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49 0 -J .4 T DVOATWON ND 1O TRE WENERAL INTRUST OF THE COUNTRY. DeFle BRADLEY & 0s THIRSDAY, MAY 25, 1882. VOL XI. NO c6. o 044tl ie 4General h f athe Butle any ~ep when sin intervieweroni 0 Brewers' Convetion as 'led' -at the National Capital, do. gainst all parties who bavor ox seems to be having his about politioa matters in Pennsyl. Wawik.It Is pretty hard to dethrone 6#I.old fellows. OD and Sarikey didn't like London iad herefore refused to enter into a con. traot wth heir religious people for the sal~ation of souls.- London, however, is not entirely lost, :7 lton predicted for May, cold and Whusually wet. We do not mind know ing in advance how the weather is going Iobe, bit we would like to have a better .-eteorologioal manager. im report of "thirty lives lost" by the burning of the steamer Rodgers was a grave telegraphic blunder. The re. port wa written " no lives lost" and the O"W -transmitted as "80." .T WsT we are., glad to note that fhere will be some fruit this year. While peach biandy may be scarce, the indica tions point to an abundant yield of grape juice and plenty of hard cider. "Burrr and the baby " have some. thing like $4,000 in the bank to their credit, and the prospects are not exactly favorable to an early releaso o. Mason. In fact he seems to be almost forgotten. TaE New Yorkjytate Board of Health reports that sugar sold in New York is not adulterated to any considerable extent, although much adutlterated sugar is there prepared for the Western mar. ket. Tan early impression given out as te the *identity of the assassins of Caven dish and Burke was that they were "in nocent Americans" -- Americans 'whos wpuld be displeased to see England and Ireland conciliated. Cxtains Bn&DLAUCIH, who, because of his atheism, was ejectedi from his seat in the British House of Commons, has re fused an offer of $10,000 to come to *Arneries and lecture. Perhaps he knows how well we are supplied. TaE President's assassin holds that Scoville is a crank. Scoville holds that Mrs. Scoville is a crruik. John W. Gui teau holds that they are all cranks. In this particular the opinions of these cranks are remarkable for their accuracy. WITa a feeling something akin to 4* eostacy the announcement may be made that th~e masthetio child of England, whose name has become wearisome to the eye and ear, will sail in a few days for Aus tralia. America will survive. IT SEIs that Chinese immigration will have to cease, but mneantime--until the law goes into effect-our shores win * be flooded with coolies. It is estimated thsi 24000 will arrive at Victoria alone 4 efree this and the 1st of August. *4 SUIZMERt resorts are offering the Pres ident spartments for the season, free, Being a widower, it is expected great droves of marriageable women will. tag aft4r him. The President might realize a prettg respectable salary from his socilsposition -if he were so disposed. DaLMomeo's, New York, now serves grapes to dinner parties at $8 a pound . and other unseasonable fruit at propor tionate rates. A man who will eat grapes' costing $8 a pound and smack his chops over themi hates the very ight of -the article when they get down to five cents. GEN~n~n HAzEN, Chief Bignal Officer, says the escape of Captain Howgate do. prifes the Signal Corps of its best ~i ~ ~apans of answering the falho and vicious sOonsations made against it, ar '. in a letter addressed to the Secretary of War, demands that every effort be made to effect his arrest. - gAS Tenn trial of the Malle, boys and ahnohe Douglass progresses at New Haven, Connecticut, charged with the iutder of Jennie Cramer, the teatimony adduced leaves little doubt as to their guilt, The girl was first outraged, and thO poisoned, an~d when cold in death, the Ubdy was thrown into the river. IA isestimated that thus far the United States Government has given away to railroads 200,000,000 aeres of landc, and4 none of it has returned under a dol1er an 'aol'e to the companies, and m.at it has gone way above that. Thzere is ,r reaon why railroad man.. gers should no't be independently rich. Ucairn says a .th~g~ goch~eto quote ; ji*~5i~tt~ Q ho ath~er o ~ to 1 slch 9 ~t~t~*aW*d emarkable family promises to offer nao and attractive features as offen asm bay be required for the erpetuation of a money-making notoriety. TUn whisky business in Ohio can hardly be said to be as rosy as it has been. Saloons that were not forced to close by the Pond tax bill are worried beyond all measure by the Smith Sun day-closing bill. In other words, the man who conducts a saloon in Ohio now has several sumptuary measures to sub scribe to not exactly to his predilection. GrBnAr JoHN MoDONALD, a memue of the once notorious St. Louis whisky