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Sure, it may be Wliou tho arbutus blooms, this stately tree Feels at its heart some far dim memory Of old time pain ; fjomo joyful souse that love is near again ; Aud listens while ho sings his sad rofrain. And so each spring, Thrilled with remombrance that his love songs bring, Tho arbutus breaks her heart in blossoming. TOM GARNET'S DREAM. In the month of June, not ninny years ago, it was my good fortune, accompanied by some friends, to visit the Thousand Islands upon a short pleasure excursion. Our little party arrived at tho villaere oi Alexandria bay on tbo American shore lato in the afternoon of a sultry day. We were wearied by a long and dusty ride across the flat country that there skirts the great river, but soon forgot our troubles in viewing the glorious sunset that we wero just in time for. It was so early that we wero greeted at our hotel os the first guests of the season, and in the morning had our choice of boats and . fishermen. We had planned a trip of a dozen miles or more up the river, with the view of passiug the night upon one of the islands there, and of returning on the morrow. As our boatman rowed us leisurely along up the broad river, around and among the islands, with our trolling lines all out, many a fine pike and pickerel was tempted to take the enticing bait and was safely landed in our boat. In the course of the day one of our j fair companions caught two mas-quinon-f/c. This was an exploit that she might well bo proud of, for the true maa-quin-on-ffc is quite a rare fish even ill these waters, his native home. He is one of the most excellent as well as one of the most gamey fish in our Northern waters, and should not be confounded witli his near relative, although greatly inferior fish, tho great Northern pickerel, as he too often is. The mas-quin on-gc, I give the old Indian name from Charlevoix, often weighs more than fifty pounds when caught, and is as sprightly and rapid of movement as the brook trout. Ho often affords the most exciting sport to tho fishermen, and his firm but delicate, light, salmon-colored flesh is prized by the epicure. So our fair friend suddenly found herself quite a heroine among the fishermon, for mauy an old frequenter of theso waters can scarcely boast of having taken a single one of them. Late in the afternoon we came to the little island upon which wo had thought to spend tho night. Thero was a single cottage upon it, containing a half dozen rooms or more, built for the ncnommo elation of transient summer guests, and an ample ice house in which wo secured our store of fish. Tho only guest upon the island when wo arrived there was a retired officer of tho Unitod States navy, who, when in active service, had often cruised in these waters, and had now come to spend a few days in cpiiet meditation among the familiar scenes of former hardships and dangers. Strangers meeting in the wilderness or in lonely places like this quickly learn to waive all mere formalities ; so at our coming, the old officer gave us at onoe a kindly greeting, and we were soon on as familiar a footing as though we had known one another for long intimate years. After supper we all sat one upon tho cottago porch that faced the broad, open stretch of tho rivor called Kingston bay, watching tho coming on of tho evening shadows and listening to the soothing, monotonous cry of the wliipporwill upon tho Cauadian shore. As the sun went flown in .. m >>|/*uuuui | uvurnvu hid nonuoixi rim of shining water, the report of the evening gun at the distant British fort in Kingston harbor came booming across the bay. The sound of the gun seemed to awaken tender memories in the mind of the old offioer, and we thought as he tnrntd musingly away, we saw a tear trickle down his weather-beaten cheek. Just as the sun was gloriously rising out of the gleaming sea of islands to the 'eastward I went out upon the poroh. The old officer was already there to bid me good morning. In another moment the sound of the British morning gun boomed aorosa the bay. "I never hear," said he, "that single gun at Kingston, but I think of poor Tom Garnet, an old mess mato of mine, who was killed there in tlio last war with Great Britain. But sit down," continued he, " and let me tell you his story." And'there in the dewy froshnoss of that early hour of tho summer's morning wo gathered around the old man, to hear his story in tho very sceno of its enactment. During the war with Great Britain of 1812, there