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Railroad, Carolina Ball* and Gall A Ax In belee or bledderd. Aleo many other mode too nottMow te 1 wa aakle a trial aod^ we ln inr? Fate. Oh 17M that m?to with mine, of all the earth? Dear, wistful ?yes that mine bav? royer Men! I pray that ye may new look u>y way Until my grave be green! Oh hands that would hate helped me In mynecd! That never would have throat my own aaldo, Oh, never m?y ye toooh me till I lie Too ^ale for pride I Oh feot In listening for whoee oomlog youth Went by, while of IU leaf-time oame no bloom I 'TU now too late for ye to oome, till I For happier heart* make room. Oh lip* Chat would have found my own moat Of all met things that gladden God's dear mxQx 1 ^1^4 Let the world partus until mine are oold And dnmb and little worth. * Oh heart of alThearts, that was meant for mine, That somewhere wanderast weary for my sake! Will soma mysterious sorrow thrill thee through The day that mine shall break ? Four-Leaf Clover. Down among the orohard-graas, A happy, oareless rover, Pretty little Margery Goes hunting four-leaf olover. Timid little* Margery Give* her searching over, Startled by a shadow Darkening the olover. Kneeling down betid* her, Blomoma arching over, Martin In the orohard-grass, Goes hunting four-leaf olover. Gaxing in each other's eyes, Searching is all over ; There's no longer any need For hunting four-leaf olover. THE GENTLEMAN on the LEFT. 'The gentleman on the left, Kate?do yon know him? He has looked fre quently toward yon.' ?Has he V ?Who is it V *1 eannot tell. I havo not seen him.' ?Bnpposd yon look t' *t prefer not. I oame to see the play. Ia not Helen Fanolt anperb V ?So, so. I wish yon wonld tell me who the feehtleman on the left Is. I am sure he knows yon, and be is strikingly hand some.' ?At present the stage interests me. ?Besides, if men are rode enough to stare at Strangers,there is no oobaslon for ns to imitate them.' ?Your ladyship has no snrlosity/ ?Not any; I exhausted it some time ago/' ' Her ladyship was not telling the truth: i whioh xaaktm uu instantly oonM^ons or* a familiar glaooe, eVen in aorowded build* ad solicited her regard just as Se llna had advised her of ii If she had not been asked to look toward her left, she wonld probably have done so; as it was, she resolutely avoided any move ment in that direction. The play was finished in a tumult of applause. Lady Kate Talbot forgot everything in her excitement, and as she stood up, flushed and trembling, she inadvertently turned toward the left.? Instantly she recognised a presenoe with whioh she ought to have Been familiar enough. The gentleman bowed with an extreme respect. Lady Kate acknowledged the oourteey in a manner too full of aston ishment to be altogether gracious, and the elaborate politeness of the reoogni- - tion was not softened by any glanoe im plying a more tender intimacy than that of mere acquaintance. My lady.was silent all the way home, and forsome reason Belina was not dis posed to interrupt her reverie. It did not seem to be an unpleasant one.? Kate's faoe had a bright fluah on it, and her eyes held in them a new light?a light that resembled what Belina wonld have called hope and love, if my lady had not 'been already married, and her destiny apparently settled. ?Beuna, when you have got rid of all thai satin and lace come to my room; I have something to say to you/ - , - . She was speedily unrobed, and with her long black hair hanging loosely over her pretty dressing-gown, she sought my lady's room. Lady Talbot sat in a dream-like stillness, looking into the bright blase on the hearth. She scarcely stirred as Belina took a large chair be side her, and scarcely smiled when she lifted one of her loosened curls and said. ?What exquisite hair you have, Kate 1 True golden.' > f ?Tee, it Is beautiful. 1 know that, of oourse.' 'Of what are >ou thinking so intenlyt' ?Of the gentleman on our left to night.' ?Ah I Who is he t He seemed to knaWyOU. -I ?He ought to know me mnoh better J? He is my husband, Lord ?Koto r < It Is tons.' ?I thought he was in Africa, or Asia, or Europe, or somewhere at the end of the world? ?He is now in England, it seems. 1 suppose he has joat arrived. I have not seen him before.' ?Where is he staying, then Y' *1 presume in the left wing of this mansion. 1 notioo there are more lights than usual tin it to-night, fftis apart ments are there,' ?How, Kate, do tell me all, dear. Ton know I love a romantic love affair, and I am sure this is one.' ' Ton were never more mistaken, Be lina. There la nolo* at all in the af fair. That is the secret of the whole ?? ght, as you were etay kTand might probably lord, it was .better to to you. People are so wrong with things they "d/ * dear. I suppose Ijovd " have had a little die there hfebecb no cu4r- j T? nae nesu no q miss! lipid Ricnard and ??. .,JHfc:tothe* nearly four ago/ msatjj/ ** #<mr ?Just four yeafs?yesterday.' 1 my lord has Wra away* ? S each other Mlurly four years ?It might easily have been much mu7 ??r* I Ma going to tell you the exact truth, and I rely upon jour honor and diaoretion to keep the aeeret inviolable. My dear Kate, I would not name it for toorllt. 