ring, and who, on conviction, was sen tenced and served eighteen months in the penitentiary, is now earning a living selling his book " The Sourets of the Great Whisky Ring." How great a de cline-from millions to the position of book agent. Indeed, the punishment of the wicked is greater than they can bear. Tan glory of having explorea the Arctic .regions may have something of intrinsic merit about it, but wherein the glory lies in being found frozen stiff as a poker it would be hard to divine. Poor DeLong, who commanded the Jeannette, like Franklin and other noted explovers who preceded him, will reap his laurels in another world. There is little con solation in this for his family and friends. Iowa, Wisconsin, Missouri, Kansas, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, Tennessee and Indian Territory have all, thus far this year, been visited by disastrous cylones. Tu the latter-Indian Territory-the de struction to life and property was some thing formidable. As cyclones in former years were of rare occurrence, would be a source of some gratification if our scientists would succeed in solving the cause. Muxico seems disposed now to entez into an arrangement with the United States Government by which hostile In dians may be brought into subjection. This is to the effect that when either they or the United States Government are pursuing hostiles, the pursuing party may be permitted to cross the border and continue the chase until relieved by those whose territory is being invaded. The adoption of this measure will de stroy the usual source of escape and hence will effectually check brutal out rages on the border. TmiE is no one but that believes the Irish Land Leaguers profoundly regret the horrible assassination of Caven dish and .Burke. Surely no one seems to more sincerely mourn the sad event than they. But that the crime was commit ted for the purpose of destroying a pro spective conciliation between the English Government and Ireland there can bo no doubt, and that it was the work of the agents of the disturbing strata that abounds in all old nations, whose chief glory is bloody strife, is as true as that tb" enn goes down. Peace they will not have so long as they can find flimsy ex case for an alternative. UPON the subject of reviving the obso lete Sunday laws in Ohio, the Cincinnati Gazette, among other things favorable to the project, says : The need of the babies is pleaded as a reasone for Bunday milk deliveries ; but the babios got along all the same before Sunday milk wagons were invented. - e awell-to-do have means for saving milk over tiunday, The poor can do without this, as they have to do without many things. And if the steppage of Sunday miik shall dimiah the rising generation, it will be only another of the means which nature fetches in to restrict the increasing pressure of population en the means of subsistence, and to raise the quality of the race by the great pro ess of the survival of the fittest. T1he cows can be relieved on Sunday, and the milk profit ably converted, without the Sunday sale and delivery. So then, that which is necessary to the sustenance of the rich Is not so to the poor ? It is pretty hard to subscribe to that doctrine, 4ut still harder is it to agree to let hunger and death enter the doors of the poor and lay waste their homes " to raise the quality of the race hv the great process of the survival of the iie 't." Is there not something monstrous 'i this suggestion ? .Tun Washinigton Republio presenits the history of the Peruvian claims in the following brief, intelligible style: "A long, long time ago there dwelt in the Republic of Peru a poor but enterpising Frenchman named Alexander Cochet. ISe had an int~niring turn of mind, was something of a chemist, and made some scientifle discoveries as to the uses and qualities of the gnano de posits, which are the principal product of that country.. He likewise made similar discoveries as to nitrate., which are also found there in great quantity. The Peruvian (Jongress,q on his petition, awarded him as arecompense for his guano discoveries 5,000 tones of the article. but on condition that he would reveal all that hie knew about the nitrate.. The oondition wao not accepted, ana Jochet returned to la belle France, leaving behind him an unsatiefled claim and an illegitimate son named Gelaclo Cochet. The father died in France, and Gelacio claimed to be the Inheritor of anything of value belonging to his father in Peru. The only thing was this paternal claim against the Government; but as the award had been made and rejected, that did not seem to be a very valuable inheritance. However a Pennsylvania' Dtitchman name'd Havener discovered Ge4aelo, and for some trifle procurred from haan