were stirring times in these waters. Each nation strove for the mastery of tho lakes, and ships and lloets were built and fitted out ou both sides with marvelous celerity. It was not an uncommon thing in those days, for a sloop-of-war to bo launched all ready for active service from our ship yards, whose timbers forty days before were growing greenly in tho forest. In November, 1812, I was a young sailor ou board the staunch bnV On.iJ.in 0 ^ that was commanded by Lieutenaut Woolsey, nnd was attached to the American fleet thou cruising under Commodore Chauncey. For a day or two, our fleet had been chasing the British sloop-of-war, the Royal George, among the Thousand Islands, and in the early hours of a bleak morniug, had driven her into Kiugston harbor. Then occurred the daring assault upon the Royal George by our littlo fleet Tinder the very guns of the frowuiug fort, that reflected so much honor upon our gallant seamem Tom Garnet was a sailor on board our brig. He had been for many years in the British service, but had lately enlisted in our navy, and was ordered on board our vessel. Tom had not been loug 011 board before he became the universal favorite of all tho officers and men, and being a most thorough seaman was made captain of the forecastle. Tom was brave to a fault, unshaken in tho performance of every duty, and always at his post. But he was as gentle as a woman, and at times an irrepressible sadness seemed to weigh down his spirits and cast a settled gloom over his life. Some great and abiding sorrow was weighing heavily upon the heart of poor Tom, but none of ue knew what it was. What was our surprise then, 011 the morning of the battle, to see Tom's face beaming with smiles. A great chango had suddenly come over his brooding spirits, and Tom was as lighthearted iu5 a child. His comrades quickly^ noticed tiie change, and wonderingly inquired the cause. t( Al. T ~1 -11 1-- ii a n vu; jl oi.uu uu wnn mem 10 nay, said Tom, " I shall see them to-day." " With whom?" inquired his comrades. "With Mary, my wife, and our child in heaven," said ho, with great earnestness. " Last night I thought I saw her disembodied spirit among the angels in my dream, and a little one was by her side whom I had never seen, and tlioy beckoned me to come. I am suro I shall go to-day, and bo with them at last. But you cannot understand mo,1' continued Tom, "until I tell you all i about how it has been with me. In the I first place, let me divide between you my comrades what few things I liavo. When I am gone they will remind you of poor Tom. As soon as the morning breaks we shall go into action and I shall bo killed. They seemed to tell me so." The sailors were at first disposed to laugh at what they supposed were Tom's disordered fancies, Out his great earnestness of manner, indicating his firm belief in the truthfulness of his J presentiment, and having so high an appreciation of hi3 noble character, they checked their hilarity, and each in turn received from his hand some little trinket, or a part of his wnrdrobo as a keepsake. And the sailors of poor Tom's mess gathered around him in tho forecastle, in tho gloomy dawn of that wild Canadian autumn morning, while the fleet was putting on sail to engage the enemy, and listened to poor Tom. "My father," said Tom, "was a wellto-do English farmer, who lived in tho days of our childhood back in the country about forty miles from Liverpool. I was his first-born and heir, and when I became of ago I married the daughter of our nearest neighbor. Wo were to settle down upon tho farm and take caro of the'old folks, who were already well along in years. A few short, happy weeks flow quickly by, and our honeymoon was over. Then my father loaded liia novf Trrifli AAvn ^ ^ ItiO VIM V ?TAU*A W1U WUU OCliU XXXf J XJIL IAI tut) distant town to exchange it for Homo things for onr housekeeping. "When I left the old homo farm that morning, with my cart and oxen and load of freight, Mary, my wife, kissed me good-bye again and again. " ' You will not be gone long, will you, dear Tom?' said she. "It was our first and last parting. But twenty years of toil and hardship have not wusted the sweetness of her last kiss from my hps. And her image ?how bright and beautiful her image appears to mo this morning, as I see hor in my memory standing at the old farm gate, bidding mo good-bye as I dr^ve the oxen down tho lnno out of her sight towards the great city. " I had never been in town hnfnro and it w s to me full of wonders. After I bail