and exhibitions of goods-while inwardly you feel a yearning desire to knock over solne im pudent man who takes you for a fool. While you pass along looking at some workman making something in the skill ful yet clumsy way they work, with -tools unhko, often, anything you evor saw using feet as if they were hands and miking complex furniture, veneered beautifully with the simplest of tools, (so few as to make the work seem incredible) -lo 1-the worker will turn about with his back to the door atd crowd-seem. to road his Koran-and lose himself in prayer 1-or walk off, leaving his pur chaser at the door, and enter the nearest mosque and say his prayers. (Infernally aggravating when you have about con eluded a desirable purchase 1) In the mosques one sees them enter, after wash ing their feet, pray reverently and ab sorbedly towards Mecca, (the altar of the mosque is always placed so that praying towards it is praying towards Mecca,) and reverently depart, putting on their shoes again at the door as they go out. I several times felt a strong inward temptation, when at the door of some pop ular mosque, to gather up the queer col lection of worshippers' shoes and fly with them to start a museum with. On the boats, at sunset, the Mosleim teem in the midst of the crowd, utterly oblivious apparently, of surroundingi, bow to the earth repeatedly, seemingly uttering prayers toward Mecca, and three times touching the earth with the fore head. The bazar workmen are, however, by no means alwa Turkish, or even Mo hainmedan. Tey are of every race: many Jews, some Americans and Eng lish, who have crept in. The fruit-sell ers of the city are mostly- Armen ian. The strong-muscled porters (herculean many of them) whom one sees every where in the streets carrying loads that a tender-hearted man would not force his horse to pull, are many of them Wal lachian, Servian, B3ulgarian or 1%oumie lian. The merchants and artidceer, as a class intelligent-looking and pleasant countenances--are Greek. This is a place of conglomerate nationality-the Turk ruling-the middle .class larg~ely Greek-the under classes Macdomn, etc. ,-with mixtures in each class. Thle Circassain always either soldier, or, if woman, a bought wife in the harem (pro nounced ha recm,) the negro, (of aill shades of color) Persian, Indian, lEgy p tian, uroan, American (a few), cte'., are commingled, and a very picturesque crowd is the visible result.-Constanti no ple Letter in Kokomno Tribunc. How an Indian Boy Shoots. The remarkable shooting of the young Nez Perces Indian boy, Otto, was wit nessed by a large audience of those in terested in rifle shooting. The m~ost re markable feature of the exhibition was the lightning quickness of the boy. But very few of the attempts failed. The first shot was at a five-cent piece on the head of a figure representing a man, and was hit, the distance b~eing fifteen paces. The next was the cutting of a string that sus p ended a figure at the rear of the stage. Thes rifle was picked up from the stage by the lad after he had turned a somer sault, and the shot was fired almost in stantly. The most remarkable shot of the evening was accomplished by the use of peculiarly placed appliances, in the follo wing manner : Ina small steel frame a pistol-barrel was suspended ; be hind the barrel a razor had been fixed, and on either side of it lys suspended a glass ball. The boy was then taken to the front of the stage and blindfolded, with his face to the audience. At the command "about face," he turned, raised his rifle, and, after only a mo mentary hesitation, fired. The ball passed through the pistol, was split by the razor, and each ass ball was broken by half dhe bullet. This shot is said to be due the boy's wonderful gift of the power of location. The precision of the aim is secured by taking a position di rectly in front of the object, and aim is taken by a certain pressure of the rifle stock against the shoulder and cheek. An exhibition bayonet drill followed. The boy was applauded for his marks manship and dexterity.-San Francisco call. Practic~al Arithmetie. "You can't add different things to gether," said an Austin school teacher. " If you add a sheep and a cow together it does not make too sheep or two cows.' A little boy, the son of an Austin av enue milkman, held up his hand, and said: " That may do with sheep and cows, but if yon add a quart of milk and a quart of water, it makes two quarts of milk. I've seenit tried." Iil OF INFORMATION. Poner lace is the oldest variety of bae known It was. the work of nuns durn - the latter part of the fourteeoith eentury. An MRo4N doer, both male and female, shed their hornis every year froma the latter part of January to about. the 15th of February only. TU " freedoma. -ot a city" is ;a honorary distinction conferrd on ome illustrious -man, It is usuall besiwed throu h a certificate or diploma signed by e municipal