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r St i VOL. IV. NO. 42 Fleeting Joys. Time goes in for funny freaks, Man's a toy he likes to play with; Notice how he lines onr cheeks, Mark what glee he makes us gray with. Pleasure comes to soothe our hearts ; Often, like the rose, 'tis prickly ; Soon its radiance departs? TI..nrkrxwtArk + ki vaniflh ' UIVUIVUIO fHUMM ? v Supposing you by fate's decree Love a girl aud long to greet lier, Don't the minutes seem to be Leaden-winged until you meet her V When the hour arrives at last. And all care away you banish, Then the tyrant travels fastHappy moments quickly vanish ! Here upon this earthly ball ^ Joy awhile will make us gayer. But wheD sorrow gives a call Oftentimes she proves a stayer." Hope, thou swiftly glidest onFragrant are the flowers thou pickest, Soon, alas! their bloom is goneHappy moments fly the quickest! Never mind, we needn't grcan ; Teardrops, showeriike, refresh us ; After ad, we re bound to own Joy is like a sweetheart?precious. Ca-<t away regrets and sighs, Though our cares beset us thickly, Ilappy moments let ns prize, Ev. 11 though they vanish quickly ! HARRY, THE ERRAND BOY. "Papa," said little Lucy Weston, climbing upon her father's knee, "what pleases you so much to-day? You have l>< cu smiling to yourself all diuuer time." " Something has pleased me to-day, Lucy. If you aud Johnny would like to hear the story, draw up your chairs." - - - *? 1 Wr ITT A. 1 i_ I " a 8lory, said iuts. wesiou, ioo&wg up from her sewiug. "May I hear it too r "If you are very good," said Mr. Weston, smiling. " Let me see, how old are you, Johnny ?" " Twelve, sir." " Well, my story is about a boy just your age. It is nearly a year since I first saw him. I was busy one afternoon last winter, when I saw a little boy comiug into the store, whose face attracted my attention at once. It was earnest and bright ; a strong, good face, if ever 1 saw one. The boy was poorly clad, but his clothes were clean and whole. " May I see the boss?" he asked. " 11 am the boss,' I answered, * what can I do for you?' " ' I want to ask the price of a firstrate sewiug machine; not a fancy one, sir, but a good worker?' r " 'Sixty dollars.' "'Well, mister,' said be, earnestly, ' can I work it out ? I have every afternoon from half-past two till seven, and I can run errands or do any work about the store. You see, sir, this is how it is : Father died two years ago, ar?d mother she wants me to stay at school for a year or two louger, but she has to work awful hard to keep me there. Father was a bricklayer and mother owns the little house he almost built himself, aud that is all. She sews, sir, so I thought I would see if I could earu one.' " ' But it will take a long time,' said I. ' If I give you a dollar a week, it would take sixty wet k9.' " ' Will you give me that?' he said, his eyes fairly dancing. ' I can come all day Saturday.' " Can you ? suppose we say a dollar ami a half ? Aud if you do well, you can have the machiue a little less thau retail price.' " You see, Lucy, I was interested already in the boy, with his honest, frank face, and resolved, if he was faithful in his duties, to help him along. So we made an agreement, he to give me all his spare time out of school, and I to credit him each week with a dollar and fifty cents toward the purchase of a machine. " Every day lie came, pnuctual to the minute, rain or shiue, and ho was the most prompt errand boy I ever employed. Little by little the dollars rolled lip on the account, until one evening in the fall I was here after dinner, just before you and your mother came home from the country, when thb door bell rang, and in walked Harry Cummings, my errand boy. 44 4 1 found this, 3ir,' he said, 4 when I was sweeping out the store,' and he handed me a roll of bank notes I thought safe in my pocket. 44 4 Please to see if it i3 all right, sir;' 4 it was under the counter.' 441 counted the notes, two hundred dollars, and then takiug out one twenty dollar note, I taid : 44 4 I should have offered a reward for this, Harry, if you had not found it.' 44 4 1 am glad I saved you that, sir,' he auswered. 4 I'll bid you good night.' 44 4 But you have earned the reward,' I said, putting down the twenty dollars; 4 will you take it, or pass it down to the machine money ?' 44 4 Mine! all that 1 Oh, sir, pass it to tho machine. You see, I'd have to toll mother where I got that money, and the machine is to be a surprise.' 441 never spent twenty dollars with so much pleasure in mv life, Lucy ! This was a great lift on the machiue, and this afternoon, when Harry came, I told him to pick out one for his mother. 