sold my corn I bought some things for our house, and hod loaded them on my cart, all ready to start on my homeward journey, when I was roughly seized by one of the king's press-gangs, that wero the terror of every seaport town in those days, and of which I in my simplicity had never heard before. Iu spite of my tears and eutreaties I was rudoly bound, hand and foot, and dragged, more dead thun alive, on board of one of his majesty's ships, that was on the ere of setting sail upon a long East Indian voyage. "On the morrow the ship sailed. My i ' oxen were left to wonder unearod for through tho streets of tho city, with my precious load of what was to liavo been our household goods, and before I had the least opportunity to send a single word home to my wifo and family to relieve the dreadful anxiety that my long and uuaccouutable absence must have occasioned them, we were far out upon the broad ocean. " In tho course of a few months we entered the Indian ocean, and it was seven long years before our ship again east anchor in the harbor of Liverpool upon her return voyage. During this long timo I had never heard one word from homo or friends. "After our arrival at the homo port I was soon paid my hard-earned wages and received my discharge. I soon reached the welcome shore, and at once hurried out of tho now dreaded city towards my old homo iu tho country. I whs eo changed in appearance by years of exposure under a burning sun, that I was sure no one would know me. But haggard and worn as I was, my heart was light at the thought of soon meeting my dear wife and friends onco more, and so I pressed eagerly onwnrd until night overtook me. I was afraid to call at an inn, lest from my dress aud appearance I should excite suspicion and be arrested as a deserter from tho navy. Finding a stack of straw in a lonely nook, I crept n.w1?. U .....1 *1." ?- *1? uuuva xxi nuu outjju tmuuj^ll tilt) In the morning a denso fog enveloped everything, and I groped uiy way on without knowing whither I was going. It so happened that I wandered iuto tho king's broad highway just in time to fall in with another press gang who were passing by. They seized mo at once, and utterly regardless of my entreaties, and in spite of my situation, hurried mo on broad another vessel that was soon under weigh for tho distant western coast of South America. " After wo had been cruising about for several years in the Southern Pacific, I managed to escape from my captivity, and crossing the Andes alone and on foot, arrived after many wanderings and hairbreadth escapes, weary and worn, at an Atlantic port. There the first opportunity olfered for sailing was 011 board of an American man-of-war that was homeward bound. Impatient to leave, I enlisted in tho American navy as a common sailor for tho term of one year. Our ship arrived in New York harbor a few months ago. I was soon transferred to Commodore Chauncey's fleet, as you now See me. " I have never heard one word from home since my wife bid mo good-bye at tho old farm gate, and that is now twenty long j'oars ago. But last evening, as I swung in mv hammock, I fell asleep, aud I saw her in my dreams, as I have told you already. She and our little one must have died in my absence, and I shall be with them to day." "When Tom had concluded his ?? l! -1 xl- - -11 ' < xi uLurjr, uuuiiuucu iuu uiu uiuct;rf * * mere was not a dry eye in that circle of hardfaced men, and in a moment after the command came harsh and loud to clear the decks for action. And then our little ship rolled gallantly up under the guns of the fort and poured a broadside into the Royal George. Soon we saw a light puff of smoke curl upwards from one of the batteries on the shore, and a nine pound cannon 6hot went crashing across our deck. "It struck poor Tom, and he fell dead at our feet. As his body lay upon the deck with faco upturned, there was a smile playing upon his stiffening features that will haunt mo to my dying day. Death had to him no terrors. He welcomed its coming. It opened to him the door of heaven, to show him those he loved. The smile upon his face was a smile of recognition." As the old man concluded his story, he arose from his seat and bid us goodbye. And now the strangest thing about this story of Tom Garnet is its truth, for it is not all romance, but is veritable history. Dr. Hough, in his "History of Jefferson County, N. Y.," on pago 471, places upon record an account of Tom norner s singular presentiment unci death, which is substantially the same