assignment of his claim. In course of timed itaade its wray into the possession of soM oir York speculator., who were soon into a jomnt stock eorporation Pmian Company, with the now B. hipherd- as its pgomoter dlomatist, and chief mlen Itself 3M now otv. It was no U ecrm demad l no sand millnm of 0llars. This was based upon a decree which offered to theonders of oonocaled church property (at a tUie when it was all con. fiscated) one.third of its value. Then there was another claim, also of a Frenchman, named Landreau, in connection with the actual d fin g of the guano deposits, and this claim passed practically under the control or mans ment of Mr. BIpherd. It was, however, o0 ' for a small anount (anywhere between seven c millioxis and three hundred millions.) It had come into American hands by the fact of Lan- 1 drean having a brother here, who was a. t partner with him -in hiscontri6t who became naturalized and who is now In The service of the United States as. Consul at -Santiago- da Cuba. The House of Romanoff. The Romanoffe rather pride themselves on the antiquity of their family-tree, claiming that it is known to have been planted by a Lithuanian prince in the fourth century. It is certain, however, that the family (id not make their ap pearance in Russia until the fourteenth century. In the year 141, Andrew j Kobyla emigrated from Prussia to Mos cow, and entered the service of the 'I Grand Duke Simeon the Fieroe. The descendants of Kobyla held high posi- I tions, and the fifth in direct descent frqn him was Roman Iurievitch, who died in 1543, leaving a son Nikita Romanovitch Jurief, who by his mar rige with the Princess of Suadal' (a ( direct descendaut from a brother df St. Alexander Nevskoi), who was allied to I the royal race of Rurik; and a daughter who became Czarina by her marriage with Ivan the Terrible. Nikita was one of the regency during the minority of Foodor I.; and his eldest son, Feodor, E under the name of Philarete, was elevated to the rank of Archimandrite b and Metropolitan during the reign of the false Dimitri. The Romanoffs sup ported the party that tendered he Rus- , sian crown to the Polish p ice, and Philarete had gone with th: , view to r Poland, when the opposition yecame so violent as to change entirely tae state of I affairs, and the poles imprisoned Philarete. The national party then pro ceeded to the election-of a native sover eign, who should be as closely allied as possible by blood to the race of Rurik, I and after much hesitation and many re jections, they selected Michael Feodoro vitch Romanoff, the son of Philarcte, and the representative, through his grandmother, of the royal houso of I Rurik. The following is a list of the 3 Czars and Emperors of Russia from that time to the present. Czar Peter I. was the first ruler who adopted, in the year 1721, the title of Emperor: 1Iou'e of Romanoff, Ivan III..........1740 male line: Elizabeth.........1741 Michael........1618 House of Romanoff Aloxei............1645 Hoistoln: Feodor............1676 Peter III.........1762 Ivan -,nd Peter I... 1i2 Catharine II......1762 I Peter I........1689 Paul......... 1792 Cathariio I.......1721 Alexauder I.......1801 i Peter 11.......1727 Nicholas..........1825 Fmine line. Alexander II......1855 1 Anne .............1730 Aleiander ill.1881 The Cow "Hoisted." A man came to the office with a black eye, a strip of court plaster across his j cheek, 'one arm in a sling, and as he leaned on a crutch and wiped the per- I spiration away from around a lump on his forehead, with a red' cotton handker- A' chief, he asked if the editor was in. We 1 noticed that there was quite a hpalthy smell of stock-yards about the visitor, but thinking that in his crippled condi- a tion we could probably whip him, if worse came to worse, we admitted that I we were in. "XWell, I want to stop my paper," said ~ he, as he sat down on one edge of a chair, as though it might hurt. " Scratch my name right off. You are responsible for my condition." Thinking the man might have been y taking our advice to deaf men, to always walk on a railroad track if they could' find one, we were preparing to scratch him off without any argument, believing ~ that he was a man who knew w~hen he had enough, 'when he spoke up as fol lows: " The amount of it is this. I live out in Jefferson County, and I come in on the Northwestern Road, just to get re creation. I am a farmer, and keep cows. 1 recently read a~n arliale in ;your paper about a dairymen's convention, where e one of the miottos over the door was, 1 ' Treat your cow as you would a lady,' I andi the article said it was contended by< our best dairymen that a cow treated in a polite, gentlemanly manner, as though 1 she was a companion, would give twice as much