44 We selected a first rate oue, handsome, too, and I promised him ouo of our best teachers should go and show his moth er bow to woik upon it. 44 When it was on the cart, ready to go, I invited myself to go with Harry to se? it delivered. He asked me to write a note telling Lis mother the price was honestly earned, and I told Lim 1 would ( tell her. " So away we went, and when we reached the little house, the cart was 0 just taming the comer of the street. Harry opened the d>>or very softly, and the man lifted the machine into the parlor. Then Harry led me to a small sitting-room at the back of the house where a pale woman in a widow's dress was sitting sewing busily. She rose and offered me a chair, and I told her I came to see if I could obtain Harry's services at five dollars a we?.k. Y a sioikd have ^ seen the boy's eyes. LNDA ft 44 4 He can go to the evening school,' I Raid, ' and I will see that he has some time to read and study. I cannot spare him now, having had his services so lODg.' 44 4 My afteruooua aud Saturdays, mother,' Harry said. 41 told you I was not in mischief. I was earning you a present. Come ami see.' 44 And he fairly danced into tho par lor, his mother and I following. 44 4 It's yours,' ho said, dancing round the machine; 4 all paid for, and lessons on it. too. Ain't it splendid ?' 4'His mother was as delighted as he expected, and that is saying a good deal. 4 4 4 Oh, sir,' she said to me, 4 he's been a good son since his father died. Every morning, summer or winter, he's up and makes the fire while I'm dressing, and while I get breakfast be brings up all tho coal for tho day, so I won't have to go into tho cellar; aud every step he can save me he does. But how he ever made all the money to bny a machine out of school hours, I cannot understand. ' 44 4 1 got a dollar and a half a week, mother, for errands, and twenty or thirty cents extra when thero was snow to clean off the sidewalk, or any other job, and Mr. Weston gave me twenty dollars.' 4 4 4 No, you earned that as well us the rest,' I said, and his mother fairly broke down and cried when I told her about the roll of money. 44 So, Lucy, now you know what pleased me so much to-day. To-morrow Harry becomes my errand ooy, ami 1 know he will be a faithful one. There is the making of a noble man, Johuuy, iu the boy who can work steadily and faithfully for such an object as Harry had, never taking one cent from his hard earned money for his own pleasure, never failing in his self-imposed duties. Harry is a boy only twelve years old, but I honor him.' 44But, papa," said Lucy, 44you are rich, why didn't you give his mother a machine ?" 44 Because the pleasure would not have been so great to either Harry or his mother. Think how proud she will be of her good sou every time she touches her machine, and how glad she will feci that he persevered so well whenever she sees it. It is a little sunbeam in the dull routino of business for both them, as for me." 44 Any mother would bo proud of such a son," said Mrs. Weston, gently, 44 and when he has a holiday you must let bim spend it here. We will be glad to see him, will we not, children ?" There was a very hearty 44yes ma'am," and then the brother and sister, thanking their father for the story, opened their school book", ami went busily to their duty for the evening, Johnny won* leriug a little if he could havo the selfdenial, industry and patience of Harrv Ctimmiugs. War us It W as and as It is. The following is an extract from an address read before the Yale law school: Somo 2,000 years before Christ wo read that a certain king, one of the kings of those days?the head of a tribe or city?boasted: 44 Three score and ten kings, haviug their thumbs aud great toes cut off, gather their meat under my table." When tbe men rf Judali made this royal mutilator a captive, according to the received lex lalionis of the age, they cut off his thumbs and great toes, cast him iuto a duugeon at Jerusalem, ?nd left him to die of hunger. When Nebuchadnezzar took Jerusalem he slew the sons of King Zedekiah before his face, carried him to Babylon, put out both his eyes, and left him to end his days in prison. At the close of the long Jngnrthiue war, Marius brought Jugurtha to Koine, and, in accordance with the established usage of the Roman triumph, chained to his chariot wheels this deposed king, this gall tut soldier, dragged him in triumph through the streets, amid the insults of the populace, and when ho turned his chariot from the forum to ascend the capitol, ho unchained the royal prisoner from the chariot wheel, cast him nearly naked iuto a dungeon, where lie was not strangled until ho had contended rix da s with famiue. When Carthage was taken it was blotted from tbe map of nations, its past destroyed, its ships burned, aud its inhabitants sold as slaves. The campaign against Corinth ended in the ex tinction of that luxurious city and the enslavement of its inhabitants. The curse which Joshua pronounced agaiusl the man who should presume to rebuild Jericho : 44 Cursed be the man who shall rise up and rebuild this city Jericho He shall lay tho foundation thereof in his first born, and in his youngest s? n uc shall set up the gates of it," was but the expression of the common sentiment? the common law of ancient times; at the height of Greek and Roman civilization, after every battle, every man, woman, and child?every human being not slain ?became an exile or a slave. A campaign usually ended in the destructior of a city ; a war in an extinct nation ality. Let us skip over two thousand yean to our present civilization. The