as the one I have woven into the wrap of my story. Says the learnod historian, in concluding his narrative, and I uso his very words: "Cliauncey's fleet sailed and engaged the enemy's batteries in the harbor of Kingston, as above related; the first shot from which was a nine paund ball, that crossed the deck of the Oneida and passed through the body of Tom Garnet, at his post. He fell instantly dead, with the same smile upon his countenance that habit had impressed. This singular coincidence and verification of presentiment is so well attested by authentic witnesses that it merits the attention of the curious." As tho morning sun rose gloriously in the lieavens we left tlie little island, and it soon grow dim and shadowy in the distance; but the story of poor Tom Garnet was impressed iudellibJy upon our memories. Good Coffee. The preparation of coffee for the tablo having elicited much comment in papers throughout the East, wo givo tlio following recipe, sent by a lady: Grind moderately flue a large cup or small bowl of coffee; break into it one egg with shell, mix well, adding onough cold water to thoroughly wet the grounds; upon this pour one pint of boiling water, let it boil slowly for fifteen minutes, and then stand tlirco minutes to settle; pour through a fine wire sieve into a ooffeopot. This will make enough for four persons. At table, put first the sugar into the cup, then fill half full of boiling milk, with a little cream, add your ooffee and you have a delicious beverage. Trade Prospects. At n time when thero is very little business doing, men's thoughts naturally ' turn to the commercial prospects for the immediate future. It would be absurd to deny that the outlook is regarded by a largo section of the commuuity as de- ' cidedly gloomy. The spring trade has ] been, 011 the whole, of a disappointing ] character, and thero are not so many in- 1 dications as might bo wished that the 1 fall trade will bo very much better. The f depressed condition of most of our rail- ] road securities is d\io, in tlio lirst iu- ] stanco, to a grent contraction both in 1 freight and passenger traffic, which is, < in its turn, the unfailing indication of a j greatly lessened spending power on the ( part of the people at largo. Tho rail- i road war, while giving a temporary and * delusivo advantago to producers ami forwarders, is really a severe drain upon 1 the productive capital of the country. 1 A 1 i.M- 1 * - * xv uwmo army encampeu in a civinzeu ] region may benefit n fow people, by paying fair prices for what it consumes. But it ruins thousands of others by bringing the ordinary movements of industry and the customary round of commercial exchange to a standstill. So it is with the warlike reprisals of the rival railroad presidents. A few cents deducted from every hundred pounds of freight carried from Chicago to New York is undoubtedly something gained to the producer, the dealer, or the consumer, or to all of them combined ; but it is gained at the ruinous cost of depreciating by millions the market value of at least a score of different kinds of railroad securities, and of all classes of stocks which fluctuate in sympathy with them. Like actual war, the strifo of the railroads involves a draft on the future earuiugs of the couutry to pay for the destruction of capital which is being effected now. That cannot be good for legitimate business, however much some short-sighted peoplo may desiro its continuance. The prospects for the last half of the year arc decidedly encouraging. The harvest of cereals will unquestionably be good, after all deductions have been made on the score of the short yield of certain localities. The South may not grow more than an average cotton crop, but it has taken one very essential step toward renewed prosperity by devoting ] a great deal more laud than usual to j food crops. How important a point this < is will bo appreciated by all who read j the letters of our special correspondents ] in the Southern States. There seems no i reason to doubt tliat, taking the country f ou o .vlmU flw. f the soil will be greater this year than it f has ever been. Even if its nominal i valuo be less than it was a few years ago, j the purchasing power of our products will be greater, and that is the ultimate test of the available riches of any country. During tho last two years there has been wiped out a good ileal of fictitious capital, with the inevitable result of giving credit a serious shock and of causing a great deal of distress. Our