milk. The plan seemed feasible 1 to me. I had been a hard man with stock, and thought maybe that was ono reason my cow always dried up when1 butter was forty cents a pound. I de cided to adopt your plan, and treat a cow as I would a lady. I had a brindle cow that never had~ ieen very much mashed on me, and I decided to ornmence on her, and the next morning after I read your devilish paper, I put on my Sunday suit, and the white plug hat that I bought the year Greeley run for President, and went to the barn to milk. I noticed1 the old cow seemed to be bashful, and fright ened, but taking off my hat and bowing politely, Isaid, 'Madame,excuse the seem ing impropriety of the request, but 'will you do me the favor to hoist?' At the same time I taped her gently on the flank with my p'ug hat, and putting the tin pail on the foor under her I sat down on the milking-stool." " Did she hoWs?" said we, rather anxious to know how the advice had " dkA she hoisj? Well, look at me, and see if yon thing she hoisted. Say,1 I tell yon in confldence, and I don't want It repeated, but that cow raised I right up and kicked me with all four feet, I switched me with her tall and hooked me < with both horns, all at once, and when -I got up out of thiebeddingin the stall I and dugnmy hat out of thermanger, sand the nlng stool outfromune me, and began to manl that cow, I forgot all about the proper treatment of horned cattle. Why, she fair1~ galloped over me, and I I never want o readyour old peeagain." 1 We tried to ezplain tow hmn that the advice did ,ot apply to briedle caws at 'all, but he hobbed out, the muddest man that ever asked a cow to h 1jn1. IT i said that Sitting Bull ia e4 a tb cloafer, being t~* do any ~Gw exept b~k5~1~EIof th~e noble 42 ko. of th weathe BY AMZJI .B LAMAn. Old Joe, an bonest old darkey, finding ht aye were drawing to an end, summoned al I his child ten about him to impart lih Jas rords of advice before entering the " have] f rest." Some of his female admirers beinj resent alto. The old man had already los WO wive.. Ris mind seemed mostly occu led now with his children. Tossing rest mely on his his bed, he cried: 'Jake, come hyah I now, jes fli dis pille rbcurely neaf my head, Por I se somefin fur to tell you all jos afo I'se dead; )owe nigher to your daddy; lisen closer t his words, "ur peoples allers talkin'-pay dey gits I fem do burds. ake, you's my eVest chile; son take keer ol all de res; Ln', chilun, min' yer biudder. fur he's sur to know the be. '6e raised him up a good boy, an larnt hir 'bbut de Book, )at tays do good Ole Wfah'sr knows yo' eb rV turn and crook. 'so teached him how to plow, hoe, piek a: pin de cotton, re knows de name of tb'ry weed growin in dat bottom. ber janer, cross de creek fhar dat'a cor am growin' Iroun's so clean It looks as ef 'twould nel ber need a hoein'. Oe barn am full ob clober hay, de cattles fit an sleek; lai's middlin in do smokehouse an a mi dbwn by the creek. knows dat you all'li hell) Jake, excepti dat debblIsh Ned, ut he's so 'Ifernal lazy. his bones wont r< when be's dead. ow jes you look, he's ketchin flies lom o dis counterpone lat nigger don't keer a cent fur de surshiv or de rai, thfn Cwsar kotch on fire las' fall, when d mecn fokes wasn't 'bout, debble &ettin' dar jes cried kase Samm put him out. [e knows whar eb'ry apple tree data barli fruit de be%'; [e'd wade froo thorns and briars, jes to ro a poor burds nes. ut I'se seed him pow'ful 'ticlar, when h6ei out de corn, [e'd skip cber half a acre, jes ter pas aitt' thorn. hilun, I feel dat def am comin, draw m nigh de fire. bliebq I hyar de xhuqic ob de bol Ieb'ly quare; CS, shoo, dar am de angels wid harps all i deir han', .n I see de glo'ius Mansions in dat Ifebet ly lan'; Fo, dat can't be de Heben what I sees u, froo de Ri', ur dmis iwo black angels a pullin one a' lu der's har. )eir forms 'penr mighty fermilyah, but sic quur lookin things, declor of dey an't keerful dey'll break o bofo deir wings. Vio's dnt ar a comin, qwingin oen df flow'ry gate? ou hrd better part dem angels afore it g*1 too late. .ook'ayander! here dey comes flyin at fearful rate, ure's you liorn dems my two wives, fu hebens sake shot dat &ate. akeo, what's you holdin me for? lemme gi ight out dis bed, :r I's talkerlated iight I likes a heap f'or beiai dead. fo' I'd face dem angels I seed up in do n'i il true'my luck wi-l de debble. I's sure de ain't dowvn dar. rook hyar, you weepin' 'oomans, git righi 'cut din (do0', n nebber put yo' foots again upon di punohen floo'; so done seed enongh ob you all; I hate yo' berry race. ('u can't 1lib in peace in Hibben, so don' loaf roun' dis place. ow, chiilun, hueumma tol' you, don't marr; soon or la'e, t je lgnaent 'zert yo'safs an git a good sea by do gate, 'urwhen dese hyair M.rmons come, an er taalin' ob doir joys, ['will heat dem shows an circuses, you sees when 3 on was boys, n no ones gwine to blame yon of you opel wide yo' eyes. 