nine teeuth century saw all Europe undei arms, from Siberia to Archangel, fron the Atlantic to the Vistula; ships bat terod each other to pioces in every sea When these wars closed, by a treaty o peace, some boundaries were altered some dynasties were changed, but it i not necessary to say that all prisoner were released and no property de stroyed, for such is the settled law o Christendom. And when the allies too! Paris by siege each Cossack paid for cup of coffee handed him by the Frencl waiter, and the publicists and moralist of Europe got angry in discussing th refined question whether the allies ha< a right, under the law of nations, to r? store to the museums and galleries c Italy and Holland the pictures and stal nes that Napoleon had taken from thei as trophies of war. Silk in Mexico.?Raw silk isobtaine for the Mexican silk factories froi China, though there are plenty of sill worms and mulberry trees in Mexic i itself. The State of Mexico is dow o fcriug a premium of 60,000 pesos for tL i first wool factory, which is beiDg e i tftMisbed wi?h a c pital of 100.000 peso; i without consideiiug tUal Mt-Xicau wo is usually of the very worst quality. por1: RD A BEAUFORT, S. C., The Turkish Hodja. There were in the time of the hodja three monks learned in all the sciences. 1< These monks traveled hither and thither, <3 and at last came to the states of the Sultan f Ala-Eddin, who invited thorn to become f I Mussulmans. "This we will do," said 'J j the monks, "if you will cause answers a to bo given to all tbo questions wincn we will ask." It was so agreed, and the c sultan assembled all bis wise men aiul J theologians, who, however, could not answer any of the moDks' questions. "How r is this," said the sultan, "that among I so many learned persons there is not a found one to answer these men ?" While I he was thus dissatisfied, one of those 3 present cried out: " There is none that i can give the solution of these problems I except the hodja.*. So the monarch 5 ordered the hodja to be sent for, who ? hastened to present himself before his 8 majesty. After having received the e salutation of the hodja, the sultan 1 caused him to stand forward. " May I r know," asked the hodja, " for what rea- 1 son tbo kiug of kings has desired my i presence?" Upon this tbe sultan in- ? formed him of the matter." I "Well, what are your questions?" t said tbo hodja to the monks. s One of tbein, coming forward, re- 1 plied : " Wlioro is the middle of tbo 1 earth ?" The hodja, stall in hand, descended 1 from his ass, and marking a spot between tbe auimal's fore feet, said: ] " There is the middle of the earth ; it is between my ass' fore legs." "You say so, at least," replied the t monk. 1 "If you don't believe it," rejoined 1 the hodja, " measure, and see if you find 1 either more or less to add to my state- 1 ment." f The second monk came forward and 1 said : " How many stars are there in the J sky?" 1 "Just as many as there are hairs on < this ass." ... 1 "Bat liow do von Know mat, 11 you i have not counted thetu and compared the number?" ' "And how do you know to the con- t fcrary, Mr. Monk, if you have not 1 counted ?" . ( " Answer me auother question," said j the monk, "and I shall know if your i count is right. How many hairs are 1 there in my beard ?" " As many," answered tho hodja, " as on my beast's tail." " Bat how do you prove that ?" i " Why, if you don't believe it, count ] tbem." I But tho monk not beiug eatisfied with i this offer, the hodja added : i " If that does not suit you, come, we will pull out the hairs of your beard and the hairs of my ass' tail; then we can .< tell very soou." .< " Oh, no," said the monk; " let nothing of that sort bo done." j Aud at this poiut the three monks < tsays the story) humbled themselves be- ; fore God, and all three became Mussul- < mans and fast friends of the hodja.? 1 Harper'8 Magazine. A Sagacious Cat J One very strange thing I remember 1 happening at the house where I was once * visiting, says a writer. I had been J teld of it, but never fully realized how l>eculiar it was until I witnessed it my- 1 self. The family consisted of my friend, \ I her husband, and four children ; and \ when news was brought that puss had five new kittens, each begged so hard to ( l>e allowed to have one that orders were 1 given to save four and drown the remaining one. Whether Mrs. . Puss missed her remaining child or not I don't kt-ow, but she seemed very well satisfied with thoso left her, and was more tbau usually happy when any of the children would pay her a visit at her snug quarters under the kitchen table. ] A dozen times a day or more would the 3 luckless kittens bo dragged from their ] bed to be kissed and petted and hugged. 3 ( But it so happened, that from some , . cause or other, one whole day passed ] , without any one going to see the kittens, ( [ much to their mother's grief, who had : frequently gono to the nursery in search , of her young friends. Evening came ; . 