future growth must depend moro upon the solid increase of the country's wealth anil less upon the mortgaging of the future than it has recently done. Toward that sound and steadily progressive movement the fall of 1875 ought to contribute a very perceptible stimulus. Kegs from One I'iece of "Wood. There has sprung up at Delphos, Ohio, a new industry, that of making nail-kegs from one piece of wood. Under the new process of manufacture tho use of staves is entirely dispensed with, the body of tho keg or barrel being made of one piece. The process is covered by a patent, but is quite simple. The logs are cut into the proper length and thoroughly steamed, and are then put into a kind of a lathe; hero a " veneering knife " cuts tho wood tho right thickness for tho body of tho keg, the sheet rolling from the log under the action of tho knife just as a carpet is unrolled. Another knife cuts the sheets t mto ttie longtli required. These are L then transferred to a tablo fitted with v goring saws (otherwise called ''drunken" t or " wabbliug saws"), which cut wedge- c shaped gores, in order 10 give tlio pack- i age the proper bulge when shaped: The j sheets now pass through a machine i which prepares them to receive the r heads, and are then placed in a drying- I house, where they remain for forty-eight 1 hours. They are then ready for shipping I to tho shops. C c It ridges of the West. j, A newspaper man writing from St. f Louis thus descants upon the bridges of c tho West: Nothing excels in wonder i tho bridere svstem of tho West, nil hnilfc t up sinco the war. Tho Missouri is 1 bridged at St. Charles ((5,535 feel long), 1 Boonville, Kansas City, Leavenworth, ( Atchison, St. Joseph ($1,000,000), anil s Omaha. The cost of these bridges was t about 811,000,000, or 83,000,000 less s than the single bridgo and approaches 1 at St. Louis. Tho Ohio is bridged eight t times below Pittsburgh at a cost of 810,- \ 000,000. The Mississippi is bridged nt a St. Louis,Hannibal, Keokuk, Hurlingtou, s Clinton, Dubuque, Winona, La Crosse, t St. Paul, and other places, at a cost of a 825,000,000* An engineer told mo a t few days ago that the bridges of tho f United States built since tho war had a cost 8150,000,000. a t t Mrs. GrifTin, aged ninety-nine years, I is one of the carriers of tho Boston 1 Traveller, and alio doesn't twist it into i a Avad and sling it into a muddy part of t the yard; nor does she stop on tho r corners to exchange chaff with her silly ] young contemporaries of the opposite f box while the subscribers are waiting. < THE NEW (JLASS. Die Wonderful Discovery of n (linns .Mnnnfartnrrr, nn IllitMrnted before n New York Audience. Prof. Thomas Egleston, of the New fork Columbia College school of mines, presented nil account of the remarkable La Bastio process for toughening glass, io as to render it incapable of breaking, before the Academy of Sciences. He laid that, during last autumn, M. La Bastie, having made a number of experiments in making glass (being connected with glass manufacturing), suc3eeded in making it as tough as cast iron. Ho does this by lieatiug ordinary jlass to a red heat and plunging it into i bath of fatty material, the composition if which he has not disclosed. Prof. Egleston then threw a number of speciaiens of the tempered glass, several being watch crystals, and equally thiu pieces, in the air. They feU on the floor with a metallic clang, and rebounded t-o the height of several inches. Some of those pieces were ordinary looking watch crystals. After showing the strength of the specimens in this way, Prof. Egleston threw a plate in the air, and aiter several attempts succeeded in breaking it. He then detailed a large number of oxperiments which had been made bj liim on the glass with reference to its capacity for withstanding shook, its resistance of heat, and its chemical strength as compared with ordinary glass. With regard to shock ho had had ? number of steel missiles made, of two, four, six, eight, and sixteen ounces weight, which were allowed to fall from different heights on the plates of prepared glass. Ho had done this because lie found that none of the shocks usually replied to test glas3 would break this. The missiles wore carefully prepared, so that their edges would not be dented, thus preventing the waste of any of the force c f the collision on the missile itself. From nearly one hundred experinents he found that ordinary one and a piarter iuch glass always broke under a jIow from a missile falling thirteen