'ur sartin, as ycu libbia, dar'Il be fun up ii do skies Cutting Out. The most desperate, yet generall: uccessful and popular, achievments havy >een those known as "cutting out" hat is, attacks by open boat upon .ai mnemy 's ships in an enemy's harbor mud I may cite one as among the mos >rilliant and picturesque of these exploitE l'he small British frigate Seahorse wa >lokading another frigate of about eque bize in the harbor of Porto Caballo, o ~he Spanish main. The idea of "ci ing out" the frigate from under th spanish batteries by means of his smal: pen boats, manned with only one hur Ired men, inspired Captain Hamiltor md, when communicated to the crew was received with three hearty cheeri l'he boats, commanded by the captai himself, left the frigate at night au made for the harbor? not unobservei however, by a Spanmsh launch "roi ing guard" at the entrance. This di not deter the gallant assailant. Tv boats proceeded to cut the cables, i others attempted to board at differe: pints, two only out of the six succee Log at fist The Spanish crew, numbe ing three hundred and sixty-five, retir< before the headlong attack of probab not eighty asailants, rand two boal 3rews remained to tovw the enemy out saptured. For some minutes the issi was doubtful, ' but while the dead struggle proceeded below our litheson silors sprang aloft like a flight of nigh irds; the gasket. were cut, the sai Iropped curtain-like from the yards ti ihip gained life, and floated out iice ummer cloud or a vision amid the roi >f guns from the battery the continue4 eof musketry, the louA curses of ti spnadadthe measured splasti he oars. When. the struggle ended on ide of ' the harbor- one huadred ar ~ineteen of the enemy lay stiff ar tale ne aeen were wounded, whi )rilosstl ofe icos was triflng i T13 >rilinty naessful exploit was of tU rregular and desperate kind to wbk he well known saying, "6 C'est magni Ique mais ce n'est pae la pue~ro,"woi1 apply, and it shows that mn war not onl he chances of suneess, but the object i se 1ned, must decide. Readers history know that there wer.e a1 r a on w at l ssards theH I. "Been There." "I believe you are taking quite an in. terest in spirits just at present?" said a rather seedy-looking old party, sliding into the city editor's room. "Yes, we are devoting some space to that sort of thing," said the city editor. "Got a communication ?" t "Well, no," said the seedy party. "But I can give you a good deal of in formation on the subject. You see I've worked the medium racket myself. I used to be one of the best materializerm r going, and rve seen the time I could set a whole set of parlor furniture dancing a Highland fling by simply slapping my fingers. These modern follows are no good, and don't you forget it. They t bungle the whole business, and give everything away before they have hardly commenced a sitting. What you want .is cheek, and plenty of it. Don't cave in because a crank happens to ask you troublesome questions. Just get up an infernal rappng under his chair and scare him into silence, or got your assist ant to-" 1 "Assistant ?" asked the editor. "Then you confess-" " "Confess I of course I-confess," said k the seedy party, "that's what I came here for. Yes, you have to employ an assistant, and very often the whole busi ness depends upon his judgment. Why, I have an assistant who could run the snap just as well as I could, and he was death on stirring up the uneasy ones after the light was turned down. One time he touched a piece of ice to the t back of an old gal's neck, and put her in a fit. We had to skip that town in ff short order I tell you. That was his great trouble. He never could take in the true inwardness of a circle. My motto is, first be sure of your circle, and then stave ahead. If they are farmers y and that kind of thing why let 'em down easy. A little will go a great way with 'em. If you strike a city bring in your heavy guns. Lead off with a dozen or so communications from the old world, work up a little rapping business, and then when you've got 'em nervous enough just suddenly spring the cabinet act on 'em; but there is one thing a well trained medium will never forget." "And what is that?" asked the editor. "He will always keep himself between the gas fixtures or lamp and his circle.' "Exactly," said the editor. " Yes," said the seedy party, slapping the desk with his hand, "more good, likely mediums have bust up in that wa than any other. They put too much confidence in the circle. Whiff! Up went the gas, and that settled the whole business. You're always - sure to rip