1 the whole family were together, the two 1 younger ones being on the floor, when, , [ io their astonishment, in walked the cat, , carrying a kitten in her mouth. This 1 she carried to one of the children, and 1 1 i-o soon as she saw it was kindly received , ! ran quickly away. Bump, bump, was ( soon heard, and in came tlio art with I another kitten, which was deposited near ( [ another ol the children. Curiosity was I now excited ; "the two elder children took st ats on the floor, to see if kittens would . brought to them, and in a very short \ time they were. Then was pussy's hap. niness complete; she would purr loudly, , mb herself against each one in turn and try by every means to show how pleased she was. I I The Hearing of Bees. The questiou whether bees have the power of hearing is a mooted point among j naturalists. Sir John Lubbock has tried . experiments wifh his bees in order to r elucidate the matter, lima ne nas l played tbe violin close to bin bees, bo . has tried a dog whistle, a shrill pipe, a tuuing fork, and sliontiug, but no noise f seemed to disturb tbein in the least. Nevertheless a curious occurrence took s place a few days since at Windsor. s Colonel Stewart, commanding officer . Second life guards, reports that a few f days since, when tbe regiment was returning from a field day, a swarm of n bees, attracted by- the music, followed h the regiment into barracks, flying about s over the beads of tbe baud. On are riviug at tbe barrack yard the baud ,] formed up to play tbe regiment into barracks; the bees followed their ex,f Minple, forming up also and settling on a branch of a tree over tbe beads of tbe n bandsmen. They were at once taken prisoners by the corporal of tbe guard, and are now hived in the barrack yard, d Tbe distance over wbieli tbe bees foln lowed tbe band was more than a mile. i- We have heard of spelling bees, but ;o these are musical bees with a vengeance, f- It is a common practice iu the country le to collect be< s 1 y means of rattliDg a s- warming pan wiih a piece of iron, 01 s. -shaking a stone in a tin kettle, and the ji idea that bees will fallow sounds is as old as Virgil. I r no* .ND ( THURSDAY, SEP] The Society Girl. A r/mnrr nftTHA into A hotel DIM" ** /"""B '"**J ? or at Saratoga with her twenty-eighth Iress. She has been at the Springs our teen days, and has displayed a resh toilet every morning and evening. L'hese dresses cost on an average $125 .piece, or about $3,500 for the lot. During this time her father has worn >no cheap flannel suit, costing perhaps 535. And this young lady, whose father is lot considered wealthy, is supposed to >e in the market. She is looking for ind expects to marry some man of sound >rain and good looks. She is a good 'oung lady, but not brilliant, and she s far from beautiful; but she is so well >red that she does not paint or powder. Ihe is the average New York girl, who ;oes in mediocre society, but who conitantly struggles to get into the best et. But the set here, who base their jositions on family and wealth, will not eceive her. She is respectable, but ler respectability is not of long standng enough to admit her.' So the poor ;irl, with all her dresses, is really on jrcbation. She wanders around, cntiug half tho people in hor own set, and itroggling to get into tho set above? ler father and mother both pushing ler forward. When they ask who hor father is, the eply comes : "Oh, he's a merchant somewhere in STew York." " Who is her mother?" Nobody knows. They have only just ;ome out. In fact, they would never lave come out at all were it not for the purpose of chaperoning this daughter vhom they love better than life. They vonld never have known Saratoga but 'or this daughter. They would now be ivmg in a little duck nuueu uu?ru uu Eleventh street. At present they live lpon Fifth avenue, and spend every loliar of income, and even eat into the principal, to dress and bring out this laughter. It is an unhappy struggle all around. They laugh and seem to enjoy themlelves, but, alas I in their hearts they rate Saratoga, hate their own rich Iressos, and really sigh for the little )laiu house where they used to live within their incomes before the daugh?r came. Bnt she must be married off. Who will have her. If she were beautiful somo rich man would take4ier. If she were rich, some lundsomo fortune hunter or some thrifty nisiness man vonld take her. As it is, lobody wants her. She is a dead weight. She is based on clothes. Not brain, family, or money, but urn ply twenty-eight dresses from her dock m trade. If 110 man comes up this year to projiose, her dear father will carry the ;ostly stock over another year, and next > car we will see her again, with twentysight new dresses, costlier and more joautiful than the last. And then, if no aristocratic lover affers, she will be offered in her own Jet. Even old admirers who have been rejected will be encouraged. Pride will Heep her from marrying beneath herself. They hoped to make a brilliant natch for her, and, failing in this, she will eventually be an old maid, aud her name, instead of figuring with the old uid aristocratic families on charity ball iuvitatious, will be printed among the Sabbath school teachers in her own little jhurch, or may bo she will manage