Inches, while the tempered never broke luder a fall of less than five feet. A ;wo ounce missile was dropped from lifferent heights, increasing by three uches up to thirteen feet, and the prepared glass withstood these shocks. A test was then applied for suspending weights. A piece of ordinary glass 2.7 inches wide and .27 inch thick, generally broke under a weight of fifteen or 3ixtben pounds, although one piece stood a weight of thirty-seven pounds, while a similar piece of the prepared glass stood over one hundred pounds without breaking. A long series of experiments was then made in glass i^ado or vault lights, and tlio tempered glass i quarter of an inch thick was round to re superior to a piece of ordinary comnercial glass an inch and a half thick. First the weights were so applied as to pring the test on a knife-edge balanoe or i mathematical line. A piece of ordirary glass broke under fifty-four pounds, while a similar piece of the tempered nuy Droko at a pressure of ono hundred md fifty-five pounds. When the weight ?ras distributed over a width of two and i half or three inches ordinary glass iroko at from fifty to sixty pounds, vliile the tempered stood a test of two inadred and ten pouuda, aud, in ono instance, the weight was piled on until the support of the platform on which the sxperiment was being conducted gave >vay, and the platform broko down, vhilo the glass remained unbroken. The strength of the glass was not, lowever, its most wonderful characterstic. Its resistance to heat was also narvelous. The temperature of differmt ordinary flames was first determined >y means of pyrometers constructed for lie purpose, and was found to be from 100 degroes to 2,000 degrees, according o tho kind of flame. Two thousand logrees was then directed on the center f a plato of prepared glass, eighteen nclies square, until at the point of conact with the flame tho glass became red lot. The hand could not then bo borne rithin three inches of the red hot porion of the glass, yet the glass could be omfortably bandied if grasped four nclies from the red hot part. Tho first >lato was a poor one, and broke after beug subjected to this heat for three minutes. Tho others were not broken >y it. It was found that tho glass could >e safely cooled 100 degrees at a time, >nt cooling it inoro rapidly broke it. yiuiuui v ntuuu ruiun jus uit'Se >nly eight seconds. Tho application of his was that if a fire was started in a oom with windows of this glass, the rame-work of tho windows would burn >ut aud allow the glass to fall before a Iraft would bo created. Lamp shades rero thcu tested by using kerosene amps with a combination of Bun sen uirners, which threw a blue flame showing that the carbon was all conumed, making the heat intense"), along ho whole length of the tube and six or even inches beyond it. All kinds of amp chimneys known had been tried by his test, and none were found that could vitlistand it. Tho tempered chimneys vere then submitted to tho test for half in hour, aud then cooled, and ag<iin ,ried for half an hour. The consequence vas that tho lime glass was somewhat lis colored but not cracked. Tho lead (lass' was blackoned but not broken, and vhen cooled was thrown about the floor vithout injury. PJiotographs had been akon on this glass nnd the glass fonnd o bo unaffected. Tho glass had also >oen polished like plate glass. This lad been found to be difficult, owing to ts elasticity, but tho prepared glass ,akes a more brilliant polish than the >rdinary, and does not lose itf. strength. Stchings'were made on speoiDiens of the [lass, and the finest designs were reprouccd by moans of the sand blast, with out injury to Che strength of the material. Other tests wgre applied. Water was boiled in a vessel of this glass. The water boilecTout and the vessel remained uninjured. The temperature of the vessel was then raised to 150 degrees or ICO degrees, and oold water was poured in, with tho expectation that it would crack the glass. But the water began immediately to boil, and the glass was unhurt. Tlie temperature was then raised to 300 degrees, and oold water cracked ii. This was hardly to be wondered at, as a brass or copper vessel submitted to the same test would be damaged. A Terrible Death Leap. From an Tllinnia nana* ?a ero*lia* flia details of a terrible suicide, at Centralia, iu that State. It appears that Dr. Benjamin G. Sullivan, aped about forty, who had been afflicted with asthma for many years, to the detriment of his spirits and practioe, was