'Listen, then. One night, when I was ?oaroely seventeen years old, my father sent for me to his etndy. I had known for months that he was dying. He was the only oreature that I had to lore, and I lotad him very tenderly. I must add, also, for it partly explains my oonduot, that the idea of disobeying him in any thing had never presented itself to me ? powribility. This night I found withi him his lire-long frieucf, the late Lord Talbot, and also tho present lord, ~"ito*nd. I was a shy, shrinking theutany knowledge of dress or and very timid and embarrassed ? fanners. Then my father told me that it was neoessary for the good of both houses that Biohard Talbot and I should marry; that Biohard had con sented, and that X must meet a few friends in our private chapel at seven 0 olook in the mornings week afterward. Of oourse these things were told me in * TerJ gentle and oonsiderate manner, and my dear father, with many loving kisses, begged me as a last favor to Mm to make no objections.' ?And what Ad Lord Biohard say V ?I glanoed up at him. He stood near a window looking out over our fine old park, and when lie felt my glanoe he ooloxed deeply and bowed. Lord Talbot said, rather angrily, 'Biohard. Miss Bsher waits for you to speak/ Then Lord Biohard turned toward me and said something, but in suoh a low voice that 1 did not oatoh its meaning.' 'My son says you do him a great honor?and Eleaiurc,' explained Lord Talbot, and e kissed me and led me toward tho un willing bridegroom. 'Of oourse I ought to have hated him, Belina, but I did xlot. On the oontrarv, I fell desperately in love with him. Per haps it would have been better for me if I had not. Biehard read my heart in my faoe, and despised his essy conquest. As for me. I suffered in that week all the torturing suspense of a timid school girl in love. I dressed myself in the best of my plain, unbecoming, ohildish toilets, and watohed wearily every day for a visit from my promiaoJ husband; but I saw no more of him until our wed ding morning. By this time some very rieh olothing had arrived for me, and also a London maid; and I think, even then, my appearance was fair enough to have somewhat oonoiliated Biohard Tal bot. But he scaroely looked at me.? The oeremony was scrupulously and ooldly performed, my father, aunt and governess being present on my side, and on Biohard's hu father ana his three sisters. 'I never saw my father alive again; he died the following week, audthemook ery of our marriage festivities at Talbot Londoii, audfiylord wleotoA I nse tho left wing of this house, add po litely plaoed at my entire disposal all the remaining apartments. I considered this as an intimation that I was not ex pected to intrude upon his quarters, and I scrupulously avoided eVery approach to them. I knew from the first that all attempts to win him would be useless, and indeed I felt too sorrowful and hu miliated to try. During the few weeks we remained under one roof we seldom met, and I am afraid I did not make those rare interviews at all pleasant. I felt wronged and miserable, and my wan faoe and heavy eyes were only a re proaoh to him.' 'Oh, What a monster, Katei' ?Not quite that, Belina. There were many excuses for him. One day I saw * paragraph in the Timet saying that Lord Biohard Talbot intended tQ aooom pony a scientific exploring party whose destination was Central Asia. I instantly sent and asked my husband for an inter view. I had intended dressing mysolf with oare for the meeting, and making one last effort to win the kindly regard, at least, of one whom I still oonla not help glaring. But some unfortunate fatality always 'attended our meetings, and I never oould do myself justioe in his presenoe. He answered my request at onoe. I suppose he did so out of respeot and kindness; but the oonse* quenoe was, he found me in an unbe coming dishabille, and with my face and eyes red and swollen with weeping. mortified at a prompt attontioo to mal-apropos, and my manner, instead W being winning and conciliating, was oold and unprepossessing. I did net rise from the sofa on which I had been sobbing, and he made no attempt to sit down beside me or to oomfort me. /J pointed to the paragraph and asked if it wm true. ? r*ea, Ledy Talbot.' he said, a little sadly and proudly; ?! shall relieve you of mypneenoe inafewdays. I intended Writwoll to oall on you to day with a draft of the provisions I have made for your oomfort.' 1 oould make no gnawer. I had thought of many kind things to bat; but now, in his presenoe, I was only fretful and dnmb, He looked at me almoat with pito, and said, in a low voioe, 'Kate, we hate both been sacrificed to a neoesslty involving many beeide ourselves. I am trying to make what reparation is possi ble. 1 shall leave yon unrestricted use of three-fourths of my inoome. I desire yon to make your life as gay and pleas ant as yon possibly oacu I nave no fear for the honor of onr name in your hands, and I trust it and all else to you without a doubt. If yon would try and learn to make some exouse for my hard position I ahall be grateful; porbaps when you are not in constant fear of meeting me, this lesson may not be so hard/ 'And 1 oould not say a word in reply. I just lay sobbing liVe a child among the cushions. Then he lifted my hand and kissed it, and 1 knew he was gone.' 