the more aristocratic charity concerts. Poor child ! How strange tho world is.?New York Sun. ^ Transporting Oil. a ia tn fulnntod for the IX Jiun I'uui au r purpose of transporting oil from the oil regions to the principal Atlantic seaboard cities. Tlie plan proposed is to run the oil through a four-inch pipe laid mi tho surface ; the forcing power will be 900 pounds to the square inch ; there ire to lie stations at distances of fifteen miles, at each end of which an cngino of 100 horse power will be erected to work a pump to continue the flow from point to point. Thirty thousand barrels of Dil aro consumed in the United States Jaily, aud up to tho present time the railroad charges for transporting the oil aggregate $79,000,000. Tho minimum cost of transporting oil by rail is fifty cents per barrol, and the minimum cost by the pipe process it is believed will be sixteen cents. The average ehargo by r il is $1.25. Tho feasibility of tho enterprise, so far as the passage of the oil through pipes is concerned, has been fully established by the present ^system in operation in the oil regions, where the aggregate length of the pipes conveying the oil from the several wells to the reservoirs is nearly 250 miles. The first objective point or terminus will be Baltimore, as being the most feasible and direct route for the pipes. Following which other termini will be established in Philadelphia, New York and other places. Will Not Yield. The New York &un has the following : We have received several letters requesting us to employ whatever influence we may possess with Gov. Tilden in the direction of getting him married. Wo respectfully decline. Not that we have any doubt that his felictv, and oven his public usefulness, would be much increased in the married state; but love and wedlock are strictly private affairs, and must not bo mixed up with the sterner interests of government. For the benefit of the many ladies who are beginning to look upon our great philosophical statesman with that feeling of tenderness and of personal aspiration which a woman so naturally cherishes for a great man, we add also the suggestion that such hopes are likely to be fruitless. The governor is an old stager, has long lived a life of celibacy, and has doubtless resisted innumerable attacks from beaming eyes and smiling lips, and we have no notion that we will surrender at this stage of the battle. If he obdurately prefers to remain a bachelor, let us pay the tribute of regret to his resolution, but not seek to overcome the p lrposo of a determine 1 and ob stinate man. X\A?L domiv rEMBER 21, 1876. THE TRAMPS' PARADISE. CnmPA of Idle Vmrnnis In the Ncw.lerney WwnmpN?IIow They Live. Tho main retreat of the tramps in Eastern New Jersey, a correspondent of tho Sun says, is in the groves and swamps bordering the Pennsylvania railroad a short distance above Wfaverley station. As this point is nearly midway between Elizabeth and Newark, the officers of both cities disclaim jurisdiction over it. and tho tramps, recognizing it as nentral grounds, have takffi possession. Night after night durnlg the past four months their camp fires have lighted up the swamp, and crowds of males and females have held carnival beneath the trees. Tramps of every nationality, age, and condition resort to this rendezvous, and the farmers of the adjacent district have suffered so severely from their depredations that they have determined to take the matter into their own hands, and drive out the maauders. The Pennsylvania railroad company has also suffered from their piracies and lawlessness, as new and old ties have been burned, telegraph poles have been injured, and trains have been stoned by somo of tho drunken miscronuts. A few nights ago at least thirty of these ontca^ts were congregated in and around a blazing log tire far iu among tho trees in the swamp. Interspersed among the crowd were five hideous looking women. One of the peculiar yelps of one of the men in tho gaug, while passing a farmyard at night, it is said, will set every dog in the neighborhood to howling, and he is further - - - " - ? if- - A. - 3 *1 distinguished as one or ine most auruit thieves on the road. Not far off sat four men playing "seven up " for pennies, and scattered around in various positions were a dozen of more, chatting or making preparations for " turning in" for the night. Empty tomato cans, ham bone?, broken crackers, and feathers, the debris of former feasts, were scattered on the ground. A short distance above, cooking their evening meal, were several strange tramps, ragged, filthy% and, judging from their language, "down on " the crowd below. One of the party, dirtier and more piratical in appearance than his companions, was pointed out as "French Lou." He said that ho had just reached "the retreat" the night before, and had been robbed of a silver watch by the other gang, pointing over bis shoulder. " Wait and see," said another, in a significant way, "if we don't get square yet wid dem fellows. We'll put up a job on 'em that'll make 'em sick." When questioned as to work and tbo prospects, the Frenchman?who spoke