down a curtain in getting out of sight, r and there are all your properties exposed to everybody, but I've got out of one or t two scrapes of that sort in my time, and don't you forget it." I " How did you manage it ?" asked the a editor. " Oh, I just threw the whole thing on r the spirits, and played the innocent in. jured act." " But would the people believe you?' t asked the editor. " Believe me," said the seedy party, "my dear boy, if you want to know just ,how much the people will believe, ge , into the spirit business. They never stand en ceremony. They just swallow t everything whole, and the bigger th( mouthful the easier it seems to go down a with 'em. You just taike a hack at the spirit business for a month or so, and ii you don't agree that I'm right, I'll staind t the drinks for the whole office. Talls about-the side show and dime museun i business. Well, those fellows knov something about guys, but we can dis t count 'em every time. They may sticli a stray leg on a c'ow now and then, and a call a South Carolina darky a Zulu, bui for your simon pure humbug-" " Then you go so far as to call youm business a humbug ?" said the editor. " My dear boy, I've been there," said xthe seedy party, as ho lit the ::tump o: a cigar, and sauntered out with the ai: of a man who had relieved his con acience.-Brooklyn Eagle. Keep Those Discharge Papers. No soldier should allow any person however specious his reasoning -or smooth his tongue, to ob tain a copy of his discharge papers It can be for no proper purpose that an: pesnwants copies of such papers, un lssuhperson be the authorized agen of the ex-soldier and be engaged in se ~curing for him a tract of land undo the homestead act; and, even then, th ex-soldier can act for himself. This cas ecan have but one of two meanings: ] must be the intention of parties buyin :up such copies of soldiers' discharge as they can obtain, thereby to local rland ; if that be the case an the soldiers' claims remain unin ripaired, tho government is to be defrauf d ed. Or else it means that these copi< of the discharge are to be used in sonm way so as to invalidate the claims of th: asoldiers 'who right fully deserve recogni o tion, and have the privilege of the hom< e seadact. Soldiers should remnembt t-and dishonest men need not be told that " in making final proof on a home -stead entry under the Soldiers' and Sai] dors' Homestead Act the party will b2 reured to present to the proper distric lan oficrsa certified copy of his dia ifcharge from the United States Arro eduring the war of the rebellion, or il Ly the ab~sence thereof, 'satisfactory evi dence' of service, which may consis of the party's affidavit of the facts, cor roborated by the testimony of two dia einterested witnesses, will be accepted. aThe intelligent soldiers of the State o aIowa and the Northwest will at one see the reasons why parties want soldier to give up their papers for a contsidera tion. Let such persons uniderstand tha such practices wvill be investigated, ama ad that they may hear further on the sul .d ject, and their schemes will be dropped Ic A PAPRa has been discovered in th< s archives of Venezuela, dated 1780, whici 10 gIves an historical summary 01 earla h fprojects for piercing the Isthmus o P aa The first goes back to th< Stign of Philip K!L of Spain, who, at th< astgaionofthe Vicero of the Indies cetiPFeih e sto inves on~ the spot the fesbility of th kn.Their replby was alto Sdre ; and thereupon PhU Stories of Talleyrand. Talleyrand was the only Bishop po sessing a benefice in France who took the new oath required by the State. Mirabeau early descried the talent of this extraordinary man, "who dressed like a ooxcomb, t ought like a deist, and preached like a saint." Perceiving the wide range of his abiitities, he distin guished him as one of the most power ul and versatile of the men of genius who then abounded in Europe. Through everything Talleyrand preserved a sang froid which was inimitable. It was seen alike in small matters as in great. One day, as he was mounting the steps of his carriage, he spoke to an inividual whom he had hitherto pretended not to recognize, but whom he knew very well. This person he had seen for days near his door. "And who are you, my friend?" "I am your coachmaker, my lord." "Ah, you are my coachmaker; andwhat do you want, iny coachmaker ?" "I want to be paid, my lord." " Ali, you are my coachmaker, and you want to be paid; you shall be paid, my coach maker." "And when, my lord ?" "You are very inquisitive," said the bishop, as he settled himself in the new car riage which he had not paid for. Many were the scenes which took place between him and Napoleon. On one occasion, Napoleon having said that if he thought his own death likely, he