'And now, Kate, that you have be come the most brilliant woman in Eng land, what do yon intend to dot' 1 'Who known ? I hare auoh a contrary I streak in my nature. I alwaya do the thing I do not want to do.' Certainly it seemed like it; for, in spite of her confession, when Lord Tal-I Dot sent, the next merning, to reqneet an interview, Kale regretted thai she had a prior engagement: but hoped to meet Lord Talbot at the Duohess of Clifford's that night. My lord bit his lips angrily, but nevl ertheless he had been so struck with hiaj wife's brilliant beauty that he deter drifted to keep the engagement. I Bhe did not meet him with sobs this lime. The center of an admiring throng! she spoke to htm with an ease and non chalance that would have indicated to a she said, smilingly, 'My lord, the world tappOMs us to have already congratu lated each other; we need notund* She kept strictly at the distance be himself had arranged four years ago. It was erident thatif he wonld approeeh any neater to his beaotifal bat long negleoted wife, he most h amble hifrfedf to do so. Why should he notf In Lord Talbot's mind the reasons against it hud dwindled down to one. Bat this wmV formidsble one. It was his Valet. This man hod known all hie master's matri monial troubles, and in his off* way i sympathised with them. He was bitterly averse to Lord Talbot's making any oon oeasiona to my ledy. One night, how ever, he reoeived a profound shoos. ?Simmons,' said L?ord Talbot, very de cidedly, 'go end aakLxdy Talbot if she will do me the honor to reeeive a visit from me,' - My lady would be delighted. Bhe^Mft1 in an exquisite ooatume. and oonde eoended to exhibit for hu pleaaflp ell her moet bewildering moods.1 n wm with great relootenoe he left her efWt a two-hours' visit. My lady hadjio othefli engagement, and he quite forgot the one he ned made to be present at the Mar quia of Stair's wine party. The following week my lady reoeived every morning a basket ot wonderffcl flowers, and a little note with them con taining a hope that she waa in good health. j Jr tfjl?22& One morning she was oompelled to say j that she was not very welL and Lord Talbot was so oonoerned that he sent. Simmons to aak if he might be permit*! ted to eat breakfast with her. My lady was graeioualy willing, and Lord jEUoltr aid waa quite exoited by the permission, He ehanged his morning gown end cra vat several times, quite regardless of Simmons' peculiar face, and, with many misgivings ilui to his appearanoe. Bat down opposite the lovely little lady in her pale blue satin and oaahmere and white laoes. * ; It was a okarming breakfast, ar&] daring it the infatuated husband o ?i uzi .? * * many very ? _ . Kate parried ?It is well,* she are us. If we wei married they would think we were mak-| ing love.' 1 'And if we are married, Kate, wbyMfi make love, dear t We had no opportu- J nity before we were married.' 1 ?Ah. Biohard, in fashionable life should make ouraelyee rialouloui Everyone says that now our beha is irreproaohable. I should have dearly liked it when I was only A shy, awkward oountry girl; but now, my lord,;we should be laughed at.' Then, Kate, let us be laughed ak for one am longing for it?dying f< If Time shall run beok ana fetol age of gold,' why not love f Let back four whole years and a hr" ,o?oy?"rr; oountry, Biohard. And iaoffl it, I Mr . And now 11? been aFEshor yfvuuu^w iw u?? noun, iv was litMO wonder that my lord's. valet and my lady's maid reoeived orders to pack va lises and trunks, or that the next day Eaher Hall waa in tr happy tumult of preparation. Tf Love oomes better late than never, and Lady Kate always told herself that she never oould have been as happy in those sweet old gardens with her lover as she was with her husband. Probably they were both as perfeotly satisfied as it is possible for human love to be; for, greatly to the amazement ot the fash* tenable world, they not only spent the wholo summer alone in their oountry home, but aotually, when they oame baok to London, had the oourago to ap pear, in the very height of the season, in the same box at the opera. ?Really, Kate,' says Miss Sellna, ?I never was so astonished. The gentle man on yoar left'? ?Is always on my right now, dear. He will never be in the oppoeition again,'? Harper'a instantaneous Photograph i. The prooess by whioh instantaneous photographs of ?horses in aotlon were taken by a Ban Frandsoo operator nnder the patronage of Got. Lei and Stanford, has been successfully ap plied to athletes, and now ell the intri oate movements made by men when boxing, wrestling, fenolng, jnmpingand tumbling have been instantaneously and exactly pictured. The first experiment wm in photographing a man while turn ing a baok somersault. lie stood in front of the oamera motion leas, and at a sig nal sprang in the air. turned backward, and in a seeond was in his original posi tion. Short as was the time consumed in making the turn. 14 negatives were taken, showing him in as many different positions. The eye oannot follow the rapid motions of a man taming a somer sault; bnt the various positions asaum ed, as faithfully portrayed by the light ning-like movements of this new system of photographyt are said to be quite amusing. Another man put up over his head a dumb-bell weighing 160 pounds; and from the instant he grasped the weight at his feet until he held it mo tionless over his head a number of nega tives were taken, showing what musolss are oalled into use, and how and when exerted. In boxing, the rapid leads, parries, feints, ooubters, head trioks, and knee movements were all oaught and held by the instrument for the bene fit of students of the manly art. The movements made by men when msking running high Jumps, and by foot-raoera, were also accurately photographed. Disadvantaged of Living Over a Mine. On Tuesday the residents of Park HtlL a suburb of Soranton. Pa., were startled by a sudden sinking of their houses, followed by aloud rumbling noise in the mine beneath. With great alarm they rushed into the streets, many mothers In their flight leaving their children behind them in the shaking houses. The oause of the oommotion was the giving wsy of the roof in an abandoned part of the Bellevale mine, which over a year ago was the scene o1 a similar catastrophe. The cave-in covers an area of an acre and a h*lf.