aut orities and suitably mounted. It is presented on the occasion of a visit or may be for warded. It makes the recipient an houorary citizen. It may be awarded a countryman or a stranger. Tan engagement ring is supposed to be of a Roman origin, and to have sprung from the ancient custom of using ings in making agreements, grants, etc. Its primitive ferm was that of a seal or signet ring. Betrothal rings were fre quently exchanged by lovers in ancient rf times. It is also believed that the Romans originated the custom of giving rings with mottoes or posies engraved on them to their lady loves. Fonxs were invented in Italy in the fifteenth century, but were not employed in England until the middle of the seventeoth century; then only by the higher classes. As late as the eighteenth century, forks, as well as knives, were kept on so meager a ticale by country inns in Scotland that it was customary for persons traveling to carry with them a knife and a fork in a shagreen case, and a Sm11 knife and fork still form. part of the ornamental equipment in the Highland costume. Ti bridge or covered gallery which connects the ducal palace and the prison of Venice is high above the water and divided by a stone wall into a passage and a cell. The state dun ons were sunk into the thick walls of the palace, and the prisoners when taken out to die were conducted acrds the gallery to the other side, upon the bridge, and *ere there strangled. The low portal hrou which the criminal was taken into e cell is now walled up, but the passage is open, and is still known by the name of the "Bridge of Sighs." Tai origin of the cant name, "Uncle Sam," was as follows : Immediately after the declaration of war with England, Elbert Anderson, of New York,t a contractor, visited Troy, where was con "'centrated, and where he p urohased, a large quantity of provisions-beef? pork, etc. The inspectors of these articles at that place were Messrs. Ebenezer and Samuel Wilson. The latter gentleman (invariably known as "Uncle Sam") gen erally superintended, in person a large number of workmen, who, on tiis occa sion, were employed in overhauling the provisions purchased by the contractor for the army. The casks were marked "'E. A.-U. S." The work fell to the lot of a facetions fellow in the employ of the Messrs. Wilson, who, on being aslked by some of his fellow-workmen the meaning of the mark (for the letters U. en'tirely new tothem), said :" He did not kno unessitnyeant Elbort Anderson and dncle Sam"-alluding exclusively, then, to the sa~id " Uncle Sam " Wilson. The joke took among the workmen, and passed currently ; and "Uncle Samn" himself being present was occasionally rallied by t)hem on the increasing extent of his possessions. Many of these work mea being of character denominated "food for powder," were found shortly after following the recruiting drum, and pushing toward the frontier lines for the double purpose of meeting the enemy and of eating the provisions they had lately labored to put in good order. . .Their ol djokes accompanied them, and , Ibefore the first campaign ended $i Sidentical one first .appeared in print ;it gained favor ralgidly, till it penetrated and was recognized in every part of the country, and will, no doubt, continue so -.~ while th e United States remains a nation. The Weigh of the Transgress. By almost universal consent, the high't weight championship is conceded to dial era in coal. As water unto milk, and glucose to the lager beer, so are the platform scales to the coal cart. It would be unjust to lrenumbers of honecst and reputable dealers to say that their coal is like the fellow who said that when he was mad he we hed a tonr, blit the condnot of disreputable -and die hioniet dealers has a tendency to thro# suspicion~ upon all of them. Acoording' to the statement of one who has tried it. it requires the spirit of a martyr to be an haonest dealer, at least in New York.' H~e tells a dolefulastdry of the diffloulties not to say the dangers, he encouterej in trying to deliver 2,000 pounds for a ton to his costumer.. He bean by an nouncing that any one buyig coal of him could test its weight at any of the public scales. The result was astonish ing. Orders came in froma all directions and not more than one in ten ever wanted to test it. When csrtmen came from other yards he had to enlarge their carts. For these offenses he was set upon by amember of the Coal Aesocia tion and beaten ; his oartmon were got 'away from hiA; thytried to prevn his vessels from landing ; broke his der rioks, and haha~d good reason to think that they either sh6t at him or had him shot at. So that I6 Is not the weigh of transgressor, but the other man's, thsat is hard. Buoons show that in thirteen Sep tembers in the past thirty-one years no rain fell in Sanr Francisco. The rain in the remaining eighteen Septembers ranged from .02 of an Inch to 1.08 inches.