would take care that his Vice-Grand Elector should not survive him, Talley rand quietly replied that he did not de sire that reason for hoping that his Majesty's life might long be preserved. Another .oene has been thus described by . Mole: " At the end of the Coun cil of State, which took place just be fore the Emperor started for the cam paign of 1814, lie burst out into some violent exclamations of his being sur rounded by treachery and traitors, and then, turning to M. do Talleyrand, he abused him for ten minutes in the most violent and outrageous manner. Talley rand was standing by the fire all this time, guarding himself from the heat of the flames with his hat ; he never moved a limb or a feature; any ono who had seen him would have thought he was the last man in the room to whom the Em peror could be speaking ; and finally, when Napoleon, slamming the door violently, departed, Talleyrand quietly took the arm of M. Mollieu, and limped with apparent unconsciousness down stairs. But on getting home he wrote a dignified letter to the Emperor, say ing that if ho retained his present dig. nity, he should be by right one of the regency; and that, as he could not think of holding such a charge after the opinion His Majesty had expressed ol him, he begged to resign his post,' and be allowed to retire into the country. He was informed, however, that hi resignation would not be accepted, nnd that he might stay where he was." I is reported that Fouche and Talleyrauf actually came to blows in the very closel of the Emperor upon the subject of thi misapplicittion of the secret funds, oj which they mutually accused each other. After listening to their accusations anc justifications on both sides, Napoleon turned them out of the ronm, say. ing, " Go along ; you are both of you rogues. "-London Sobciety. A Horrible Beast in a Sewer. One of the most remarkable incidents that has yet come to light-or rather to darkness-in North St. Louis is recorded, and although the hero in the case escaped with his life, ho is not particu larly anxious to go on any more explor ing expeditions, even when they are in the interest of home .comforts and re quirements. Billy Prant is a well known mecat-sihop keeper, doing business on INinth street, near St. Louis avenue. He resides at Elliot and Sullivan avenues, and the Rocky Branch sewer carries away I the rniai s~nd refuse of the locality. For some time Mr. Prant has had trouble r with his sewerage, and the other after . noon he took his younger brother with him to investigate matters. The sewer is a natural one, and large enough to allow a wagon with a double team to drive through it. From the surface the depth is something over twenty feet, and - a rope and a ladder was brought intc requisition. Mr. Prant descended r through the main hole, which was barely .large enough to allow of his descent :He had scarcely entered the sewer whei - Ihe heard a rushing throngh the rushinj r Istream of water and offal, which soundet e as one might imagine the breaking ou e 1of a menagerie, and by the uncertair t light he saw plunging toward him g monster dog, with eyes bloodshot and( s emitting sparks of phosphorescent fire, e The animal was about two and a hall d ,feet high, and was heavy set, of thed -bloodhound species with a~ crossing oi .. mongrel blood, and probably weighed am amuch as a deer or a colt. Ho was howl. e ing madly, and his white, gleamina e fangs were bared in a manner which ovi -dently meant business. The .beast was -covered with short white and black hair, rand was endowed with other character . istics which were peculearly interesting -and worthy of research. Mr. Prant, - however, remembered an Important end e of the ladder, and, after breaking the Sparalysis of fear, he moved up the rungm -a quickly as possible, and not a moment y too soon, leaving the beast howling ifiercely at the foot, and expressing ite ..- rage in canine shrieks, which were fairly t blood-curdling. The younger Prani - heard the noise below, and felt the lad. - der shaking violently, and his heart stood still until hiu brother appeared in day f i liht, hooking blanched and agitated Mr. Prant soon got back to terrafirma and postponed investigations of that na - ture. Mr. J. Kurtzelom, a gentlemar t who is particularly well posted in matteri I in that locality, expressed his opinioi that the dog must have been carried int< ,th" sewer when a pup, and had lived , there all of its life. It was too large o ven to get in through any man-hole and as for its getting out at any tim~e r that is simply absurd. The only exit'fi by way of the river, and the anina would be drowned instantly if he eve1 attempted to get out that way.