~ Large fissures have appeared in a brick yard owned by the Laokawatw* Iron and Goal company, and it is feared that many piles of briok will sink inV> the ground. The residence of the imporintendnnt has sunk over five feet. Three other houses owned by miners have been thrown from their foundations, and the gardens are streaked with Assure*, while In many spots the lops of fruit trees are flush with the ground. The wells on all sidss were dried up* Terror reigns in the neighborhood, and many families have sought refuge in other sections, dread ing to remain in* their houses. In -London a polioeman must not wear a moustache or a beard. The po lioemen of that city don't like the rule and are writing Jndignant letters to the papers about ii A Spiritualistic Seance. -'. ', reporter describe* his. visit to a ?lint gathering at Lake Pleasant, Promptly at eight' o'clock the was dosed and fastened, and Mr. seated himself in one of three in front of the oabinet. A gen was selected from among the enoe, and seated at Mr. Eddy's A lady sat next to the gentleman. )nost the latter bared his left arm, sh Mr. Eddy grasped in both his "a. A portion of the cnrtain was drawn over Eddy and the gentlo referred to, tearing the lady's hand the gentleman's rignt hand bare, for purpose, as Eddy expressed it, of ing a negative and positive oufrent. i lights were then turned up and a ible mnsioian oommenoed sawing ay vigorously on a time-worn violin, 1 soon a distinot sound became audi kfrom behind the ourtain; a guitar "?emg tuned, and soon an aooompa nt was played by invisible power o'time of the violin. The violin leased, the musio of the guitar oon iliued, and all at onoe the instrument Ethrust out from under the ourtain reen the feet of Eddy and the gen an near him, the musio still con taining. Amazement wss depicted on Mrfaoes of the audlenoe. Boon a flnely haped hand was thrust from between he folds of the onrtain, and waved back ad forth at the audienoe; bells rang, it guitar vanished and was next seen ailing about over the ourtain; an iron ing was thrown into the cabinet. Soon ivy uttered a suppressed cry, the Brain was oast aside, when, lot nothing ? 'as visible. Eddy wore the ring on his : nh, and the gentleman by whom he at swears Eddy did not let go of his rn^'onoo during the soeanoe, and an ntnation showed the ring to be solid free of springs. Mo one found trap or panels behind the ourtain, and ough searoh for suoh was made, soeanoe was brief, but nevertheless rkable. , . <" . ? Gayetr at the Seashore. r. and Mrs. F. W. Stevens, of New Kve an elaborate entertainment, ? never been equaled in New Oonneoted with the house a 5th pavilion waa arranged. This W|kB divided into two apartments, the " being a perfect Japanese parlor, the d being oovered With Turkish The tent was lined with Turkey with Japanese panels and piotures. led into the other apartment, ieh was seventy-five feet in diameter, d whioh was floored over for the oeoa This apartment represented sun Oauae of every hue waa brought use, and it was trimmed with gilt aton. In the south end, where the estra was looated, was a bridge of ioe, and between the oakes strings and flowers, together with and other birds, were seen. A threw its va _ preaen^ ijgntfleent speotaole. This apart was used for danolng. The scene at midnight was one of grem briilianoy. Nearly four hundred of the leading sum mer residents were present. The floral display was of the finest. Hundreds of Ohoioe tropioal plants were placed in every available nook and oorner of both apartments. In the middle of the main pavilion, around the oenter pole, was a inammoth oave profusely gilded, and whioh contained 160 birds of every de scription, from a peaoook in full plum age to an English sparrow. ft*?tb gicunn A People bnt Little Known. The Albanians, who have juat sent a deputation to Constantinople to ask the Turkish government for the privilege of home rale, are little known to travelers, ancTare In many respects a very peonliar Ole. They are mnoh in earnest in protest against the proposed trans fer ox a portion of their oonntry to Oreeoe, and if the transfer be made will dot be likely to submit to it tamely.? They number about 2,000.000, and call themselves Skypetars. They are not to be oonfoundea with the Albani who live on the Oaspian sea; they are descendants of the ancient Illyrians, mixed with Greeks and Slavs; are half civilised mountaineers, generous to their friends and vindictive to their foe*. Continually inder arms, they are rather robbers ana tiratosthanoattle raiser* and agrioultur* sits, as they assume to be. Many serve as nleroenaries, and these are the beet soldiers in the Turkish army. They were onoe all Christians; but after the death of their last chief. George Castri* olo, turnamed Boanderberg, and their oonqueet by theTorks, most of them embraood Mohammedanism, and. with the true spirit of