excellent English ? replied : " Work 1 What do wo care for work when there's plenty to eat without it?" "That's so," chimed in another. "It's no use for us to attempt to work; we couldn't get any if we tried. Down in Philadelphy, the other day, I was arrested and locked up for asking for work, and do you think I'll run that risk again ? Why, the country is rich enough to support such gontlemen as we be, and then not feel it. Talk about hard times, why theso are just bully!" " How alnnit the coming winter?" The tramps made no reply for a minute or so, when a little driod-up fellow answered : " We'll get along well enough. We understand our bnsiuess, and if there isn't hot times in tne Dig cities by Christmas, I'm la fool." " 'Tain't going to be like it was last winter, yon can just bet your bottom dollar," said another. ''We'll have something to live on; and if we have to tight for it, why we'll do that." The night following, a Troy molder, whilo walking along the railroad track, with a little bundle in his hand, was accosted by three tramps from the swamp, who demanded his money. The molder knocked the spokesman down; but before he could realizo his peril was in turn knocked down, and was robbed of $1.50?all the money ho possessed. Two of his assailants even wanted to hike his bundle, but were persuaded by the third of the party to let him retain it, and ho was suffered to go on his way upon giving his promise not to tell the police. "The retreat," as it is knowp to the tramps, is silent during the day, its regular denizens being out on begging tours in adjacent towns or cities, or among the farmers in the vicinity. Toward dusk they may be seen returning, "dropping iu " from the railroad track and country road, singly, or iu paits, aud are lost sight of in the thicket which screens their haunts from the road. A farmer who lives iu the vicinity estimates that, since the commencement of j the present year, fully one thousand chickens, yonug turkeys aud geese have beeu stolen from himself and his neighbors; their fences havo been torn down, their cows milked in their pastures, and, iu several instances, their orchards stripped of the green fruit. They are now apprehensive that the corn in the fields will suffer unless prompt action for the driving aw&y of tramps is iuaui "i guraieu. Looking Out for the Worst. Whatever may be thought by the "bears" in Wall street, several foreign princes are putting their trust in lands, tenements, bonds, and stocks of differ eut cities and corporations in the United States. Several of the most expensive buildings in Broadway arc owned by the ex-Empress Eugenie, whe derives from them an annual rent oi 802,000. The Duke of Nassau, one ol the dispossessed German princes of 1800, was hero in 1808. Ho had bills of ex change to the amount of 81,500,000, He purchased tenements in Allen streel that to-day are nominally owned by Ger man lawyers or notaries public, and thai yield him twelve per cent, on the capi tal invested. The Grand Duke oi Meckler.burg-Schwerin, Frederick Fran eis the Second, is the owner of lots anc houses in Elm street, and Queen Vic toria owns considerable real estate ir Broadway. It stands in the name of ai Englishman. The king of Sweden owni 8500,000 worth of real estate in Nov York, and the Grand Duke Alexis owni a hotel in Broadway. King Bombi bought six houses in Greeuwich stree iu 1852, and they aro held by Italians fo his son, Francis II. 1ERCI $2.00 per A NEW YORK AND LONDON. The Coot of Living In the Two title*, and the L'ompnrlwon In Vavor of London. The question as to the relative cost of housekeeping in London and New j York liaa often interested me greatly, says Mr. Jennings, in bis World correspondence, as I doubt not it may have done some of your readers. A very good bouse, with eigbt bedrooms, dining, drawing and reception rooms, can be bad in Kensington, a fashionable suburb, for ?100 a year. Go a little further into the suburbs, and you can do it for much leas. For instance, I know of a family which lias a small but neat and comfortable house? six rooms?near Dulwioh, that is to say between three and four miles from London bridge, ?25 a year?$125. I really do not know where I could find a house anything like it within twenty miles of New York for three times the money. There is a small garden, both back and front. For ?50 a year an excellent house can be got in the northern part of London?that great region extending from Islington lo Higbgate. These are houses chiefly intended for what are called the " middle classes," and certainly no one need be ashamed to live in them. Another house of which I know is at Kensington not far from the South KensiDj?ton museum, and is pleasautly situated. It has nine rooms, a small garden, and the rent is ?100 ($500) a year. The locality about corresponds to Fiftieth street, below Sixth avenue, in New York. It is difficult, of course, to make suoh comparisons between two cities, but I think this does no injustice to either. Bents suoh as are oommon in New York, of from 81,200 to $3,000 a year, would here suffloe to hire a mansion in the most fashionable parts