-St Lousia - A PmncE manufacture claims the die'. c overy of making use of leaves of the Seuoalyptua tree ag a substitute for tobadoc %r 1a7a n lara E onalvatua lean of o('e mild na AB coua0adt bekeptnws$ as dailk Swiss glaoIed. seven ttlt Of CT la8e00 'Onth of a al Inu Keg. war in, then the gOIL1 again submi to Tax ordinary work at 22,500 pounds minute for eight hours * Tma fogs of Londo* fluenoe on its death rate with their heaviness an4 A RoBIMT for ohappe of camphor the s"eo . with hal a cupful of a p A nAn of iron seventw l temperature of 82 degrees beated to 212 degrees, FoUn inillion of a yo threads, which are not so of a grown spider, are not he single human hair. THE alabastrile marbles of the were not bIarble paper, bit a hard bonate of lime, identical with stal the modern alabaster. A vEQET~ma A green, perfec M less, for the use of cooks and fe ers, has been discovered. It is m from the grains of raw ooffeo. IT is said that a lead tank petroleum in a week ca burned to choke the wick. or slate is suggested for tanks. HARD rubber, for ornaments, is from the caoutchouo by M ixing large proportion of sulphur, and at a tomperture of 800 degrees. NOTHING is so fatal to Oyster as' storm or covering their beds *Ith, The mud and sand scoumula4$6a oyster's delicate breathing orgam:s suffocate it. TaE effect of a diet of fish be sedative, quieting, prodi ness, rather than intelloci da phospho rus is a brain fo ~~o Agassiz's few mistakes. DARWIN found that $fsih Re kinds of seeds sixty-ft, lnated after an immersion of wnyIida, and a few survived iaau~ in alt water of one hundred and thirty-seven days. PIorQUE is made from the. agave or American aloes. It is a poular error that trees belonging to higenus re.. qui--e a century to #rwive at maturity. Theli flower is sometimes put forth in ten years in a hi t climat*.'3 IF pi tissue of mixed wool and4 silk is fl4into hydrochloric acid the silkifdn dissolved, while the wool remnai' o that by carefully weighing be aafter the, operation, the pro n fthe two fibers is easily ascer-~ c amed. A FUnra~ font of Japanese t co0m prises 50,000 characters, of w are in constant 4'se. 5 ahw iainharacter, the Mer has been useless to that natio, and th a telephone is likely to prove a bessing to them. _____ __ Clothes. A German writer says that "one ot man's principal defensive weapos In his struggle for existence is his 'ltig The place it takes in the history of cv ilization and its connection with phyuiol. ogy are not often thought of. It is spok.. en of from a moral and esthetio point'of view; its nmi purspose is a purely* hygenic one." There is much trtith in this. The seeds of grave disorders and chronic illness ate frequently. sown through the neglect of wel-knw prin ciples in regard to clothing. As Carlyle says, " within the most starched cravat there passes a windpipe, and under the thickest embroidered waistcoat there beats a heart," and all these orrna weli as others which Carlyle dKoes not name, need to be protected by clothing. Clothes do not make men, althoig~ .some persons dress as if they did. There. Iare those who are nothing more Qr less than clothes-screens. Clothes are not, as some suppose, for the purpose of~ keeping the cold from us, for, in truth not allow of a continual ventilation of our surfaces. It is not the dense$, . thickest or heaviest material that w6 need in cold weather. It is of compa itively little use in these days to call out for an utter emancipation ro fashion S-perhaps such an emancipation not be altogether wise if it oouldb ' b effected; but *here custom is tyrannical there the man or woman who hias a csae for health and comfort should be abov the custom. Tan Philadeiphia Time. says that the American kiss is to be the subject of a book to be published soon. The subjeet is a very expansive and voluminous one. It will take at least ahundred chapt.s j give an unabridged definition oftthe American kiss. It will require iless than twenty pages to portray the dite ent variations of " the long, long is the kiss of lovers ;" and there Is he < good-night kiss at t.he gate, that wil pretty well crowd the balance of the fit volume. Then there is the rg snappy kiss of the mother-in-law, goes off with a pplike a oha~pg cork ; the juicy, fabby kiss of the bb I( that has no pop to itat all, and th.eU, sipid oloomargrarine kiss of woman h. ~. ing woman. Oh, it will be a diy, :2 book ; and how comfor daig to a man, who has a fever blister enii --Texas Sifting. MIntsters to South Ameriea. The United States kis when therq no vacancies, the follwir tion in South American voys Extraordin and Min sn -~ Ipotentiary, at d at Santiago Chill, and at Ministers Reident, at .Buseo gentine Republic; at L? at Bogota, Colombia suela; and Charge deo, ruguay,-and atos .in the several t Auoa're 8,00000nnn