conversion, cruelly and perfidiously persecuted such of the tribes as remained true to the old faith. The steep valleys of the Aoheron in the south, forming the district of Suli, are Occupied by a powerful' tribe, the unit otea, who till their field* sword in hand, |nd oonoeal their gathered harvest* in the earth. They made themaelve* famous by their long and spirited resistance to All Pasha. The Albanian* are all be H?vertf in and executors of the law of retaliation, even exoeedingthe Corsioans in this. An assassin is slain by the kinsmen or friends of the victim. If they Cannot And him, they kill hi* father, his ?on, hi* brother or hi* eouain. Adultery bears the same penalty a* a**as*ination. If a betrothed girl Jilt* her lover he is {irivilcgfxl to kill any member of her amily. Hospitality i* sacred. A man Who wounds or slays hi* guest is driven from hi* tribe, and all oommunioation With his family is intordicte<l. He who kills a woraftn is forever dishonored, all his relative* being designated a* woman slayers. ____________ A False Standard. The Pittsburg Telegraph says that up in a room of the city hall devoted to documontn belonging to the city engi neer'* department, is ft long, dusty box. It* content*show just one ftrticle, name ly, ft solid brass-bound strip of wood ten feet long. That i*, it ia called ten feet. Its real length, as compared to the United State* standard,ia ? trifle greater. This dlsorepanny amount* to some ten thousandth* of ft foot in every 100 feet. By thkl pole ftnd it* predecessor* (of similar measurement). all the lot* in the city have bees laid oil and regulated, so that this city po*MM*M* ft standard of measurement peculiarly It* own* A square fool of city property, therefore, contain* ft trifle mote in area than a square foot anywhere el*o. A* a remit, there I* ft food deal of work for the en gineer and his assistant* when the** meaatUMBttnt* iraetttttednoed to stand ard feet. This is seldom nsce?ary, however. As tp the manner in whleh this dJawepancf originated, the preeent generation i* pfetty much in the dark. It arose, doubUhss, from earele** adop tion of standards of measurement in themselves tattfreet, and in hasty sur veys with impttfeot instrument*, long Young America. ? writer from one of the fashioniblo watering plaoos gives this sketch of Youug America of to-day a* represented by the sons of the riob: I strolled into the billiard room of one of the largest hotels after dinner, and there, gathered around the pool table, found five or six boys, the oldest of whom oould not have been more than fonrteou years, and the youngest not more than ten. The game was a good one; in faot, the youngsters were much better players than would often be found in a Baltimore billiard room. There was one little fellow, about twelve years old, whom his companions called 'Prioe,' who was dooidealy the beet player, and frequently he would make the most difficult shots, instead of playing the easier ones. An oooasion of this kind presenting itself, one of the scions of a 'riob,' if not necessarily a 'noble house,' offered to bet a dollar that Price oould not make it. With the oool and oollected air of an habitue of a raoe track, the boy laid down his one, produoed his Russia leather pooketbook, and after quietly offering to make it $2 (which was refused), passed his money to one of the young gentlemen who had volunteered to act as stakeholder, and the other boy having done likewise, the amateur sport carefully measured his angles and Bnooessfully pooketed the ball, amidst the applause of his companions and the twenty or thirty gentlemen who had gathered round. With the greatest sang froid the lad took his winnings, and not oblivions to the oourtesy wnioh is always expected amongst gentlemen who win a wager, invited his party to take a drink. The beverages, it is gratifying to . state, were but lemonade, ana al though touohed qp with a little olaret wine, were harmless. The game being ended, the boys produoed oigarettes, with the, exception of one or two who smoked cigars, and strolled along the plana toward the ball room. Tour cor respondent followed them, and in a few minutes saw them mingling with the pretty, innooent little girls, and oond not lng them with muoh gallantry and self possession through the intricacies of the lanoien ud quadrille. After the danoe the yo,. ng miss and1 bean promenaded the piassa and passed through all the kaotios of what, if a few years more had been added to their age, would be called flirtation. Again, Young America makes himself prominent behind a high-step ping nag, which draws his 'dogoart' along the avenue at a rapid paoe. In his dress the ohild apes the parent or older brother; his olotnes are out in the same style, he wears the same pattern stand-up oollar, and sports his 'Pun janb* scarf and fanoy soarfpin. His hat is the same fashion Derby, and his seal ring looks as large and oonspiouous as that on any fashionable man iroout town. Tho Spelling Reform. Prof. If. B. Jjounebury, of Yale Col lege, writing in Soribner of tfio demand for reform in the spelling of English word*, remarks: Doubtless there has been for a long time a wide dissatisfac tion with the existing state of things, although it has found little audible ex pression. To this dissatisfaotion a pow erful impulse has been given by the study of our speeoh in its earlier forms, a study whioh has made its most rapid progress during the