of the town, and the class which can afford to pay ?500 or ?600 a year for a house is exceedingly limited. I should myself, speaking from personal experience and after careful in quiry among ray fiiends, put down for rent and taxes, in a very good locality, ?150 a year. For this you may obtain a kmicLa in olmz-kfif aiiv direction?north or south, east or west?such as you have to pay, even now, from $1,200 to $1,500 a year for in New York, not including taxes. Here the tenant pays the taxes ?in New Yoik the landlord does?so that the comparison cannot be made with entire accuracy. And it must be remembered that I have taken the diminished New York rents?not the prices of three or four years ago. Servants' wages, Mr. Jennings says, are much higher in New York than in London. The cook in one case gets ?18 a year ($90 gold); in the other ?22 ($il0). We used to pay from $20 to $25 a month in Ne^ Yorkfor a cook, andshe was not so good as a ?20 a year cook would be here. Twenty dollars a month is about ?13 a year, currency. Clothing, for adults as well as children, is very much cheaper in London than it is in New York, and a man can get a very good pair of bo jts in London for ?1 5--*., a lady for 16s., and a child for from 4a. to 7s. 6d. 1 do not know whero a well made pair of men's boots could be got in New York for $6 or $7. In London beef is Is. a pound, and steaks (the best) Is. 3d. We used to pay in New York, for precisely the same description of beef, 30c. and 35c. a pound respectively. Lamb is Is. 3d. a pound, and 35c. in New York. Fowls are now scarce and bring 7s. a pair. Eggs are Is. 6d. a dozen; tea, 4s. a pound. For tea not so good the New York price was $1.50 a pound. Lump (or loaf) sugar is 4id. per poir d, as against 14c. in New York. The best butter is 2s. per pound; wo paid 50c. in New York. Bread is much cheaper and much better here than in New York?the seven pouud loaf now costs 7d. Potatoes vary lroai Id. to 3d. per pound. -Fish generally is very cheap. ColTee is Is. 8J. per pouud (45e. in New York), aud rice2}d, per pound (12o. per pound in New York). Taken altogether, I think that a family of six or seven persons can live very ?' i i i- ? t.?am no COmiOriilLny 1U ui ucol jjvuuuu ivt <wau (say $56) a week, not including rent. This would covor a reasonable tependituro on "extras," such an newspapers, postage, etc. To live on a similar scale iu New York would cost $100 a week. I am qui to sure that ?1,000 a year here? which is what is generally called a middle-cla?8 iueorae?would go further here than $10,000 a year would in New York, when rent and all other expenses are taken into account. Any family which has an income of ?100 a month can afford to live in a very good house and have a well supplied tabl9. There would not be enough for horses or carriage, or anything of that kind, but a summer's holiday might be got out of it, and some provision made for doctors' bills and other incidental expenses. 1 know, however, of a la" ge family which lives very well in the country on ?100 a year, and 1 another which is doing it on about ?700. 1 I also know myself of a country parson ! who brought up a family and lived com1 fortably on ?120 a year, but how on earth he did it passes my comprehension. Probably "butcher's meat" scarcely ever wont into the house, vegetables were doubtless grown in the parsou's own garden, aud wife and daugh, ters made their own clothes. In such { cases, too, the neighbors generally lend a helping hand?perhaps witn a sack of ' corn or a side of pork, or a ham occaj sionally. It was easier to live on a small income a few years ago than it is now. ltnfc if a man chances to go into one of , the counties which are comparatively f uncontaminated by the extravagant f spirit aud luxurious tastes of the age?a county like Suffolk, for instance?it is ' still quite possible for him to live like a gentleman, ho and a family of four or [ five children, on ?000 a year. No Juggernaut. f An East India paper says: For the first time in a couple of centuries the I Juggernaut car at Mahesh, .near Scram pore, was prevented frofn being dragged i along the streets, in consequence of i some fears that were entertained by the 3 local authorities in regard to the suffir ciency of the arrangements made for 3 preventing acciJents. Considering that i these authorities are now held responsit ble for all accidents, it is obvious that r some discretion must be allowed to them i, in the exercise of their authority. V AL. miE Single Copy 5 Cents. ???? * Making a Boy Tell. John H. McCormick and Oliver B. Clark keep a boot and Rhop store in State 5=trr?i-t, Chicago. Th y are accused of attempting to kike the administration of justico into their own hands. Four persona are engaged in the store of McCormick & Clark. They are the two partuers, a clerk, and Solomon Swartz, a boy. The latter was suspected of stealing $300 from the money drawer " ~ a in the absence of the partners, ana Clark, to extort a confession, grabbed the boy, and, in spite of his tearful protestations, shored him forcibly into the store cellar, and tying a rope around his neck, swung him