visiting . a medical friend in Centralis. Ho oomplained of great suffering, and expressed a belief that he was Bhortly to be very sick, and seemed to brood over it considerably. His friends took him about the town in order Ui liis thoughts to more cheerful subjects bv showing him objects of interest thereabouts, and were apparently successful. After dinner that day, Dr. Sullivan expressed a wish to visit a coal mine he had examined in the morning, and was accordingly guided there by a young son of his friend. While at the mouth of tho shaft he engaged the engineer in animated conversation, and seemed unusually vivacious. While thus engaged, ho was noticed to be fumbling with his gold watch chain, and a moment later his young companion was horrified to see the doctor cast at his feet his pocketbook and watch, and then spring down the awful chasm of the coal mine. He struck the wire rope first, and clutched it with his hands, lapping his limbs around it, but going aown to death at a fearful speed. The distance to the bottom of the shaft is 576 feet. The force of hisffall is shown in the fact that when he struck a round bar of iron one and one-half inch thich at the bottom of the shaft, the concussion snapped tho iron square off at both ends. His body was terribly mangled and crushed. - It is a little singular that his skull alone remained whole?all other bones in his body being broken. Death undoubtedly took place before he reached the bottom. Deceptive Vision. A correspondent writing from tho Rocky mountains says that Pike's Peak fs be seen for a distance of five huned miles, and that the atmosphere is so clear that a stranger in Denver looking at mountains apparently five miles off is amazed in being told they are more than fifty miles distant. In this con- . nection he tells a good story of a party of Englishman who started out one morning before breakfast to walk to the foot of tho mountains. They rushed away at a hearty pace, smoking their pipes and looking at their watches, and agreeing that they would be back in about three hours. They returned in about six, 1 ? / * 1 J J 1L.1 1 nearly lauuLHuwu, uuu vuwiug vuai* wueu tliey started to return they were no nearer the mountains than they were when they set out from the hotel. They " blarsted their eyes," they pronounced it " most extr'or'dinary, you know," and they were ' quite out of sorts" at their fuilure to scale the Kocky mountains before breakfast. The next day one of the party was out with some American tourists, when they came suddenly on an irrigation ditch, used for bringing water from the mountains, about two feet wide and a foot deep. The Englishman seated himself, and began to unlace his shoes. One of his companions asked him what ho was doing. " I am going to wade that rivei," he answered. "It don't look to be more than a foot aoross it, but in this blarsted country, you know, I shouldn't like to undertake to step across it." quick Passage to Liverpool. From a Liverpool paper of reoent date we see that the new Inman steamer "City of Berlin " on her return to Liverpool made extraordinary good time, the passage from New York to Queeiistown requiring only eight days, four hours, forty-eight minutes; and that from Queenstown to Liverpool fourteen hours, forty-eight minutes. This latter is said to be the fastest time ever made. The following abstract from her log shows the remarkably fast steaming: ilay 15th, 2:15 p. m., left the dook; May 16th, distance run 270 miles; May 17th, distanoe run 333 miles, engines stopped thirty minutes; May 18tn, distance run 834 miles; May 10th, distanoe run 330 miles, enginffe stopped twenty-flvo minutes; May 20th, distanoe run 340 miles; May ni..i .i:~t oro ooa wl?t, uinuuiuo * UU lilU< *D y JU?T distance ran 360 miles; May 23a, disI tance run 360 miles. Then and Now. Ex-Senator Carl Scburz receives very different treatment on his return to Germany from that which he had just after tho "revolution of 184SL Then ho was obliged Jo fly in secrecy from the country. Now a banquet, given to him in the capital, is attended by the presiding officers ol both chambers of the Prussian Diet and by Privy Councilor Bncher, who is on the most intimate terms with Prince Bismarck. The chancellor, at least six years ago, showed a high appreciation of the merits of Mr. Scnura. Herr Bncher, in attending this banquet, plainly indicated that he was acting in i harmony with the wishes of the chancellor, which is no small matter, oonsidsring Mr. Sohorft's revolutionary reoord.