few years just past. The prinolpal objections whioh preju dice opposes to ohange have their foroe almost wholly destroy od, when the facts of language are brought direotly home to the attention. Shrines upon whioh ignoranoe oonferred sanctity, and to whioh stupidity bowed with unques tioning adoration, have been utterly and instantaneously demolished by the remorseless ioonoolasm of early English scholarship, Moreover, the oharaoter of the advocates of reform is something that of itself makes an impression. To the opinions expressed by them, their abilities and attainments may not be suf ficient to oommand assent; but they are sufficient to impose rem poo t. There is an uneasy consciousness in the minds of those most opposed to ohange that it is no longer quite safe to indulge in that oontemptuons treatment of tne subjeot whioh a short time ago was the only argument. A reform whioh numbers among its advocates every living lin guistic soholar of any emtnenoe what ever, whioh in addition inoludes every one who haa made the scientific study of English a speoialty, may be inexpe dient, may be impracticable, may be even harmful; but it cannot well be demolished by brief editorials, nor superciliously thrust aside with'an air of jaunty superiority. If the question is to be argued at all, it must now be argued on its merits. In suoh a dis cussion it will be found that the favorers of ohange,whether unreasonable in their expectations or not, know precisely what they are talking about; and this Ia a oharge that can rarely be brought against their opponents. Who Originated the Idea. One day there was a great loss to one of the banks by means of a raised oheok reported in New York, and the reporters of the A'tm were busy writing out their faots about it>. One of them stopped a moment to say in a ohatty way that if the.bankero would cut into the okeoks the amount for whioh each oheok wan drawn, a raised ohook would be an im possible thing. Tho managing editor overheard the remark. 'Mr. Blank.'he said, 'when you get through write a letter to the editor of tho Sun giving that idea,' It was done, and the letter was printed the next morning oontain ing tne suggestion that the amount of each oheok should be out into it to pre vent any alteration. A few nighta after* ward a spruoe young man oamo in, and, scattering around somo blank oheoks with numbers out through thom, as is now common, said: 'I am much obliged for that idea; it's going to be worth #10.000 to me.' The reporter who orig inated it Is still laboring by the week. Don't Fret. One f rotter can rfeatroy the peace of a family,oan destroy the harmony of neigh borhood*, oan unsettle the council* of oltlee And hinder the legislation of na tions. He who frets Is never the one who mends, who heals, who repair* evil; more, He diftoourages, enfeebles, end too often disables those around him, who, bnt for the gloom and depression of his company, would do good werk end keep up brave oheer. The effcot upon a Sen sitive person in the mere neighborhood of a frottor is Indescribable. It is to the sonl what a cold, ley mist Is to the body?more ohilltng than the bitterest storm. And when the fretter is one who is beloved, then tho misery of it beoomes indeed insupportable. A census of Kansas. Juat completed, shows a population of 840,078, am in crease of sixty per oent. over that of which was returned as 528,487. Disinfection. The commission of experts, compris ing sonid of the ablest men in tho conn try, nppoiutel l>y the nntionnl board of health to prepare a oircuUr on cheap, yet thoronpr'i disinfection in case of epidemic disease, have tmbmitted the following:?'Disinfection is tho destruc tion of poisons of infeotions or oontagi oqb diseases, Deodorizers are not necessarily disinfectants, and disinfect ants do not neoeaaarily have an odor. The disinfectants to be nsed are: First, roll sulphur, for fumigation; seoond, sulpha to of iron (copperas), dissolved in water to the proportion of one and a half pounds to the gallon, for soil, sewers, eta; third, sulphate of nine and oommon salt, dissolved together in water in the proportion of four ounoes of snl {>hate and two ounoes salt to the gallon, or clothing, bed linen, etc. The com mission ezolnde carbolic acid, for tho reasons that it is difflonlt to seouro the proper quality and must be used in large Quantities to be of servioo. In using disinfectant^ in the siok room the most available agents are fresh air And clean linens. Thoolothing, towels, bed linen, eto., shonld be removed from the patient, and before they are taken from the room, be plaoed in a pail or tub of the sine solution, boiling hot, if possible. All disohargee should either be reoeived in vessels containing the copperas solu tion, or, when this is impracticable, should be immediately covered with the oopperas solution. All vessels nsed about the patient should be oleansed with the same solution. Unneoessary furniture, especially that which is stuff ed, carpets and hangings should, when possible, be removed from the room at the outset; otherwise, they should re main for subsequent fumigation and treatment. Fumigation with sulphur is the only practicable method of diBin footing the house. For this purpose the rooms to be disinfected must be vacated. Heavy olothing, blankets, and other artioles which oannot be treated with sino solutions, should be opened and exposed during fumigation, as direoted below. Olose