until he became insensible. Then the junior partner cut the rope and allowed the boy to fall to the floor. The parents of young Swartz, seeing their son coming home with a bloody neck, decided to prosecute the jonior partner. Boy and partner were a;rested on counter charges, and the man was held in $1,000 bail, and the boy in $300. The boy says that Clark threw one end of the rope over a gaspipe that ran along the ceiling. "He then caught rue by the throat, choking the breath out of me. McCormick was at that time standing between me and the stairs so that 1 conldn't get away. Clark put the rope around my neck, and, though I struggled and screamed, I couldn't help myself. I felt myself being jerked off my feet, aud that's the last I remember. Qow long it was I can't tell. It might have been ten minutes. It might Lave been twenty. When I came to myself I was lying on the floor. A man named Hamilton, who pretended to be a detective, came np to me and wanted me to confess. I was weak and scared. Clark said: ' Well, if I can't hang him, I'll roast him,' and started np stairs. -McCormick then said that they would let me alone if I would get the mc ney. The idea struck me that by promising to get the money I might have a chance to escape. So I told them I'd show where it was." He'd Suffered Enough. . f Capt. Bob Shaftoe concluded to run for Congress. He had been in cue wars ?he had fooght and bled?and Bis record as a soldier was of the very best. Of course, having consented to ran, he had to take the stomp. Bob conld be eloquent upon occasion, esp(c?Ally whon picturing battles sceues; and he indulged rather freely iu this.style, for he knew more about war than he did about politics. His opponent was a politician, and not a soldier. One day Bob addressed an assembled multitude in front of ?. .cross-ropd grocery. He told the story of /his hardships in tho field eloquently shd tonOhingly. He told how ho had led a forlorn hope; how ho had been strieken4down under the very mnzzle Of the enemy's battery; and how he had lain twAights and one day suffering where ?tte 'fell before succor oame. And other things he told ueqally as thrilling. When he had concluded, ontfof tho Rovereigus approached him with sympathy iu every look. "Cao'n Bob, was all that'true you told usV' " True as gospel, my friend." "Aud you railly tit right up to the mouth of the enemy's cannon?" "Yes." "Aud got knocked over?" "Yes." "Aud come nigh dyin??two whole nights in misery t" "Yes, my friend, it is all true as I have told yon. I was wounded four tim s after that?" "Well," said the interrogator, with visible emotion. "I'm blamed if you haint suffered enough for the country. I don't see why we should send you out amoug them Congress follows. They'ro a hard lot. T*otlier man is younger 'n you, and ainfc of much account anyway. I say, lot him suffer awhile ; so I guess I'll vote for him 1" How the Turkish Troops Look. The correspondent of the London Standard writes as follows: I had ' scarcely been two hours in Widdiu when a part of the victorious Bashi-Bazouks returned to the lor tress. No one who had not seen the procession could form an idea of the wonderful picture it presented. The greater number of the riders, mounted on their ugly, leau little horses, which, however, seem capable of bearing great fatigue, were Circassians, in long black, gray or white coats, with half a dozen little cartouch pockets in a row on each side of the breast. Among them were a few Turks.and Arnauts, a eolorod man, two men in European dress, except that they woro the ifez, *" * Tr-?1 * ?.! Ammniiina. I Tartars, Ajrguweo nuu ? Each one was grossed differently, most of them barefoot, many without saddles or on high peaked wooden ones. The Circassians carried their arms in a shaggy, black woolen case, attached by a strap to their racks, and every one held the muskets taken from the enemy upright in his right hand, resting the butt ends on his leg. The samo hand held a short whip, while in the left were the reins, and from the shoulder hung a scimetar in a leather case, red at one end and black at the other. Men over sev enty, boys under twelve; wliite, red, green, and many colored turbans; yellow, gray, blue, black trowsers, and in some ca^es none at all; on all faces the excitement of battle, the dark eyes glowing with a dangerous fire; never was such a motley group, and to put. the climax to this strange sight, a gigantic Circassian rode along under a green silk parasol, and several of these savages wore spectacles No prisoners were brought in, as q iarter is not given. Chinese Natube.?Mr. Margary was long enough iu China to learn that " it is the nature of Chinamen to give in to anything which assertsjks superiority. A kick and a few words In his own tongue telling him bfcss an ignorant boor will make a common Chinaman worship you. Singly or in. small groups they a?e the pink of civility, but a moo is rutin r dangerous." -' ' There is one committee at the Centennial Erpositicn that has not had a vacancy since llip opening. It is the jurors on wiuer, and they have sampled over eight hundred different varieties.