the rooms as tightly as possible, plaoe the sulphur in iron pans, supported on brioks, plaoed in tubB con taining a little water, set it on fire by hot ooals, or with the aid of a spoonful of aloohol, and allow the room to remain olosed for twenty-four hoars. For a room about ten feet square at least two fiounds of sulphur should be used; for arger rooms proportionately inoroased quantities. Cellars, yards, stablos, gut ters, privies, oesBpools, water olosota, drains, sewers, etc., should be frequent ly and liberally treated with oopperas solution. The oopperas solution is easily prepared by hanging a baskot containing about sixty pounds of the oopperas in a barrel of water. It la best to burn all artioles whioh hove come in oontaot with persons siok with contagi ous or infectious diseases. Artioles too valuable ? to be destroyed should be treated as follows: Cotton, linen, flan nels, blankets, eto., should be treated with the boiling sino solution; introduoe piece by piece; secure thorough molting and boil for at least half an hour. ?Heavy woolen olothing, silks, furs, stuffed bod covers, beds and other arti oles, whioh oannot be treated with tho zlno solution ahould be hungjin the room during fumigation, their surfaces thor oughly exposed, and pookets turned in aide out ; afterward they should bo hung in the open air, boaten and shakon, Pillowa, beds, stuffed mattresses, up holsterod furniture, etc., should bo out open, the oontents spread out and thor oughly fumigated. Carpets are beBt fumigated on tho floor, but should after ward bo removed to tho open air, and thoroughly boaten. Corpses should be thoroughly washed with a zino solution of double strength and buried a* onoe. Metallic, metal-lined or air-tight oofflns should be used when possible; certainly when the body is to be transported any oonsidorable distance.' A Bit of Unwritten Historj. A Washington correspondent, hard driven for news, has interviewed one of the Senate pages, and unearthed this little pieoe of history from the lad : 'I was in oharge of the President's room at the oapitol when Grant's last term of offioe expired. Just at twelvo o'clock, meridian time, acting Vioe-President Ferry brought down tho gavol, and Captain Bassot, superintendent of the pages, watching him, Bang out. 'done,' and I, holding the President's door half open, exolaimed, 'it's up. sirp President Grant raised his hand the instant I spoke and turned to Mr. Fish and asked, ?Have I a right to finish it?' He had signed *U. B. Or'? to a bill. The whole cabinet was present and a general con sultation lasting five minutes followed. I don't remember what was said, but it was decided that he had a right to finish his signature A Senator Acting ah Auctionoor. United Htates Senator John 8. Wil liams, of Kentucky, appeared in the oa paoity of an auotioneer at one of the* Cincinnati tobaooo houses one day last week, lie offered for Halo fourteen hogsheads of tobaooo of his own raising. The senator appeared in hia shirtsleeves, and with considerable assistance from the orowd of buyers was hoisted on top of his first hogshead. There was con siderable enthusiasm manifested for the old hero of 'Cerro Gordo' and many de mands for a speech. Tho senator in re sponse said that he did not norae there for speech-making, but simply to sell his tobaooo, which he assured all war honestly packed and al?ovo suspicion. The blading was quite spirited, and the lot sold for an average of ten end throe qnarter oents per pound, tho highest average rate for tho year, and Henator Williams enthusiastically remarked:? 'That beats corn, wheat or any other thing that I ever raised.' It was his first orop of tobacco. A. T. Houle, of Itoohoster, N. Y.. offers a $6,000 prizo for a single-senll raoe and the championship of the world, open to everybody, providod Ilanlan and Courtney will row a raoe, to take plaoe anywhere in the United Htatos agreed upon by tho principals and the donor of the prise. A man has been arrested in Baltimore for selling spurious lottery tickets in the varronnding Htatea, by which many people have been swindled. The tiokots purported to be of the Kontnoky lottery, with aoapital prise of f?0,000. Think of the gorgeous beauty of the butterfly, wltlj his fluffy plumage deco rated wftn the oolora of the rainbow, and remember that he attained all his finery just as mortals have theirs?by grabbing for it. The Buffalo JRxpret* thinks that wo men eon never play ball satisfactorily until tfaap are permitted to use their ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST. There are 206 newspapers in Texas. Water is $1 a barrel in Bellville, Nev. Oistern water 8*2.25 per barrol at Cor pas Christ!, Texas. The annnal revenue on matches in this oonntry amounts to $3,000,000. 'Praise God from whom all blowings flow,' doxology, was printod in lCOT.J^ Senator Hill, of Georgia, looks ten years younger, having shaved off his beard. The sergeant-at-arms of the British House of Oommons has hold his office for forty-three years. One of the biff Coney Island oaravan saries employs 7530 waiterp, has 960 ta bles for dining, and feeds 32, GOO people a day. Germany insists on the legal recogni tion of the German land purohasos in the Fiji islands, which has hitherto been refused by tho oolonial authorities. George Monro, publisher of olienp periodicals in New York, has endowod a Halifax oollego with $2,000 aunually to snpport a professorship of physics. New York State's superintendent of insurance has been investigating the af fairs of numerous companies, .and un earthed several defalcations oommittcd by offloers of high standing. Tho United States consul at Leip#io, Germany, says the market is illlod with bungling imitations of American ma chinery, and that oonRoqnently tho de mand for our labor-saving inventions is falling off. The oat orop of Illinois this year amounts to 5-4,064,500 bushels, crown on 1,631,139 acres, an aVeruge of thirty three and a-half bushels per aore. Tho total valne of the orop is estimatod at $12,000,000. Bob McGorkle, lately hangod at Tay lerville, N. O., was one of tho few mur derers who did not feel sore of goiug from the soaffold direct to Iloavcu. ?Kind friends,' wero his last words, 'remember me in your prayers to-night, for I don't know where I'll bo.' The Memphis Appeal says: 'Notwith standing the fever, mamage licenses are prooured as usual. But few whito people engage in matrimony theBO times in Mompliis, but the oolored poople are uot to bo frightened so easily from unit ing in wedlook for better or for worse.' Oar oonsul at Geneva warns shippers of smoked and oured meats to Switzer land to forward only flrst-olass urtioloa, as tho authorities, alarmed at tho im mense trade in American meats, which injures their home traffic, aro endeavor ing to find oause to prohibit tho ship ments. A mlo of the Illinois Central railroad provides that dogs shall not ride in a paseouger car; but a big and ferooions bulldog walked into a oar at Ohiongo, appropriated a whole seat, and rodo 300 milris unmolested. 'Ho had such a meaning smile,' was the oonduotor'i apology for not ejecting him A gray hair was cspiod among tho r ven looks of a oharming young lady. 'Ob, pray, pull it out,' she exoIaim 'If I pull it ont ten more will oomo to tho fuueral, 'ropliod tho ono who made tho unweloome discovery. 'Pluck it out, nevertheless,' said the dark-haired dam sel; 'it's no consoqnence how many oomo to the fuuoral, providod thoy all oomo in blaok.' The New York papers aro filled with appeals from poor persona in allsectiouH of the country who have been induced to invest in stooks by the alluring ad vertisements of so-owlled bankers, who hold out-protended pioaus of easy en richment. The schemss aro so adroit as not to be liable in tho oyes of tho authorities. That tho attempt of tho government in providing means of investment for tho saving poor in issuing the four per cent, certificates was not a nuooess, is evidenced by tho faot that ?f the $40, 012,750 put forth, 685,323,550 have been converted into four per oent. bonds, whioh shows the oertifloates werb bought by spoonlators. The Massachusetts Quakers doolined an invitation to participate in the two hundrod and fiftieth annivsrsary of tho founding of a Puritanical ohuroh,on tho ground that their Qnaker forefathers doolined to acknowledge any of the Puritan ohurohes as ohnrohos of Christ, owing to their not 'dealing jostly and with lovo of meroy' in their intercourse with tho Indians, and did not follow tho golden rule. The Ilualnpai Indians, of Northern Arizona,numbering about 1,000 persons, are in a starving oondition and have ap plied to army officers for food. Tho Indian bureau has roqUostod tho secre tary of war to diroot rations of moat and flour to be issuod to thom temporarily. Tho Ilaalnpais are a non-roporvation band of Indians, who have heretofore subsisted upon acorns, wild seeds and somo little oorn whioh they raised. It is thought that before long tho eotton mills in New England will bo built with ono story. Tho advantages claimed are in oreased safety, convcni enoe, and higher speed for maohiuory. A gingham oomuany hastriod thooxpor imont, and flmfsthat a building of that description, covering about an aero, oast $28,000, and saved in gas alone a sum equal to tho interost on t ho oost of tho building, and obtained an inoreased spood of twolvo per oent. A Canadian firm has adopted tho following novel method of ridding thoir storo of flies: White tho store in olosod on Sunday, thoy burn a quantity of brimstone in their windows, and tho fumes arising from it suffocate all the flies that go near to tho window to bo near the light. Fully throo pints (f dead flies aro found in the window every Monday morning. As they aro very thiok this season this mode of getting rid of them is very ofloctual. Tho reoont quick passages aoross the Atlantic aro oxplninnd by tho faot ? liat when a now steamer is t.niltsho is crowd ed to hor utmost oiipaoition, without re gard to exponas, (luring the first fow trips to make a reoord for speed, in order to indnoe passengers to tako pnssago by tho line owning her. Tho steamer Arizona on hor recent fast trips burned 160 tons of ooal a day, while In making an ordinary voyago only half that amount would oe oonsnmed. Daring the Franoo-Prussian war there oxistod among both German and Frenoh soldiers a belief that gold coins, or other of that articles preoions metal, carried about tho cerson would ward off bal lets: and there was manifested a great weaknoss for such charms, notwith standing the advice of surgeons, that it wan safer for the soldier to have his body and olothes free from all hard anb stanoes, such as coins, pocket-knives, rings, lookets, etc., a wound from a bul let not being nearly so dangerous as one I caused by the driving into the body of I *aoh articles as the above, ^JLJiS